O.T. HUGE SNOWSTORM!

[andypandy1996]

Anyone else who lives in Ontario get belted by that thing? 30+cm of snow. Brutal! I got the day off school though.

It was the first issued blizzard since March of 93! http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Supposedly it was accompanied by a thunderstorm but I can't say for sure. I was sinking while out for a walk. Started in Texas then came up here.

Any of you guys have a good snowstorm story?

[swamprat69er]

We got a couple of inches overnite and today,40 miles south of North Bay, ON
Went out around noon and the highway was as usual well polished. Up here they don't plow the snow, they just polish the raod. The snow will be all gone by Labour Day. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif

[tambor198]

We got almost 20" of snow here in Chicago, and some places registered over 70 mph wind gusts. I've been shoveling and using a snow blower all day here at work. I still remember the snow storm back in 1967 when we got over 24" of snow.

Is winter over yet?? http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/blink.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/53.gif

[Yooperbacker]

I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and we didn't get hardly any snow and we could use it.

Glad you are all safe.

[Anti_Ship_Fella]

Pics or it ditnt happen
Kidding,i love snow but we dont get it here...maybe every 4 years,lol

[Nobby310]

I live in wisconsin, I got 15 inches + blowing and drifting snow

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/Slappy81/167547_1657250470209_1205531730_31403806_6966070_n .jpg

[b34856]

Not a lot of snow here, 4-5 in. maybe, but this morning it was -20 degrees (Fahrenheit) http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[andypandy1996]

We got about a foot here. Finally stopped about 1 hour ago. I went sledding for the first time in about 5 years. Still I had to push 3 cars out that were stuck (Big surprise) I also helped my dad with the snow.

[Foehammer-1]

There was lightning and thunder indeed! Foe was too tired to notice, but his family was woken up by it. There were two lightning strikes on the CN tower as well.

And come on, shoveling it wasn't too bad http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif Only took me 40 minutes http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[andypandy1996]

You were just outside the blizzard area Foe! Started at midnight and kept going. My dad was out there while I was sledding. After that we went out again after dinner and blew snow. That stuff is deep and its like walking through syrup! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-surprised.gif

[swamprat69er]

http://i261.photobucket.com/al...rat69er/IMG_0002.jpg (http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii61/swamprat69er/IMG_0002.jpg)

A night shot of the well head, that is 24" above the ground. I'll get a better shot of it in the morning.

I don't know why I can't post pics. Here's the link anyway.

[andypandy1996]

Now thats a spicy meataball! ( A Lot of snow)

[paulhager]

My wife found a NASA/NOAA satellite photo of this storm. Except for southern California, the extreme souther part of the Southwest, and southern Florida, everything is under snow, ice, and/or clouds. It's a true mega-storm.

Welcome La Nina and plummeting temperatures. The smart money was shorting Global Warming futures last summer.

[Yooperbacker]

swamprat69er to post one of your pictures you have to copy the IMG code. [IMG
Since I see you have photobucket, when you put your mouse over the picture, the box that comes up with the links to copy, copy the last one. You will see where it says IMG code. Thats the one to paste here.
I had trouble with that at first to.

[Kielhauler2010]

... I was sinking while out for a walk. Started in Texas then came up here.

That sure was some long walk! http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Wolferz]

A night shot of the well head, that is 24" above the ground. I'll get a better shot of it in the morning.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii61/swamprat69er/IMG_0002.jpg

Here ya go swamprat. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[swamprat69er]

Wolferz, PM coming your way.

[swamprat69er]

Originally posted by Wolferz:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> A night shot of the well head, that is 24" above the ground. I'll get a better shot of it in the morning.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii61/swamprat69er/IMG_0002.jpg

Here ya go swamprat. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks Wolferz. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/11.gif

Here's a shot of the same well head in the morning.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii61/swamprat69er/IMG_0003.jpg

[swamprat69er]

My Christmas Tree

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii61/swamprat69er/MyChristmasTree.jpg

[swamprat69er]

Looks like another one is brewing in the Gulf and is gonna follow the U.S. east coast.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Well, for once, we got the lesser end of a storm, here in my parts. Snowfall amounts were negligible but, it was the sleet this time that was cause for concern. So far, we've broken snowfall records for December and January but not for the winter as a whole. Since the last week in December, we've had over 55 inches of snow. Not bad for being only half way through the season. The biggest challenge now is where to put the snow if we're hit with another storm. The streets are barely wide enough for parked vehicles and in some cases, not legally wide enough to fit emergency vehicles through (15 foot clearance). Cars are generally parked between 2 to 3 feet from the curbs on both sides with all the plowed snow. Alot has since melted but another significant storm will be a serious problem. Last time I remember snow that was anything like this was back in the early 80s. Accordingly, I'm predicting some serious flooding when the big thaw and April rains come. Only time will tell. Hope I'm wrong.

[swamprat69er]

Re; flooding, I hope you are wrong too. Don't you guys plow from curb to curb? That way IF a thaw comes, the water can at least get to the catch basins. Or are you sidewalks right up to the curbs?

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally posted by swamprat69er:
Don't you guys plow from curb to curb? http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif Well, that's the way it's supposed to work in concept. At least it works on the smaller boroughs where a car really does get towed if it's not moved off a snow covered roadway. The more populated cities and immediate suburbs (like where I live), well, lets just say there aren't enough tow trucks in the entire state to account for all the offenders. The cars simply get plowed in. Their owners then dig them out, throwing the snow back into the roadway (which is also illegal). During a snowstorm, we'll get an automated phone message from our local PD stating that all cars that aren't removed from the roadways will be towed at the owner's expense. I'm the only one on the street who parks in my own driveway and none of the other cars ever get towed.

[swamprat69er]

I'm the only one on the street who parks in my own driveway and none of the other cars ever get towed.
You are the example, IF you were to break the parking law that would give everyone else the incentive to do it. You know the mentality. 'The cop doesn't have to obey the law, so why should we.' Besides your having a glovebox full of parking tickets doesn't leave much room for other essentials. (38)

We are gonna get another couple of inches tonite, too.

[WernherVonTrapp]

With my luck, if I were to leave my truck on the street, it'd probably be the only vehicle that gets towed. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/51.gif

[swamprat69er]

That's kinda what I was thinking. and then all the hoopla over the cop getting towed. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

[andypandy1996]

@ swamprat69er

You just reminded me of the Midas commercial called " Canadian Police Chase" follow link to watch. (I don't know how to post videos on forum)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwKTpmqoYAM

[swamprat69er]

With all the money that we the taxpayers pay out for 'police protection' you would think they would have enough for snow tires.

[andypandy1996]

I know right? http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[swamprat69er]

We're having a heatwave, a tropical heatwave. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif
The temp up here was 34F (+1C) yesterday and overnight. Right now it is 36F (+2C) We're havin a heatwave!

[andypandy1996]

WOWZERS! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-surprised.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-surprised.gif

That is one massive heat wave. The sun might get arrested for temperatures like that.

[swamprat69er]

No fear, we're back in the icebox again. Another 2" of snow last night. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[andypandy1996]

Speaking of snow...
IT'S SNOWING RIGHT NOW!!!!! WOOT! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.gif

[swamprat69er]

Nothing for up here. Going down to 0F tonite.

[andypandy1996]

Where do you live?

[swamprat69er]

Originally posted by andypandy1996:
Where do you live?

Outside North Bay, ON

[andypandy1996]

Okay so you live a little further north then me but were both in Ontario!

[swamprat69er]

Ya, yer in the 'bananna belt' down there around Mississauga, Milton area aren't you?

[andypandy1996]

Hamilton to be exact about it.

[swamprat69er]

I've got relatives in Binbrook. I run through Hamilton often.
I used to haul out of Nanticoke.

[andypandy1996]

Trucker?

[swamprat69er]

Tanker yanker. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[andypandy1996]

Fuel, dry goods, secret military stuff or other?

[swamprat69er]

Asphalt. Liquid tar.

[andypandy1996]

What company were you working for?

[swamprat69er]

Miller Paving. You've seen the MP tankers running around there.

[andypandy1996]

As a matter of fact I have! Are you retired?

[swamprat69er]

No. I only work in the summertime.

[andypandy1996]

Nice. If your a trucker do you drive the smaller ones or the full tractor-trailer units?

[swamprat69er]

I just posted a pic of the truck I drove from 1990-1997 for the same company in the picture a day thread.
It's only a little truck. 75'5" long.

[andypandy1996]

Not a bad looking unit. I've also been wondering whats the difference between the rectangular air horns and the round ones? Sorry for all the questions but when I was say 12 I wanted to do just what you do. Drive on the open road. I looked up to you both literally size wise and mentally. You guys keep the country running with a goods supply in and out. Thanks for what you do!

[swamprat69er]

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii61/swamprat69er/9211SnowyDay2.jpg[/img] ]Snowy Day ([img)

[andypandy1996]

In Chicago some lady stole this guys shovel to dig out her car with, she didn't give it back so the guy used his snow blower and buried her car in! After that he found his shove mysteriously leaning on his garage. Funny and true! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[swamprat69er]

Thank you for the compliment! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/11.gif

Do yourself a favour and stay in school. You do NOT want to drive a truck for a living. Trucking IS the most over-regulated industry out there in the big working world.
As for the horns, I find that the square ones are more bassy than the round ones. More of a snooootttt-snooootttt, than a blaaat-blaaat.

I don't have that 'cabover' any more and the train that is with it were scrapped 5 years ago. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/bigtears.gif
Now I have a conventional with a bunk and usually a 4 axle trailer behind. Sometimes I can be caught with a 5 axle trailer.

[andypandy1996]

Well I'm out of things to ask. Thanks for all the answers provided. And don't worry I'll stay in school for 3-4 more years of high school.

[swamprat69er]

Anytime between Monday and Thursday in the summertime if you see unit # 2510, it's a Freightliner, just wave. That'll be me. The company has been trying for three years to put me into a Volvo http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/bigtears.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/53.gif , and I won't move.Freightliners are the only trucks I want to drive. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/metal.gif

[andypandy1996]

I'll wave for sure. Any particular route you run?

[swamprat69er]

Hwy 403 to the 'new' Hwy 6 bypass around the airport and then 6 down to Caledonia and around Caledonia through Hagersville.
When I go to the farm (outside Binbrook) @ Caister Centre, I go the same way, but when I get to the continuation of Upper James (old 6) I only go to Chippewa Creek Rd and then cut across country. (In my Jeep) It is the only red Jeep TJ that I know of that has a tan roof AND a tan rear window.

[Wolferz]

Freightliners are nice and I don't blame you for not wanting a Volvo. I drove International Golden Eagles for CRST.
Are you jamming the standard ten speed or a thirteen?

I jammed the super ten. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/25.gif Usually without the aid of the clutch, except stopping and starting of course. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

After looking at the picture of your rig...
Take the Volvo and get out of that cab over. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif
Try talking them into getting you a new Freightshaker. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

@ Andy,
Swamprat is correct. Stay in school and get a job that doesn't require driving fourty tons while trying to dodge every idiot in a car that thinks you can stop on a dime. Believe me, they are everywhere. Then there is the idjits in highway construction that don't realize how much room a rig needs to turn and they set up barricades with barely enough room for a Volkswagon. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-mad.gif I runned me over a fair few of those. The concrete ones suck the most.

Almost forgot, be prepared to spend at least six grand just to get a license.

[swamprat69er]

@ wolferz
Clutch? What's a clutch? http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif Is that a clutch of eggs? http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif

I've got a 18spd with 3:80 rears 4 way lock-up on the drives, 475hp Cat. Sucks fuel big time. 4 miles to the gallon, but when you are pulling 138,000 lbs of slopping liquid you can't expect better. The tractor is a 2001 Freigtliner FLD 120 with a 'set back' front axle.
I would rather have the cabover back than either the conventional or the Volvo. The ride in the cabover was brutal,(20,000lb steer axle and Hendrickson spring ride suspension) but the view was exceptional!
Somewhere in this 'puter I have pics of the 'new' truck. I'll post one when I find it.

[Wolferz]

Clutch? What's a clutch? Is that a clutch of eggs?

http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif

It's that funny pedal on the left. You know, the one we barely use. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

Got that big hungry cat under your bottom, eh? I don't think a Cummins could handle the loads you pull. At least not very long. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/59.gif
The 18 speed helps alot I'm sure. Super Tens spoiled me. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif Only needed to physically move the shifter five times. The other five were all button shift. Get'er up to speed, hit the cruise control and roll!

Blickety Blix four wheelers!
GET OUTTA MY WAY! so I can pull this hill.

[swamprat69er]

The cabover had a 400 cummins big cam 4 with a ten spd and 3:80's. Put 4 motors out of it in 8 years. NO, cummins cant do the heavy stuff. I dont know about the new ISXs' 600HP, how they are doing. Personally, I'd rather have a cat.

When I drew frieght in '98 I did it with a cabbage patch frieghtliner 60 series detroit 13 spd and dual straight pipes. That truck would fly and sing you a tune on the way. A very loud tune. The pipes came out after the bunk, so I heard very little of it. Everybody around me heard it tho. Ran PA, WV, NY, NJ, MA, RI mostly with it. A typical load was pick up kitchen cupboards in toronto and go to NJ and pedal the 8 or so drops, one pickup in RI then on to Boston and get the air frieght and back to Toronto. Boston to Toronto including Canada Customs=12 hrs.

[swamprat69er]

My current truck, sometimes with the train and sometimes with a 4 or 5 axle trailer. The truck is extremely dirty, but when you consider that it had just ran through 10 miles of wet gravel road and I was waiting to get unloaded.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii61/swamprat69er/Trucking/IMG_0284.jpg[/img] ] ([img)

[Wolferz]

Originally posted by swamprat69er:
My current truck, sometimes with the train and sometimes with a 4 or 5 axle trailer. The truck is extremely dirty, but when you consider that it had just ran through 10 miles of wet gravel road and I was waiting to get unloaded.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii61/swamprat69er/Trucking/IMG_0284.jpg[/img] ] ([img)


Better than a cab over any day. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/25.gif

[swamprat69er]

this one has air ride. it IS quite a bit smoother than the cabover, but I still like the cabover especially in the city. Way better view of what the passenger is doing in the 4 wheelers. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[Wolferz]

Originally posted by swamprat69er:
this one has air ride. it IS quite a bit smoother than the cabover, but I still like the cabover especially in the city. Way better view of what the passenger is doing in the 4 wheelers. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

The International I drove had air ride. It was nice. I didn't like pulling air ride trailers because I couldn't feel them in the seat of my britches.

The view is nice from the tree house but, climbing in and out of thing is a pain. My dad bought one and tried to run owner operator. Unsuccessfully. I was still young at the time and he let me take it around the block one day. The old bastage never said a word about the magic number required to shift the bloody thing. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif I'm sure he had a good laugh at my expense but, he never let on. He was against any of us following in his footsteps. He didn't get his wish as two of us started driving anyhoo. As well as two of his grandsons.
After he retired, my co-driver and I stopped in for coffee one day and the old boy looked like a kid in a candy shop when he slid behind the wheel to have a look at what I was driving. I could tell he was itching to fire it up and head down the road. The old guy had itchy feet. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/25.gif

[swamprat69er]

When I started trucking way back when, for the first ten years I drove nothing but 5x4 trannys. Fords at that and gas motors. I would much prefer them, the 5x4's that is, especially in the winter.

I do like the air ride trailers for hauling juice. You just have to get used to the fact that they ARE going to lean over when you go around a curve, mainly because the air relies on a sensor to level the trailer again.

[swamprat69er]

@ andypandy

We got another 4" (10 or so cm) last night and it is still snowing.

[andypandy1996]

We also got some snow last night. Not much but some.

[Wolferz]

Originally posted by swamprat69er:
When I started trucking way back when, for the first ten years I drove nothing but 5x4 trannys. Fords at that and gas motors. I would much prefer them, the 5x4's that is, especially in the winter.

I do like the air ride trailers for hauling juice. You just have to get used to the fact that they ARE going to lean over when you go around a curve, mainly because the air relies on a sensor to level the trailer again.

Air ride everything just makes it all feel spongey to me. Heck, it took me forever to get used to the cab rocking when coming up behind another truck. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/blink.gif

My dear old dad, God rest his soul, began his driving career after WWII. Gas powered jitneys with split shifter axles. You know, the kind where you hook your arm through the steering wheel and use both hands to shift the tranny and the axles simultaneously. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[swamprat69er]

It is the spongey feeling you have to ignore. Although, you need to pay attention to it as well. You just get used to it. Slop wagons ARE a bit different to freight boxes. You get used to the slop and slosh, eventually. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/sadeyes.gif

I know them quite well. 5 on the main and 4 on the aux. You could shift them one at a time by kicking the aux. out of gear then shift the main and then drop the aux. into the gear you wanted.
1,000 RPM between gears on the main and 500 rpm between them on the aux.
I taught a few people how to drive them. I also taught a 14 year old how to drive with a 5x4.

[andypandy1996]

I learned to drive stickshift when I was like 10 with my dad.

[Wolferz]

Originally posted by andypandy1996:
I learned to drive stickshift when I was like 10 with my dad.
You must have been a tall young fellow to be able to reach the pedals. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[andypandy1996]

Originally posted by Wolferz:
You must have been a tall young fellow to be able to reach the pedals. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

No I shifted, he did the actual footwork.

[swamprat69er]

I was either 12 or 13 the first time I stole my Dads' 1947 Plymouth. Went all the way to Oshawa for a joy ride and back.

[andypandy1996]

Shame on you! I got a ride to Oshawa but it was on a RCN Frigate.

[swamprat69er]

Originally posted by andypandy1996:
Shame on you! I got a ride to Oshawa but it was on a RCN Frigate.

Bet you didn't steal it either! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[andypandy1996]

No I didn't! Thanks to the nice officers about 15 other cadets got a lift on the HMCS Fredericton. The cooking was exceptional and they had Japanese Pepsi on board! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.gif