Snow

Noid · Post by **Noid** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:22 am

I love driving in snow and have never been stuck.
Although we get very little snow in Lincolnshire there has been a couple of occasions where it's been that bad I've simply driven past people queued up that aren't willing to carry on from fear or just inadequate driving proficiency. Them cars have always be front wheel drive with tiny engines.

I've only ever driven my current car once in the snow and that was fun but terrifying. 300bhp split 60% to the rear makes for a very different driving experience in snow.

EJJ150847 · Post by **EJJ150847** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:29 am

My old man used to carry bags of fertilizer or potatoes in his boot to put extra weight over the driving wheels, we never got stuck.

We also had a starting handle that could be used to 'wind' the car out of deep snow or ruts.

John

chris_h · Post by **chris_h** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:55 am

Noid wrote:I love driving in snow

same here, got two Land Rovers

Handy Angie · Post by **Handy Angie** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:13 pm

ultimatehandyman wrote:By the way I just used the excuse of snow not to see you and then I could get some work done on my computer seeing as I have been so busy driving someone all over the f*cking place for the last few weeks.

So what time are you picking me up tonight?? LOL. You are only avoiding me cos I have not been able to go food shopping for weeks since I have no car and it means I cant feed you!

Geewizz · Post by **Geewizz** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:15 pm

This beats all the tv soaps.

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:56 pm

Handy Angie wrote:
ultimatehandyman wrote:By the way I just used the excuse of snow not to see you and then I could get some work done on my computer seeing as I have been so busy driving someone all over the f*cking place for the last few weeks.
So what time are you picking me up tonight?? LOL. You are only avoiding me cos I have not been able to go food shopping for weeks since I have no car and it means I cant feed you!

It's ok, I enjoy driving all over the place and eating take aways for every meal

chris_h · Post by **chris_h** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:48 pm

Except when it snows.....apparently/allegedly.......

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:40 pm

chris_h wrote:Except when it snows.....apparently/allegedly.......

scot-canuck · Post by **scot-canuck** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:28 pm

best thing I've found is 2 or 4 breeze blocks in the back over the axle.
Soon weighs it down and makes it bite...of course starting off in 2nd rather than first and short shifting also helps.

my way is getting terrible, bloody soft southerners driving like loonies

muppets scare me with their nervous driving

Best time I had was in Southern Ontario over a foot of snow, V8 1979 4Wd truck and bad tyres (tracking went all to heck, after the tracking bar *met* a large rock on a trail (I wasnt driving that day!) made driving more interesting not knowing exactly how it would react

Welsh Decorator · Post by **Welsh Decorator** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:31 pm

rotciv · Post by **rotciv** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:28 pm

Chez, don't despair women and logic are like oil and water. they never mix

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:33 pm

rotciv wrote:Chez, don't despair women and logic are like oil and water. they never mix

I always thought it was "Cat & Mouse", the only thing on it's mind is to torment and kill the mouse

Hitch · Post by **Hitch** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:39 pm

A long time ago last time i saw decent snow. Was on a site job in Stevenage.
Tooks us 4 hours to get from stevenage to the M3, posches, mgs, z3s, all that light rear wheel drive rubbish not going nowhere.

Trusty transit (loaded right up luckily) got through

Artic units at all angles, saw a copper in a freelander trying to pull one of them

EJJ150847 · Post by **EJJ150847** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:46 pm

Hitch wrote:
Artic units at all angles, saw a copper in a freelander trying to pull one of them

Yeah some of our Cops be right queer folk

John

scot-canuck · Post by **scot-canuck** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:02 pm

EJJ150847 wrote: Yeah some of our Cops be right queer folk

Beginning to wonder about them, what with their uniforms, handcuffs, and detention cells, beginning to wonder if they actually are law enforcers and not just kinky types

lol