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Things every man should have in his car.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...214#post191946
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...631#post151778
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...888#post202540
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...193#post115877
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...597#post166880
Jack Spare tire lug wrench small tool box assorted fuses spare tail/stop lamp qt of motor oil unless older vehicle then maybe 2 or 3 a gallon of fuel premix chainsaw fuel is not as volatile as gasoline and the 50to 1 oil mix won't hurt a real engine, the higher octane burns better as well good for an emergency 20 miles to the station.
Sleeping bags and a duffel bag full of warm clothes so that you can survive a night at 20 below zero. A real emergency for us would be going off a mountain road in the winter where there is limited cell coverage, and getting injured badly enough that you couldn't walk out. All of the other things are nice to have but are for lesser emergencies.
Traction pads are also a good idea for winter weather driving. Not the hard plastic kind for offroading, but the foldup rubber kind. Although so far we've only used them when Amazon Fresh drivers get stuck in our driveway.
Get a 'real' shovel, an aluminum grain scoop. You can dig out under the vehicle if it gets high centered.
The other thing is the old style bumper jack where you could lift the car pretty high (won't work on today's cars with plastic bumpers), and then push it over onto the road. I did this in my teen years when the 62 Pontiac had such a bumper.
If you live where you get an accumulation of snow, the grain scoop allows you to throw snow a good enough distance. And if you have a drift, you can pick up a large piece of it and sled it with the grain scoop like a Canadian snow scoop (I have them also). They allow you to sled a very large piece of snow from a drift.
Best one I've found: https://www.laprimashops.com/collect...uminum-52-inchQuote:
Originally Posted by metric_taper
$92 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075CTJHJ7/
Local home supply $44;Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
https://www.menards.com/main/outdoors/gardening/garden-landscaping-tools/shovels-tampers/yardworks-30-aluminum-scoop-d-handle-grain-shovel/23187yw/p-3490591039983887-c-13243.htm?tid=1772595021199139564&ipos=1
Local farm supply $32;
https://www.theisens.com/products/al...-glass-scoops/
The snow scoop I mentioned
https://www.menards.com/main/outdoor...3143239&ipos=3
I grew up in North Dakota, Grand Forks, there was a blizzard of 1966, late spring, over 3 foot of snow. My dad grew up on a farm, and he used aluminum grain scoops (steel ones when he was a kid).
He had lots of helpers. No snow throwers.
Shovel on pile of snow; My mother took these photos, lucky she did. I scanned all them in last year after her death.
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That's my dad with view down the street.
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Those are good pics. It felt crazy to pay over $90 for a grain scoop, but at 1/8", that one had the thickest blade I could find.
I've needed a fire extinguisher a couple times.
I've needed a can of fix-a-flat and a portable air compressor a few times.
I've needed a lithium booster pack a handful of times.
I've need a socket set and multimeter literally hundreds of times. Out of anything this is what you need to keep with you at all times.
Also I have my fire extinguisher mounted to the OUTSIDE of my truck on the back rack. If anybody needs a fire extinguisher there's one right there. I really don't mind.
Can't believe no one has mentioned the 1969 Dodge Charger in the illustration.
100% agree, if you use them for general winter snow removal, the front edge will erode from scrapping concrete, so thickness is important, as well the quality is probably a harder aluminum alloy. I don't trust the plastic ones to not shatter in the cold.Quote:
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Also note, if you ever have to put out a grass fire (snuff the fire out with the flat bottom), they work good if your boots or shoes can walk on the surface without melting (or attack from the upwind side). The aluminum pulls the heat out and gets the temp below vaporization. I learned that from a friends aunt, that wanted her pasture burned off in the spring.
Somebody updated a very old diagram, as I chuckled when I saw the cell phone charger referenced. Who had business band radio back then in a passenger car? Even CB radios were not popular.
There is an entire subreddit dedicated solely to vehicular EDC, with plenty of over-the-top examples in true internet form: https://old.reddit.com/r/VEDC/
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The middle picture in post #12 looks like a bug out vehicle
We had that 1966 blizzard in SD too. Looked about the same way there. Steel grain scoops were the order of the day. We shoveled coal for the furnace with ours. Aluminum ones were too expensive. In 1983 when we got our first house I splurged and bought an aluminum scoop. I knew it would wear out on the concrete driveway so I bolted a steel cutting edge to the bottom. (I didn't know about cutting edges on heavy equipment until later). Over the years I have replaced that edge twice but the scoop still looks new. It has outlasted two plastic scoops.Quote:
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My dad grew up on a farm near Yankton, Tabor. Spoke Czech until the 6th grade. He took a job up in ND 1955 cold war building of the GFAFB. I remember many long drives down US81, long before I29.Quote:
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Missing pair of *10 cans filled with premixed wheelwell mud.Quote:
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Or is it just me?
What about things every woman should have in her car... in the 1960's.
Do not carry cat litter (kitty litter shown in the trunk of the 69 Dodge Charger) as a friction surface 'improver'. It is made from bentonite clay. When wet it is a super slippery surface. When people spin their tires on snow and ice, it melts it, resulting in a water film that has near zero friction coefficient. Clay is not going to make that better.
They have bags of sand for just this purpose at my home supply. Also sand box sand in plastic bags is the same thing. For some the extra weight in the rear of their car is an added bonus. Pickup trucks with no load are dangerous on the road as they spin their tires, and drift all over the roadway.
I've never had good traction from Mud and Snow rated tires, as they are still passenger type. So I have a change out of wheels with real snow and ice tires mounted. I've had good luck with the Firestone Winterforce brand, but my current autos are using Sumitomo Ice Edge, they are affordable and make all the difference in winter operating on compacted snow and ice. We get freezing rain during some parts of the winter here. I much prefer it just staying too damn cold for that, where I grew up in ND, it was too cold to use salt to remove ice, which was good for the auto rust wise.
The other difficulty is driving in non compacted snow, and the wider the tire is, the less friction as they 'float' on top the fresh snow, vs. a narrow tire that cuts through the snow, i.e. plows it out of the way. So I look for the narrowest tire possible when purchasing snow tires, which also helps in hydroplaning on water.
Dad had CB radios, and then Ham radios in his car in the 60's. Never had a Charger, though. Mid-60's Ford Econoline Van, and a Plymouth Valiant are the ones I remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by metric_taper
I was in Horrible Fright the other day, and found the shovel for $22.
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Inside Track members $18.
