so waht ya doin today?

[JonB]

SNIP...
Road repairs we were prepared for may make an interesting thread.

Prepared, LOL, what's that?

One trip (in January 1995) from MN to TX to visit my Ma and Pa in D'hanis TX (actually 'old' D'hanis) I was driving a Plymouth Volare' and pulling a 700cc Honda Street bike on a 25 year old mod'd snowmobile trailer (which was quite rusty, cuz salty roads in MN in winter). I didn't even get out of the state (MN) on my way to TX and the tilt latch on the tongue, broke due to Rust, almost lost the bike. I limped slowly to the next gas station/garage, luckily they had a welder and welded the tongue...no more tilt feature...but I was back on the road. The rest of the trip went well, til I was coming home and back in MN. I hit a uneven railroad crossing a bit hard and broke one of the trailer's leaf springs...and again, almost lost the bike. I seen a piece of 2x4 down the railroad a ways, on a access trail. I jacked up the trailer and wedged the 2x4 between the axle and the trailer bed..and also ripped the fender off, so it wouldn't rub on the tire. I drove a gingerly 30mph the rest of the way home (luckily only about 60 miles).

 

[Ian]

I might have to give zucchini bread a go, I have two feed sacks of these things.

I've limped home on a wing and a prayer a few times. Made it halfway across the state one time with a broken clutch linkage, thank goodness for having learned how to float the gears, and for strong GM starters. Brought the same truck home twice with no brakes, one a rubbed through steel line and once a blown brake hose. Roll-started that rig more times than I can remember. Got home once with a roadside-sourced coolant jug gravity-feeding the carb after the fuel pump quit. With a small road chest full of second-hand tools and a bunch of spare pieces and parts (not to mention the spirit of youth and one heck of a lot of luck), I always managed to get where I was going.

 

[fiver]

I remember jacking up my old scout Elk hunting a couple of years ago when I slid down a hill and straight into a big snow pile covering some 2' or so deep ruts.
then having to drive home in reverse down a mountain and about 30 more miles home in a snow storm.

it was a fairly easy linkage fix [on the 727 dodge type transmission] once it was daylight and I was in a garage.
but that was a loooooong drive down the two track in the mud and snow, and not a whole lot shorter on the back roads home.

 

[Ian]

The good thing about Scouts is the negative camber angle, they actually steer better in reverse.

 

[smokeywolf]

Did pork belly burnt ends on the smoker last week. Meatloaf, a pork tenderloin and baked beans a few days ago.
Mom made some pretty great sandwiches for son's school lunches.

 

[waco]

I went outside the other morning and had a good skiff of frost on my windshield.
I knuckled down, went into the garage and found an ice scraper.
Dammed if I didn't need a step stool to reach the center of the windshield...…..
I only got to work 24 minutes early that morning. Not 33 minutes. Threw my day off something fierce.
Cold beer was waiting for me when I got home that day so all was not lost...….

 

[Bret4207]

Indian summer is a wash this year. Some years it lasts a week, some it doesn't even show up. This looks like the latter of the 2. Been fixing my wood trailer, basicaly a dumping box trailer my Dad when I was about 6 or 7 for hauling garbage. It's not built for woods work and even wagon roads are rough on it. Have to pick up some more rod, 6011 ain't cutting it.

It appears the hormones have subsided for the moment. Girls. Pffft!

Went to the doc about knee. Shoulda known they want xrays first. That's for next week. Tried an over the counter knee brace, compression style. I don't what language this thin equates to "large" in, but it isn't 'Merican. It was nice as far as giving support when I had it one, but this Am my knee was swelled up something fierce. Too small I guess. I'll avoid it today.

 

[uncle jimbo]

Question for waco! Why is the ice scraper in the garage? Why not just put the car in the garage and avoid have to scrape frost from the windshield.

 

[Brad]

If his garage looks like mine a car ain’t getting in. That said, my scraper stays in the car year round.

 

[waco]

Lol. I was just making a joke. We still have very mild weather here. I don.t think I even own an ice scraper. I park in a car port.

 

[waco]

If his garage looks like mine a car ain’t getting in.

And this....

 

[Brad]

I own multiple scrapers. And use them. A lot.
Freezing rain, frost, snow, we get them all. We get Man’s weather here.

 

[waco]

You know what we get here? Rain. And lots of it.....

 

[Rick]

My first Christmas here I went to John's for dinner, had to borrow his ice scrapper to get home. I moved out of a stinkin desert, why would I have an ice scrapper? Had one the next day though. Haven't used/needed it since.

 

[fiver]

ice scraper?
pfft,,, I installed a remote start.
I'm thinking all vehicles should come with one as part of a 'winter package'.

 

[Brad]

ice scraper?
pfft,,, I installed a remote start.
I'm thinking all vehicles should come with one as part of a 'winter package'.

I have one. Used it maybe twice?
Maybe this winter?

 

[Rick]

ice scraper?
pfft,,, I installed a remote start.
I'm thinking all vehicles should come with one as part of a 'winter package'.

Remote start for winter? Na, winter doesn't last long enough or get severe enough to warrant it. If it should get that bad a better option is to just stay home and throw another log on the fire, weather will be fine tomorrow.

 

[Bret4207]

My wife is an ice scraper type. Me, I get a pitcher of warm water and melt it off. I hate scraping ice.

 

[freebullet]

Had a client retire. Asked him if he had any exciting plans. He says, "I'm going to strap a snow shovel to the top of my car, & drive south till someone says-what's that.

He thought it might happen in Arizona.

 

[Ian]

Cleaned up the wood shop this morning, then attacked the mess in the garage. Got both areas to where I can see most of the floor, and threw away four trash bags of filth, scraps, sawdust, metal dust, and trash, and a bunch of cardboard boxes that I went through one at a time. Now it all looks like it's ready to have a serious cleanup .

There are six heavily-cluttered/dirty workbenches to clean up, that will take about a full day each, but at least I can get to them all now and most of the stuff cluttering them has a place.