Here we go again....Winter Storm Hercules

[jgillott]

Good morning Wayne. Our local news is now talking about the snow advisory in NYC. They just showed city residents trying to buy salt. Gonna be a big one for ya. Oo.

 

[Wayne M.]

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=weather/forecast&id=7909127


Ummm, she's good.

 

[Bill Stockard]

Wayne,

Nice looking snowplow rigs to "play" with... and lots of 'em. During my almost 30 years in the business, I've never rigged out a snow plow truck.

Bill

 

[mwilson]

Here's a few videos for the warm weather crowd...

This museum is right across the road...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCgf56POaz0

Every town has one of these or something similar stashed in the garage just in case we get a really big storm...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alWlilgb3fQ




This configuration is the norm, sweeper plow with one wing.

The stress on the trucks frame is hard to imagine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcWkc5OBlrs

Edit....It would also appear that one green plastic mailbox took hell while he was winging back.....

Mike.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Was wondering why all the whoopla about this storm hitting the NE?

http://www.ibtimes.com/how-much-sno...s-dump-new-york-might-get-6-10-inches-1524180

REALLY? is 6 to 10 inches of snow THAT MUCH IN NYC?

I would suspect that Maine would get that and laugh about it, unless things have changed dramatically since when I spent time in Maine 6 to 10 inches would be a spring day!!


Listening to the news this is another catastrophe going to hit the NE

 

[Wayne M.]

Bill, not too much playing when the pressure is on lol. But the salt spreaders have a hard life. The collection trucks are just doing another days work.

Mike. That was an awesome set of videos. That museum might get me to come up that way someday. I think NYC used international tractors like that T40 also. NYC definetly used Walter trucks as wreckers in the 60's - 70's I think they were built in upstate NY. That one sounds like it has an Cummins L10 in it! I listened while kiddies were doing homework. Listen again with headphones!

 

[Wayne M.]

BIG, the news really sensationalizes things. Blown out of proportion. The big apple must never have an inconvenience such as this! People must get to work. The schools must be open for the inner city kids to have their free meals and daycare!

 

[DavidC]

We had a winter storm hit us right before christmas, check out the carnage........:-laf
Things are tough all over!

Sam


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That looks awful, anybody hurt ?. I see the dogs are trying to stay warm.

Dave

 

[DavidC]

My mother is rubbing it in, just sent me a text from Mesa, AZ....

"72 degrees........Come on over...."

Debating on my response right now...

Mike.

79 today Mike. It;s a real killer here. Forecast is more of the same.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Qoute Wyane


BIG, the news really sensationalizes things. Blown out of proportion. The big apple must never have an inconvenience such as this! People must get to work. The schools must be open for the inner city kids to have their free meals and daycare!



Well not to be a pessimist about things but ain't that what some of you guys said about Sandy when I said you might want to batten down the hatches? some of you said OH WE GET THIS EVERY YEAR!!!

I just think that its funny that the new's like you said blows this up BIG TIME!! we have more than 6" of snow on an average day of storms that pass thru WEEKLY!! the last BIG storm stalled over us for better than a week dumping a ton of snow.

I looked at the snow fall on my weather station linked to the computer to keep track of what has fallen ON US, not what has fallen on the lower city's down the mountain. In Dec. alone we had 32.6 inches of snow. Dec. and Jan are our highest snow fall months. This year is said to be one for the books, some of the older folks said to WATCH OUT!!! I trust them more than I do the reporters.

I guess are commute of 2k population mostly older folks isn't much of a factor for the news to get all worked up about!! Not to many times, I cant get to town if I want to throw some iron on the truck we can ALWAYS get to town, ive done that enough in my life. We take the snow sled at times just because the roads are ice, we just tow a sled behind and take the abandoned FS road to town and back

 

[mwilson]

The HIGH temp in Lincoln today according to the wife was -10 below. Damn.........

Mike.

 

[CBari]

Mike,

Thanks for the videos that is something we here in Arkansas know nothing about. Only plows we see around here are just road graders I think they might put a plastic cutting edge on them. Low for us tonight is 16 I can't even begin to wrap my mind around negative anything for the days high. Stay warm.

 

[BIGNASTY]

The HIGH temp in Lincoln today according to the wife was -10 below. Damn.........

Mike.

Tank top temps for ya ain't that MIKE!!! :-laf

 

[CBari]

Big, what kind of weather station do you have that is tied to computer.

 

[mwilson]

Tank top temps for ya ain't that MIKE!!! :-laf

I did zip up my jacket this morning when I went out to start Gizmo at 5.00am, but still had my slippers on.....

 

[mwilson]

Mike,

Thanks for the videos that is something we here in Arkansas know nothing about. Only plows we see around here are just road graders I think they might put a plastic cutting edge on them. Low for us tonight is 16 I can't even begin to wrap my mind around negative anything for the days high. Stay warm.

I meant to mention in the third video around the 5 to 6 minute mark he begins what is called "shelfing" or "winging back". It becomes pointless after the banks get to a certain height to continue to push the snow against them as it falls back into the road behind you.
As you can see the wing is designed to lift both at the front and the rear so that you can shove the top of the banks back several feet high up. Have seen winters where the state plows were shelfing at the upper limit of the wing's travel.

Mike.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Big, what kind of weather station do you have that is tied to computer.

CBari
I got it as a gift from fellow workers when I retired, I didn't know it but it turned out to be a nice one ( I think) its a Davis Vantage Pro 2, I had it ran using wireless but the high winds we get made it sometimes not work, so when we had a ditch dug out that way I put a cable in a conduit and like it better it works no matter what.
http://www.davisnet.com/weather/products/vantage-pro-professional-weather-stations.asp

I did zip up my jacket this morning when I went out to start Gizmo at 5.00am, but still had my slippers on.....

I get dressed slower than the wife and ask her to PLEASE start the car HONEY!!! THANK YOU SWEETIE!!! She made me get a remote starter it works almost as good as her :-laf

 

[BIGNASTY]

Mr CBari

Being as old as I am, I don't trust electronics but sometimes want or need to know snow depth, when I put the mount pole up for the weather station I attached a tank stick from my days as a gas-passer, its kind of fool proof and works to check the accuracy of my electronic weather station, they are pretty darn close, most times within a 1/4 in. I have to read the thing with a pair of Bino's from inside the house because its not that important to go out in sub-zero temps to find out

 

[jhenderson]

Blown out of proportion is just what I was talking about. I'm sure a foot of snow is a pain in NYC, just because there is nowhere to put it. But it's still just an inconvenience. Stay home till things get cleaned up. The way the media plays on the fears of the public, they should be charged with inciting a riot.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Dump it in the ocean!!!, ours goes on the frozen lake or in the rivers and out on the runway of the airport don't care where its at the amount that we get here we run out of room to put it and we are just plowing our driveway. Lucky for us this year we have a new tractor that has a snow blower attachment on it, the wife plows both the sides and blows it out into the pasture and the mules and I plow the middle and go around things to tight for her to get the tractor into, 120" of snow annual average is kind of a lot IMO