- Location
- Michigan
Re: Re: Important
Wyoming?
Wyoming?
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- Thread starter bshaw
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DrMoab
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- The Utah Backwater
Apparently you haven't driven in Wyoming snow. It's not the pretty stuff that falls out of the sky in big fluffy flakes.
It comes down hard, stocks to the roads and it's so cold that the crap they put on the roads don't melt. It turns into hard pack ice that sticks around for weeks after a storm. Then the trucks polish it to a mirror like surface.
Slippery wise it's just like freezing rain. The only difference is once it's on the roads it stays there. Up north by Jackson they have big road graders with teeth on the bottom of the blades. They just let it pack up then groove it for traction around corners.
It comes down hard, stocks to the roads and it's so cold that the crap they put on the roads don't melt. It turns into hard pack ice that sticks around for weeks after a storm. Then the trucks polish it to a mirror like surface.
Slippery wise it's just like freezing rain. The only difference is once it's on the roads it stays there. Up north by Jackson they have big road graders with teeth on the bottom of the blades. They just let it pack up then groove it for traction around corners.
DrMoab
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- The Utah Backwater
And ya...I'm in Wyoming. It's 12* here right now. Brrr
- Location
- NE Indiana
I'm drunk
mac 'don't tell Ron' 'gyvr
mac 'don't tell Ron' 'gyvr
- Location
- Michigan
Lol
- Location
- NE Indiana
Ps
You guy drive trucks where it snows...
mac 'it's winter wtf do u expect?' gyvr
You guy drive trucks where it snows...
mac 'it's winter wtf do u expect?' gyvr
- Location
- Michigan
Don't like shiny roads
- Location
- NE Indiana
I got hit in my work car a few years back on glare ice by a semi driver that didn't have his stuff under control...
I was out of the car between the car and semi...
mac 'fat kid diving over a jersey barrier' gyvr
I was out of the car between the car and semi...
mac 'fat kid diving over a jersey barrier' gyvr
- Location
- Michigan
I remember that. I would pay good money to see video of you jumping
- Location
- NE Indiana
Drank that morning after work...
mac 'don't tell...well **** never mind' gyvr
mac 'don't tell...well **** never mind' gyvr
DrMoab
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- The Utah Backwater
No complaints here. Snow makes me money. People buy propane when it's cold. I drive twice the miles during snow season than I do when it's warm.
- Location
- 29°58'28.9"N 99°15'15.5"W
Bring me a load.
You can park the trailer in my shop.
You can park the trailer in my shop.
- Location
- Bourbonnais IL.
- Location
- Columbus, In
Is there much difference between synthetic winch lines? The smittybilt line is $20 less than the Warn line and Masterpull must have been hand braided by God himself because its astronomical!
RAM-ROD
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Libertyville IL
Not sure what the difference is Flex. I can tell you my smitty built one is holding up very well after three years of use. My line is not showing any wear.
Ram" Synthetic line easy to work with" Rod
BRIANHO13
<- Yum Chocolate
- Location
- Spring, TX
I think the masterpull uses 12 strands where others use 8, I have used both. NO ISSUES.
- Location
- Columbus, In
I remember masterpull having a thread about winch lines but it seemed pretty biased because it was the line they were selling.
- Location
- NE Indiana
Junk yard bound this am...
mac 'looking for some gold 'gyvr
mac 'looking for some gold 'gyvr
XJ&CHZ4ME
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Unionville, MO
I run the Warn synthetic on my Ranger, it is used a lot and even picked/frayed in a few places and it still is holding up well.
- Location
- Columbus, In
It'll be a couple weeks before I order, just trying to get an idea of what you guys use. Cable ain't gonna work for me and I'm still gonna be waaaaaaaay below what a new xd9000i costs.
