"mabar" <xyzz4569@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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: In the northeast Ohio area, salt is king and I hate it! The cities around
: here salt EVERYTHING! It really is ridiculous. Tons of salt are wasted on
: every dinky little side street in and around all the Cleveland suburbs. It
: never ceases to amaze me how much unnecessary salt is used. Talk about
: pollution!
:
: Tom
:


Same here in Tennessee Tom. All they have to do is hint at snow or ice and
they load em up.
It takes a long time for it go go off the roads though. Funny, it doesn't
affect the vegetation.

Kate

 

"mabar" <xyzz4569@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:443c4bb5_4@newsfeed.slurp.net...
: In the northeast Ohio area, salt is king and I hate it! The cities around
: here salt EVERYTHING! It really is ridiculous. Tons of salt are wasted on
: every dinky little side street in and around all the Cleveland suburbs. It
: never ceases to amaze me how much unnecessary salt is used. Talk about
: pollution!
:
: Tom
:


Same here in Tennessee Tom. All they have to do is hint at snow or ice and
they load em up.
It takes a long time for it go go off the roads though. Funny, it doesn't
affect the vegetation.

Kate

 

"Earle Horton" <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote in message
news:443c6672$0$14915$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.c om...
: In my part of Colorado, we would use salt, but the rest of the state
: wouldn't understand. Since our town and county lives off of rural
community
: welfare (some call it "grants") all we can get "for free" from the state,
is
: sand. When the sand, ice and snow pack together, it makes a reasonable
road
: surface. Most of our drivers, including the tourists, respect its
"special"
: vehicle handling characteristics.
:
: We do use magnesium chloride, a less corrosive kind of salt, in the
summer,
: to keep the dust down on our unpaved roads. I imagine that the
: Boulder/Denver tree hugger cartel will put an end to that soon too.
:
: Earle
:


I remember when they used to use waste oil to hold the dust down on roads.
Man, there's a trip in the way back machine.

Kate

 

"Earle Horton" <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote in message
news:443c6672$0$14915$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.c om...
: In my part of Colorado, we would use salt, but the rest of the state
: wouldn't understand. Since our town and county lives off of rural
community
: welfare (some call it "grants") all we can get "for free" from the state,
is
: sand. When the sand, ice and snow pack together, it makes a reasonable
road
: surface. Most of our drivers, including the tourists, respect its
"special"
: vehicle handling characteristics.
:
: We do use magnesium chloride, a less corrosive kind of salt, in the
summer,
: to keep the dust down on our unpaved roads. I imagine that the
: Boulder/Denver tree hugger cartel will put an end to that soon too.
:
: Earle
:


I remember when they used to use waste oil to hold the dust down on roads.
Man, there's a trip in the way back machine.

Kate

 

"Earle Horton" <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote in message
news:443c6672$0$14915$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.c om...
: In my part of Colorado, we would use salt, but the rest of the state
: wouldn't understand. Since our town and county lives off of rural
community
: welfare (some call it "grants") all we can get "for free" from the state,
is
: sand. When the sand, ice and snow pack together, it makes a reasonable
road
: surface. Most of our drivers, including the tourists, respect its
"special"
: vehicle handling characteristics.
:
: We do use magnesium chloride, a less corrosive kind of salt, in the
summer,
: to keep the dust down on our unpaved roads. I imagine that the
: Boulder/Denver tree hugger cartel will put an end to that soon too.
:
: Earle
:


I remember when they used to use waste oil to hold the dust down on roads.
Man, there's a trip in the way back machine.

Kate

 

"Kate" <Kate@dub.dub.dub.com (please ask)> wrote in message
news:5e5%f.6823$A41.207@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
>
> "mabar" <xyzz4569@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
> news:443c4bb5_4@newsfeed.slurp.net...
> : In the northeast Ohio area, salt is king and I hate it! The cities
> : around here salt EVERYTHING! It really is ridiculous. Tons
> : of salt are wasted on every dinky little side street in and around
> : all the Cleveland suburbs. It never ceases to amaze me how
> : much unnecessary salt is used. Talk about pollution!
> :
> : Tom
> :
>
>
> Same here in Tennessee Tom. All they have to do is hint at snow or ice and
> they load em up.
> It takes a long time for it go go off the roads though. Funny, it doesn't
> affect the vegetation.
>
> Kate
>
>
Type in "road salt" in a search engine, and you will get so many
contradictory opinions that you can't make head or tail of it all. One
fellow even claims that it causes cancer. It doesn't affect the vegetation
Back East, because there is so much rain, that it washes it all away. I
have seen it used, on Snoqualmie Pass, WA, in such heavy doses that it does
kill a strip of vegetation, perhaps twenty feet wide, on each side of the
road. This is in most cases ordinary table salt, or the mineral version of
the same. Table salt doesn't kill people, or does it? I have reduced my
own consumption of the stuff, but I still can't resist sprinkling it on
pizza.

Earle

 

"Kate" <Kate@dub.dub.dub.com (please ask)> wrote in message
news:5e5%f.6823$A41.207@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
>
> "mabar" <xyzz4569@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
> news:443c4bb5_4@newsfeed.slurp.net...
> : In the northeast Ohio area, salt is king and I hate it! The cities
> : around here salt EVERYTHING! It really is ridiculous. Tons
> : of salt are wasted on every dinky little side street in and around
> : all the Cleveland suburbs. It never ceases to amaze me how
> : much unnecessary salt is used. Talk about pollution!
> :
> : Tom
> :
>
>
> Same here in Tennessee Tom. All they have to do is hint at snow or ice and
> they load em up.
> It takes a long time for it go go off the roads though. Funny, it doesn't
> affect the vegetation.
>
> Kate
>
>
Type in "road salt" in a search engine, and you will get so many
contradictory opinions that you can't make head or tail of it all. One
fellow even claims that it causes cancer. It doesn't affect the vegetation
Back East, because there is so much rain, that it washes it all away. I
have seen it used, on Snoqualmie Pass, WA, in such heavy doses that it does
kill a strip of vegetation, perhaps twenty feet wide, on each side of the
road. This is in most cases ordinary table salt, or the mineral version of
the same. Table salt doesn't kill people, or does it? I have reduced my
own consumption of the stuff, but I still can't resist sprinkling it on
pizza.

Earle

 

"Kate" <Kate@dub.dub.dub.com (please ask)> wrote in message
news:5e5%f.6823$A41.207@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
>
> "mabar" <xyzz4569@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
> news:443c4bb5_4@newsfeed.slurp.net...
> : In the northeast Ohio area, salt is king and I hate it! The cities
> : around here salt EVERYTHING! It really is ridiculous. Tons
> : of salt are wasted on every dinky little side street in and around
> : all the Cleveland suburbs. It never ceases to amaze me how
> : much unnecessary salt is used. Talk about pollution!
> :
> : Tom
> :
>
>
> Same here in Tennessee Tom. All they have to do is hint at snow or ice and
> they load em up.
> It takes a long time for it go go off the roads though. Funny, it doesn't
> affect the vegetation.
>
> Kate
>
>
Type in "road salt" in a search engine, and you will get so many
contradictory opinions that you can't make head or tail of it all. One
fellow even claims that it causes cancer. It doesn't affect the vegetation
Back East, because there is so much rain, that it washes it all away. I
have seen it used, on Snoqualmie Pass, WA, in such heavy doses that it does
kill a strip of vegetation, perhaps twenty feet wide, on each side of the
road. This is in most cases ordinary table salt, or the mineral version of
the same. Table salt doesn't kill people, or does it? I have reduced my
own consumption of the stuff, but I still can't resist sprinkling it on
pizza.

Earle

 

Mike, the best part of this whole deal is that you seem to feel up to
tackling it - there was some doubt there for a while. Good luck with
it.

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:42:17 UTC Mike Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

> A gent I helped out with his YJ a while back dropped by the other day
> asking if I wanted another XJ. It's a silver 87 4 door, 4.0, 5 speed
> with 385K Km on it. Some type of upscale package on it? Chrome grill,
> electric doors and window that actually seem to all work, standard seats
> at least. Nice wrap around buckets too. It has a full instrument
> cluster which is nice. No working FM on the stock Jeep stereo same as
> our existing one. LOL!
>
> No tires on it, but the body isn't too rotted out. No dents or dings.
> Glass is all good. It has all the floorboards still! Some bottom of
> the door and rocker panel rust because it has those stupid running
> boards on it. Exhaust isn't old. Got the oil in the air filter
> syndrome with only a totally blocked CCV line (I checked) as the cause
> usually.
>
> It seems to run well. I want to make one good XJ out of the two. I do
> have 3 engines now to play with and tons of new stuff on the 88. An
> extra 258 with what appears to be a recent rebuild and 135k original
> miles on it anyway, it just leaked like a sieve and a 4.0 with only 300K
> from the 88 that still runs sweet. Hmm... stroker, hmm......
>
> Price was right... A hundred bucks....
>
> Mike
> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
> Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590
> (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)


--
Will Honea

 

Mike, the best part of this whole deal is that you seem to feel up to
tackling it - there was some doubt there for a while. Good luck with
it.

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:42:17 UTC Mike Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

> A gent I helped out with his YJ a while back dropped by the other day
> asking if I wanted another XJ. It's a silver 87 4 door, 4.0, 5 speed
> with 385K Km on it. Some type of upscale package on it? Chrome grill,
> electric doors and window that actually seem to all work, standard seats
> at least. Nice wrap around buckets too. It has a full instrument
> cluster which is nice. No working FM on the stock Jeep stereo same as
> our existing one. LOL!
>
> No tires on it, but the body isn't too rotted out. No dents or dings.
> Glass is all good. It has all the floorboards still! Some bottom of
> the door and rocker panel rust because it has those stupid running
> boards on it. Exhaust isn't old. Got the oil in the air filter
> syndrome with only a totally blocked CCV line (I checked) as the cause
> usually.
>
> It seems to run well. I want to make one good XJ out of the two. I do
> have 3 engines now to play with and tons of new stuff on the 88. An
> extra 258 with what appears to be a recent rebuild and 135k original
> miles on it anyway, it just leaked like a sieve and a 4.0 with only 300K
> from the 88 that still runs sweet. Hmm... stroker, hmm......
>
> Price was right... A hundred bucks....
>
> Mike
> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
> Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590
> (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)


--
Will Honea