CHAINING...are you ready?

Oh come on, you LOVE to teach, and you know it!

 

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Have a Nice Winter

 

@striker , you see the mess they had in the Springs yesterday? Hail so deep they had to break out the plows!

 

When I was growing up in Pueblo and on down the valley I saw some awesome hail storms. It'll play hell with lots of things. Crops get totally wiped out, roofs ruined and cars with busted glass and hail dimples.

 

What ? I don't even take off my sandals up here until we hit 12" ..... hail or snow ..... We don't bother to plow until it gets this deep:



BTW - That's "Moosehead Beer" for those that didn't recognize it ..... LOL.



HEY !!!! That case could be converted to " OTTERSELF" !!!!

Hhhhmmmmm ...... OTTERSELF BEER .... And HAMMERHEAD DRAUGHT ...... I think we're on to something ..........











* actually .... the beer in the picture is really Alexander Keiths ..... I just wanted to use that Moosehead picture .... LOL

 

I don't know how many times I asked Striker questions about specifics on the chains. He is a good resource to have on here that has to deal with winter driving in the mountains. After driving through AK in the winter time the snow and ice with chains doesn't bother me as much as it use to. I have only had three pucker moments, one involved coming down Eisenhower is a heavy slush, chains on with a low engine brake setting. The drives started to slip and come around on me. I got it straightened out. I was only doing 25 mph at the time but this was at the top of the grade and I still had 7 more miles to go. The other two involved driving up steep grades in AK without chains and having the truck move a lot more than I would have like it to side to side. At that point you want to be easy on the throttle but yet you still want to get up the hill. It is a very delicate battle to have.

 

That's what screws up more people, they don't understand that there's times you just have to deal with some wheel slip and dancing around. They jump off the throttle to stop the slip and stall out. I have the same issue with new carhaulers, it's very hard to get then to grasp the concept of feathering the throttle when loading 2wd pickups. It's the exact same, you just have to learn to ride that ragged edge of traction without falling off the other side into a full out spin.

 

My niece lives in Fountain, she still has hail

 

We are issued 4 singles and 2 doubles. Max requirement scenario, how would you apply chain stock?

I would put the 2 doubles on rear drive, 2 singles on front drive, and 2 singles on front trailer axle. Right or wrong?

 

I would put the doubles on the front drives. The. Single on back drives the. Singles on trailer for drag chain.