What if it Snows?

It's oilfield rates, I'm sure. Even though this was a wind farm gig, the customer set up as an oilfield rate.

Maybe you should branch out...

 

LOL...no thanks on the branching out. We stay busy enough for this old guy. Busier than I want to be usually.
Remind me to explain The Annual Fall Panic sometime.
Besides, if I go any further east than Sparks I feel like I'm in a foreign country. If I can't see the Sierras or the Coast Range or the Siskyous off in the distance I get nervous.

 

Sometimes thunderstorms remind me of mountains...

 

I feel the same way. If I am not near a volcano something is not right in my wheel house......

 

I think I'd have been pulling out the tire chains. How well do they do in that Vaseline Mud???

 

I was in Volcanoville last week. That place always makes me a little nervous.

 

Bucket with lid and some pool noodle for a seat. use a plastic shopping bag as a liner and keep a few business cards of people you dislike and put one in there as well before you gift is to the trash bin.

 

I considered going through that pain. In my experience chains help, but not much in that central Oklahoma Vaseline.

I'm considering getting some mud cheaters that are advertised at the Joplin Petro. Easy on and off, with maximum traction at each revolution of the drives.

 

The bottom line in my book, if it snows that means the mud freezes (in most cases). I can deal with slick snow and ice, as long as I don't have to sink into the soup.

 

I'm curious. Most trucks have two front mounts for hooks. Do they make removable front mounts for winches? It sounds like a fairly substantial, but still man-portable electric winch might help with Vaseline mud days? If there's nothing to hook to, then that's still a problem, but even then, if you call another company truck, and you both have winches, then you could string the two trucks together and use two winches while one truck is on ground with some traction.

No man-portable winch is pulling you out if you are already axle deep with a heavy load, but if you can engage the winch and the drives and still have clearance to move, even a 12,000 lb winch would probably help a lot and keep you from trenching yourself into a bulldozer call.

Or am I completely off-base here?