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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
CHECK THIS OUT! Would have been the coolest thing Ford ever did...if he had gone through with it.
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heres my solution
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
That's slick! I want one!
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
I try filling the bed of the one ton dually with snow..no effect on the suspension the tires just spin and spin. I'm thinking of getting some snow chains for it. I moved back to DC from New England thinking I was done with snow, sold the Jeep thinking no need for 4 wheel drive, had to fight the dually being stuck on ice 3 times now.
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
4x4.......lol
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
or my #920lb quad on the back when the plow isnt on it
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
Does anyone use studded snow tires? Those things work great - When we lived in Utah in the mountains, they made a two-wheel-drive like a four-wheel-drive. I think they were illegal after April, though.
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
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We use a 5 gallon pail (with a lid on it) full of sand and tie it into each rear corner of the box without using up bed space (placed on a gunney sack so it wouldn't slid out or around).
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
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And the guy has on a white shirt and tie, and a hat, the whole time. Things were different then...
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
It doesn't snow too often around here.
But my '71 stays full of firewood all season long. I heat with it and sell it also.
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
Go with proper snow or winter tires
http://www.bridgestonetire.ca/tirese...?productID=503 http://www.bridgestonetire.ca/images...k_W965_b60.tif then if that not enough -4x4 with above or so tires -studded tires if legal (BC they are) -chains and if you got money to burn and want to extend the cool factor.... http://www.mattracks.com/ now if your stuck .....your stuck!!!!!!!
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
lmao.....
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
I want one NOW!!! I guess that`s what they meant when they said,"Ford,the better idea".That one always baffled me.I figure what they were trying to say is,"GM,the best idea".But,is that a Ford product of just mounted on a Fordson tractor that they are calling a Fordson Snow-Motor?They are calling the car a Chevrolet Snow-Motor.I think it`s a conversion,like NAPCO 4wd.
I lived in Arizona and it snowed it`s ass off.I was up in God`s country on the rim outside of Flagstaff.There are parts of Maryland where it doesn`t snow,at least it`s really rare.We enjoy life all year`round,too.And we have plenty of water.Grass grows all by itself.
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
500 or so pounds of plow on the front, 490 pounds (seven, seventy pound bags) of sand in the back works for me. If it gets really hairy I chain up the FRONT tires. Haven't ever been stuck in the snow.
I have gotten hung up more than once breaking through the lake to land transition but that is another story for another post.
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
Is that a load of locust in the middle picture? You guys burn that stuff? Around here it is worth big money to the furniture makers. Large walnut could fetch even more.
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
I go to a parking lot where they are plowing, and have someone fill my box with snow. It weighs about 1000 lbs, and when it warms up it goes away by itself. No money, no mess, and no lugging and storing heavy junk.
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
Done that before, when I had new tires on a 2wd pickup. Thing was a tank until stuff got deep or up hill.
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There aren't too many places around here in the market for cabinet-grade material. So, up the chimney it goes.
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Re: Lets See Some Winter Traction Solution Photos
hey coloradosean2009:
i have a wood jig in my 87 dodge ram 50 (mitsubishi) 2wd 5spd that was built by my grandfather. he had a several mini pickups in his later years and his last 2 were a long bed and then a short bed ram 50....the shortbed is now in my possession. i used the truck through last winter. anyway...the jig holds 6 cement blocks and it makes a difference in road grip. i just had all seasons on the truck (studded snows on the rear would have been preferable) and managed to get by for the most part. i hope to put in a locking rear with softer gearing when i restore the truck to use as a winter beater/fill in for my 72 suburban that will be kept away from the salt. |
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"Son, I heard you coming down the road from two blocks away" and wrote him up for running studs in the summer.
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