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Post by wvengineer on Feb 3, 2014 16:20:01 GMT
The piles at the end of the driveway are now too high to lob snow over by hand. Even the snow blower is having problems clearing them. And my blower is a substantial 2-stage machine. If this keeps up, I'm thinking of getting a set of these. Wonder if they come with the MP-3 music file. To hell with chains or snow tires, I want those for my minivan. I wonder what is involved with installing them? Do you need a car lift just to get the car on them? |
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Post by the light works on Feb 3, 2014 16:33:58 GMT
The piles at the end of the driveway are now too high to lob snow over by hand. Even the snow blower is having problems clearing them. And my blower is a substantial 2-stage machine. If this keeps up, I'm thinking of getting a set of these. Wonder if they come with the MP-3 music file. To hell with chains or snow tires, I want those for my minivan. I wonder what is involved with installing them? Do you need a car lift just to get the car on them? so easy an overweight guy can do it in about 6 minutes - not counting the parts they edited out of the "real time" clip. (and to answer the lift question, they supply a set of ramps for drive-on installation.) |
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Post by wvengineer on Feb 3, 2014 17:27:37 GMT
I don't think our overweight guy was the one loading them into the truck. Those thing look to be well over 100 lbs each. Probably what the back hoe in the background was for. Looks like they also edit out most of the process of securing them to the vehicle.
Additionally, it looks like there is a bit of prep work done to the truck to accommodate these. Safety cables, custom hubcaps, etc. I would also be nervous what these do the the steering. That is a LOT more weight for the power steering to handle then it was designed for.
I looked it up and it's only a mere $25,000 for the complete kit. (Yes, that is right. There is not an extra 0 in there.) I think I'll pass on that.
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Post by OziRiS on Feb 3, 2014 18:30:11 GMT
They're cool and all, but here's what I'm thinking: How do you get them off again?
It's awfully easy to just drive up those ramps and plop right into them, but it doesn't seem to me that you can just drive right out of them again. You might just need a lift for that part. And the price tag ain't all that enticing either.
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Post by the light works on Feb 3, 2014 19:33:14 GMT
They're cool and all, but here's what I'm thinking: How do you get them off again? It's awfully easy to just drive up those ramps and plop right into them, but it doesn't seem to me that you can just drive right out of them again. You might just need a lift for that part. And the price tag ain't all that enticing either. I would guess that there is a mechanism that brakes the treads, so that the truck drives off of the unit. possibly even a part of the ramp system. and yeah, for that price tag, you could buy a used one of these: |
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Post by Lex Of Sydney Australia on Feb 4, 2014 1:55:23 GMT
After weeks of 30C plus heat & high humidity it's FINALY here - MONSOON SEASON! Yes!  It's currently piddling it down with rain & the view out my window look more like I'm in London than Sydney. I'm sitting at my desk wearing a woolly cap (I just washed my hair & don't need an ear infection) & long sleave shirt loving every minute of this cold snap. Pity it's only forecast to be like this for the next two days, then it's back to watching the thermometer climb once again - Bug with a ger *SIGH!*  I hate the summertime. |
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 4, 2014 7:22:15 GMT
British beef..... we do things different.... we dont have "Factory" cows here {Caveat, "Yet"?...] just about all our cows get pasture, and as for drugs, if it goes into the Human food chain, very few are allowed?...
Winter, they are fed haylege, a sort of pickled grass, mown and stored in Plastic until its needed.
Or Dried vegetation pellets supplement on top of hay and straw.
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 4, 2014 7:24:01 GMT
Ski-Pods?... under a car?... and where are the brakes?.....
If it aint bad enough sliding down a steep slope on two planks of wood, doing it sat in a vehicle on four planks, with no brakes?... look mum, no BRAIN either?....
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Post by kharnynb on Feb 4, 2014 11:24:00 GMT
British beef..... we do things different.... we dont have "Factory" cows here {Caveat, "Yet"?...] just about all our cows get pasture, and as for drugs, if it goes into the Human food chain, very few are allowed?... Winter, they are fed haylege, a sort of pickled grass, mown and stored in Plastic until its needed. Or Dried vegetation pellets supplement on top of hay and straw. Same for Finland, we do have "industrial size" farms, but nowhere near the things you see in the US. Sadly the resizing of the EU, means a lot of junk has been coming in due to laxer border controls. (like the horsemeat scandal) |
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Post by OziRiS on Feb 4, 2014 13:20:31 GMT
British beef..... we do things different.... we dont have "Factory" cows here {Caveat, "Yet"?...] just about all our cows get pasture, and as for drugs, if it goes into the Human food chain, very few are allowed?... Winter, they are fed haylege, a sort of pickled grass, mown and stored in Plastic until its needed. Or Dried vegetation pellets supplement on top of hay and straw. I'm guessing the rules have been upped a bit after the whole mad cow scandal of the 90's then? IIRC the main supplier of mad cow meat was the UK in that period and that came from the pellets you mention being supplemented with meat from sheep with scabies. |
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Post by the light works on Feb 4, 2014 15:00:47 GMT
Ski-Pods?... under a car?... and where are the brakes?..... If it aint bad enough sliding down a steep slope on two planks of wood, doing it sat in a vehicle on four planks, with no brakes?... look mum, no BRAIN either?.... ummm... are you talking about the track attachments? those aren't skis - those are caterpillar tracks, driven by the car's drive wheels - and braked by the same. |
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Post by the light works on Feb 4, 2014 15:01:52 GMT
British beef..... we do things different.... we dont have "Factory" cows here {Caveat, "Yet"?...] just about all our cows get pasture, and as for drugs, if it goes into the Human food chain, very few are allowed?... Winter, they are fed haylege, a sort of pickled grass, mown and stored in Plastic until its needed. Or Dried vegetation pellets supplement on top of hay and straw. I'm guessing the rules have been upped a bit after the whole mad cow scandal of the 90's then? IIRC the main supplier of mad cow meat was the UK in that period and that came from the pellets you mention being supplemented with meat from sheep with scabies. actually, it was bone meal from cattle that was the problem. the only transmission vector for Mad Cow is to eat infected nerve tissue. |
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Post by the light works on Feb 4, 2014 19:11:19 GMT
The White Death has come to the Oregon coast.
it snowed at least 7 flakes, here, and Mrs TLW reminded me to be careful on the roads.
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Feb 4, 2014 19:57:51 GMT
The White Death has come to the Oregon coast. it snowed at least 7 flakes, here, and Mrs TLW reminded me to be careful on the roads. 7 flakes?? My house got 6" yesterday with another snow/ice storm on the way tomorrow & ANOTHER snow storm on Saturday or Sunday. Yea! Welcome to an average winter week in New England... |
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Post by GTCGreg on Feb 4, 2014 20:57:13 GMT
Snow on the road I can handle. But flakes on the road, not so much. And the flakes are even there in the summer. Sometimes more so.
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Feb 4, 2014 21:11:48 GMT
Snow on the road I can handle. But flakes on the road, not so much. And the flakes are even there in the summer. Sometimes more so. I once saw this greeting card: Front: "I enjoy looking out my window and watching the flakes fall." Inside: "...and the snow is nice too." (or something to that extent) |
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Post by wvengineer on Feb 5, 2014 0:03:23 GMT
I am still sore from cleaning up the 10" of snow we got yesterday. Tonight they are calling for 3/4" if ice on top of another 2 inches of snow. There rumours of at least a foot over the weekend.
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Post by the light works on Feb 5, 2014 0:57:16 GMT
after the abortive attempt at snow this morning, it got nice enough that I managed to finish splitting firewood for the year.
next nice weather, I might be able to start on THIS year's firewood.
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Post by GTCGreg on Feb 5, 2014 3:19:22 GMT
after the abortive attempt at snow this morning, it got nice enough that I managed to finish splitting firewood for the year. next nice weather, I might be able to start on THIS year's firewood. At least you are still allowed to burn firewood. A friend of mine that lived in northern CA had a very substantial reserve of firewood. In fact, that was all he used to heat his home. That was until a few years ago when they completely banned the use of fire wood for heating. He then had to heat his home using electricity at some ridiculous cost. At least California moved the pollution out of state to wherever the power plants are located. |
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Post by the light works on Feb 5, 2014 3:25:25 GMT
after the abortive attempt at snow this morning, it got nice enough that I managed to finish splitting firewood for the year. next nice weather, I might be able to start on THIS year's firewood. At least you are still allowed to burn firewood. A friend of mine that lived in northern CA had a very substantial reserve of firewood. In fact, that was all he used to heat his home. That was until a few years ago when they completely banned the use of fire wood for heating. He then had to heat his home using electricity at some ridiculous cost. At least California moved the pollution out of state to wherever the power plants are located. Northern California buys a lot of it from Bonneville. If they banned wood heat here, I'd be in a world of hurt. I haven't cut down a tree for firewood in the 15 years I've owned this place - and I am still way behind in cutting up what's down. Attachment Deletedbetween events like this and people using me for a disposal site, it is the cutting and stacking I come up short on. |
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It's currently piddling it down with rain & the view out my window look more like I'm in London than Sydney. I'm sitting at my desk wearing a woolly cap (I just washed my hair & don't need an ear infection) & long sleave shirt loving every minute of this cold snap. Pity it's only forecast to be like this for the next two days, then it's back to watching the thermometer climb once again - Bug with a ger *SIGH!* 
I hate the summertime.
