We just got our first AS. There is quite a learning curve! Although it's early, I'm thinking about the winter - it always sneaks up on me!
Anyway, we have a small city lot in the Northeast, with a two car garage and a two car wide driveway. The AS is parked on one side of the driveway, and we have our two cars beside the AS - one in the garage and one on the driveway.
We can already see that this is going to be trouble, especially in the winter when we have to shovel out. On one side of the driveway is a grass area about 3/4 the size of the two car wide driveway. If we move a fence back into the yard a bit and remove a raised flower bed and cut another one off a bit, we could park the AS there for the winter, clearing out the driveway and allowing both cars to be parked in the garage so the driveway can be plowed.
So my questions are - (1) should we put a tarp or something down on the grass, or just park on the grass? (We are thinking of putting in a driveway space there, but may not get to that this fall as it also involves removing part of the sprinkler system.)
And since this is a small lot, the space I could create by moving the fence is 26', and the AS is about 21'. That puts the AS a max of 4' from the 3' sidewalk, and the sidewalk is pretty much right next to the street. They use salt on the streets, spread by those machines that sort of spray it out the back. I'm thinking that will be hard on the finish. So (2) how can I keep the salt off my AS?
Hubby is thinking of a plywood thing shaped sort of like a tall cow catcher. Would that do it? Obviously, we need to make sure it doesn't take off with the wind and cause damage in the process. We can probably just U bolt it to the trailer hitch and maybe use tent stakes to hold it down securely and somehow make sure it doesn't rub on the skin of the trailer. Any idea how tall this "salt catcher needs to be?
Or, is there some other easier method of keeping the road salt off? Maybe a tarp on the bottom half of the font?
Anyway, we have a small city lot in the Northeast, with a two car garage and a two car wide driveway. The AS is parked on one side of the driveway, and we have our two cars beside the AS - one in the garage and one on the driveway.
We can already see that this is going to be trouble, especially in the winter when we have to shovel out. On one side of the driveway is a grass area about 3/4 the size of the two car wide driveway. If we move a fence back into the yard a bit and remove a raised flower bed and cut another one off a bit, we could park the AS there for the winter, clearing out the driveway and allowing both cars to be parked in the garage so the driveway can be plowed.
So my questions are - (1) should we put a tarp or something down on the grass, or just park on the grass? (We are thinking of putting in a driveway space there, but may not get to that this fall as it also involves removing part of the sprinkler system.)
And since this is a small lot, the space I could create by moving the fence is 26', and the AS is about 21'. That puts the AS a max of 4' from the 3' sidewalk, and the sidewalk is pretty much right next to the street. They use salt on the streets, spread by those machines that sort of spray it out the back. I'm thinking that will be hard on the finish. So (2) how can I keep the salt off my AS?
Hubby is thinking of a plywood thing shaped sort of like a tall cow catcher. Would that do it? Obviously, we need to make sure it doesn't take off with the wind and cause damage in the process. We can probably just U bolt it to the trailer hitch and maybe use tent stakes to hold it down securely and somehow make sure it doesn't rub on the skin of the trailer. Any idea how tall this "salt catcher needs to be?
Or, is there some other easier method of keeping the road salt off? Maybe a tarp on the bottom half of the font?
0 commentaires:
Enregistrer un commentaire