Just a reminder that it is traction time again and many tire outlets sell bags of sand. Most are small enough to be easily aranged in the base of your lathe stand for steadiness and to dampen vibration, the latter property being one of the prime reasons for using sand as weight.
Here in the NW, Les Schwab tire dealers sells a 70# bag for $6.00. I bought three today for the bed of my Ford Ranger - haven't needed to use it in ice and snow before this winter.
Lobby don't remind me OK, I hate shoveling snow. You guys did need some water though, after all the dry weather the last couple of years ;--)) Latest forecast says we have some heading our way, sure been nice here though the last couple of weeks. No sand needed for my lathe or truck, but if so, I could dig that right out of my backyard, with some gravel included, just have to remove a little top soil and there it is.
Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo
Lobby Dosser wrote:
What? Don't you store bowl blanks in the back like the rest of us? Half-dozen frozen 20" birch work great.
Try one bag of chicken grit. Crushed granite around here, and sharper than any sand out there when it comes to traction. Put it in one of those square and stable kinds of plastic containers that won't flop around. Keep a couple of 3' lengths of 8" wide expanded metal available for places where you might bury too deep for the grit. For those who might accuse me of jargon rather than precise terminology, here's what I'm referring to.
Around here it's not the snow that keeps me off the road, it's the other drivers in the snow. And 4WD? I think I see more 4WD vehicles in the ditch than anything else. Drove one for a few years on 'jeep trails' and all kinds of weather, actually Needed the 4WD once and that was mud. Around here everybody and his dog buys one because everybody and his dog buys one. Wish they'd let the dog drive.
4WD is for getting OUT of the place you got stuck with 2.
OTOH, I have gone on runs for miles over snowy roads which turned out to be groomed snowmobile trails when the markers cropped up, all in 2WD. Scares me to think how much snow was packed under, and what would have happened if I had broken through.
Sometimes the floormats are enough. Got stuck in sand in Michigan with bride of one week. Got the mat from the trunk in front of the wheels and had her rock enough to get me on the mat. Then, without stopping, drove to the crest of the ridge I'd previously passed. Boy, she was pissed! Did I mention that the 'sand' was mostly the consistency of Dust and the car blew a plume of it all the way to the crest? Boy, she was pissed! Didn't even bring the trunk mat.
You would have been demonstrating your survival skills.
Lobby Dosser wrote in news:IWDbh.13120$IW2.6615@trndny03:
Up here in the northern Catskills it's the Ess You Vees, with Jersey plates, that have the problem (Ct. and Longiland too). Most of us hillbillies and rednecks coast along fine. Have to pull out the fine folks periodically, but don't mind it much ceptin' when they offer you a buck or two. If they were turners, they would have OneWays or Stubby's (Stubbies?), have powdered steel tools and ask where they can buy an inexpensive pen kit. Only my observation. Hank
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