He did! Wouldn’t it be crazy if after all that’s happened he ended up world campion again?? It’s still possible.
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On November 11, 1926, a single route across the United States was designated as Route 66.
We’re just a little over a year away from the 100th anniversary of Route 66, which helped usher in the automobile as the dominant transportation mechanism for the United States, for better or for worse.
I’ve driven ~1500 of the ~2250 miles of the route. Sometime next year, we’ll likely drive the rest of it, though we won’t do the full route in one trip.
How much of Route 66 have you driven?
We’re just a little over a year away from the 100th anniversary of Route 66, which helped usher in the automobile as the dominant transportation mechanism for the United States, for better or for worse.
I’ve driven ~1500 of the ~2250 miles of the route. Sometime next year, we’ll likely drive the rest of it, though we won’t do the full route in one trip.
How much of Route 66 have you driven?
Wow! That’s awesome. When we drove cross country moving to Illinois we ended up on Route 66 and it’s near where I live now. There’s a family that’s been in Shirley, Illinois forever and they have a maple sirup business. (Yes I know how to spell syrup. That’s how they spell their sirup). So it’s called Funks Grove and they have sirup from February or March until they run out in August or September. So every time I go buy some I’m on Route 66 because their store is on Route 66.
How cool would it be for SM to take several test production vehicles and run the entire route. What a way to showcase the scouts and what 100 years of progress has to show. Do a 30-40 minute reel of the event like was was done for Baja this year. Would be super cool!
Not quite representative of a 50 state vehicle but would be a great start. Start at the original IH Springfield plant and connect to Rt 66 then run the whole line
So while the Amish don’t drive cars and don’t use electricity (unless business related then all bets are off) but saw this beauty and all its fine ingenuity in full glory last night and could resist. To be fair it may have been a Mennonite farmer but he road up and stopped for dinner at the family restaurant I don’t realize John Deere offered that option
I love that and will now be looking for a way to mount an umbrella to my electric lawn tractor.
I knew if there was someone here that would try it -it would be you
. There was A LOT of strap wrapped around it so FYI. Little things are great. When I was a teen we had a grasshopper brand zero turn with the deck in front of my dad found an old odd sized drum, had the Guys at work cut it in half, ran a rod through and cotter pinned the rial to the upper wheel “pegs” and we would put mulch in it then drive around the yard and drop it and mulch would land in a pile. Just had to keep your foot on it to hold it upright while traveling but cut mulching time down over half the time. When done we’d pull the pins and slip the half barrel off and good until the following summer. Some of the best solutions are home grown and fairly easy to do. We even debated drilling top of deck to bolt a loop and screw a catch so barrel would stay upright but more opportunity to rust for the one day a year we used it.
My dad did that to one of his old Case tractors (not the ones that he takes to shows but the beat up one that he uses). He also added a radio and wired in some headphones. It’s pretty tricked out for a 1950s tractor
I’ve already added a 2” ball hitch so I can pull my utility trailer (as well as my smaller garden trailer) to where I can’t drive my truck (over the septic system, for example).I knew if there was someone here that would try it -it would be you
Electricity-related, but not directly EV related.
A few times a year we have a lightning storm that knocks out power.
We are experiencing one at this moment. My LED desk lamp just flickered momentarily as the voltage/frequency briefly shifted when my system swapped from grid/solar to battery backup.
While I think the promise of an EV that can power the house is great (so much storage!), the requirements to make that happen (the vehicle is home and plugged in when the power goes out) are not very conducive to my use-case. So I’m glad we have a 24 kWh battery backup. We’re currently pulling about 673 Watts from the system, which would mean about 35.67 hours before we are out of energy. We aren’t conserving right now. When we make dinner, that will pull more from the battery and shorten our off-grid time period. If the grid is still down in the morning (and we don’t have any sunlight), I’ll pull out the extension cords and run the critical loads from the Lightning.
A few times a year we have a lightning storm that knocks out power.
We are experiencing one at this moment. My LED desk lamp just flickered momentarily as the voltage/frequency briefly shifted when my system swapped from grid/solar to battery backup.
While I think the promise of an EV that can power the house is great (so much storage!), the requirements to make that happen (the vehicle is home and plugged in when the power goes out) are not very conducive to my use-case. So I’m glad we have a 24 kWh battery backup. We’re currently pulling about 673 Watts from the system, which would mean about 35.67 hours before we are out of energy. We aren’t conserving right now. When we make dinner, that will pull more from the battery and shorten our off-grid time period. If the grid is still down in the morning (and we don’t have any sunlight), I’ll pull out the extension cords and run the critical loads from the Lightning.
I hope you have Sunny days ahead.
We have several power outages a year between 5-20 minutes. If I wasn’t getting notification we wouldn’t even know they occurred. Our first big test of our whole house Solar power with backup-batteries was October 2024 when the eye of cat 5 hurricane Milton went directly over our house. House survived no flooring. Just fierce desiccating winds. But the power was out for four days. Fortunately, our 27 kWh of battery backup was plenty, because we had beautiful sunny days for the Solar panels after the hurricane passed. A real trial by fire. I wish you luck.
We’re at the end of the line and often get overlooked, so it’s not unusual for the power to be out for hours before they realize something’s wrong.
Once our pole was hit with lightning. The fuse on the transformer popped. It took them days before they would come out to fix it.
“Nobody else has reported it.”
“Yeah? Well, I’m looking at the fuse dangling off the line right now. Look could you please just send someone out to check? Here’s the pole number.”
The fuse on the line is good this time. The service entrance breaker is still ON. We’ll see.
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The grid is back up, seven hours after it went out. Backup battery is at 83%; it was at 96% when the grid went offline.
Does the bicycle swingout provide extra maneuverability when parking the trailer?
Also, I like the “safety” chain. At least it’s not dragging, I guess.
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