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boneheaddoctor · #16 12-06-2005, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Brandon314159

Haha awesome...the mental picture of you speeding along a suburban city street and then WHAM into a pile of snow in a old pick-em-up truck and blowing a hole in the wall.

Awesome

It was cool....first time I ever did it....33" Yokohama Geolander M/T tires with NO lift kit on an otherwise stock 1987 GMC Sierra 2500 3/4 ton 4X4 diesel....neighobor with the big ole Toyota FJ60 I think (not the FJ40 jeep lookalike, but still an older model) with his mud tires and lift kit was overwelmed....

I love huge snows.....I go out and have fun with NO traffic on the road...

braverichard · #17 12-07-2005, 01:48 PM

Yesterday the weather forecast said we'd have 6-8 inches of snow today, starting from 2pm and then ending around noon tomorrow. Well, I guess I woke up too late to hear the change in the forecast. At 9am I looked out through my window and the entire place was white and it was snowing like hell. Now we're expecting 6-9 inches of snow by the time the storm is done tomorrow.

300DPETE · #18 12-15-2005, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by boneheaddoctor

THe last Big snow we got..3 feet .my neighbor Burried his Toyota Landcruiser in the street....the othe neighbors AWD Honda SUV got Burried......but not my truck..I blew right past adn up the street and through a 6 foot hard packed snowbank the plows made at the end of my street blocking my street....I may get some wheelspin...but little can stop my truck.

When that very storm hit, I drove out to Spruce Knob (highest point in West Virginia) in the Cherokee with a friend of mine who was 66, mroe than twice my age at the time. We saw a couple of truck tire tracks that were turned around half way up the mountain, and then it was just us. Started getting bogged down a bit, so I put cables on, and we drove like a boat to the top. Once there, we snow-shoed and backcountry skied for a few hours in the brisk -5 degree temps. The next day, after we'd gotten back to D.C., my senior friend had a routine check-up, only to find that the aeorta in his heart was nearly the consistency of jelly. He had to have heart surgery almost immediately. So.....I nearly accidentally killed him, but he'll never forget the adventure! (and he's since made successful recovery).

Pete.

boneheaddoctor · #19 12-15-2005, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by 300DPETE

When that very storm hit, I drove out to Spruce Knob (highest point in West Virginia) in the Cherokee with a friend of mine who's 66, mroe than twice my age at the time. We saw a couple of truck tire tracks that were turned around half way up the mountain, and then it was just us. Started getting bogged down a bit, so I put cables on, and we drove like a boat to the top. Once there, we snow-shoed and backcountry skied for a few hours in the brisk -5 degree temps. The next day, after we'd gotten back to D.C., my senior friend had a routine check-up, only to find that the aeorta in his heart was nearly the consistency of jelly. He had to have heart surgery almost immediately. So.....I nearly accidentally killed him, but he'll never forget the adventure! (and he's since made successful recovery).

Pete.

glad to hear he survived it.....and enjoyed the trip both.

J. R. B. · #20 12-15-2005, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by boneheaddoctor

THe last Big snow we got..3 feet .my neighbor Burried his Toyota Landcruiser in the street....the othe neighbors AWD Honda SUV got Burried......but not my truck..I blew right past adn up the street and through a 6 foot hard packed snowbank the plows made at the end of my street blocking my street....I may get some wheelspin...but little can stop my truck.

My Dad has an old 1941 Chev. ton and a half Army truck. He was a madman behind the wheel of that thing. When I was a kid I had fun riding with him when he would attack snow banks with it. Chains on all four wheels, fourth gear, four wheel drive, low range, accellerator floored.

In my young eyes he was the best and he still is.

Austin85 · #21 12-15-2005, 11:04 PM

I used to live up in the Catskills in NY state and sure do miss tooling down those mountainy curves at night, on sheets of ice with a fresh case of Genny Cream Ale in the trunk. It was cold up there, but ahhhh those 5 weeks of summer. (:

pawoSD · #22 12-15-2005, 11:50 PM

The roads here were completely ice tonight, as in, shiny and covered.

I had a huuuge stretch where I was all by myself on my way home, not a car in sight, so I tried out a hard braking test, car went perfectly straight, front wheels locked and sliding, rear slowed, engine slowed, it downclunked from 4th to 3rd like when coming to a stop (speedo went down to 0 smoothly like when stopping), and shortly thereafter it was idling, all four wheels locked and sliding, straight down the road at around 25-30mph. Very weird and interesting feeling.

letting off the brakes resulted in a return to grip/normal driving. I'd never been able to do that before.....I must have slid 70 feet and barely lost 5-7mph!! Wow! Just a small "wooooosh"ing sound and the engine idling when sliding along (had radio off).....lets me know my rear brakes work nice and good too, didn't drift at all, perfectly straight line.

boneheaddoctor · #23 12-16-2005, 08:28 AM

wel we had spotty ice this morning....was sitting at a red light and caught out of the coner of my eye some idiot barreling up the right turn only lane....you know these types who are too important to actually stop for redlights....well he hung that turn without slowing down much less stopping at the red light ....hit a partch of ice midway through the turn and plowed into a car that was legally making that left on a green light onto that road.....(at a speed that was really too high for clear dry pavement)

what morons.............