Chains Optional

To answer your earlier question Jopa

Cool, thanks for the feedback Old School and Brett . . .

Jopa

Hi Jopa,

Am all for the automatic chains, anytime. Should have made my article more clear. My comments re chaining/exercise were more in relation to Daniel B's comments.

Farmer Brett,

Friday I get my first set of 15 chickens

My uncle used to raise turkeys around Fresno, CA. Once spent a week loading 50,000 sixteen week old turkeys to take them from the hatch sheds to the "farm" where they would finish maturing (before they started using growth hormones and liquified animal fat in their diet to fatten 'em up faster). We did it at night because it's 110 to 115 degrees in the central valley in the daytime summer months - ask Daniel, he's from Sack-o-tomatoes, CA so he knows . . .

Awesome!!!! I spend a ton of time in the garden. I raise two steers every year and put down about 8-12 inches of composted manure in the spring, till it in, and grow a garden that would make Martha Stewart proud.

I'm telling ya, you need to open a roadside stand where truckers can stop by and replenish their food stocks for the road. Sounds like it would be worth going out of the way to get some real food . . .

Jopa

Oh I grow a ton of veggies....the wildlife around here is very well fed (not by design).

I could truck 20 miles up to the Interstate to pass out some veggies at the Flying J or T/A in Pembroke, NY! I just don't want anyone throwing my own tomatoes at me. They're really juicy!

Oh I grow a ton of veggies....the wildlife around here is very well fed (not by design).

I could truck 20 miles up to the Interstate to pass out some veggies at the Flying J or T/A in Pembroke, NY! I just don't want anyone throwing my own tomatoes at me. They're really juicy!

Now I know where to meet you when I'm in that area.

This is a GREAT idea and would work in all but Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, California*, Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona. Theses states require the chains on the OUTSIDE drives. Also, California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada require drag chains in some configuration on at least one trailer tandem. Most are two OUTSIDE trailer tandems.

This would be a great system to have installed in the rest of the country. I would use it. I love new technology.

One last comment. Drivers CHOSE to be overweight. It is NOT a job requirement even though there are some that believe so.(please don't flame me for saying this. Just my opinion and observation.)

*California can require all front drives in a MAXIMUM configuration.

This is a GREAT idea and would work in all but Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, California*, Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona. Theses states require the chains on the OUTSIDE drives. Also, California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada require drag chains in some configuration on at least one trailer tandem. Most are two OUTSIDE trailer tandems.

This would be a great system to have installed in the rest of the country. I would use it. I love new technology.

One last comment. Drivers CHOSE to be overweight. It is NOT a job requirement even though there are some that believe so.(please don't flame me for saying this. Just my opinion and observation.)

*California can require all front drives in a MAXIMUM configuration.

Doug you are completely correct that drivers choose to be over weight. Eating habits and frankly pure laziness can be seen throughout the trucking industry.

There are to many options out here on the road now a days as a healthy alternative to junk food and truckstop food. So drivers really can't use that excuse anymore.

This is a GREAT idea and would work in all but Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, California*, Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona. Theses states require the chains on the OUTSIDE drives. Also, California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada require drag chains in some configuration on at least one trailer tandem. Most are two OUTSIDE trailer tandems.

Yes, now that you mention it, those chain machines were laying it down for the INSIDE dual, not the outside. Like I said before, the local fire departments have been using them for years but they run on local roads and CalTrans doesn't really look at them too much anyway. They are more concerned about the interstate and keeping it accident free (Impossible task, that.)

Jopa