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<blockquote data-quote="Dry Rot" data-source="post: 6668379" data-attributes="member: 4505"><p>To give the Cheshirites their due, snow/ice at or near freezing is a damned site more slippery than the same at ten degrees below! That's because any pressure turns the ice to water and if there is a film of water, you get aquaplaning. Oil is used to the same effect on machinery. In the Highlands, it is quite possible (and usual at my former address) to drive at 40mph on hard packed and frozen snow.</p><p></p><p>I now live near sea level in the Highlands (and further north than before) and have experienced the wailing and gnashing of teeth at two inches of snow. I was laughing about this with another who also used to live Upper Banffshire. He related being snowed in (as I was at that time) and finally being able to get to the nearest village to stock up. But hearing a repeated thud-thud-thud from the Land Rover, he stopped to check the transmission. The noise was coming from the tyres successively hitting the tops of posts in a fence line just below snow level which was 26 inches on level ground. That year I cut the tops of posts to a deer fence by holding the chain saw at waist level! We survived.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dry Rot, post: 6668379, member: 4505"] To give the Cheshirites their due, snow/ice at or near freezing is a damned site more slippery than the same at ten degrees below! That's because any pressure turns the ice to water and if there is a film of water, you get aquaplaning. Oil is used to the same effect on machinery. In the Highlands, it is quite possible (and usual at my former address) to drive at 40mph on hard packed and frozen snow. I now live near sea level in the Highlands (and further north than before) and have experienced the wailing and gnashing of teeth at two inches of snow. I was laughing about this with another who also used to live Upper Banffshire. He related being snowed in (as I was at that time) and finally being able to get to the nearest village to stock up. But hearing a repeated thud-thud-thud from the Land Rover, he stopped to check the transmission. The noise was coming from the tyres successively hitting the tops of posts in a fence line just below snow level which was 26 inches on level ground. That year I cut the tops of posts to a deer fence by holding the chain saw at waist level! We survived. [/QUOTE]
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