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Originally Posted by brian
do it on an ice covered 8% grade in -30 weather where the driver already started digging in and i`ll give you everything I own :roll:
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You are on dude. Schedule us a Truck date for late January. Maybe you can arrange for the film crew to be there.
WAIT...Just exactly how much do you own? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Okaaay..you don't own all that much.
Maybe you could get a job with say...Mercer Trucking, over in Spokane? I could fly up to Washington in late January and meet you on Stevens Pass.....say 2/3's the way up the west side. You will need to make sure it is a B-train...Mercer has a few of them...and load it down good and heavy, get the full 105K on it and make sure it has a decent number o fchains hanging on the rack....or should I bring the set's that I have down here in Texas up with me?? You stop the truck on the steepest, nastiest portion of the road..and I will chain that sucker up, and drive it away, while you stand there and watch. I won't even make you buy the plane ticket..or pay me for teaching you how to properly chain up a stalled truck on a steep, slick grade.
You will however, have to buy me a Hot Cocoa up at the Ski-lodge. Heck..for 2 cups of Hot Cocoa I could teach you how to drive that Train up to the maintenance shed behind the lodge and turn it around up there. I've only delivered a couple 30 or 40 loads of fuel up there...over a few seasons. 8) 8) 8) :shock:
Yes Brian...I have spun out on Stevens..while chained up. I just put on new chains, and eased on up the hill. I have also spun out on White Pass, on Manastache Hill, on Sherman Pass, and on Cabbage. Not once did I need to be "Yanked" out of the situation. LOL..believe it or not..I haven't spun out on Snoqualmie...but then...I know the trick to getting over "The Qual". (Psssst...you don't drive in the right lane-----stay all the way to the left going up through the curve......don't tell anybody else though!!!)
Brian..It has absolutely Nothing to do with how much force is applied, when it comes to getting a truck unstuck. It has everything to do with the manner in which you handle the equipment. To much throttle, with to low a gear and to little traction, just makes things worse. Had that B-train driver put that first set of singles on the front axle...or better yet..had he put chains on both axles..he could have walked that truck right out of that situation, without the grader, and with out making all those other trucks sit on that ice for 4 hours, as was stated on the program. He didn't start digging the holes he made, until he spun that back axle with chains on. Had he put those singles on the front axle..he would have still spun a bit...but he would have been spinning that gravel back into the rear axle...and given it traction...instead of throwing gravel under his front trailer.
Was that hill an 8% grade? Hard to see it as such on the tube.
You run on out to Stevens Pass...stop on the westbound shoulder, on the west slope, about 2/3's the way up, right there where there is not much of anything but space and tree tops. That stretch of the road is about 8% grade. Then ask yourself why the state made that section of road so much wider than the rest.
Maybe someday I can tell you about the company that had that set of trailers (which we have discussed so well here), when they were brand new. And why that company bought them in the first place. I do know what name they fuzzed out on the show, so that it couldn't be read.
