Torch for frozen brakes

I can't really wrap my head around how often I hear frozen brakes mentioned on here. I've hardly ever seen it happen despite living up in the cold. Even after washing the truck in winter and having it sit overnight below freezing there was only ever once or twice I recall a brake freezing. Even then a gentle nudge in reverse sorted that out.

 

You would be surprised the amount of guys i see dragging their tandems around the truckstop parking lot with stuck brakes. Try to get them on the cb but they dont have one of course. Usually by the time they go from the icey parking lot to the dry road they figure out they have a frozen brake

 

Crawl under a trailer after running in snow all day and it will make sense.

The tag axle on my trailer freezes constantly if there is the slightest dusting of snow or rain. And it freezes hard. Crazy thing about it is I never set the trailer brakes but it still freezes. I either don't use it or keep it down loaded or empty to keep it turning

 

Most of the stuff I've been around was logging gear. Most of the time the trailers sit decked onto the truck when empty and still haven't seen them freeze by the time they get back up to the bush.

 

The two times they froze up good on me, deep snow had gotten packed in good on outside of wheels, and obviously inside drums, then melted, and re frozen. Like snow on a roof, no problems unless it melts and re freezes into ice. Then forms an ice dam.