123hotchef
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No you need one of these - the famous Cuthbertson.
You see the Yanks these days going on about mattracks etc as if they are a great new idea!
DAPPH
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Our Outlander PHEV is an electric 4x4 it's good ion a field of mud dragging the caravan off it's pitch ... Unfortunately we don't have any snow to speak of here in SA183 ** 
I wanted to give it a twirl or three , locally on some of the hills & slopes in a foot or more of snow .
I wanted to give it a twirl or three , locally on some of the hills & slopes in a foot or more of snow .
Our Outlander PHEV is an electric 4x4 it's good ion a field of mud dragging the caravan off it's pitch ... Unfortunately we don't have any snow to speak of here in SA183 **
I wanted to give it a twirl or three , locally on some of the hills & slopes in a foot or more of snow .
The Brechfa forest is thick with snow!
dieselsamurai
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This was pretty handy as well my friend had it a few years back was quite good in the mud too!
8ob
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Got a call from someone at work asking me to pull him to a garage, i asked for a picture first ...
The wheels hanging off
Just a tad too much positive camber me thinks, just needs adjusting
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owas
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Tbf i can see why people aren't a fan of 4x4s if you look at the way theyre driven. (Newer ones that is)
Just earlier i had to pick up my brother from work, left a gap between me and the corsa infront, Mr range rover behind me thinks its a good idea to overtake me on a tight icy road and squeeze into the gap making me fall back abit, left practicly no space between any of us .. really would have loved to write him off.
Just earlier i had to pick up my brother from work, left a gap between me and the corsa infront, Mr range rover behind me thinks its a good idea to overtake me on a tight icy road and squeeze into the gap making me fall back abit, left practicly no space between any of us .. really would have loved to write him off.
slim_boy_fat
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Well resisted!
Part of the problem with drifting snow is the move to intensive cereal growing, creating fields which cover vast areas and having done away with the traditional hedgerows, walls & ditches which used to 'trap' the snow - all in the pursuit of cheap food. So it's really all our faults.......
Well resisted!
Part of the problem with drifting snow is the move to intensive cereal growing, creating fields which cover vast areas and having done away with the traditional hedgerows, walls & ditches which used to 'trap the snow - all in the pursuit of cheap food. So it's really all our faults.......
Rape is far worse - and all supposed to make our fuel "green"! I prefer Red personally..............
slim_boy_fat
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Fixed that for you, for clarification purposes.....
And not good if you suffer with hay fever. 
Fixed that for you, for clarification purposes.....
I think it smells like Fibreglass resin - can't be good for you. East Anglia is almost covered in the horrid stuff!
GW8IZR
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Can't beat cherry ;-)
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First job yesterday was repairing the snowblower
Only used once and cables seized bolts broken AND even more stupid 230V starting---- kin stupid, you start it from the mains, has hand pull but it doesnt like it ! had to load genny in the tractor trailer for when/if it stalled.
works quite well actually cleared this yard
and more bit slow for the drive though as its about 1/4 mile
Only used once and cables seized bolts broken AND even more stupid 230V starting---- kin stupid, you start it from the mains, has hand pull but it doesnt like it ! had to load genny in the tractor trailer for when/if it stalled.
works quite well actually cleared this yard
Scruffywelder
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Well resisted!
Part of the problem with drifting snow is the move to intensive cereal growing, creating fields which cover vast areas and having done away with the traditional hedgerows, walls & ditches which used to 'trap' the snow - all in the pursuit of cheap food. So it's really all our faults.......
Big dairy farms with a high percentage of their cattle on zero grazing systems are also bad for this. You end up with huge, hedgeless prairy-like silage fields separated from roads with wire fences that do nothing to stop the snow.
And that's before you get to the issues with nitrate runoff into water courses and elevated potassium levels in the soil caused by the mahoosive quantities of slurry that they need to dispose of
Edit: starting to see the same effect from crop fed anaerobic digester plants too except they drive the cost of everyones electricity up instead of driving the production cost of everyones food down
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A few years ago i used to see fields with temporary chestnut pailing fencing in them. The fence was put up in winter about 50 yrds into the field away from the road.
Any snow drifts would start at this fencing and form in the fields leaving the roads clear
Any snow drifts would start at this fencing and form in the fields leaving the roads clear
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