stuck in snow and ice

You splash a little bleach on your drives, the chlorine melts the ice and stays on the tires long enough to get you out and rolling.
No, you don’t pour it all over your tires.
Learned this from an old trucker back in the 70’s while I was stuck at a loading dock in Chicago.
He poured a little on the drives that were on the ice, I pulled out like it was dry asphalt. Been using it ever since.

 

I'm not a pimp, I'm a landlord!

 

When I was a kid delivering coal,there was never a shortage of coal ashes to throw under the tires.They worked great, and the older Italian customers always had a shot of homemade brandy to throw down my throat and warm up my belly,lol.

 

Bitumunus coal is soft coal,used for horseshoeing and for making electricity in power plants.It has the consistency of dirt and would work great under the tires.Anthricite is hard coal and has the consistency of gravel.When it burns it leaves ashes.It was used predominantly in homes and locomotives way back when.It comes in many different sizes from rice coal which is about 3/8",all the way up to egg coal which is the size of a large potato.

 

You can buy coal and burn it.It works great in pot belly stoves,but smells like rotten eggs.The coal for stoves is called cannel coal and it's about the size of rip-rap.

 

Ok. Go to a farm store and get a 5 gallon pail. Buy chiken grit and a bag of ice salt. Mix them together in pale. While your there get a flat nose spade. Good for chopping and shoveling. If you can't get yourself unstuck with that combo you deserve the tow bill.

 

One trick that I use that word very well to get you moving again is simply lay your chains in front of your drive tires. Once they start spinning it will suck you change underneath and get you moving again

 

This stuff called "Blue Heat"..Works.Gives instant traction.Id carry one of those GI shovels and Dont be to proud ...to put One Tire chain on.JMO