More driving,
Drove it to work Monday just for fun, no troubles. It might be running better and better, and sure starts easy even when cold.
Yesterday evening was an adventure!
A good friend is moving to town in a week or so and offered us a few loads of firewood they had stockpiled at the old house. If you also heat with wood I'm sure you know better than to turn down an offer of split dry wood.
So I left work a couple minutes early to go home, refill the stove, and take the 51 about 15 miles up the river to fetch firewood. It was pretty windy and getting dark quick by the time we got there, hardly any moon. Backed up to the pile and started loading just as it started snowing. Wasted no time finishing loading, completely dark and continuing to snow real heavy now, big flakes.
Watched a state plow truck go by just as we were leaving, a bummer because I really hoped to get home before they salted the road.
Given the circumstances we didn't pile the wood real high, but it was still a respectable load. I was also curious how this particular truck would handle with a load and went a little light on it for that reason too. Getting back on the now completely white road was not so fun, the one wiper would only make half a wipe at a time... We puttered along, defroster working well, headlights OK, and wipers about 25%. Passed another state truck going the other way and luckily not salting, also couldn't see that the first one had salted any. Thankfully!
Little by little we kept it on the road, didn't run into anything more than a bunch of big snow flakes, and finally made it home.
PICTURE safe and sound in the garage Backed in and I'll just fill the stove straight from the truck this week, save handling the wood two more times.
Looking forward more enthusiastically to a new wiring harness and sometime after that some 12V wipers.
Grigg
