The official 2024/2025 snowmageddon disappointment thread
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geeks said:
fttm said:
Dec 21st , yes siree the first day of winter . Myself and a mate flat out earlier for 3 hours on a bladed quad and bobcat clearing snow from the last few days , that was a lot to move .Minus 7 and sunny , perfect conditions .
Man that sounds awesome to me. I know it probably irritating when you have to live with it though BossHogg said:
When the winds blow over the A66, they can be lethal. It's an eye opener driving behind a heavy when you suddenly see air under the wheels then it topples over. One of our patrols stopped with a heavy that had blown over, both officers go out to check on the driver, suddenly there was a massive bang and the lights went out on the patrol car. Another heavy had been hit by a sudden gust of wind blowing it over landing on the patrol car. We have anemometers the full length of the road, so the decision to close is not taken lightly.
This, and the other posts about the A66 are really interesting, as my parents moved to Stainmore earlier in the year. I believe they're actually above the A66 and the wind can be pretty fierce.What happens when the A66 closes, can they still get past the snow gates to get home or are they manned or similar? Or are they stuck at home? Just interested how it works
Edited by S100HP on Sunday 22 December 10:27
abzmike said:
Just been outdoors erecting my big inflatable Santa - almost broke into a sweat it’s so sunny and warm. Beautiful day but very odd for Xmas day.
It was a very lovely day - almost stripped down to my t-shirt on a walk.By contrast, we opened our bedroom curtains just now and our room got darker! Looks very grim today.
Tango13 said:
Mars said:
Are you allowed to drive tracked vehicles on snow-covered roads in Canada? I'd love an excuse to buy a Snowtrac.

Just googled Snowtracs and they have a version of the air cooled VW flat four. I understand swapping the VW for the much more powerful Subaru flat four is a fairly straight forward proposition? 


I sometimes watch Matt's Off-road Recovery on YouTube. He has a Bombardier tracked vehicle which uses brakes to steer. I always thought brake-steer to be rather inelegant. The Snowtrac uses (what the manufacturer called) a variator which is a bit like a CVT gearbox to apportion power to each track. Such a clever idea.
There has been one in the US that had an engine swap with a Duratec in line 4 which was pretty fast in the videos I've seen but like you, I always thought a Subaru engine swap made more sense.
The other fun tracked vehicle would be the Hagglund. That also has clever steering - it forces the articulation between the two cars with hydraulic rams - a bit like a dumper truck.
Mars said:
Tango13 said:
Mars said:
Are you allowed to drive tracked vehicles on snow-covered roads in Canada? I'd love an excuse to buy a Snowtrac.

Just googled Snowtracs and they have a version of the air cooled VW flat four. I understand swapping the VW for the much more powerful Subaru flat four is a fairly straight forward proposition? 


I sometimes watch Matt's Off-road Recovery on YouTube. He has a Bombardier tracked vehicle which uses brakes to steer. I always thought brake-steer to be rather inelegant. The Snowtrac uses (what the manufacturer called) a variator which is a bit like a CVT gearbox to apportion power to each track. Such a clever idea.
There has been one in the US that had an engine swap with a Duratec in line 4 which was pretty fast in the videos I've seen but like you, I always thought a Subaru engine swap made more sense.
The other fun tracked vehicle would be the Hagglund. That also has clever steering - it forces the articulation between the two cars with hydraulic rams - a bit like a dumper truck.

Tango13 said:
Mars said:
Tango13 said:
Mars said:
Are you allowed to drive tracked vehicles on snow-covered roads in Canada? I'd love an excuse to buy a Snowtrac.

Just googled Snowtracs and they have a version of the air cooled VW flat four. I understand swapping the VW for the much more powerful Subaru flat four is a fairly straight forward proposition? 


I sometimes watch Matt's Off-road Recovery on YouTube. He has a Bombardier tracked vehicle which uses brakes to steer. I always thought brake-steer to be rather inelegant. The Snowtrac uses (what the manufacturer called) a variator which is a bit like a CVT gearbox to apportion power to each track. Such a clever idea.
There has been one in the US that had an engine swap with a Duratec in line 4 which was pretty fast in the videos I've seen but like you, I always thought a Subaru engine swap made more sense.
The other fun tracked vehicle would be the Hagglund. That also has clever steering - it forces the articulation between the two cars with hydraulic rams - a bit like a dumper truck.


Tango13 said:
I have zero need for a tracked vehicle but a sufficiently large win on the lottery would see me buying a property large enough to justify one 
I also have zero need for a tracked vehicle…yet tried to buy one a couple of weeks before Christmas.
Not quite as extreme as the above however!
Been pretty foggy on and off, it’s freaking out TikTok conspiracy morons, I think most have never seen fog.
I don’t want to do the “in my day” but I genuinely remember much thicker fog as a kid in the eighties, couldn’t see much more than a couple of feet.
But now it’s apparently the government cloaking stuff they don’t want us to see ffs, in other words people born 90s onwards who have never seen much fog !
Why was there more then, has air quality changed or like there is less snow, some climate adjustment thing ?
I don’t want to do the “in my day” but I genuinely remember much thicker fog as a kid in the eighties, couldn’t see much more than a couple of feet.
But now it’s apparently the government cloaking stuff they don’t want us to see ffs, in other words people born 90s onwards who have never seen much fog !
Why was there more then, has air quality changed or like there is less snow, some climate adjustment thing ?
I remember when at school in the sixties there was a fog so bad we all got sent home early. What buses were running were being led down the road by the conductor with a torch. I decided to walk the three miles home. There were several side turnings to cross, and you couldn’t see across to the other side. I actually lost my sense of direction while negotiating one of these and ended up walking down the turning rather than the main road, which scared me a lot at the time.
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