Climbing over the Rockies
I have climbed a few mountains around Tennessee and after being out here in the west I am going to start calling my Tennessee mountains hills. These grades out here are something else. I am handling...
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Out west we define a "mountain" as a piece of rock on which there is a tree line, anbove which no vegetation grows and which is permanently snow covered for the upper 10 percent or so. Anything with vegetation all the way to the top is a "hill".
I've heard that those CAT diesela can take that kind of treatment day after day and still go 250K miles between maintenance stops. I wish my V-10 could do that! It's more likely to die of neglect, with only 18,000 miles since 2002 and only 5K since we bought it 4 years ago!
After my family owned one of the early Austim/Morris Minis in tne UK (1959), I was amazed by how long-lived US automobile engines were. The Mini needed three replacement transmissions and two replacement engines in the first 40,000 miles. It had rusted to a perforated shell by then anyway, so we junked it.
I've heard that those CAT diesela can take that kind of treatment day after day and still go 250K miles between maintenance stops. I wish my V-10 could do that! It's more likely to die of neglect, with only 18,000 miles since 2002 and only 5K since we bought it 4 years ago!
After my family owned one of the early Austim/Morris Minis in tne UK (1959), I was amazed by how long-lived US automobile engines were. The Mini needed three replacement transmissions and two replacement engines in the first 40,000 miles. It had rusted to a perforated shell by then anyway, so we junked it.
