[AT] Fwd: Re: Test

[David Bruce]

Agree totally.
One interesting observation. In Iredell county on I-77 there is a spot 
cresting a ridge that to me seems like one is on top of the world. 
Obviously not but that ridge is quite a bit taller than any other that 
is visible there.
Iredell still has a thriving dairy herd market. In Yadkin we still have 
some tobacco, some grain, some beef cattle and a few dairy herds. One 
reason for cattle here is that change in elevation - a pasture is much 
easier to deal with in those conditions.

I can walk out from my house and in the pasture here and drop about 50' 
in elevation in about 200' of travel. Works well for pasture and when I 
was a kid part of that was in row crops but it was a real pain to farm 
that way.

David
NW NC


On 12/10/2015 10:01 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Well David, if we believe what we learned in physics it should work out to
> be the amount of fuel required to lift the vehicle that many feet as if it
> were
> going straight up.  But it sure does seem strange that with all the ups and
> downs
> of a trip there would be a consistently noticeable difference.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bruce
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 8:48 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Fwd: Re: Test
>
> Charlie,
>
> I find the same when I drive from here (near ATIS Central) to Columbia,
> SC where my daughter and family live. Going to Columbia I get a couple
> tenths better gas mileage than when I return. The difference in
> elevation is from 850 feet to (if I remember correctly) 500 or so.
> As you know the elevation here can change rather abruptly although not
> like the NC high mountains.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
> On 12/10/2015 7:34 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>> I'll buy that Ralph.  Back in the 80's when Lynn and I would go
>> to see her parents in Hagerstown Md we drove her Dodge Colt.
>> The elevation here is near sea level as we have discussed and
>> I guess it's a bit less than 1000' in Hagerstown.   Back then I would
>> dutifully check the gas mileage on the Colt going and coming.
>> It always got a couple of tenths better mpg coming back to NC than it
>> did going up hill to Hagerstown.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ralph Goff
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 11:46 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Fwd: Re: Test
>>
>> On 12/9/2015 10:15 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>>> Ralph, that's 120 feet fall in 52,800 feet of run.
>>> That's about 2/10 percent grade.  A locomotive will run on
>>> 3 percent grade!
>>>
>>> Charlie
>> That 120 foot fall was real handy for hauling grain to town. Grossing
>> 30,000
>> pounds with only 180 hp I learned to really appreciate the advantage of a
>> mostly downhill run to town.
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
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