More adventure than I bargained for

Took my daughters horse from Omaha up to Racine WI on tuesday and was bringing a horse home yesterday from near Sheboygan, WI when I was stopped by ice about 30 miles west of Des Moines. Crawled into the next exit and spent the night in a hotel with a horse in the trailer. Thankfully it is an enclosed trailer and had plenty of hay along.

Horses are always a fun game

i thought you were gonna mention a trick tractor.

like the ones you go buy.. test drive and are fine, then you take it home and while unlaoding it, the steering box gives out, or the front seal and cover let go and it starts pumping oil out...

soundguy

Sounds like you almost made it back home. If I remember right you were within 100 miles or less.

It is NO FUN to pull any trailer in deep snow or ice. One of my too many trips from Illinois to back home in Nebraska I was taking my sister a horse in a 32 foot livestock trailer that I used to bring back a load of stuff from the farm house.

We hit freezing drizzle at Brownsville, by the time we got to Auburn it was all snow. At Filley it was 8.5 inches deep and I had the 4x4 locked in low range. The trailer axles were dragging snow. We ran completely out of it before Beatrice.

I am a trained storm spotter and called it in. NWS said radar showed snow, but not the 8.5 I reported.

Later found out that a very narrow band had up to a foot of snow gong down towards Humboldt.

Can never tell about mother nature. DOUG

Thanksgiving week of 1987. Three in the afternoon, I'm sitting in traffic on I-80 Chicago. Moving slower than a turtle. Just starting to snow. I head down I-57 toward Champaign to drop a LTL before heading to St. Louis. The bad news on the radio is that it's gonna get worse as I travel South. By the time I hit Kankakee, there's 3 inches of snow on the road. I got 22 ton on the trailer and can still move right along but haven't seen an Illinois pumpkin plow anywhere. Rantoul there is 6 inches of snow and still no plow. I'm making the only tracks on 57 and finally a plow comes down a ramp and pulls in behind me. I hit the four ways and slow way down and pull over so the plow can get by. Nope, he doesn't understand and just slows down behind me. Next exit I turn off and the plow continues on down the road. In Champaign I drop all but 4 ton at the consignee and hit the road. On I-72 between Champaign and Decatur it starts raining. Start seeing cars in the ditch. Slow the Mack down and loaf along at 1,200 rpm slipping now and then. More cars in the ditch. From Decatur to Springfield I count 56 cars and trucks in the ditch. I'm creeping along down to 15mph. Finally make it to Springfield where there's more snow, about 10 inchs over ice. Get on I-55 at Springfield where the pumpkin plows have heavily salted the roads and the rest of the trip to St. Louis is much better. I hate having a light load on the trailer in bad weather.

You pegged it Doug, I was 90 miles from Omaha. You do know southeast Nebraska. I too am a storm spotter and live between Louisville and Plattsmouth