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

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[k0ua]

Also, so many years of salt in the back has rotted out the rear floor and fenders. My work van is #2 on the hit list to be replaced as funds become available. #1 is a piece O junk electric van.

That is why I use "tube sand" in the back of my 4WD pickup with the traction control and the G80 locker. Because it helps a bunch thats why. And it doesn't rot your bed out and it is a ready source of sand to put under tires if on ice.

 

[MossRoad]

Boss's dad was the local lock Smith and a pack rat. Installed lots of safes over the years. That sheet was left over from a big install he did years earlier. Was just lying around in his garage.

4 of us had all we could do to get that sheet into the van

I've got a sheet of 4 x 8 x 1/2" diamond plate that I put into a storage shed by myself about 20 years ago. I'm not sure I can get it out now. :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

That is why I use "tube sand" in the back of my 4WD pickup with the traction control and the G80 locker. Because it helps a bunch thats why. And it doesn't rot your bed out and it is a ready source of sand to put under tires if on ice.

Can't put the salt in the water softeners, though.

 

[PILOON]

Both wife and I always have crushed slag as traction material.
That slag is coarser than crushed stone and grips much better than sand.

I usually package that traction material in a 2 liter milk carton a use duck tape to close it off.
Typically a handful or two does the trick.

Also use crushed slag in my drive spreading like salt and pepper as it will stand proud when the water freezes, sand generally only washes away.
I adjust the spreader to sparsely 'salt/pepper' scatter that crushed (dry) crushed slag.
My driveway spreader is a walk behind seed broadcaster with pneumatic tires on which I locked the 'differential', that works great.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Kills me. My Dad was involved selling steel wire to GM for decades. Told me how ellated engineers were to save an once of weight here and there. Along comes Bob that throws a few hundred pounds of weight in his half ton just for traction.

A guy told me that’s why he dates fat chicks in the winter, better traction.

 

[Jstpssng]

When I buy used vehicles I always look to see where they came from. When I bought my used Toyota FJ I saw many units for sale that came from eastern Canada. All with so much overcoat that I passed on them. Ended up buying a locally purchased unit and am very happy. Probably never saw a grain of salt.

No offense to the salt belt TBN members on here, I just do not want to buy your vehicles.

I don't either. Until recently I was looking on CL down areound the Carolinas and Georgia, and also checking out the some of the auction sites looking for a 3/4 ton old enough to have a manual transmission.
10-15 years up here before the frame rots out... but at least it isn't like "the good old days" when a body would last around 5 years.

 

[Frankenkubota]

A guy told me that’s why he dates fat chicks in the winter, better traction.

I guess he stays single during the summer?

 

[ovrszd]

Many of those old engineers are probably turning over in their graves. They probably spent untold sleepless nights thinking of how to shave off a few grams. Make a plastic duct a bit thinner! Everyone should just throw up their arms and say f#$K it and do whatever pleases them I guess. All seems so counterproductive.

You do understand why they fretted over that? Or maybe you don't.

 

[PILOON]

" Told me how ellated engineers were to save an once of weight here and there. Along comes Bob that throws a few hundred pounds of weight in his half ton just for traction."

Learned that was one reason GM went to battery side terminals, that and the pennies saved added to mega $$'s annually.