Thread: Winter Sucks!!

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Originally Posted by Big Tracks

You are correct, Roger. Winter sucks.
We had a rare white Christmas in the Fort Worth area this year, and even that sucked.
Jim

The DFW area is a good place to stay away from when it gets even a little bit slick from what I've seen. Too many folks just don't understand how to drive with lower traction, and not many opportunities to practice so they just play bumper cars with expensive hardware!

Originally Posted by 34_40

We're on a storm watch... Weather guessers say anywhere up to 10 inches may fall on us! So I'm on my way out to make sure the tractors ready for plowing.
OH JOY!

Yeah, we've got some more weather coming this way, too, so I'm going to need to get out in the barn and get the chains & blade on the little tractor today or tomorrow, too. Gotta go into town and sort out some house wiring polarity issues at a nephew's new-to-him place first. Says the guy who moved out had wired in a few plugs and ceiling fans, but didn't seem to understand black/hot, white/neutral and there's some problems now....

Originally Posted by rspears

The DFW area is a good place to stay away from when it gets even a little bit slick from what I've seen. Too many folks just don't understand how to drive with lower traction, and not many opportunities to practice so they just play bumper cars with expensive hardware!.

Things have looked up a bit around here, Roger. It isn't (or wasn't) that people here were less gifted drivers than in other areas. The problem was that until recently there were NO plows and not much sand/salt equipment. I'm pleased to report that Fort Worth bought three plows just last month.

Evidently getting financing for such goodies has been a tough sell since the stuff is so rarely needed.

A few years back we had a terrible clear-ice storm that stayed with us for several days. Plenty of fenderbenders| I was doing a lot of work for a company in Dallas that did maintenance work on corporate jets. The shop manager was a guy from upstate New York who informed us daily that "people here just don't know how to drive on ice".

Well, he was right about that. NOBODY knows how to drive on clear ice!

A few days later somebody pinned up a newspaper article describing a disastrous ice storm in New york. It reported that emergency crews were responding to an estimated eleven thousand auto accidents in the state.

Ole Greg didn't comment on that.

Jim

Originally Posted by Big Tracks

The shop manager was a guy from upstate New York who informed us daily that "people here just don't know how to drive on ice".
A few days later somebody pinned up a newspaper article describing a disastrous ice storm in New york. It reported that emergency crews were responding to an estimated eleven thousand auto accidents in the state.
Ole Greg didn't comment on that.

There ain't no driving on ice! You just kinda point it in the general direction and hope for the best. I remember that ice storm as my uncle who owns that red 48 F-1 in my shop worked on high lines all his working career. He spent many weeks running wire in New York after that storm. That particular storm added so much weight to the trees, poles and wires it just took gravity to do the rest.

Originally Posted by rspears

Gotta go into town and sort out some house wiring polarity issues at a nephew's new-to-him place first. Says the guy who moved out had wired in a few plugs and ceiling fans, but didn't seem to understand black/hot, white/neutral and there's some problems now....

So I spent a few hours at the nephew's new place. The ceiling fan kicked my butt for a while, but I finally sorted out the wiring and found that the PO had run a hot and neutral into the fan switch, instead of a hot and switched hot to the fan. Once I sorted out which bundle was hot, and which bundle went to the fan it was, "WTF was this guy thinking!!" Made two changes to his splices and SUCCESS!! Had the fan and light working as intended! Not bad for an old gear head...