she's got some torque..
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Joined: Sep 2011
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From: Minnesota
Yeah I don’t mean to burst your bubble but, if you pulled a dump truck out without hardly any throttle or any wheel spin it wasn’t hardly stuck... I work in road construction and work with dump trucks and semi’s pulling side dump trailers all of the time. Yes a pickup can pull an empty truck out but not if it’s really stuck. I’ve pulled dump trucks and side dumps a few times in a pinch with my 350’s but it takes a strap with slack and to tug like he!! If they are stuck. I’ve pulled our side dumps a few times down the road if they have broken down in a bad spot and just need to get pulled a mile or so to get to a better spot for repairs. I don’t even put the truck in 4x4, they pull like nothing in 2wd and just roll down the road. I even pulled a loaded side dump a block to get it out of an intersection that it was blocking. That took a little extra throttle and just about broke the tires loose in 2wd but once it starts moving they move relatively easy.
I Know someone will say pics or it didn’t happen. When your at work and a truck is blocking an intersection there isn’t much time for pictures...
I Know someone will say pics or it didn’t happen. When your at work and a truck is blocking an intersection there isn’t much time for pictures...
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Guys... I spent 35 years working at various surface coal mines in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Alabama and I know "stuck" as good as anybody as surface mines are the muddiest places on earth. I never said the truck was buried to the axles either. Luckily the driver was a veteran trucker I've known for 30 years who knew when he was stuck instead of sitting there helplessly spinning his wheels and completely burying the thing. It was down 8-10" or a little over wheel depth. It was also just a single axle "bob" truck as we call them around here, that was probably a little overloaded with 10 tons. Had it been a twin screw 10 wheeler he would have never gotten stuck in the first place, whereas a tag axle 10 wheeler is usually stuck as soon as you pull off the pavement. Anyway, my post was just a lighthearted attempt at extolling the virtues of the trucks most of us love. Had I been in a gasser I would say it would have taken 3,000 rpm to do the job but this new 250 with 900 lbs of torque effortlessly did the job at probably 1200-1500 rpm. Just saying...
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Joined: Apr 2013
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From: NH
I enjoy snow plowing with my diesel. Much quieter than having to work a gas V8 to move the snow. We got about 11" last night, which the truck moved effortlessly. Not the 16" we got the week before, but that was also moved effortlessly. Plowing with my GMC dump with the gas V8 is more of a chore, even though it gets the job done fine.
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