{"id":24,"date":"2014-09-29T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abuffalobus.kleinmartin.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2018-02-20T21:43:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T02:43:21","slug":"a-warm-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abuffalobus.kleinmartin.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"A Warm Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0 So after finishing the first bunk, we gave the bus a test.\u00a0 My wife and I got invited to a multi-day wedding reception for a couple of our friends on another friend\u2019s land out near Franklinville, NY.\u00a0 The trip was only about an hour away, but it wound along the 400 expressway and then up into the edges of the Alleghany mountains on Route 16.\u00a0 The weather was great, and the bus ran nicely.\u00a0 When up to speed, I could take most all of the hills along the route in fifth gear, but we still ended up slowing some people down because I wouldn\u2019t speed (much to the relief of my wife).<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 For this trip, I brought an inverter and wired up a 12-volt outlet so that we could blow up a queen-sized air mattress while the bus was still idling and cooling off the turbo fan.\u00a0 And the fan did get warm.\u00a0 The land we were headed for was on a small 1 \u00bd lane road that I missed while we were looking for it.\u00a0 Luckily, it was a nice, clear day, and there were plenty of places that farm, gravel, or other trucks and vehicles had packed down and could be used to turn around.\u00a0 So we did. And we got on the road and drove happily along it.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 Having never been to this location before, we weren’t sure if the barn at the bottom of the hill just off the road was the one that we were supposed to park at or not, and so we drove up and set the air brakes half-way up a fairly steep incline where the reception was actually at.\u00a0 After several hellos and a brief confirmation, we found that the barn (now behind us) at the bottom of the hill was, in fact, the right place, so again we were going to have to turn the bus around.\u00a0 And, I\u2019d have to get it going on the hill.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 Now, I learned how to drive on standard (manual) transmission vehicles, and I grew up in the mountains, but this was to be the first time that I had to put the bus with its diesel engine to the test in this environment. But it was surprisingly easy.\u00a0 The very low gearing of first gear (that I routinely complain about because of the fact that I have to use it to get the bus moving, but then have to shift out of almost immediately as its top speed is 5 mph) was awesome for getting the bus moving, even if I couldn’t get it above 15 mph getting up the hill.\u00a0\u00a0 But, of course, just on the other side of the hill was, well, the other side of the hill going down.\u00a0 Luckily here near the top, there was an intersecting road with a wide mouth at an angle that allowed for me to bring the bus along on it, back up a little, and then get the bus turned around.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 Getting back to the barn was then easy, though I did find out that the seemingly big (to me) 7.1 L T444E engine, even with the low gearing, wasn’t enough to hold the bus back (in fourth, which I thought would do it, but I probably should have been in third).\u00a0 Now, toward the end of making the bus stop for the parking space at the bottom of the hill, I used the brakes, which did<\/u> slow the bus, but I now know that I didn’t use the \u201cstab\u201d braking that I should have, instead using steady pressure that would have, on a longer, steeper hill, likely overheated my brakes.\u00a0 (Stab braking is a hard use of the brakes to below the \u2018critical\u2019 speed you need to stay below, and then a full release until you\u2019re just above the \u2018critical\u2019 speed.)<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 So, at the bottom of the hill, we parked the bus near the barn, secured it, set up the air mattress, and then walked back up along the road to the reception.\u00a0 There, most people were camping in tents, so we were at a distance from them, but, our \u2018steel tent\u2019 was bigger.\u00a0 But we brought up some camp chairs and our bocce<\/a> set and had a great afternoon and evening, with DJs and live music by Penny Whiskey<\/a>.\u00a0\"\" \n\n
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\u00a0 We cooked in our ‘Toas tite<\/a>‘ maker over the communal fire, and in the morning I made espresso over a camp stove and we had a half card table that fit perfectly between the two facing bench seats, so we had our breakfast there.\u00a0 We stayed until late afternoon, and made our way back home, which was also a slower trip, but because of my adherence to the speed limits.\u00a0 It turns out that there was some manner of motorcycle rally, and we were stuck in the \u2018parade\u2019 behind it.\u00a0 Otherwise, the trip home was uneventful and fine.\"\" \n\n
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\u00a0 We did realize that the narrow hallway along the bus was going to take some getting used to.\u00a0 We spent plenty of time getting in each other\u2019s way realizing the thing we wanted was at the other end of the bus, past the other one of us doing something along the way.\u00a0 But we worked things out and, really, more organization would certainly help.<\/div>\n
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