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Here in North-Eastern Iowa we have blizzard conditions. The wind is blowing the snow around to where you can't see 10 feet. Then many of the gravel roads and lanes have packed snow/ice under the current snow.

My youngest son just put one of the diesel pickups in the creek that my drive crosses. He was getting to a culvert and got off to one side too far. He put the truck on its side down into the ditch. This ditch is 10 feet deep or more. This is in a valley that is protected some from the worst winds. This truck has new tires with studs in them and is four wheel drive. So if that slides around your in trouble with most other vehicles.

So just stay put and wait it out is the best thing.
 
We don't have snow but we do have the howling wind and below zero temps. I worry about my son in this weather. He gets in the truck at 3:00AM and takes off for a day of delivering feed. You know well what that's like. We don't have the curvy roads here in NWIA though.

I hope your wife is getting along OK. Jim
 
She is doing fine. I am supposed to go up there tomorrow. That is not going to happen. She an I just talked a little while ago. She says to not even try. She is feeling better and the ladies there are treating her great.

They have a longer term care there that she is thinking about staying there for her rehab. She really likes the people there. That way she would be right there with her doctors and all. They are thinking that maybe 60 days or so.
 
here in sw wisc they have pulled the snow plows off semis and cars stuck .couldnt belive it 730 sounds of a horse going by thought they would have been home from church hours ago i bet that horse was unhappy
 
If anyone has any suggestions on how to make snow chains in a pinch. Im down here on the Alabama Gulf Coast and it looks like we are going to get hit with some ice at least & Im more afraid of ice than snow. I have some good heavy 3/0 chain about 175" still in the bucket and could cut it in short sections, and was wondering what to loop through the wheel to hold the chains to the tire. Im on 1-10"s this week and will be forced travel the nights it is going to ice. Fairhope is expecting about .10" ice. Any suggestions? Please. I have no chain sets or stud tires, we don"t need em usually down here. This is that once in 50 year winter weather events, and it won"t be fun. Thanks.
 
get some kitty litter for traction if you get stuck it will help also to put weight in trunk of car otherwise just take it easy on gas petal
 
Tried to dig out my driveway last night, just to make it easier today. Exercise in futility. Blew shut as fast as I dug it. Gonna be hours in the skid steer to go 1800 feet today...


A snowblower for the front of it is looking like a better and better idea... I hate to see $6000 sitting 350+ days per year...
 
Check with your local auto parts store to see if they have tire chains. If they're radial tires you need the cable chains. I studded a set of snow tires in my kitchen doing it by hand. This was back in the late 60's or early 70's. The car was a 1963 Mercury. Back then they never closed the schools and our daughter had over a mile to walk to high school. My wife took her to school rain or shine. My wife loved those studded tires she said she never had any problems on ice.
The state of MD outlawed the studs sometime ago. The mail trucks use them. Hal
 
In the 8 miles I travel to the Ford store
where I work, I passed 5 cars in the ditch.
Drove most of the way on the wrong side of the
road dew to the drifting. Engine was showing
alittle bit too warm, so I had to stop dig the
snow out of the grill & radiator... This was at
6AM, after my chores. Now it's 8:30 AM & looks
a lot better outside.. I'm in NW PA. It's winter
time,, Everyone stay safe...
 
(quoted from post at 23:59:08 01/26/14) If anyone has any suggestions on how to make snow chains in a pinch. Im down here on the Alabama Gulf Coast and it looks like we are going to get hit with some ice at least & Im more afraid of ice than snow. I have some good heavy 3/0 chain about 175" still in the bucket and could cut it in short sections, and was wondering what to loop through the wheel to hold the chains to the tire. Im on 1-10"s this week and will be forced travel the nights it is going to ice. Fairhope is expecting about .10" ice. Any suggestions? Please. I have no chain sets or stud tires, we don"t need em usually down here. This is that once in 50 year winter weather events, and it won"t be fun. Thanks.
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I understand that purchasing chains on the gulf coast is not going to happen. If you could get some threaded rod perhaps you could slip it through between the wheel rim and center then bolt the chain ends onto it. four on each wheel may do it.
 
Back in the early seventys i learned all about that 3 A M thing of getting in the truck and heading out. For me it was heading out for the first load of coal for the day. Depending on just where we were loading that morning depened on how far of a drive empty we had to make . The closest was about 10 miles and the furthest was about 40 miles over some pretty nasty roads with lots of hills and sharp turns . Back then we were out way before any state trucks came out and they did not use the salt like they do today . But they did put piles of cinder with a mix of salt in piles along side the road about a hundred feet apart up the hills so if you needed a little extra traction then you did the cindering with a shovel .
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely try the kitty litter & weight. I don"t think I have time to study on & execute a project on the tires, but I am going to keep an eye out on in the hardware section for aircraft cable. My pickup has spoke type wheels it could be threaded through the rim.
Thanks for the suggestions more knowledge on this forum than congress.
 
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