..............That's funny!!!
9% Grade (Video)
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Not an interstate but th main highway here. The coquihala has a hill on that's said to be a 8%. It's gotta be the steepest 8% I've ever been on. It gets riddled with spin outs every winter and burn marks from cars and rigs that can't make it. I think there is a section in it that gets damn near 9%.
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That's funny. I never really noticed the steeper part of that hill till I started hauling b-trains up it. 140k pounds on an 8% grade would drop me to 4th over till I got to the steeper part. Then I had to drop a half a gear. The comment about the backing up reminded me about a comment a guy said to me about backing up a btrain. He had to back up about 200 yards. I got back to the mill just after him so I went up to the lunch room to wait for my turn. I got back half an hour later and he's made it back about 150 yards. He gets out cursing and wearing and says this is like pushing chain. I remember my first time. I didn't have an audience though. Lol.
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That's funny. I never really noticed the steeper part of that hill till I started hauling b-trains up it. 140k pounds on an 8% grade would drop me to 4th over till I got to the steeper part. Then I had to drop a half a gear. The comment about the backing up reminded me about a comment a guy said to me about backing up a btrain. He had to back up about 200 yards. I got back to the mill just after him so I went up to the lunch room to wait for my turn. I got back half an hour later and he's made it back about 150 yards. He gets out cursing and wearing and says this is like pushing chain. I remember my first time. I didn't have an audience though. Lol.
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with practice you get good at it. When I quite I could usually get the hoppers over the pit with one pull ahead. My old man was a pro. He used to do farm delivery with a btrain. Around here most farms are not all that big. Small yards and poorly payed out for bins. He made it look easy. I had a hard time doing some of those places with a tri axle.
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The only way they do semis at UPS is pulling two trailers (I assume is a "B Train"). But of course that's two 36'ers and not 53'ers. Not sure what you guys do. Once you do it for awhile, its just like backing anything else... so they say lol. I heard a story of a guy up north somewhere that could supposedly back 3 trailers at the same time, but who knows
The steepest hill Iv ever encountered was Black Mountain. Its 6% for 6 miles but the locals think its steeper than that. Was driving the Stroker with an empty trailer down the mountain. All I did was put it in neutral and coasted the entire way. Had to hit the brakes a few times to slow er down! Coming back up, I had a 73 Roadrunner. Couldn't do it in OD, so I pulled into the slow lane, clicked it off, and drove 45. I cant imagine anything steeper than that and with double the weight!
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The steepest hill Iv ever encountered was Black Mountain. Its 6% for 6 miles but the locals think its steeper than that. Was driving the Stroker with an empty trailer down the mountain. All I did was put it in neutral and coasted the entire way. Had to hit the brakes a few times to slow er down! Coming back up, I had a 73 Roadrunner. Couldn't do it in OD, so I pulled into the slow lane, clicked it off, and drove 45. I cant imagine anything steeper than that and with double the weight!
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I've gone over number 4 as well. I will never forget. It was the first time I drove into a wall of snowflakes. It ranks up there with some of the neatest things I've seen. This is a pic of a b-train as I call it any way. There not that bad
That's not me btw
Probably the only show I watch regularly now I s highway thru hell. I like swing the conditions and carnage. I could live without most of the drama though. I found a clip on YouTube.
The part about them being the only
People that can do what they do I call bs though.
That's not me btw
Probably the only show I watch regularly now I s highway thru hell. I like swing the conditions and carnage. I could live without most of the drama though. I found a clip on YouTube.
People that can do what they do I call bs though.
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Ya Nike, when we did #4 with my wife screaming at me all the way down the hill was because it was so foggy you could hardly see. It was a beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky when we went up. At the top the fog rolled in and it was a nightmare going down. I was going about 45 mph and she wanted me to go slower but I was worried about trucks rear ending me. She refused to go back south on our return trip. She checked out planes, trains, ships, etc. until we talked to a trucker in a camp site. He said going south it was stair stepped and not bad at all, and it wasn't.
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yeah. That's steep. I was on an 11% in my old pickup and camper going down. I don't think it would have gone up in 2high though