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seapotato said:
Well after a week of sketchy drives back and forth from Duncan to cedar, tonight's trip was hands down the most freaking terrifying.

Sheet of ice. Touch gas or brakes, you slide. Turn steering wheel, you keep going straight. I wasn't sure if I'd get up the little hills on cedar road it was that slippery. Some dude was sliding down the hill like he was on skates.

So yeah. Stay home.

Bad week to quit drinking 😳
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I could barely stand up on my back deck tonight, so I can only imagine how the roads are. Good luck with sobuary!
 
bikersmurf said:
I’d say it wasn’t the Jeep that gets credit for the help… ;) it was Warn or Ramsey. It doesn’t matter what it was attached to, it was the second winch for the win.
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Runva 1100, seems pretty OK, but it does make some racket while pulling in..
 
seapotato said:
Fack. Couple more drives like that and I'll be picking up a bottle of scotch. :lol:
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About 5:30pm we drove down to Saanich Centre… on a slight grade the back end of the Ambo kicked out. Only going about 30 the abs was working overtime to get us stopped. We decided to turn around and carefully head home. I’m not surprised I’m hearing sirens now. It’s bad out there.
 
bikersmurf said:
About 5:30pm we drove down to Saanich Centre… on a slight grade the back end of the Ambo kicked out. Only going about 30 the abs was working overtime to get us stopped. We decided to turn around and carefully head home. I’m not surprised I’m hearing sirens now. It’s bad out there.
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Yeah I wouldn't have minded some modern traction controls last night.
Drive was normal winter s***ty til I hit Ladysmith, then all the modern cars suddenly started doing 30. Guessing the traction control lights started flashing at them...

Left way early today incase it was the same crazy, but it was mostly slush today thank ****.
 
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Drive your cruisers carefully.
 
Definitely very very icy on all the un-salted roads in Victoria. I think this is one of the few days I'm actually happy to see them brining their little hearts out!!
 
GTSSportCoupe said:
Definitely very very icy on all the un-salted roads in Victoria. I think this is one of the few days I'm actually happy to see them brining their little hearts out!!
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Rumor has it, Nanaimo forgot to buy salt. :lol:

Coworkers wife is with the city. Apparently she's been calling around trying to buy pallets of salt and striking out.

Definitely clear lines where one towns section of highway ends and another's starts.

From red rooster South it's usually good. North? Not so much.
 
seapotato said:
Rumor has it, Nanaimo forgot to buy salt. :lol:

Coworkers wife is with the city. Apparently she's been calling around trying to buy pallets of salt and striking out.

Definitely clear lines where one towns section of highway ends and another's starts.

From red rooster South it's usually good. North? Not so much.
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Nanaimo has one of the worst elected group of people in charge of a city, nothing but in fighting and no one can agree. At the height of the snow fall rumor was 6 snow plows were sitting in the works yard because their boss had a problem scheduling. Sounds like our hospital, more managers than workers, every Friday the managers have lunch brought in for the whole management group, they have a chocolate allowance for a few thousand dollars a year. :yawn::yawn:
 
Diesel Cruiserman said:
Nanaimo has one of the worst elected group of people in charge of a city, nothing but in fighting and no one can agree. At the height of the snow fall rumor was 6 snow plows were sitting in the works yard because their boss had a problem scheduling. Sounds like our hospital, more managers than workers, every Friday the managers have lunch brought in for the whole management group, they have a chocolate allowance for a few thousand dollars a year. :yawn::yawn:
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Ha, he said the same. Plow drivers didn't come in because they weren't told.

As for hospital management... :bang:
 
seapotato said:
Ha, he said the same. Plow drivers didn't come in because they weren't told.

As for hospital management...
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I was a little off on VIH, purdys Chocolate fund is over 20 000 a year:beer:
 
bikersmurf said:
I’ll get to drive the 40 in the snow yet… :grinpimp:
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I daily drove my 40 for years and don’t consider them that great in the slippery snow and ice. They can move forward fine but the wheelbase is too short, it’s the corners that will get you when it swaps ends twice as fast as 60 series. I may have crossed the centre line without incident once or twice over the years trying hard to keep the rear end behind me and not do a 180 on a corner. That was also before I put effort into running effective winter tires. All part of the 40’s charm and also why it is capable of doing such tight turns.

Have fun and drive safe out there!


However a stretched wheelbase 40 would be ideal!
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stevebradford said:
I daily drove my 40 for years and don’t consider them that great in the slippery snow and ice. They can move forward fine but the wheelbase is too short, it’s the corners that will get you when it swaps ends twice as fast as 60 series. I may have crossed the centre line without incident once or twice over the years trying hard to keep the rear end behind me and not do a 180 on a corner. That was also before I put effort into running effective winter tires. All part of the 40’s charm and also why it is capable of doing such tight turns.

Have fun and drive safe out there!


However a stretched wheelbase 40 would be ideal!
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I agree that it does swap ends faster than longer vehicles. With 950 kg on the front and 1200ish kg on the rear, and good tires I’ve never had any problems in the snow.

Wet corners on the road after a long dry spell yes, but strangely enough not on snow and ice. Throw on top of oil slicks s brake proportioning valve that’s not doing enough… and you’re crossing the stop line ass end first. The worst one was when the roads were dry, I hit the corner at a reasonable speed considering it was the start of a highway merge lane, saw the corner was wet, let off the gas, had the rear end kick out like I’d hit the rear brakes, and proceeded to drift around the corner. I steered into the skid and continued around the corner (still in my lane).
 
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