I spent the last few days out of town on a work trip to a buddies scrap yard again to work on his magnet cranes and other heavy equipment then tried to get out of there early yesterday to beat the snowstorm home.
Didn't make it. Last 120 miles were in the full on storm.
Anyhow, about 60 miles from home I picked up a small car behind me who was apparently in a hurry. Problem was the roads were already drifting over pretty well, 6+" rolling drifts, and there was a stiff cross wind to deal with so the guy wouldn't pass me. However, he was happy tailgate me for ~40 miles as I drove.
We did get to a point about 20 miles from home where the road was clean enough for him to pass only to go about 3 miles before it went back to what we had been driving in. He made it about half a mile in that before he was down to 25 MPH and dropping fast.
As he was doing his damnedest to put some distance between me and him, and failing miserably at it, he hit several hard drifts in a row that nearly bounced right off the road thusly slowing him down far enough his snow cloud dropped off enough that I could see past him.
Nothing coming so rolled past him and sped back up to my speed I had been going again and rolled on.
Guess he found out the hard way why I was driving the speed I was. A 3/4 ton pickup loaded down with 1000 pounds of stuff in the back plus pulling ~ 8000 - 9000 #'s of trailer breaks trails way better than a small 3000# car!
He at that point, caught up and followed, but this time stayed about 1/4 mile back instead of being on my butt. I guess he learned about why when you catch a big pickup driving well under the speed limit in a storm you probably should do the same!
For all of his impatience he got to be the leader for about 5 minutes and it proved to not be a very fun 5 minutes to have the job then had to go back to sitting where he was when he started anyway. (probably far less in a hurry and a bit more humble from then on.)
As for my trip this one's trade for my primary pay got me a mid 80's Case 30 x 4 trencher rig. (6" x 48" trenching capacity)
Basically this but without the backhoe and a bit more worn and engine area plus Wisconsin V4 VH4D engine is in bits.
The engine is junk and in pieces beyond being worth rebuilding but I have a similar low hour military surplus Wisconsin V4 I picked up a few years ago that will drop right in which, if the boxes of parts have everything else that came off the machine, shouldn't take more than a few days to get all sorted out and running.
Didn't make it. Last 120 miles were in the full on storm.
Anyhow, about 60 miles from home I picked up a small car behind me who was apparently in a hurry. Problem was the roads were already drifting over pretty well, 6+" rolling drifts, and there was a stiff cross wind to deal with so the guy wouldn't pass me. However, he was happy tailgate me for ~40 miles as I drove.
We did get to a point about 20 miles from home where the road was clean enough for him to pass only to go about 3 miles before it went back to what we had been driving in. He made it about half a mile in that before he was down to 25 MPH and dropping fast.
As he was doing his damnedest to put some distance between me and him, and failing miserably at it, he hit several hard drifts in a row that nearly bounced right off the road thusly slowing him down far enough his snow cloud dropped off enough that I could see past him.
Nothing coming so rolled past him and sped back up to my speed I had been going again and rolled on.
Guess he found out the hard way why I was driving the speed I was. A 3/4 ton pickup loaded down with 1000 pounds of stuff in the back plus pulling ~ 8000 - 9000 #'s of trailer breaks trails way better than a small 3000# car!
He at that point, caught up and followed, but this time stayed about 1/4 mile back instead of being on my butt. I guess he learned about why when you catch a big pickup driving well under the speed limit in a storm you probably should do the same!
For all of his impatience he got to be the leader for about 5 minutes and it proved to not be a very fun 5 minutes to have the job then had to go back to sitting where he was when he started anyway. (probably far less in a hurry and a bit more humble from then on.)
As for my trip this one's trade for my primary pay got me a mid 80's Case 30 x 4 trencher rig. (6" x 48" trenching capacity)
Basically this but without the backhoe and a bit more worn and engine area plus Wisconsin V4 VH4D engine is in bits.
The engine is junk and in pieces beyond being worth rebuilding but I have a similar low hour military surplus Wisconsin V4 I picked up a few years ago that will drop right in which, if the boxes of parts have everything else that came off the machine, shouldn't take more than a few days to get all sorted out and running.
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