No chains just good tires and 45 years of driving on snow and ice. The only thing I’ve ever had chains on was a two wheel drive loader tractor that I used to clean the barn out with. I have to confess this trip had me sweating a bit. The township had ice bladed the road, so it wasn’t a problem, as it turned out the biggest trouble I had was caused by the contractors efforts to make things good for me, he put a lot of salt down and it softened the snow on the driveway enough that I started to chop a bit in the slushy snow.
I bought the rope from Manitex and the part no. is 35714-335
I haven't done it but I've thought about it. Because it is spooled the reverse of the way its spent its life have you had any trouble getting it to lay properly? I even read somewhere that you should spool it off the original reel onto a second reel, then install it, to keep it laying the way it was originally spooled, when I asked the head mechanic at the dealership he said there was no need. In the case of this rope I had to cut and shorten it twice and I think the last time I cut it I wonder if got the seizing wire tight enough because it appeared that the core slipped because I had a bit of a spiral happening in the first 15 ft. of the rope. so upon discovering that I immediately cut out the effected rope " taking great care to seize properly" and ordered a new rope. My feeling is the consequences are far too great to take a chance on a three year old rope that has shown any issues.
I've seen Manitex call it both but when I ordered it the part no. came up as 14mm. and it didn't seem a problem, they had it in there parts room in two days. when I was pricing from my rigging supplier he could have two different ropes in the same time frame and a German made one in 10 days. The German made one was $600 more than the other two. It was about then I decided to use the factory supplied rope. There was also a chinesium rope for half the price, thanks but no thanks.
Cummins recommends 500 hours I usually change oil and filters at about 250 hours. If I was running 50 hours a week I'd maybe feel differently, but although some weeks I bill out that much, if I have a lot of minimum charges but I've never ran even close to that so 250 hour service intervals aren't a very big impact to my bottom line and it makes me feel good.
yep rotella t 15-40 I have a really good shell dealer 6 KM. from me that I get excellent service from I have a metered clear fuel tank with a level sensor that they monitor remotely, a dyed tank and I buy most of my gasoline at their fuel station. So I really never consider anything else.
I'm going to have to make correction to your southern column Sir. Our liquor stores are emptied before the "Mild panic and sense of doom" sets in.
I stand corrected.I'm going to have to make correction to your southern column Sir. Our liquor stores are emptied before the "Mild panic and sense of doom" sets in.
