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Post by SilverBullet on Sept 11, 2003 11:44:20 GMT -5
I would definately pull over and stop before I'd even chain up to keep moving. That's the same way I feel, and have always felt. Call me a wuss if you want too, but if it's so bad that I have to put the chains on, I have no business driving in it.
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Post by Arcflash on Sept 11, 2003 12:39:39 GMT -5
I'm not sure what would suck worse. Putting the chains on or taking them back off after they are all goo'd up from snow and ice.
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Post by SilverBullet on Sept 11, 2003 13:44:41 GMT -5
I'm not sure, I've never put them on, or taken them off for that matter. No do I have the desire to find out.
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Post by Arcflash on Sept 11, 2003 14:24:44 GMT -5
Me either. I don't want to be out in the cold long enough to do it. The blizzard of 1993 has cured me of my yearning to adventure in the snow.
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Post by truckertom on Sept 11, 2003 21:46:07 GMT -5
"I did not care for either time, and I really have no desire to go back. I've seen enough."
Yes but if you can survive Long Island.....the rest is easy!
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Post by Arcflash on Sept 11, 2003 23:28:15 GMT -5
I figure it's nothing compared to somalia. I'm not afraid to go anywhere in North America.
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Post by truckertom on Sept 12, 2003 18:56:00 GMT -5
My problem with chaining up are the idiots that seem to think it is a holiday for 4x4's! When some winter weather happens where folks don't know how to deal with it, it scares me that they don't realize they need to stay home! I trust myself, I don't trust them.
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Post by Arcflash on Sept 12, 2003 23:49:01 GMT -5
My problem with chaining up are the idiots that seem to think it is a holiday for 4x4's! When some winter weather happens where folks don't know how to deal with it, it scares me that they don't realize they need to stay home! I trust myself, I don't trust them. Yeah, some people think a transfer case makes them invincible. They also think that all 4x4s are created equal or that the higher the price tag the more capable it is. I had some dillweed in a GMC Yukon try to follow me down an unplowed road with 3 feet of snow on it last winter. I was in my lifted and locked jeep and I guess he thought I'd have the road open enough for him. Wrong, I couldn't turn around and go help him either or I would have got stuck too. I just had to keep going and hope he was able to dig himself out. I came back the ther direction about 7 hours later and it looked like he was dragged out by something big. Maybe a farm tractor or something.
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Post by truckertom on Sept 14, 2003 16:22:44 GMT -5
Funny, I used to haul the winshilds for the Yukon, Esclade and others...
I would like to have a project Willis panel truck to put a transfer case and 4X4 under it along with a 396! But as my trucker fathers always says: "Wish in one hand and #%#$% in the other and see wich one gets full first".
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Post by truckertom on Nov 27, 2003 16:02:19 GMT -5
"Tom, in 7 yrs. of driving OTR, I 've only had to go to NYC 2 times, The first to Yonkers, (which I explained above) and the second time to Brooklyn. I did not care for either time, and I really have no desire to go back. I've seen enough."
I can understand that! Give me the west, more miles and less hassles. But you have to admit, serviving NYC one time it changes you. Kida like surviving a hart attack! LOL!
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Post by dhagood on Nov 27, 2003 21:29:55 GMT -5
i used to drive for true oil (also known as black hills oil marketers) out of casper, wy. a lot of what i did was drive into the back country, over dirt roads, to haul crude oil from producing wells to various refinerys around wyoming.
summer, fall, and winter weren't too bad, as the ground was either dry or frozen. in the spring, however, as the snow melted, the ground started to unfreeze. in the casper area, there is a lot of bentonite (used as a drilling lubricant typically called driller's mud) in the soil. what this means is that you have a hard layer of frozen ground covered by a couple of inches of very slippery mud.
this is bad. just before you leave the pavement, you have to chain up. in 1975, there were two kinds of chains, heavy and light. the "light" chains were heavy, and the "heavy" chains were heavier still. off you would go, throwing mud all over everything. once you got back on to pavement, you'd run around a mile on the asphalt cleaning the chains off by going 30 miles an hour (and throwing mud 30 feet in the air). then you got to wrestle with heavy, muddy chains as you unchained.
i did this 3 or 4 times a day for 5 weeks or so.
then it got worse. the ground completely unfroze, and the mud got deep. low spots were crossed with full throttle and crossed fingers; we really didn't get stuck all that much, but when we did, it was not pretty. this lasted another 5 weeks or so.
after all of this fun and games, snowy and icy conditions were casually ignored with comments "well, at least it's not mud..."
ah, the good old days ;D
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Post by Arcflash on Nov 28, 2003 0:07:02 GMT -5
Man, I thought the coal piles were nasty... I am definately not keen on chaining in snow and ice, let alone mud.
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