Hi Chuck,
That rig reminds me of the old Travis McGee mystery novels. He drove a
Rolls Royce, converted into an electric blue pickup.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Winter in Maine
> The strangest snow plow I've ever seen belongs to a friend of mine who
> is a veterinarian. He has always done the plowing for his long driveway
> at home and for his veterinary hospital about 1/4 mile down the road.
> His choice of car is a Cadillac Escalade SUV. So he has a plow and
> hydraulic lift attached to the Escalade. I suspect it's the only
> Cadillac snow plow in the world. :-)
>
> Looks like this one (sans plow)
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Escalade#Third_generation>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 2/25/2013 10:19 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>> Thanks, Chuck. That sounds like intensive snow-clearing.
>>
>> When I was in charge of an airfield we had a snow-clearing operation
>> throughout the winter, activated on the forecast at around 1500 each
>> day. Some of our gear was quite impressive, but some was just blades
>> on the front of a fuel bowser.
>>
>> Chris On 25 Feb 2013, at 12:01, Chuck Norcutt
>> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> That sort of plough is very common in the northeast US, especially
>>> for multi-lane highways where you may see two or three such trucks
>>> running side-by-side but staggered front to rear such that the lead
>>> truck's plough feeds the snow off to the side to be picked up by
>>> the next truck and so forth until road and shoulder are fully
>>> cleared.
>>
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