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jeepnik wrote:See, this is what happens when you get rid of natural selection. If it still occurred in the human race these people would never have been born.
I drove in the 78 blizzard from Cincinnati to Indianapolis when I-74 was barricaded 'closed' (but it was so bad there was nobody to patrol for lawbreakers). The trip took something like 11 hours, but I had rear tire chains, but instead of putting them on my normal rear tires, which already were 'studded' tires, I rotated them (and got frostbite doing so) so the studded were on the front and the chained regulars on the rear. I think I averaged about 8-10 miles an hour and shook every bolt in the car and every tooth in my head the whole way. The strangest part was that I was in the middle (I guess) of I-74 halfway up the big hill out of Cincinnati, and a wind gust blew my front end off to the side, so it was then I decided to put on the chains. I had time to do all that, with several breaks to get back in the car to thaw out, and nary a vehicle to come along. Of course I was a kid then, and didn't stop to think that the reason nobody else was out there was that I was being really STUPID by being out there myself...Tycer wrote:I had a '79 Riviera with studded snows. That beast went out on days when no one else could.
They probably fired that chemistMescalero wrote:Wow,
I did not get get 20,000 out of my Toyos, wonder what I did wrong?
Yep, pretty good vehicles. Now if they would just put leaf springs back on they'd be perfect.BlaineG wrote:I have to say that my old Subaru Forester would go through anything a 4x4 P'up would go through, and then some. I've had this new Wrangler off the path on logging roads in 2WD that my Trucks in 4WD would have had a tough time with..I'm really starting to love that thing....
Yesterday was one of those days where I had to deal with folks who shouldn't have been born all day.Mescalero wrote:jeepnik,
The truest statement I have ever read on leverguns or anywhere else.
The Durango owner was trying to get his chains out. I stopped the Prius about an hour before and told the owner to just leave it parked down here. Her husband drove down in his 4x4 and figured he could do what no-one else could. He made it up just past the silver Camry sitting part way on the sidewalk, spun/slid into the Durango that was parallel to the Camry, pushed the Durango into and past the Camry, and spun so that his Prius wedged his roof into the Durango hatch.Pete44ru wrote:.
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Great fun, so long as it's a spectator sport. I'm sitting by the fire, hoping to convince the boss she doesn't need to get to the quilt shop today (she thinks she has an emergency lack of a certain size sewing needle).jdad wrote:It was a sporting event.Thankfully nobody got hurt.
jdad wrote: The Durango owner was trying to get his chains out. I stopped the Prius about an hour before and told the owner to just leave it parked down here. Her husband drove down in his 4x4 and figured he could do what no-one else could. He made it up just past the silver Camry sitting part way on the sidewalk, spun/slid into the Durango that was parallel to the Camry, pushed the Durango into and past the Camry, and spun so that his Prius wedged his roof into the Durango hatch.
It was a sporting event.Thankfully nobody got hurt.
+1earlmck wrote:Great fun, so long as it's a spectator sport.jdad wrote:It was a sporting event.Thankfully nobody got hurt.
Hey Griff, did you ever try to negotiate the high span on the Dallas 'High-Five" during a Thanksgiving ice storm when half the metroplex is trying to get home at 5:00pm before the 'bad stuff' hits?Griff wrote:I got home about 11 am yesterday to about an 1-½" of snow on the pastures, drive and gravel road down to my drive. All gone now. I have a set of chains for my 4WD dually... I've only ever needed them... (well... we put 'em on), up the Sierras deer hunting. The drive from about 5,900' up to 9,000' is all dirt, and on occasion, those early fall storms will play havoc with folks and their 2WD p/us or small SUVs and street tires... even mud/snow types... It takes an aggressive tread to deal with 1' of snow, expecially when its wet and sticky. I've never used my chains here in TX... But, for that trip outta state... in they go!
Old Time Hunter wrote:Umph...left for Key West last Monday it was -12'F and snowing, came back Friday night and it was -10'F and snowing.
Last time I could see the road was sometime in early December, can not understand what the problem is with driving on ice and snow, just have to keep all the tires turning at the same speed and you do not have an issue.
And remember...brakes are not your friend on ice. Momentum is, especially when approaching an uphill run. Frustrates the heck out of me when I am behind an idiot that slows at the bottom of a hill and then tries to accelerate up the other side...idiots!
318 or 360?Mescalero wrote:I have a Dodge Power Wagon, 1976, it also has 16.5 wheels on it.
The first year I retired, and went back home; we had 86 inches of snow that year.
I spent the whole winter pulling people out of their stupidity.
One old boy ( and only one ) offered to buy me breakfast.
It is no wonder my faith in species homo sapien is greatly diminished.
That's why this winter stuff can be so scary over in jdad's country -- it happens so seldom that only some small percentage of the folks are prepared for it, and many have never driven on slick roads. So much of the bad that can happen to you is not under your control!m.wun wrote:I would think putting good chains on every tire and having fwd would make things a whole lot easier.Or at least studded tires.