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jon f mn Tractor Expert
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:41 pm Post subject: Snow in El Paso |
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Can't seem to get out of the snow this year. This is in El Paso, I can see snow in Mexico from here. It's not deep, but for here it's a bigger deal than 2 feet at home. lol
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retired farmer Long Time User
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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I hope that is a paved frontage road on your right, and not a freeway you are on, if so you are on the wrong side of the road.  |
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TomH in PA Tractor Expert
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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And all the other cars are going the wrong way! |
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jon f mn Tractor Expert
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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Maybe that's why everyone is always waving with their fingers.... |
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showcrop Tractor Guru
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:18 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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What's that you're driving Jon? It looks like one of those big rounded nose things. Sorry I don't know model numbers but I drove one from Omaha to NH a year and a half ago. |
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jon f mn Tractor Expert
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:21 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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It's an International 9400. |
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jon f mn Tractor Expert
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:30 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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Here's a pic.
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pontiacanddeere Regular
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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Yup, ElPaso, Ill. usually gets snow every winter. |
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Brian Dan Regular
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:35 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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I was stationed at FT Bliss TX "El Paso" in the early 1970s. It snowed one time while I was there. All the roads,Schools and FT Bliss were closed.
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showcrop Tractor Guru
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:55 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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| jon f mn wrote: | (quoted from post at 17:30:10 01/03/13) Here's a pic.
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The big rounded one that I drove across was a Pete. I had a 5900i for two years. I liked it pretty well. |
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ericlb Tractor Guru
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:57 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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its the new gov policy once you get south of i-40, we switch to the other side of the road lol looks like here all day and im 150 miles north of e town |
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the tractor vet Tractor Guru
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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I was driven a 9400 for awhile , but mine was a flat top and it was fine with me as i only used the sleeper to sleep in and was normaly only out for five days at a time but did do a 10 day stretch a coupe times on big moves . Really liked that truck almost as much as my 4300 as it had almost as much go power . It had a turned up 550 cat and it could almost pull a big load as well as the 4300 could. |
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Tony in Mass. Tractor Guru
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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Were you down there a couple years ago? 14 below and a foot of snow? Most everyone in the towns heats with gas from the main, and uses water from the county lines, so at a certain point, the gas pressure was so low furnaces couldn't keep the homes warm, pipes froze, the mains are only 18 inches deep in most places anyway, froze solid.... so the good news was the reservior levels weren't going down! Not till people fixed all their busted plumbing... |
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ShadetreeRet Tractor Expert
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:01 pm Post subject: Re: Snow in El Paso |
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Nope, he is going the right way, the rumble strips are on the right and the posts with the cables are in the median on the left. (Just had to throw that in.) |
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