Snow in OK - F350 pulling semi up hill!

Oklahoma · #1 (**permalink**) 12-18-2003, 09:38 AM

Just had to share this with you!

A pretty decent snowstorm hit OK last week on Friday, around 4 to 8 inches up North on ground after freezing rain & sleet. I was going to pick up my daughter from piano lessons around 5'ish on other side of Guthrie. As I came to an intersection with the highway which is about 3/4 up a long hill, I noticed lots of tail light and head lights (it was still snowing) pointing every which way. Cars and small PUs were stuck and spinning out all over at the bottom of the hill; both going up & down! I was fixing to just cross the highway and route around everyone when I decided to wait because a PU with a semi was moving very slowly up the hill. I didn't want to be rude and cross in front of them coming up the slick hill.

As I watched, I noticed the PU was having a little trouble because I could see the back dual wheels continously spinning up hill. I was wondering why the semi was following so closely but thought it was just a moron driver. As the PU passed, I saw it was pulling the semi up the hill! It was a rancher/cowboy in a dually F350. No semi wheels spinning and the HUGE linked log chain was not bouncing around like the semi was helping!

Just sharing info I thought was really cool to see, don't want this to turn into a thread on what a PU can or can't pull like the gas guy wanting to yank on our chain a while back.

scotth · #2 (**permalink**) 12-18-2003, 09:56 AM

That would make a cool commercial!!!!!

Oklahoma · #3 (**permalink**) 12-18-2003, 10:23 AM

Forgot to mention that the semi was a tanker truck. The kind that hauls fuel around to stations. It wasn't just the actual semi truck part, it also had the trailer attached!

troutman2 · #4 (**permalink**) 12-18-2003, 02:31 PM

In a commercial no one would believe it but seeing it first hand, That is cool!

Quadzilla · #5 (**permalink**) 12-18-2003, 05:22 PM

Thanks for sharing that. It's too bad you didn't have the opportunity to get a picture. My camera is never with me when the kewl stuff happens!!

fast freddie · #6 (**permalink**) 12-22-2003, 06:09 PM

If the owner of the f350 gets the kind of fuel milage that I do, he may have been using the semi for an axillary fuel tank...lol.

hang10 · #7 (**permalink**) 12-22-2003, 06:15 PM

You know, on our local news last week (KC) we had a 7" snow with about 1/2" ice under it. They had footage of a Super Duty pulling a semi (only the tractor) up a hill at a truck stop.