OT Road Grit Reserve

[The Natural Philosopher]

If you ant milk, its YOUR milk tanker as well.

[Andy Dingley]

Still a real problem when you're trying to bring the ant herd in for milking.

[Jules Richardson]

At least you can find them by listening for the little ant bells that they wear around their necks.

[Frank Erskine]

Whatever's happened to the good old inch? Weather people never ever refer to it nowadays, even though It's a much more practical unit for snow depth.

Beside, cm aren't SI units and are to be deprecated.

[Jules Richardson]

elk tanker!

[Bob Eager]

We should use nanoparsecs... 30mm or so.

[Jules Richardson]

It's alive and well this side of the Pond :-)

[pete]

1 Parsec = 3.08568025 × 10**16 metres, ITYM attoparsecs?

[Bob Eager]

I just re-read that and of course I meant attoparsecs...just scrolled down to see if anyone had noticed before I posted a correction!

[The Natural Philosopher]

mm is shorter than attoparsec.

[Bob Eager]

But not as much fun.

[chris French]

It was foggy in the morning, so I imagine it was at night,so could be. We wondered if that was the reason.

[jgharston]

Just over a milli-furlong ;)

JGH

[Ala]

I think this is actually kinda gross.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "dennis@home" saying something like:

But Dennis, you are just A Helluva Guy.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Ala" saying something like:

I assume you're a Septic?

"Black Spot" in the UK, refers to a place where traffic collisions regularly happen. The "white spot" of the OP is a pun on snow.

HTH, HAND, bollocks, etc.

[Andy Champ]

I just went and measured. 20cm is enough that the splitter will be scraping the top off and feeding it to the radiator - unless of course the wheels are riding over it, and lifting the car up. 40cm would completely bury the radiator. 100cm is somewhere up in the glass - I'd go _under_ that 100cm fluffy drift, not over. And then stop shortly afterwards with an overheating engine owing to no airflow!

My tyres are intended for higher temperatures and higher speeds. They aren't ideal for this weather. RWD, no LSD, too much power... and the biggest problem I've had with our 40mm has been the stuck vehicle at the front of the queue.

Andy

[Jules Richardson]

Bah, what are you on about? Your engine would stay cool due to all the snow packed around it in the engine bay... ;-)

[Andy Champ]

The engine bay is at the other end of the car. (This is an old model MR2, not a Ferrari or something so it's not worth breaking into my house for the keys).

However I don't think much snow would get through the radiator of a conventional front engine car. The bit next to the radiator would then melt, leaving a blocked grill and a gap before the radiator.

Andy

[Ala]

I assume you're a boy. All boys think grit and mud and such is cool. Gurlz do not

Not gross but still involving rocks and dirt: Number 2.

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