Things You Need To Know If You Move To The South

Don't get rid of your snow chains necessarily. I had them for going over passes in the Northwest but never used. One day I get in this wet clay near Kings Ferry Florida they call "gumbo". Brand new pickup and the tread is full of what looks like caked bearing grease. It won't go straight anywhere and was 'fixinto' go in the ditch. I call the local forester who comes out and gets stuck about 100 yards shy of me. He calls a logger with a lifted Chevy and crazy tires who gets by the forester but slides off into the ditch. So he calls one of his crew that had a skidder on a lowboy, headed our way. Meanwhile another forester comes to pick us all up for lunch while we wait on the lowboy. Just for kicks I have them run by my house to pick up that lowly bag of snow chains. They were offloading the skidder when we got back, I slap on the chains and to everyone's amazement, drove right out! The skidder slid off too but proceeded to pull the other trucks out by making way over the tops of my 3 year old pine seedlings (rather than the road). They were impressed.

I highly recommend running them a skosh on the hard road before trying to take them back off. I still carry them, as there are clay roads everywhere down here. But, DO NOT roll with the locals when it snows. I don't care what you got.