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Today I purchased two 50-pound bags of tube sand.
For those of you fortunate and intelligent enough NOT to live in Ice Hell, "tube sand" is ordinary sand in very strong bags of roughly tubular shape. The bags are supposed to stay closed forever, because these bags aren't sand to pour out and use; they're sandbags for ballast. You set them as close to directly above the rear wheels as possible in order to give a rear wheel drive vehicle better traction on snow and ice. Normally you'd toss tube sand in the back of your pickup truck, but the Mustang is rear drive too, so she qualifies.
I also have a third 50-pound sandbag back there. This one is masonry sand, in an ordinary rippable bag. It provides extra ballast, but mainly it's so I have a ready supply of grit to throw under the wheels when I get stuck.
Notice that I did not say IF I get stuck.
For those of you fortunate and intelligent enough NOT to live in Ice Hell, "tube sand" is ordinary sand in very strong bags of roughly tubular shape. The bags are supposed to stay closed forever, because these bags aren't sand to pour out and use; they're sandbags for ballast. You set them as close to directly above the rear wheels as possible in order to give a rear wheel drive vehicle better traction on snow and ice. Normally you'd toss tube sand in the back of your pickup truck, but the Mustang is rear drive too, so she qualifies.
I also have a third 50-pound sandbag back there. This one is masonry sand, in an ordinary rippable bag. It provides extra ballast, but mainly it's so I have a ready supply of grit to throw under the wheels when I get stuck.
Notice that I did not say IF I get stuck.
