It’s a blizzard! Do you sand bag?

[newLT290]

20 minutes ago, dieselfan1 said:

Usually lake effect snow is all air. In my experience in the U.P. Michigan. I'm here to say they get assloads of snow but you just don't here about it like Buffalo or Watertown.

I see just east of Fort Drum got 4 feet in the last couple days. That's an assload.

If you have 4wd you don't need weight. You just need to know how to drive in the shit. And good tires.

yea i live in that area east of the lake

i do not use sand bags or salt in our daily drivers(all our vehicles are 4x4)

my plow truck yes just for ballast when the v plow is on. like now

Edited February 29, 2020 by newLT290

[dieselfan1]

yea i live in that area east of the lake i do not use sand bags or salt in our daily drivers(all our vehicles are 4x4) my plow truck yes just for ballast when the v plow is on. like now

 

 

I was up by Indian Lake/Speculator area snowmobiling New year's 2003 and they got 3 ft overnight . There was a similar dumping a week earlier. We were plowing through the fluff it was hard to get up on top of it.So I know you get the big dumpers there.Me and a buddy drove there from Minnesota three times that year because we had brand new sleds and didn't have hardly any snow and the U.P. was kind of light on snow that year too and everyone within 500 miles was there .

 

We spent a total of 25 days in the Adirondacks that year. Old Forge, Speculator, Tupper Lake. Awesome .

Cold too. Old Forge was -20 for 5 days straight. -20 was the high too. It was -30 to -35 at night.

 Riding in that kind of weather every day for a week will weed out the men from the boys too.[emoji38]

Anyways you don't need sandbags .

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[dieselfan1]

SANDBAGS!


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Yes and I do travel a lot for recreation


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6 bags in Colorado

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BTW, those were brand new Michelin Defenders, the snow didn’t care, 6 bags of Texas play sand (which probably came from Arizona lol) made a big difference


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6 bags in Colorado
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[Shawn O'Leary]

On 2/26/2020 at 9:56 PM, romclean1 said:

Similar experiences, grew up in Vermont and learned to drive on the frozen lake and my friends farms, drove my various junkers to school everyday. Then moved to Buffalo 30 years ago    This is the first time I’ve felt inclined to add anything, hence the question.  My neighbor swears by his sand bags.  

I grew up in Northern Maine and now live in Chicago. My wife is a physician at Northwestern downtown (about 15 miles from where we live). No matter the weather, if she has to go to work - she goes to work. In really bad storms I drive her; and so I continue doing what I've always done for winter preparedness: I have dedicated wheels and winter tires I run from about Nov. 15 to about March 15 and I add about 400 pounds of sandbags over the rear axle and keep it in place with a 2x4 frame.

 

Is it absolutely necessary? Maybe not, but it drives like a tank with that set-up. 4x4 can get you moving and assist with wheel slippage, but traction is traction and 4x4 doesn't do anything to improve your contact with the road surface when its icy or snowy. Only proper tires and better weight distribution does that. 

[romclean1]

2 hours ago, Shawn O'Leary said:

I grew up in Northern Maine and now live in Chicago. My wife is a physician at Northwestern downtown (about 15 miles from where we live). No matter the weather, if she has to go to work - she goes to work. In really bad storms I drive her; and so I continue doing what I've always done for winter preparedness: I have dedicated wheels and winter tires I run from about Nov. 15 to about March 15 and I add about 400 pounds of sandbags over the rear axle and keep it in place with a 2x4 frame.

 

Is it absolutely necessary? Maybe not, but it drives like a tank with that set-up. 4x4 can get you moving and assist with wheel slippage, but traction is traction and 4x4 doesn't do anything to improve your contact with the road surface when its icy or snowy. Only proper tires and better weight distribution does that. 

I couldn’t agree more, I had a set of Blizacks on the 2018 1500, but they are 18” so I haven’t bit the bullet on another set for this new truck.   I’ll get another set new year for the 20” wheels, so if anyone wants to buy these let me know.   They ran about 3k miles last winter. 
 

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In the past I've used tube sand across the bed, then remove it in the spring. Just for added traction. Being from The Great Lakes State I know all about LES!