Re: Axle ratios, etc

Posted by Hugh MacKay on April 26, 2005 at 20:46:03 from (209.226.106.178):

In Reply to: Re: Axle ratios, etc posted by CNKS on April 26, 2005 at 17:59:30:

CNKS: Your right, this is Canada up here and I've never owned a 4x4 in my life. Once had to go 12 miles into bush on a logging truck road after a snow storm that started as rain, so layer of ice on bottom. My tractor which was going to plow the snow was the 12 miles back. I took the lead with two wheel drive Chevy with 150 gal diesel tank on back. Two guys with a 4x4 were giong to follow in case I encountered problems. They went in ditch and I was the only one to get there.

I beg your pardon on comparing apples, oranges,bowling balls, Cub or an 806. Once you hook a trailer behind the principle is the same, you start pulling 2, 3, 4 or 5 times the weight of towing vehicle. I owned a light 3/4, that I mentioned in earlier post, with a 16' bumper hitch trailer pulled 10,000 GVW. A heavy 3/4 same axle ratio that pulled an 18' bumper hitch trailer pulled 20,000 GVW Also a single axle highway tractor with tandem axle drop deck trailer 65,000 GVW. I had all those when I was farming, and can tell you the principles of driving, loading, braking, etc. differ very little. You put a 1066 and 656 behind that highway tractor positioned wrong on trailer and it will make your journey just as miserable as the 10,000 GVW with a Super A loaded wrong. I have driven the big rigs all the way up to 140,000 GVW, believe me the principle never changes. Once you reach that rated load, they react much the same.

I clearly gave you what I considered good advice. I've seen too many pickups, heavy and light, automatic transmissions, parked at repair shops with transmission out, all from trailering. I've seen just as many twisted up 4x4 pickups, jack knifed from holding a load back on slippery roads in 4 wheel drive. You know the old saying," You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."

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