Now lets see your truck in the snow

[maxim]

9 degrees

 

[pyrogod117]

DaveP, are you stuck in pic 3? Or did you just stop to take a pic? (Assuming the latter)

 

[citizensoldier]

Like Dave P said not current due to camera failure but they are all in the snow.

 

[drgreg]

The CUCV beverage center. For those of you in warmer climates, you just don't know how good a beer can be.

 

[NotDixie]

What is this SNOW stuff you all speak of? This was TJ driving yesterday in the CHILLY Christmas parade in Safety Harbor, FL...64 degrees!

 

[DaveP]

DaveP, are you stuck in pic 3? Or did you just stop to take a pic? (Assuming the latter)

you assume correctly.

just hopped out to take photo and check for ice slabs pushing up into the

underside of PC2.

 

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

What is this SNOW stuff you all speak of? This was TJ driving yesterday in the CHILLY Christmas parade in Safety Harbor, FL...64 degrees!

Your weather sounds like ours. Wore our Christmas decorated T-shirts all over town today. It's now 8:05pm, the sun set a couple of hours ago and it's still 54F.
A white Christmas here is doubtful.

 

[jollyroger]

Glad you all enjoyed the Mt. Evans pictures. There's much more here Rocky Mountain Moggers - Home page

under the "trip reports" section. Just look for Mt Evans trips.

Yeah, it's tough shoveling ice and snow at up to 14k ft. Worst part is the stuff is hard enough you have to break it, then shovel it. We used picks and axes on some of it LOL. That stretch took about 3 hours to 'railroad track' (I like that description, and it certainly is required to keep the trucks on the mountain). The sloping ice is the reason that snow machines can't be used. It's thousands of feet to the bottom in most places.

The mid-Nov trip failed. Just too much snow. I don't participate since moving out of CO.

BTW Jollyroger, I lived in Littleton, cough cough Centennial, on Grant St.

Bob

I hear you about the cough, cough Centennial. One of the largest city incorporations in history that no one knows about. Too bad you don't live here anymore but you gotta do what you gotta do. It is amazing how hard the snow can get up high. But when you break through the crust it gets soft underneath. We have been breaking trails open in the spring for as long as I can remember. We learned that train tracking technique from our dad's. Kinda spooky looking a thousand feet down and you are right on the edge of the trail that is drifted over and pushing you to the edge.

WHEN we get some more snow here I will post some pics.

 

[powerhouseduece]

The sad part is when I parked my truck there was already 12" on the ground. When I got up at 9pm to go to work I had another foot in the truck! Then a pic when I got to work. Its cold as **** when you work on the water!

 

[dm22630]

This is what I did in the parking lot behind Red Lobster earlier this year....

 

[wldrbob]

i did somthing almost the same except i was going a little bit fast and the front tires went over the snow bank ice couvered ground and army tires equals 3 hrs shoveling not trying it again dont need excersise that bad

 

[jmh4x4]

here's a pic from the driveway, half way through the snow. Was able to take it out for a spin yesturday for a while, the NDT's dont do so well in heavy slush.

 

[bhadden]

Now that's door to door service!

 

[wvhillbilly]

bhadden: Tell us more about the plow on the front of your truck. Very Nice..

 

[bhadden]

Nine foot Western Heavyweight. Truck is still 24 volts so I tap off 12 volts between batteries to run the plow. Been running about 11 years. I leave on most of the mount over the summer so I lose front clearance but I'm not stump jumping with it.....

 

[MikeON]

Here's what you need for snow:

http://www.flixxy.com/snow-vehicle-concept.htm

 

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

American innovation at its finest

 

[1stDeuce]

Nine foot Western Heavyweight. Truck is still 24 volts so I tap off 12 volts between batteries to run the plow. Been running about 11 years. I leave on most of the mount over the summer so I lose front clearance but I'm not stump jumping with it.....

So, you've been plowing with this setup for 11 years, drawing significant amounts of 12V off the first battery?? Do you rotate them often, or put that battery on the charger often?? Everyone seems to think that'll lead to undercharging the batt with the draw. If you're not having issues, I'm never going to fix my 12V tap for trailer lights.

Nice setup, by the way...
Chris

 

[booger]

Truck is still 24 volts so I tap off 12 volts between batteries to run the plow. .....

between the batteries??? or, off of one battery

 

[bhadden]

I have three batteries, and tap the plow off two in parallel, and rotate batteries every year (at least that's the plan). I think I've been on this set of batteries for six or seven years. Also have a 24V Solargizer across the bank.