Grandpa, tell me bout the good ole days............

[Oaktree]

Some city plows have the sand chute flow ahead of the driver's side traction wheel.
That way they make it up hills and when broadcasting they cover the center section of the road surface so both lanes get a fair portion of abrasive.

A bit OT, but speaking of sand on a couple of road trips out west I noticed roadside signs (mostly Nevada as I recall) that would say "fresh oil" or sometimes "sanded oil". What does this mean? Those sections of road didn't look any different than the rest of it.
This was probably 40-ish years ago, dunno if they still do it.

 

[Frankenkubota]

A bit OT, but speaking of sand on a couple of road trips out west I noticed roadside signs (mostly Nevada as I recall) that would say "fresh oil" or sometimes "sanded oil". What does this mean? Those sections of road didn't look any different than the rest of it.
This was probably 40-ish years ago, dunno if they still do it.

You just brought back memories. I grew up in Milwaukee in a small blue collar house in a newer neighbor hood. I was maybe 6 so it was 1958? Our city street had not been paved yet, i'd forgotten that.

Once in a while someone would come running yelling, here comes the oil truck! You would have to get everything out of range, anything close to the street got splashed! They had a big tanker truck that sprayed oil on the gravel road. I guess to keep down the dust?

I also remember them fogging the entire neighborhood with i guess, DDT?

 

[pmsmechanic]

If some BO, puts grease on the rails, you need that. I was looking for the scene from Emperor of the North, but couldn't find it.

So there is actually such a thing as grease for the rails. It's called curve grease and it's used to make it easier for the locomotive to pull a train around a curve. I know this because I was given a pail of curve grease.

 

[PILOON]

You just brought back memories. I grew up in Milwaukee in a small blue collar house in a newer neighbor hood. I was maybe 6 so it was 1958? Our city street had not been paved yet, i'd forgotten that.

Once in a while someone would come running yelling, here comes the oil truck! You would have to get everything out of range, anything close to the street got splashed! They had a big tanker truck that sprayed oil on the gravel road. I guess to keep down the dust?

Even today they treat gravel roads but now use diluted wood resin as it is environmentally safe.
Some use calcium chloride as it draws moisture keeping the dust down however disallowed near lakes/rivers.

 

[Dftodd]

Even today they treat gravel roads but now use diluted wood resin as it is environmentally safe.
Some use calcium chloride as it draws moisture keeping the dust down however disallowed near lakes/rivers.

They use beat juice around here. Makes a sticky, stinky mess if you have to a travel a road right after they sprayed. Watched a dog following the spray truck one day. Dog would occasionally stop and roll in it. I bet that was a fun bath when it got home

They seal coated our road with a tar spray, then skim coated with blue stone before they paved our street.

 

[user.69169]

A bit OT, but speaking of sand on a couple of road trips out west I noticed roadside signs (mostly Nevada as I recall) that would say "fresh oil" or sometimes "sanded oil". What does this mean? Those sections of road didn't look any different than the rest of it.
This was probably 40-ish years ago, dunno if they still do it.

Pretty much same as driveway sealer. Signs are to warn girlymen who cry when oil get on der car paint.
Sanded oil is when chain gang come along behind hot oil truck and spreads sand on top of hot oil. Supposed to stick sand to road so oil not roll up on tires. Works sometimes.

 

[turnkey4099]

I did too, usually after a few drinks.
The way I should have said it was 100 years ago with one wheel drive and those super skinny tires and 20 horsepower...to me that's impressive. There are other better videos also. Most modern trucks, Hummers, etc hardly are ever driven on grass.
Imagine what roads were like then? Even in the 50s I remember lots of dirt (not gravel) dirt roads. Mud after rain, fording creeks.

And lots of ground clearance

 

[turnkey4099]

Yep and buzz saws too.

Here's a farm Doodlebug

船oodlebug 1923 Ford Model T farm tractor conversion

Ihated that buzz saw when I was a kid. I was the 'take-off' guy. Stand right next to the huge 3' ddiameter blade grabbing ahold of each piece to toss it aside. Not a sign of a safety shield anyplace on it.

 

[turnkey4099]

Yep and buzz saws too.

Here's a farm Doodlebug

船oodlebug 1923 Ford Model T farm tractor conversion

They don't mention one but there had to be a second transmission added to get the torque needed to pull those huge wheels. For a time we rented land with an old shed that had a doodlebug in it - 2 trannies.

 

[ultrarunner]

Some have gearing at the brake drum axle ends which makes it a bolt on mod...