lowbudget50
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I'd like I would like to see Dyno numbers on these trucks! These things are crazy
https://youtu.be/2brpgfLbBt8
https://youtu.be/2brpgfLbBt8
I'd like I would like to see Dyno numbers on these trucks! These things are crazy
https://youtu.be/2brpgfLbBt8
That one at the beginning doing a burnout with the front tires locked and there's smoke rolling off the front tires
And I spent almost 50 years trying to learn every trick on how to NOT slide my tires, spin my tires, or get any colour in my exhaust.
I remember a gear-shifting experience where I needed all three of these tricks. We were hauling about fifty tons of logs each trip and crossing three rivers in the sixty mile trip. Each side of each river was about 1 1/2 to 2 miles long. On one river hill, if I could get to a certain rosebush sticking out of the snowbank on the righthand side, and still be in second and second, then I could shift just the progressive auxiliary transmission into first, [under full power of coarse]. If I wasn't up to the rosebush when the revs got down to 1900, then I had to shift the main into first and leave the auxiliary in second. This was on hard packed snow and barefoot. So, no spinning or power surges or changing colour of exhaust or you would be going backwards down the hill in the dark lickety-split. I always had my back up lights already on because there was no time after you spun out to find the switch. Luckily most of the older trucks had no front wheel brakes on them, because, when you're backing down an icy hill all of the weight comes off of your front end so the front wheels have very little traction and when you're backing down a long icy hill in the dark, pushing a long heavy trailer, you don't want to loose control, by sliding your steering tires.
I bet there were some butt pucker moments there.
Legend has it that Mac is still trying to get the stripes out of his underwear from those trips.
This was on hard packed snow and barefoot.
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