"Round headlight enthusiast" (round-headlight-enthusiast)
02/22/2015 at 17:32 • Filed to: None
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"Round headlight enthusiast" (round-headlight-enthusiast)
02/22/2015 at 17:32 • Filed to: None | 3
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Sadly, most folks do not understand my love for antiquated municipal equipment.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> Round headlight enthusiast
02/22/2015 at 17:41 |
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can i have one please? i love the look of these and want one...man i need more money :(
shop-teacher
> Round headlight enthusiast
02/22/2015 at 17:51 |
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What's not to love? These are awesome!
Blondude
> Round headlight enthusiast
02/22/2015 at 17:52 |
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Oshkosh snowplows are cool as hell.
See also: Tucker Sno-Cat
OPPOsaurus WRX
> Round headlight enthusiast
02/22/2015 at 17:52 |
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#3 looks pedestrian freindly
vdub_nut: scooter snob
> Round headlight enthusiast
02/22/2015 at 18:07 |
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Pro-tip: there's a museum full of stuff like this in Bangor, Maine.
Fascinating to 11 year old me.
bryan40oop
> Blondude
02/22/2015 at 21:38 |
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How the fuck did they get the front end over the chasm?
gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> Round headlight enthusiast
02/22/2015 at 22:07 |
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Oshkosh makes some pretty awesome stuff.
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Blondude
> bryan40oop
02/22/2015 at 22:17 |
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Pin it to win it.
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Round headlight enthusiast
02/23/2015 at 14:09 |
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What do you mean "were"? They still use those in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Here is the Houghton Country Road Commission plow fleet according to their website. During my time at MTU there were only a handful of snow days. One of them being the day that I went outside and my car had been completely buried overnight.
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Round headlight enthusiast
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
02/23/2015 at 20:07 |
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I tell ya, that peninsula's a weird place. Here in Buffalo we just have a bunch of modern Navistar/Peterbilt dump trucks, and that seems to be the norm for NYS and PA
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Round headlight enthusiast
> OPPOsaurus WRX
02/23/2015 at 20:08 |
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Somehow I don't think the whole "rotating blades of death thing" would go over too well today
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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Round headlight enthusiast
02/24/2015 at 09:09 |
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It's different. You need to consider that there are very few people in a big area up there and in Houghton County a good number of the population is temporary since they are students at MTU. You've got a county the size of Rhode Island that has less than 40,000 people living there. The state DOT updates their trucks, but the counties and local towns in the UP don't have the population to be able to afford new trucks every few years.
They do a damn good job of keeping things open considering how much snow they get. Like I said, there were only a handful of days that MTU was cancelled due to snow when I was up there and the average for Houghton County is over 200" of snow per winter and 300" isn't that unusual.
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Round headlight enthusiast
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
02/24/2015 at 09:16 |
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MTH sounds like a neat place to go to school!
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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Round headlight enthusiast
02/24/2015 at 09:24 |
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If you like snow it was awesome. I'm a little jealous because a couple years after I graduated they started giving the students free tickets to the hockey games and free lift passes to the local hill. When I was going the only tickets we had to pay for were hockey tickets and we had to buy ski passes even though the hill is actually owned by MTU. At least the passes were only around $100 then. Last year there was still a lot of snow on the ground when my nephew left at the end of the year.
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Round headlight enthusiast
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
02/24/2015 at 23:32 |
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I would do a lot of unsavory things for free skiing. Alas, I go to University at Buffalo which has 33,000 kids and that would be ridiculous (and not just because we have no hills within 40 minutes).
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Round headlight enthusiast
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
02/24/2015 at 23:37 |
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also, remember when we were in the news for that huge snowstorm that closed I-90 for about 100 miles and crushed roofs? Yeah, UB was open the first day of that. They had to close the 2nd day after nobody showed up.