[Spridgets] Borrowed pick up trucks, trailers, etc!

[JLC]

It's not my 1 ton pickup truck my neighbors want to borrow (everyone has one
around here),  it's my car hauler, or my tractor! Somebody coming this
morning to borrow my tractor again... and I have been in Colorado for less
than 9 months! I hope that is building me some good will around here   8-)

By the way... revisiting the topic of driving on snowy/icy roads. The local
here (Front Range area) know how to do it, and for the most, the drivers
crashing their vehicles seem to be young kids going too fast for their
skills and the road conditions, or out of towners. Black ice can catch
anyone though.

I know some of you hate SUVs, but they are a lot of them around here and I
don't see them in ditches. Following local custom, I had some all season
tires with modified siping installed on my Expedition, and that does fine on
lightly snow covered roads. I plan to go often to the mountains next winter
(skiing), so I'll do what the locals do: buy a set of wheels and studded
winter tires just for that purpose.


JLC, 7400 feet high in the Black Forest North of Colorado Springs


David R. wrote: 
That's why I finally stopped owning pickups. Friends, neighbors and
relatives used it more than me!
Bought a 5x8 trailer that I pull with my 4 cyl. Camry and can do 95% of what
I could with the pickup.
The other 5% I use my neighbor's and he uses my trailer when he doesn't want
to get the truck dirty.