Whats the weather like near you?

[Big J]

Driving home from site today, you'd think that the locals had never seen snow before! A teeny bit of slushy white stuff on the tarmac and everyone is down to 15mph and panicking. Makes me feel very northern!

[Woodworks]

5 minutes ago, Big J said:

Driving home from site today, you'd think that the locals had never seen snow before! A teeny bit of slushy white stuff on the tarmac and everyone is down to 15mph and panicking. Makes me feel very northern!

Yes, plenty cant drive in a dusting of snow. Went past a written off BMW just up the road. There must have had at least 20mm of snow  ?

Edited January 31, 2019 by Woodworks

[Big J]

4 minutes ago, Woodworks said:

Yes, plenty cant drive in a dusting of snow. Went past a written off BMW just up the road. There must have had at least 20mm of snow  ?

I think most of those crashes involve someone starting off a bit too fast, seeing snow, thinking OMG snow, swerving and ending up in a ditch.

 

I went to work in the Valtra this morning, taking the winch and trailer to site. I had to engage 4 wheel drive to get up a hill covered in sheet ice (still wheel spinning) and then grab the van at the farm at the top of the hill to go back down the same lane. 1st gear, on idle, in 4x4 and it was fine. The odd time where the speed didn't match the revs, but all good. 

 

I only went down that lane as I was late meeting the ag engineer who had to weld my seat post back on on the forwarder (who ate all the pies?). Amused to find out he was on summer tyres. Please refer to my last years mission to get everyone onto all season or winter tyres!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

2 hours ago, TIMON said:

I just read in The Express that most of us are probably going to die overnight as the country could be buried in up to two and a half inches of snow! They recon on high ground it could even be as much as four inches !!

Bloody No-Deal Brexit, would never have snowed if it wasn’t for Brexit....

[daveatdave]

freezing fog -4 all day it made a wintery landscape on the trees and hedges but no snow this side of the Pennines    

[eggsarascal]

Lovely and warm in Suffolk last night, bit slippy on the way out this morning.

[Stubby]

Looked like it was going to be a white out in the night but thus morning its only a half inch at best .

[Stubby]

9 hours ago, Big J said:

I think most of those crashes involve someone starting off a bit too fast, seeing snow, thinking OMG snow, swerving and ending up in a ditch.

 

I went to work in the Valtra this morning, taking the winch and trailer to site. I had to engage 4 wheel drive to get up a hill covered in sheet ice (still wheel spinning) and then grab the van at the farm at the top of the hill to go back down the same lane. 1st gear, on idle, in 4x4 and it was fine. The odd time where the speed didn't match the revs, but all good. 

 

I only went down that lane as I was late meeting the ag engineer who had to weld my seat post back on on the forwarder (who ate all the pies?). Amused to find out he was on summer tyres. Please refer to my last years mission to get everyone onto all season or winter tyres!

What winds me up is people insisting on driving in the middle of the road just because there is a covering of snow .

[felixthelogchopper]

Steady rain on the Essex coast. Messed up my nephew's hopes of getting up the range today.

[Matthew Storrs]

11 hours ago, Big J said:

I think most of those crashes involve someone starting off a bit too fast, seeing snow, thinking OMG snow, swerving and ending up in a ditch.

 

I went to work in the Valtra this morning, taking the winch and trailer to site. I had to engage 4 wheel drive to get up a hill covered in sheet ice (still wheel spinning) and then grab the van at the farm at the top of the hill to go back down the same lane. 1st gear, on idle, in 4x4 and it was fine. The odd time where the speed didn't match the revs, but all good. 

 

I only went down that lane as I was late meeting the ag engineer who had to weld my seat post back on on the forwarder (who ate all the pies?). Amused to find out he was on summer tyres. Please refer to my last years mission to get everyone onto all season or winter tyres!

Yeah, I had the same in my tractor- had six ton on the trailer on the back, getting back up to Princetown I had 4wd and difflock engaged, the whole lot was spinning for about 3 miles up the hill. Tractors aren’t great in these conditions unless there is enough for it to ‘bite’ into, compacted snow/ice your almost just as good in a 4x4.