SNOW TODAY !!! ice road trucker photo

latil · Post by **latil** » Sat Nov 27, 10 1:20 pm

Hey,that's a better garden than mine

What is it with these goons in the snow? There should be a special test before they're allowed out

74challenger318 · Post by **74challenger318** » Sat Nov 27, 10 1:45 pm

[quote]I couldn't find a tow hitch on the Remault I could use. It had some sort of square hole? So I slung a rope around one rear shock, told them to steer as best they could, and I dragged the bar steward sideways with the Jeep for three blocks and around several turns to a main road.
I think they were freaking out a bit in the car as it swung around behind me ploughing the road.

nice one

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Sat Nov 27, 10 3:16 pm

Dave wrote:I couldn't find a tow hitch on the Remault I could use. It had some sort of square hole? So I slung a rope around one rear shock, told them to steer as best they could, and I dragged the bar steward sideways with the Jeep for three blocks and around several turns to a main road.
I think they were freaking out a bit in the car as it swung around behind me ploughing the road.

that's as funny as F... Dave

would loved to have seen that

still nothing here, been sunny all day, damn cold though, not even a drop of rain

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Sat Nov 27, 10 3:31 pm

latil wrote:Hey,that's a better garden than mine

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Sat Nov 27, 10 3:36 pm

Charger wrote:
Dave wrote:I couldn't find a tow hitch on the Remault I could use. It had some sort of square hole? So I slung a rope around one rear shock, told them to steer as best they could, and I dragged the bar steward sideways with the Jeep for three blocks and around several turns to a main road.
I think they were freaking out a bit in the car as it swung around behind me ploughing the road.
that's as funny as F... Dave would loved to have seen that

still nothing here, been sunny all day, damn cold though, not even a drop of rain

I had to be careful they didn't swing into parked cars. But it did make me smile to myself. I think i must have had my evil Dave head on.

I had to drive to the local Co-Op this morning to get some bread and milk and there were big piles of snow here and there from their car ploughing it all up as I dragged it backwards/sideways. So I used the jeep to flatten out the piles so my neighbors wouldn't have to drive around them.

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Sat Nov 27, 10 5:09 pm

abandoned my car almost @ work,walked the rest of the way this morning , had to go recover a broken down subaru with my truck.
Last night the snow caused the electric fence to short out @2am & set the alarm off, phoneing us in turn, i never heard it, buy my pals YTS kid did, went into work, got stuck in the snow, had no credit on his phone & could not work the telephone sytem to get an outside line in my office so then walked in heavy snow fall from bedlington to morpeth some 4 miles on deserted county roads

poor kid then was back @ work for 9am !!!

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Sat Nov 27, 10 5:19 pm

photos from today
mosr snow ive seen in 48hrs in the uk

drewcrane · Post by **drewcrane** » Sat Nov 27, 10 7:28 pm

Wow you guys are stealing all of our snow,clear sunny and warm here,winter storm warnings in the mountains, and fire warnings down here on the plains, can you say "La Nina"

They have these things called "SNOW TIRES" looks like yall could use a set or two, man that is alot of snow for yall

Motorama · Post by **Motorama** » Sat Nov 27, 10 11:29 pm

My Hemi Ram is 2wd and crap in the wet let alone the snow so i bought a 97 Jeep cherokee on Ebay for £800 yesterday, runs and drives spot on with 6 months T & T. Tried to do the same last year but they all doubled in price once the snow hit our area.

drewcrane · Post by **drewcrane** » Sun Nov 28, 10 12:07 am

Oh yea one more thing some people do here to off set the cost of snow tires is they have 30 lb sand logs and I have my mom put two of them in the trunk, i know hurts the mileage , but it does work for traction

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Sun Nov 28, 10 8:40 am

Good point Drew. The small cars here struggle because they have little weight.

But honestly. I have driven Minis and a Hillman Imp in snow as bad as this and worse and I have never had to abandon a car or get help. I used to take a shovel with me just in case and needed it once with the Imp as it bottomed out easily.

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Sun Nov 28, 10 8:41 am

Oh and the un-trod snow here is a foot thick now. We had yet another couple of inches last night.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Sun Nov 28, 10 9:09 am

Dave wrote:Good point Drew. The small cars here struggle because they have little weight....

People just don't know how to drive anymore - snow here is relatively infrequent and they are never taught how to manage the conditions. The obsession with Low profile tyres does not help, either.

I the 80's I drove an XR2 and commuted in snow with no issues. Mind you, I was stupid enough to do it on a motorbike as well........

I'll stick to my planet-killing 4x4 with lockable diffs and all terrain tyres for now

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Sun Nov 28, 10 10:41 am

I have been brushing all the snow off the Jeep every time one of us ventures out (about twice a day) and it still looks like this every morning.

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Sun Nov 28, 10 10:43 am

My hedge is about 5-feet tall. Or it was before it started to squash under the weight. That gives you some scale here.