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Matt in 'cold Derbyshire' wrote...
In Derbyshire, it might snow today... yippee
=====Then in abject despair he wrote...
=====Derbyshire, given up on it snowing... boo hoo
SNIP
Matt, not wishing to upset you any further >:-} but - it started snowing
with us Monday night, we got the big storm that crossed Austria, I left
early Tuesday for a 400km drive and had to fight my way out of the city
past slewed trucks and rolled Golfs. Then we romped out to the central
mountains - no chains so far. Once at my remote office we achieved all
goals on the itinerary - life goes on here in snow. On Wednesday night the
TV news said the official depth of snow at the city weather station was 97
centimetres . Yes a yard of the stuff, its been at it again for another
24 hours and still falling steadily as I write at 8 on Saturday morning, so
possibly another 25cms on top. When done emailing I have to go out and
clear a space in front of the garage and we are running out of places to
throw it. The only time I needed chains on my three day trip was, as
always, to get up the mountain where I live in a city suburb, to grip
through the compacted snow on a steep ramp in my street.
So on to the technical stuff. We use an Austrian made diamond link quick
fit cable-on-the-inside type of chain, of good quality. Make unknown as
they are imported and own-branded by the local car accessory importer -
Avanti. They are not too good at getting spares, though do have some repair
links. One thing they can't get is the rubber bungee tensioner for the
small link tensioning chain. I see that your make have the same device. So
can you get these things as spares easily ?
Oh yes, the snow is the dry powder stuff at last, so its off to a party on
Jahorina -one of the Olympic ski mountains - for some snowboarding today.
Cheers
Jon
'92 HZJ80 in snowy Sarajevo
In Derbyshire, it might snow today... yippee
=====Then in abject despair he wrote...
=====Derbyshire, given up on it snowing... boo hoo
SNIP
Matt, not wishing to upset you any further >:-} but - it started snowing
with us Monday night, we got the big storm that crossed Austria, I left
early Tuesday for a 400km drive and had to fight my way out of the city
past slewed trucks and rolled Golfs. Then we romped out to the central
mountains - no chains so far. Once at my remote office we achieved all
goals on the itinerary - life goes on here in snow. On Wednesday night the
TV news said the official depth of snow at the city weather station was 97
centimetres . Yes a yard of the stuff, its been at it again for another
24 hours and still falling steadily as I write at 8 on Saturday morning, so
possibly another 25cms on top. When done emailing I have to go out and
clear a space in front of the garage and we are running out of places to
throw it. The only time I needed chains on my three day trip was, as
always, to get up the mountain where I live in a city suburb, to grip
through the compacted snow on a steep ramp in my street.
So on to the technical stuff. We use an Austrian made diamond link quick
fit cable-on-the-inside type of chain, of good quality. Make unknown as
they are imported and own-branded by the local car accessory importer -
Avanti. They are not too good at getting spares, though do have some repair
links. One thing they can't get is the rubber bungee tensioner for the
small link tensioning chain. I see that your make have the same device. So
can you get these things as spares easily ?
Oh yes, the snow is the dry powder stuff at last, so its off to a party on
Jahorina -one of the Olympic ski mountains - for some snowboarding today.
Cheers
Jon
'92 HZJ80 in snowy Sarajevo