hill climbing fast vs slow

Any hill you can get over at a speed of 45 is not a hill but a gopher mound

 

Now THATS a hill folks

 

I remember coming down that hill with my dad in a loaded 7 axle logger. Stage 3 jake for about 15 minutes straight. Snail pace. They actually have passing lanes to pass slow trucks going DOWN the hill!

 

Big and slow... and that is exactly what that Saturn V rocket is.

As I recall the Bertha was around 24 inches tall, but the Saturn was closer to 5 feet, and a 3 stage rocket.
It was truly majestic in its slow ascent.
It got to around 80 feet or so and the second stage failed.
It floundered there for a couple seconds, then turned over and embedded itself nearly a foot in the ground - nose first.
There was both crying and cheering as that happened, depending on who you were. It was a sight to behold.
That is one serious model rocket project.

Another story about the Saturn V rocket.
But, the real one.
One of my uncles, Frank Butler, was one of the engineers that designed the release mechanism for the actual Saturn V back in the '60's.
You see those big clamps in nearly every video of that rocket lifting off.

He had quit Boeing at some point and went rogue. It seems he didn't like the tight security surrounding everything.
When they told him that he would never be out from under it, he disappeared.
Until one day when he got into a brawl in a bar and KO'd a plain clothes cop.

Uncle Frank is only around 5 feet something short, and has no collar bones.
As such, he can actually touch both shoulders in front.
When one of the cops tried to put him in a hold, he simply put his shoulders forward and slipped down and out, then came back up to clock the guy.
He was a scrappy little guy, and ended up getting arrested.

My family took a trip down to FL to bail him out, but he was let out anyway because he didn't start the fight and only got caught in the middle of it.
It's a strange story, made more so by the fact that he had thousands of dollars in his duffel bag that he could have used to bail himself out, but he decided that the cops could provide his lodging and meals for a while.

After that he disappeared again and we have not seen or heard from him to this day.

 

Got to have mechanical sympathy any idiot can dog the #### out of equipment.
Doesn’t really prove anything so what you got to the top 3 0r 5 mph faster. Meanwhile my truck isn’t being abused and taking away longevity.

 

If you got enough donkies you don’t have to dog it.....run at it.....or use the blinky lights. Leave the cruise set and let it take care of itself

 

Are you speaking of that mythical (in the age of neutered, cattle prod laden semis)machine known as “The Large Car?”

 

I like those trucks that you have to slow down for corners going up the hill.