Re: (ET) stuff

["Tim Humphrey" <hump evgrin com>]

Isn't Ithaca close?

Speaking of wheelies....

 Yesterday I was skidding logs with my I-5(still have my chains on my 
tires). Some parts of the trail were wet. I was
driving in L, my front wheels were bouncing on the ground as I would 
"hook-up" then lose traction, then hook-up
again. At one point I was going uphill with a load on, the trail was soft, 
wet sand in the center. Right where my
left tires were tracking. I was making pretty good progress.

 Considering that this particular point in the trail I couldn't get up 3 
weeks ago, because it was too wet. I got to
the top, almost!! My front wheels were literally 6 inches from cresting 
the hill and all I could do was spin. Had to
back down the hill, which was no small feat. The trail is only one and a 
half ET's wide and I had a trailer on. I'm
not familiar with road grade values, but this hill is about a 50 degree 
incline.

But, that was three weeks ago. Yesterday I tried it again. Anyway back to 
the point where I said I was making good
progress.....  I was almost to the point where I got stuck 3 weeks ago. 
Tooling along pretty good, front tires
bouncing rythmically up and down as the ET just chugged along. I couldn't 
even imagine attempting this with an ICE
garden tractor, I would've stalled 237 times by now. Well, there I am 
happily making progress, when suddenly my left
rear loses traction, my right rear hooks up and in a flash I'm 
perpindicular to the trail. Now you might think OK just
back down a little, or turn and keep going. But, I'm pointing a sheer wall 
6 inches in front of me, and behind me is a
10 ft drop. But to make a short story shorter, I had my son sit on the 
tractor and hit the go pedal, when the front
end started to come up I just pushed the front of the ET sideways until it 
was once again pointint in the right
direction. The we continued up the hill with me nudging the left side 
forward when ever it started to lose traction. 
Mde it up without incident. Cut 10 feet off a 16" hemlock and brought it 
back to the sawmill. I'll cut it into slabs
today powering the sawmill, of course, with my ET.


-- 
Stay Charged!
Hump
"Ignorance is treatable, with a good prognosis. However, if left 
untreated, it develops into Arrogance, which is often
fatal. :-)" -- Lee Hart


>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
> To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
> Sent: 5/14/2005 4:28 PM
> Subject: (ET) stuff
>
> Afternoon, Hump, haven't remembered seeing you on list for a while (;-')
>
> Just doing the spring tilling,  after getting irritated by doing
> wheelies, put the front box on and filled it with rocks.  i think I'm on
>
> the last year with the batt pack, it doesn't seem to want to take a full
>
> charge, but may get busy and build a desulfater, any comments as to
> whether it'll do some good.
>
> wombat
>
> BTW, what's "close to me"  ?
>
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