Icy roads this weekend!

[Gunner0311]

Had the M52A2 out this weekend on the icy roads(we got about a foot of snow
Friday night).

I have to say that it is a little exciting to get a 18,000 pound truck skidding at a
45 degree angle on a road with deep ditches along both sides! It does indeed
have a "pucker factor" involved when driving the truck.

I slid on the ice and skidded fifty feet past my sons driveway.....

The truck is fantastic in the snow and mud, but this is a reminder to everyone that
the NDCC tires do not do well on "slick/smooth surfaces".

 

[A/C Cages]

Sounds like you wont be using a toilet anytime soon after that pucker factor event..
Be careful and drive safe.
San you say tirechains?

 

[RodUSMC1962]

"Hold my beer and watch this"!

 

[Digger09]

The ice is bad with any tires. Glad there were no issues other than some dirty draws.

 

[porkysplace]

Sounds like you wont be using a toilet anytime soon after that pucker factor event..
Be careful and drive safe.
San you say tirechains?

Tirechains and studs are illegal in michigan , they don't want damage the roads .

 

[A/C Cages]

Figures, Michagan is another backwards state. Would rather have accidents and people killed then repairing a pothole the next year.

 

[jaxsof]

Figures, Michagan is another backwards state. Would rather have accidents and people killed then repairing a pothole the next year.

Repair? Potholes? What are they?

 

[100acre]

not mil but cool and imagine the tires hhhmmmm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjAVYjZ0TOs&feature=share

Wish I could drive one of these but I dont think I would fit in it

 

[Blind Driver]

Tirechains and studs are illegal in michigan , they don't want damage the roads .

Yea, better not tear up the road with a Michigan truck

 

[porkysplace]

Yea, better not tear up the road with a Michigan truck



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Yep 11 axels and 160,000 pounds are legal but chains are not , you got to love government.

 

[2buells]

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Wish I could drive one of these but I dont think I would fit in it

I love the sound of those little turbo engines hitting the rev limiter when all four tires leave the ground!

 

[RodUSMC1962]

Those people are nuts!

 

[Flyingvan911]

I think I would have ripped the cover off of my seat. I'm glad it ended well.

 

[Gunner0311]

Wierd people?

Hard to tell who is weird these days. They see my trucks and say something like:
"What are you going to do with that?"

And I normally respond: "Drive it!"

Then they see my mud racer truck with 700+ hp 514 cubic inch Ford Big Block and
53 inch tall tractor tires; and they don't seem to think my 5-Ton is all that strange
after all.

 

[Psywarrior]

Yep 11 axels and 160,000 pounds are legal but chains are not , you got to love government.

11 axles is 42 tires. (10X4 +1X2 tires) Each tire has an 11"X12" footprint. 42X11X12=5544 inches square of surface contact. 160,000/5544=28.86 PSI.

My 1986 Cadillac. 4200 pounds. 4 tires with 7"X4" footprint. 112 square inches of footprint. 37.5 PSI footprint. The caddy does more to the roads than the super heavy semi. Many smaller cars are actually worse with the iddy bitty tiny tires.

Also, Michicrap roads are disgustingly messed up. They are extremely rough and bounce you all over the place. I hate going up there. It is beautiful country, but the roads just suck. Then again, MS and LA are just as bad and sometimes worse.