fly sheet:
I’d just ring Sovtransauto I’d have pulled The Transcon with the loaded Tatra tipper too Has Carryfast seen this carry on, a 6x2 rear lift pulling another 6x2 out of the snow whilst the double drive watches helplessly!!!
But it’s not the double drive that went off the road and who says that it’s a case of ‘helpless’.He was probably just waiting to see if the 6x2 could’nt pull the other one and then help by providing two more drive axles as 3 must be better than 2 .But the 6x2 just got lucky that time.
bobthedog:
I was going to buy the really big 3000 watt one, but it was too big for where I was going to put it… The 1750 powers most of what I need, although I think it would struggle with my oven.
Now I am on boxvans, I suppose it isn’t too different to Stobarts…
Here is stuck!
And we got it out with another truck and two snowshovels…
I could’nt fit enough zb’s on here for their answer to the idea of using a 6x2 instead.Something about the CAT running out of fuel to pull them far enough from where a 6x2 would have got stuck instead of a 6x4
If they want to be stuck in snow, they do it properly:
orys is that a 6x4 that only gave up when it got that deep or is it a 6x2 that got stuck in the autumn and they’ll come back for it in the spring. Seriously though it looks like it’s gone through some ice.
I suppose that you needed all that paraphenalia Harry because of the poor quality diesel, we get -40c over here quite regularly in Jan/Feb, our winter blend diesel copes with it ok, you can get frozen filters if you’ve got a lot of water in the tanks from condensation if you’re returning from somewhere in the south where it’s much warmer, but apart from that we don’t sem to get many fuel related problems, obviously we run the trucks at night at high idle (over 1000rpm) this puts a healthy dose of warm return fuel into the tanks and keeps me nice n toasty
If we shut down at the yard we do have a block heater that runs on mains voltage, it keeps the oil from turning into grease and I think it also trickle charges the batteries (not sure on that) in any case although we run 12v electrics, we have 4 big batteries that provide over 700amps of cold cranking power, that’s always been enough, in my case, to get it fired up, although it sounds like a bag of bolts when it does start
It also takes about 3hrs to get the cab warmed up inside to the point where you can take your coat off or touch anything metal and when it gets that cold everything shrinks(that’s my excuse anyway ) and you get lots of rattles and draughts, if you’ve just come back from somewhere swampy like The Carolinas, Georgia or Florida all the moisture that’s in the cab freezes, when you head south into warmer weather it all starts to thaw and you get drips all over the place
The average truck is very tough though, BTDs KWs had only a few modifications from standard highway trucks, mainly taking bits off before he knocked them off on his way into the ditch I was in California on Wednesday of this week, it was 18c or so, I left at lunchtime and parked up in Utah where it was -20c that night, apart from turning the heater up a bit everything else was quite normal, quite remarkable that a truck can cope with such a temperature difference without any alterations when you think about it, my screenwashers even worked still
Oh and that must be some cat, I’ve been know to go to extremes on a ■■■■■ hunt, but I’d draw the line at going all the way to Russia Mind you I bet carryfast could tell a few stories about that sort of thing
Wasn’t me in the ditch, it was Gerry. Yep, all we did was strip off the rear fenders, the corner bumpers and other bits and pieces which would either break off, ground out or rattle free.
Mind you, when they came back after the season, the trucks spent about a week being sorted out. They had bends and twists in them. Again, they got fixed up and sent out on the highway again. It is surprising how much they will take.
I had a spring break on an A-Ride F12 after the 95-96 winter up in Russia, the guy who replaced it reckoned he had never seen one go before which made me think -40 & 30 above in a matter of weeks does’nt do them much good.
Not quite Russia, this was Yugoslavia, or what was left of it!!
A couple of “oops, we`re in the snow” moments…
4x2 DAF unit towing a triaxle curtain sider loaded with god knows how many tonnes of loose loaded bagged flour!! (50kg sacks)
If you look closely you can see the chain on the rear axle of the unit, sometimes we would chain the trailor wheels as well, different sides and axles,one on the O/S front and the other on the N/S rear. To get this out we dumped half the load into the field, the locals thought it was xmas!!! …come to think of it, it nearly was!!!
Sometimes even the locals get it wrong…in the river!!
Can you spot the little car■■?
weewulliewinkie:
I made 3 trips to moscow in 1994 for currie european with compaq computers
Ooh, a couple of us stopped to help a driver from Currie European about then, on the St Petersburg-Moscow highway iirc, his truck had frozen up and he had no proper winter clothing, he was wearing trainers and was almost frozen, we put him in one of our cabs to warm up and got his motor running, I seem to remember he was a slightly built Irish lad in his late 20’s?
weewulliewinkie:
I made 3 trips to moscow in 1994 for currie european with compaq computers
Ooh, a couple of us stopped to help a driver from Currie European about then, on the St Petersburg-Moscow highway iirc, his truck had frozen up and he had no proper winter clothing, he was wearing trainers and was almost frozen, we put him in one of our cabs to warm up and got his motor running, I seem to remember he was a slightly built Irish lad in his late 20’s?
I’d have pulled The Transcon with the loaded Tatra tipper too
Has Carryfast seen this carry on, a 6x2 rear lift pulling another 6x2 out of the snow whilst the double drive watches helplessly!!!
and who says that it’s a case of ‘helpless’.He was probably just waiting to see if the 6x2 could’nt pull the other one and then help by providing two more drive axles as 3 must be better than 2 
.But the 6x2 just got lucky that time. 
Proper snow in Glasgow today 
