Posted by the tractor vet on December 11, 2021 at 09:53:18 from (108.220.145.239):
In Reply to: Re: Slippery! posted by SVcummins on December 10, 2021 at 20:25:53:
same with my 95 Dodge as i have around 4-500 lbs. to go to max gvw , BUT it is now way near as good on bad roads as my 73 was . The truck before the Dodge was and 88 Ford F 350 4X4 cab and chassis with a 9 foot hand built flat . empty weight on it qwas 7500 on the nose full of fuel and me in it . Basic same drive line less the diesel , 4.10 ft And back with a locking rear . It handled like the 78 and 79 on bad roads . As it did not PULL you thru the curves and you had to be careful or ya would end up in the pea patch . The 88 is the truck i used during the time i was running to the sales across Ohio thru Ill. . My buddy and i traveled together and sometimes we would take his pick up or his semi and sometimes i would drive about two thirds the time i was driving . If we took his semi then i got stuck driving it . And about half the time i was driving his pick up . When it came to running the sale trail he and i were like to old Catholic wimmen with Bingo , we went no matter the weather and even planned on going to a sale for a half day on judgement day. If mother nature could dish it out he and i have been thru it all. So we ran on every road condition that came up. I think 94 was the worst we had ever run in . Donnie and i went to a friends consignment sale in Knights town In. . They were calling for this here Blizzard that was coming out of the south east to hammer our area starting in the early morning hours . I left the house around 2:30 Am and it had not started to snow yet , i ran up to Mr. Donut for coffee and a couple donuts and while i was getting my order it had just started to snow , I had a 27 mile drive down to Don's , by the time i got 9 miles out of town the roads were covered but not bad . when i got to Don's he had his pick up running and parking lights on and i could see him running around inside the house gathering up his things . When he came out he told me to just park mine and we will take his . Ah lets just take the ford today and leave your Two wheel drive here we may NEED the four wheel drive . As we got further west we ran out of the snow . When we got to the sale it was clear but a little breezy till around noon then it got bad and got really cold . About 4:30 Don asked me if there was anything else i could not live with out and said NOPE . I asked him what he MIGHT want to load up and take home and he told me two three point blades half dozen hyd. cylinders and i had three stacks of 100 lb weights and some hyd. cylinders and a stack of ten 150 donuts . I handed my check book to don and told him you go pay i'll go load . Went and fired up Rusty's one loader tractor and gathered up the small items and threw them on my truck for weight . By the time don came back i was in the truck with my cold weather gear off basking in the warmth of a Ford High output heater and we headed east . We stopped at the Petro at the state line for supper and i called home to see what the weather was like . The War Dept. told me that the drive was to the top hedges so that meant around 40-45 inches of snow and the snow was three foot deep in the turn around . Neat this will be fun . She said you two going to stay down at London tonight , nah we are coming home . The trip across I 70 to Columbus was not to bad but i did have to go into 4 wheel drive to get out of the gas station . all was good till we hit 270 , the snow was up to the bottom of the head lights . As we were getting to I 71 we heard that the state shut down all Hyways . Don said now what are we going to do . I told him we are going home , we should have it pretty good with no traffic now and i doubt that no state cop is going to even try to stop us . we did hqave traveling companions on the ride up 71 it was one New dodge 3500 4X4 welding truck and a Ford AROSTAR van with me in the lead and the dodge behind me . At times to get around the really big drifts we took to the media and sometimes the south bound lanes then back over onto the north bound . Then U S rt 30 east , if you did not know Rt. 30 you would not have found it that night . At times we poked holes in drifts over the top of the hood . The Dodge and Van left us in Wooster . We never saw a state snow plow till the east side of east Canton . From there to Minerva we had clear roads . From Minerva to Don's it was back to hood deep snow . Dropped him off and just shortly after i almost got stuck and had to back down a hill and go out the other way . Four miles up Rt 9 i found two state trucks in the ditch almost across from each other and stopped to see if i could lend a hand . The told me that they had the grader coming Then they got the call from the grader that NO he was NOT coming as he had slid off the road and was now also stuck . SO i loaded them up and run back to where the grader was stuck loaded him up and four big guys in a Ford is like a stuffed V W . Run them back to the state garage and the one guy said you best turn around and go home . Told him i was going home . He asked where i had come from and when i told him the look on his face was priceless . I got home just about the same time i had left THE NEXT DAY . I had more trouble getting up my drive then i did the whole trip. . I have only missed out on two winters since the day i started driving . And trust me on this one i would have much rather fought the worst snow storms then what i had to fight .
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