Heavy winter hauling...

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Heavy winter hauling...

Postby thrashingcows » Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:25 pm

I spent two days, and 800+ Km's, helping my brother move two of his Ford trucks.

It started on Thursday Nov 28 at about 4pm. I picked up my brother from his work, and grabbed one of their Tandem axle, tilt deck car trailers....nice trailer! We then went back to his place and loaded up his 72 Ford 4x4. We finally got going about 6pm. It was dark, cold (-8*C), and windy and starting to snow.

We traveled about an hour until we hit the Flying J truck stop to get some eats, and repair a couple lights on the trailer. Wind was so bad that I was seeing 12-14lbs of boost on level hwy surface!

Here what we looked like....

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Now the next 4-5 hours we were up in the mountains of BC. It was friggin cold, and had been snowing the last day or so, and was continuing to snow. The roads we were on were single lane each way, and twisty, up and down, was packed ice with snow covering it. Top speed was maybe 70km/h, but mostly 50km/h.

First fill up about 10:45pm.....

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Re: Heavy winter hauling...

Postby thrashingcows » Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:38 pm

That was the last of the "Good" roads. The next 100kms was mostly wash board dirt roads covered in packed ice and snow. Not a lot of gravel tossed down either for traction. Nasty climbs up and down....switch backs and 8-13% grades!

I was surprised how well Ol' Patches did. Thank goodness I had those diffs rebuilt...that power loc in the rear diff was one busy piece of equipment I can tell you that!

I spun out on one hill. It was a sheet of ice under the snow cover, and now gravel to be seen. Even in 4Lo it wouldn't continue up the hill. Thankfully I had brought my cheapy cable chains with me. We ended up putting one chain on the back RH side, and one on the LH front.

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And what the truck and trailer looked like by this time....

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I gently got under way and was able to get enough traction to get to the top of the hill. We continued on, again at top speeds of 50km/h until we were about 10Km's from our destination. We had one last hill to climb. This one covered about 1200ft in 10km's....I made an attempt and spun out on the first section. Put it in 4Lo and made it to pull out and dropped the trailer.

By now it was 3am and we were done for the night. Up to my brothers place and crash for a few hours.
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Re: Heavy winter hauling...

Postby thrashingcows » Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:44 pm

Next morning it was -20*c with a windchill about -25+*C!

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We went back down the hill with hopes the road crews had tossed more rock on the hill...not really. So we hooked back up to the trailer, and then got the old ford running, and he drove it up while I brought up the trailer.

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Here are a couple pics from that climb.

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Re: Heavy winter hauling...

Postby AHineman » Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:49 pm

Pretty cool. Also, last time I saw your truck it was 2wd. I'm super jealous!
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Re: Heavy winter hauling...

Postby thrashingcows » Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:56 pm

We then had to haul out his old 52 Ford from storage, clean and sort it out, bolt things down and get it on the trailer....there was no motor in this one. ;)

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We finally got out of there some time around 1:30pm. The roads were not any better then the night before, and it was dark by 4:30pm.

Stopped to check trailer and chains...Gorgeous scenery. That pile of loose rock, down between the hills, is a Dam!

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Didn't spin out on the way down, guess the slightly lighter truck helped there. But I did use the 4wd a little more on some of the steep switch back grades. It took us until about 10pm to get to my brother place down here. Quick drop of the trailer at his place, then I had to rush home, get cleaned up and get to bed so I could get up for work at 4am!

Over all I was pretty happy with the way the crew performed. Think I averaged about 13mpg for the trip. But considering that a straight away was probably less then 1/4 mile, and most of the trip was spent in 3rd gear doing 50km/h at 2000rpm. I think it did OK.

Now I have to wait for it to warm up so I can give Ol' Patches a good bath. ;)
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Re: Heavy winter hauling...

Postby CumminsPower59 » Tue Dec 02, 2014 3:51 am

Beautiful country, thanks for sharing with us :D
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Re: Heavy winter hauling...

Postby Tacoclaw » Tue Dec 02, 2014 4:48 am

I think I would have just waited for spring. :P

Cool truck, it's funny to see that they didn't keep the trim in the same places. I dig the piece around the wheel well , my RC has those and they really grew on me. They're also helpful in maintaining a fender-esque shape when rust has eaten everything behind them. :lol:
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Re: Heavy winter hauling...

Postby cmann250 » Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:45 am

I love stories like that. Thanks for sharing 8)
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