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Severe Winter Weather: ESSENTIAL PREPARATIONS, TRAVEL ADVICE, DRIVING TIPS & CLOSURES
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Just went and put my snow chains in the boot after a quick detangle. Contrary to Niman, I have used them quite a few times, enough to get my 25 euros worth out of them anyway
(bought in Lidl)
They might not be a match for over 20 cm of fresh fluffy snow though because the snow does pack in the wheel opening.
When I fire them in the boot I always have a towel with them (they do tend to wet everything around if you put them in the boot all wet, plus they do rust), a slab of cardboard or an old rag for my knees when I put them on/off, and I put in some wipes too as I don't like having my hands covered in dirt from the wheel. I have them in one of them big Lidl bags, their original pouch is long gone and they get less entangled that way anyway.
For anyone who's daunted but lives on a hill or down a hill, don't be, you'll get the hang of it very quick, they don't take long to put on and literally a minute to take off, and they could be your very precious way in/out of home when everyone else is stuck. Just don't get carried away once they're on, drive really slow so as not to damage your car and the road. I'm female and no good at these things normally, changing a wheel would be a massive deal for me. Snow chains are not a bother.
Found this pic from 2010. I'm not very good at tensing the final black rod in the center of the wheel, but never had trouble with the way I do it.
154151_1469670270486_1495487463_30983687_4177405_n[1] by Anne L., on Flickr
edit: there's loads of videos, but these ones are like the Lidl ones I have, and this is basically what I do https://youtu.be/t0rMG81ZUmc0 -
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Dotsie~tmp wrote: »A bag or grit salt is gonna be worth more than cocaine by thursday. I'm sitting on 100kg for f*ck sake. #thuglife
*Grit instead of sugar naturally0 -
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Getting out of the estate was the problem we had back then. Twas like an ice rink for days.
The best thing to do there is try to get as many residents together as possible to clear the roads in the estate,for those that don't want to help,use their drives as dumping grounds for the snow ye clear.
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Cantona's Collars wrote: »The best thing to do there is try to get as many residents together as possible to clear the roads in the estate,for those that don't want to help,use their drives as dumping grounds for the snow ye clear.
When we were kids we used to put down water on one of junctions in the estate on cold nights so we could slide down the road (the old concrete ones). Used to be great craic watching the cars slide around it.
Lol if I saw kids doing it now I would burst them.0 -
Cantona's Collars wrote: »The best thing to do there is try to get as many residents together as possible to clear the roads in the estate,for those that don't want to help,use their drives as dumping grounds for the snow ye clear.
If 1982 volumes fall on Dublin suburbs, particularly if it drifts, a lot of estate dwellers are going to need to know someone with a JCB. Then, there will be others whose cars have become stuck on roads at the start of the snowfall where the road and stuck cars on it will be completely entombed until the thaw (as was the case in lower parts of Rathfarnham in 1982)0 -
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When we were kids we used to put down water on one of junctions in the estate on cold nights so we could slide down the road (the old concrete ones). Used to be great craic watching the cars slide around it.
Lol if I saw kids doing it now I would burst them.
This is the exact reason our place was so bad. Worse for the folks up the back of the estate on a hill 0 -
Mountainsandh wrote: »Just went and put my snow chains in the boot after a quick detangle. Contrary to Niman, I have used them quite a few times, enough to get my 25 euros worth out of them anyway (bought in Lidl)
They might not be a match for over 20 cm of fresh fluffy snow though because the snow does pack in the wheel opening.
When I fire them in the boot I always have a towel with them (they do tend to wet everything around if you put them in the boot all wet, plus they do rust), a slab of cardboard or an old rag for my knees when I put them on/off, and I put in some wipes too as I don't like having my hands covered in dirt from the wheel. I have them in one of them big Lidl bags, their original pouch is long gone and they get less entangled that way anyway.
For anyone who's daunted but lives on a hill or down a hill, don't be, you'll get the hang of it very quick, they don't take long to put on and literally a minute to take off, and they could be your very precious way in/out of home when everyone else is stuck. Just don't get carried away once they're on, drive really slow so as not to damage your car and the road. I'm female and no good at these things normally, changing a wheel would be a massive deal for me. Snow chains are not a bother.
Found this pic from 2010. I'm not very good at tensing the final black rod in the center of the wheel, but never had trouble with the way I do it.154151_1469670270486_1495487463_30983687_4177405_n[1] by Anne L., on Flickr
edit: there's loads of videos, but these ones are like the Lidl ones I have, and this is basically what I do https://youtu.be/t0rMG81ZUmc
2 things we didn't have back in 82.
Lidl or YouTube!0 -
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