Snow Chains

Gloomendoom

SHIPSHAPE wrote: »

No it isn't misguided, even emergency vehicles in the UK don't carry snow chains as a matter of course. If they were such a good idea one would have thought they would.

And I live in the sticks just like you and I have one road leading to the main road and last year that one road was blocked by a Royal Mail van, so even if I had snow chains the other chap didn't, I was still snookered.

Plus to use them in the first place I'd have to hope that it only snows just enough that I can use them anyway, too much and they are useless.

So adding everything up, I guess I may have had about 2 days use from snow chains in the last 20 years, whilst ignoring the fact that I'd have to constantly remove/replace them so I can drive on snowy roads then clear roads.

What a waste of time, effort and money.

So, because snow chains are a waste of time, effort and money for you, they are for everybody else?

IIRC the set of chains I have cost £12 second hand. Well worth the investment for the admittedly few occasions that they have saved me abandoning my car in the snow.

Notmyrealname

Weird_Nev wrote: »

And yet, with chains on, she managed to get to the end of the mile track that was previously too slippy to drive along. Remarkable, eh? In a polo of all things.

Don't assume. It makes an !!! of u and me. Well, you mostly.

I can only assume that it wasn't that deep on the road then so hardly meets the definition of being snowed in. Once its higher than a couple of inches above the sill line you're not going to get very far because all you'll do is push a solid wall of snow in front of you.