Snow watch 26 Feb 2018

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  1. paradox

    paradox

    Still coming down here
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    paradox, Feb 27, 2018
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  2. crossy2112

    crossy2112 Supporter

    Is school closed :)
     
    crossy2112, Feb 27, 2018
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  3. Kkkaty

    Kkkaty

    7C9C7FEF-97FC-492D-9E26-6E7DBA1173BF.jpeg 7C9C7FEF-97FC-492D-9E26-6E7DBA1173BF.jpeg Well I’ve got The White Stuff. Yahoooo!
     
    Kkkaty, Feb 27, 2018
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  4. paradox

    paradox

    Yes the teachers can’t get in apparently
     
    paradox, Feb 27, 2018
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  5. Terrordales

    Terrordales Nightshift

    A likely story.
    Lazy sods.
     
    Terrordales, Feb 27, 2018
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  6. cunny44

    cunny44

    Just a couple of inches up here in West Lancs - Westy is whiter than usual.
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    cunny44, Feb 27, 2018
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  7. Ozziedog

    Ozziedog Supporter

    We have got snow in East Bristol but it is summat and nuffink, it’s been on and off for about a couple of hours but started to pitch/ settle depending on where you is from but then it gave up the ghost, now it’s a bit like half hearted confetti.

    Ozziedog,,,,,,, shall I put me snow tyres on or not ?:):eek::)
     
    Ozziedog, Feb 27, 2018
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  8. fritt

    fritt

    Still snowing here...quite a bit has settled. The Island might get cut off, bet there are a lot of kids hoping so. :thumbsup:
     
    fritt, Feb 27, 2018
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  9. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    It’s a a demount prime mover with tandem axle demount trailer 30 30 combination total train weight 36 tonnes to be even more pendanticar.

    Basically, the boxes stand on their own legs that fold out when I raise the suspension to allow me to drive out from under them. Demount!

    It was fun backing under those two boxes on that icy slope this morning
     
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    Poptop2, Feb 27, 2018
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  10. fritt

    fritt

    :thumbsup: So I've learnt something new today.
     
    fritt, Feb 27, 2018
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  11. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    A few inches either side and over 60ft in the dark it has to be precise.

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    Poptop2, Feb 27, 2018
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  12. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    Those are the bad boys that I prefer to use in city centres. :thumbsup:
     
    CollyP, Feb 27, 2018
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  13. Bernard Fishtrousers

    Bernard Fishtrousers

    I stand corrected.

    In my days serving in the UPS's, we called them Wagon & Drag the same as you, but I understood that that was an Americanism and that here in the UK they were originally known as a drawbar combination. Does that not apply to the ones with the demountable boxes then?
    And the wheels on your trailer are too close to the middle, we had proper ones with them at the ends.
     
    Bernard Fishtrousers, Feb 27, 2018
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  14. snotty

    snotty

    Here in the South, we've had a light dusting of quinoa...
     
    snotty, Feb 27, 2018
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  15. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Old fashioned 50's design and really quite hard to reverse, not proper any longer I'm afraid.I pulled them for Cow n Gate back in the late 80's. They always seemed cobbled together and not very stable. Wobbly boxes we called them back then. Tuffnel's still use them and you occasionally see one in a ditch because the agency drivers can't get the hang of them.
     
    Poptop2, Feb 27, 2018
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  16. Pickles

    Pickles

    Organic or not?
     
    Pickles, Feb 27, 2018
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  17. snotty

    snotty

    Low-carbon.
     
    snotty, Feb 27, 2018
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  18. scrooge95

    scrooge95 Moderator and piggy bank keeper

    Well the weather forecasters were right, they said we’d get snow....

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    I wonder if I can get away with not making it to work tomorrow.......
     
    scrooge95, Feb 27, 2018
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  19. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    I just remembered. UPS still use them. I overtook one last night :thumbsup:
     
    Poptop2, Feb 27, 2018
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  20. Kkkaty

    Kkkaty

    Disaster! Will it dust off the nanny’s Evoque?
     
    Kkkaty, Feb 27, 2018
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