[AT] Fwd: Re: Test

[charlie hill]

There is a spot on highway 50 between DC and Winchester VA,
just before you top the ridge and get to Paris Va if you are headed
east toward DC and just east of the Shanadoah river.  I've been
going through there for 35 years and it always looks to me as if
I'm going down hill or at least am on level ground but then the
cruise control picks up the throttle and sometimes the transmission
down shifts.  Got to love optical illusions.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: David Bruce
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 10:38 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Fwd: Re: Test

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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