My favorite!! I love John D. MacDonald's books. We have the whole Travis
McGee series.
Tina
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> That rig reminds me of the old Travis McGee mystery novels. He drove a
> Rolls Royce, converted into an electric blue pickup.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 3:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Winter in MaineI
>
>
> > The strangest snow plow I've ever seen belongs to a friend of mine who
> > is a veterinarian. He has always done the plowing for his long driveway
> > at home and for his veterinary hospital about 1/4 mile down the road.
> > His choice of car is a Cadillac Escalade SUV. So he has a plow and
> > hydraulic lift attached to the Escalade. I suspect it's the only
> > Cadillac snow plow in the world. :-)
> >
> > Looks like this one (sans plow)
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Escalade#Third_generation>
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt
> >
> >
> > On 2/25/2013 10:19 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> >> Thanks, Chuck. That sounds like intensive snow-clearing.
> >>
> >> When I was in charge of an airfield we had a snow-clearing operation
> >> throughout the winter, activated on the forecast at around 1500 each
> >> day. Some of our gear was quite impressive, but some was just blades
> >> on the front of a fuel bowser.
> >>
> >> Chris On 25 Feb 2013, at 12:01, Chuck Norcutt
> >> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> That sort of plough is very common in the northeast US, especially
> >>> for multi-lane highways where you may see two or three such trucks
> >>> running side-by-side but staggered front to rear such that the lead
> >>> truck's plough feeds the snow off to the side to be picked up by
> >>> the next truck and so forth until road and shoulder are fully
> >>> cleared.
> >>
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