ever hear of pavement for driveways, sure makes it a lot easier to roll around
on a
kreeper,
Glen
Chuck Rothfuss wrote:
> Joe,
>
> My Dad found that keeping the snow off our 200 yard long gravel driveway
> just ended up making it into a big mud river when the snow thawed. The snow
> banks would channel the water down the driveway and wash away truck loads of
> gravel. He left the tractor in the barn one year as an experiment and just
> drove through the snow, packing a trail with the Jeeps all winter for Mom's
> Rabbit. In the spring the packed ruts were the last to melt and the
> driveway didn't wash away. More than 25 Michigan winters later he still
> doesn't use the tractor to push snow, and hasn't had to add any new gravel
> to the driveway. No point fighting Mother Nature, when it'll all melt
> sooner or later anyway.
>
> Speaking of your four season LSR, Dad taught me a BIG lesson in rolling
> resistance one winter when I came up from Virginia to visit. I had my Jeep
> Wagoneer, with the big 360 V8 and 10.50-15 mud tires, and he had his little
> 256 six cylinder J10 with some skinny Tiempo all weather radials. We
> must've been coming home from Grandma's or something, early in the morning
> after a heavy snowfall. The road along the hay fields had drifted over to a
> depth of about two fee, and if anyone else had been down the road that
> morning there was no sign of it. Being the young stud I was, I figured I'd
> show Dad what a real Jeep could do, and pulled out to try to pass him...and
> tried, and tried, and tried somemore. I just couldn't get anywhere unless I
> was following along in his skinny ruts. Meanwhile he's cutting along
> through two feet of powdery snow like it was a summer day. Dad never
> mentioned seeing or hearing me try to pass him, but I know he saw me... and
> he was smiling!
> How does 4X4 stuff relate to LSR? Well...I suppose it shows that a narrow
> tire is desireable on surfaces where flotation isn't necessary. My
> experience with Jeeps on Carolina beach sand has also taught me that
> completely bald 235-70's will get you through the sand faster than brand new
> 265-75's that are constantly trying to dig their own graves. I mention this
> just in case any of John's new East Coast LSR venues are "Nostalga meets."
> Too bad my own Onslow Beach isn't like Daytona Beach. The five plus miles
> of uninhabited beach sure looks inviting, but even at 30 MPH the roller
> coaster like ride along the south strand at low tide is enough to make you
> vomit.
>
> Chuck "Procrastination IS hereditary?" Rothfuss
> ECTA #9 for 2000
> Pole Cat Hollow, NC (Ain't been no barefoot mailbox checkin' round here
>lately!)
>
> At 10:52 PM 1/26/2000 +0000, Joe Timney wrote:
> One foot of snow doesn't sound like much... until you have to shovel
> >it.
> >
> >joe ( cold and sore)
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