Clearing Device for Removal of Snow or Ice from a Pipe

A pipe heating device for use with a work vehicle operable in a forward working direction alongside a frozen pipe, the device comprising:

• a main housing having boundary walls defining an outer boundary of a bounded space within a hollow interior of the main housing;
• the main housing being arranged to extend in a circumferential direction partway about a circumference of the pipe in a mounted position of the main housing on the pipe;
• an inner boundary of the bounded space within the hollow interior of the main housing being arranged to lie adjacent to the pipe in the mounted position;
• a mounting arrangement arranged to support the main housing relative to the vehicle such that the main housing is movable along the pipe in the forward working direction as the vehicle is displaced alongside the pipe in the mounted position of the main housing on the pipe;
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• at least one heating arrangement arranged to heat the bounded space within the main housing;
• the inner boundary of the bounded space being at least partly open to the adjacent pipe in the mounted position such that the bounded space heated by the heating arrangement is arranged to heat the pipe.