Winter's Coming
 

With winter coming, I was wanting to build some ramps to lift the truck's wheels off the ground to help make chaining up easier when the time comes (and we all know it will). :x I've been looking on the Internet but haven't been able to find anything. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Ummm, go to the local Lowes or Home Depot or whatever and buy you some 2X12's and build your own. Yeah, they might be heavy as dog-doo but it's prolly cheaper. That is what we use, homemade ramps for changing tires on the road or just jacking the truck up off the ground so we can get under it easier.

Make your own like I did or buy these from Iowa 80.

http://www.iowa80.com/iowa80/shop?me...t&prodid=11996

there is also no need for me to put chains on.

You stole my thunder :D

I agree with u on this one.....

The one time I saw anyone put chains on (he was an old timer) he set a chunk of 4x4 under the inner tire of each drive tandem. Then he pulled onto those, which lifted the outer tires off the ground. Voila.

Myself - screw chains. I'll stay in areas where they're not even legal to use.

Listen to you guys! Holy crap what a bunch of wus's. lol

The 4x4 under the inner tire sounds good too, but if you only need to put singles on you probably don't need them at all.

Who the heck carries singles anyway?

Grab a sence of adventure, don't you get bored?

Thanks, but for those of us who are (un)lucky enough to live where it doesn't snow or we don't venture into the snow very often it's quite easy to drive up on some blocks to throw a set of chains.

this is what we do. 8) Chaining up is not that bad. Usually it gets you over the summits out west then you are in rain again. We just use our best judgment of when to sit and when to chain up.

tootie

I'm right there with you. I have never put chains on and I'm never going too.

That's great if you don't want to chain up, Just DON'T go somewhere where you might need chains :lol:

This time of year there's always some IDIOTS that take loads to Alaska, and endanger countless lives because they don't have winter tires, and don't know how to throw a set on, so they just keep driving Waaay too slow (being careful) :roll: and SCREW everybody. We have small highways (see Lady's Sig) and if you don't know how to drive in the snow, the heavy haulers like me get stuck following you, and we can't get up the hills....

Can you imagine the frustration hauling 140,000 lbs. and getting slowed up by a baby load, and watching them drive up the hill as your working your azz off, using everything you've learned over 20 yrs. to (just) make the hill, and then catching up to them at the bottom of the next hill :evil:

Just say no to the north Thanks :wink: