Getting to your tractor and other things

Texasmark1

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Well you Northern guys and gals, we got some of your ice down here this morning. A couple of years ago I decided that I was too old to slip down on ice and break something I needed in my body.

Did a Google search and found the YAKTRAX company that manufactures several things, the one I'm writing about is anti slip protection for your shoes. You may already be wearing them but if not for $20 a pair you will be duly impressed.

They fit tightly around the edge of the soul so you have to work them on but they stay put and don't come off in use. I tried several times to deliberately slip on glazed ice and they held every time with no slippage.

I even loaded up my wood cart with about 150# of firewood and pushed it up about a 4% grade of glazed ice, again nar a slip one.

Better than spikes because if you are wearing something with a sole like a sneaker or softer, the coil springs lays flat and push up and into the rubber allowing the sole to contact the floor and keeps you from slipping due to your body weight. I installed mine and walked across the floor to the door and later back and no marks and no slipping on my vinyl floors so you can put them on in the house where your shoes/boots are nice and warm and go right outside and back to take them off.

Mark
 
I use the metal ones that strap over your boots with nylon straps ( Not in the house ) They grip good in icy areas.
I had a pair made to slip on with rubber straps and never again. the rubber straps will stretch and the cleats will fall off.
 
I could of used that advice last winter. Seems like it snowed every other day in N. Ill., had snow plowed out of the way any place I could put it. Warmed up and rained most of the day one Thursday, water was running through the door of my shop because of the snow where it normally drains, fell on my left knee shoveling a drainage ditch, next morning cold wind and ice everywhere, fell flat on my back salting driveway, next afternoon fell hard on the hiway at my mailbox, was tuff getting up that time. Fell 3 times in 3 days, haven't fell 3 times in the last 30 years.
 
I use the metal ones that strap over your boots with nylon straps ( Not in the house ) They grip good in icy areas.
I had a pair made to slip on with rubber straps and never again. the rubber straps will stretch and the cleats will fall off.
$ 20.00 is cheap - compared to a broken bone. your choice.
 
My daughter gave me a pair for Christmas a few years ago. I liked them. My mother (in her late 80's) complained it was hard to get to the mailbox so I bought her a pair. She told all her friends. You can even drive with them on. They're a little slick on linoleum floors, though.
 

I got mine from the Internet from "Hot Headz", they have 4x 4pointed steel stars that really lock into packed snow or Ice.
Around here, Zetler's Hardware is carrying their products too..
I gave out a good number as gifts to older folks, my Mother, etc and they can carry them in their pocket if they may need them..
Ron..
 
I hear they work great. In a pinch, I have screwed short screws with hex heads into the sole of a spare pair of work boots to make some home brew spiked boots
 

I thought that the subject was going to be about how us northern people wade through the snow to get to our tractors. Well first we need to find them. Next fall I'm going to draw myself a diagram to show where everything is. As these snow banks grow I know that come spring I'm going to need some things before the snow melts off from them.
 
I bought a pair years ago, and for some reason did not use them, last year I took a spill on the ice, skinned the knee pretty good, like most of it, + the impact, that sure as heck hurt for weeks.

Lesson to be learned, put the darned things on !!! LOL ! Figures too, as I was clearing the neighbors place, then still had to do mine, and every time I bent that leg to push the clutch in.... $#!@

I've only used them a few times this season, one day in particular, most of the day and they sure make all the difference, good traction, fit is great, easy to put on and remove, seem to think you could leave them on a pair of shoes just for the purpose. They will protect you from slipping without any doubt in my opinion.

I did notice they were slippery on laminate flooring, when I went to walk the neighbors dog, there is laminate in the foyer/entrance hall etc.

Highly recommend this product, told my neighbor about them for the same reason, simple and effective.
 
YAP , They are becoming more popular up here since winter seems to be getting longer than summer . We also reinstated the use of studded tires . Not cheap to install but work good -- they are made of kevlar to protect the asphalt .

Larry --ont.
 
My daddy was in WWII and during the war, barely missed the
ship to Bataan when he was reassigned to Umnak Island, Alaska.
Job was Coast Artillery, Anti-aircraft.

Anyhew, they had what they called Willewaws which were bad
snow/sleet/ice blizzards with horrendous winds.

So, to find their way around they had ropes strung from building
to building and used them for a guiding handrail.

Mark
 

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