Semi's tend to get stuck easily since most just have open diffs on the axles. I've seen them in snow/ packed snow conditions spinning up gradual hills on the freeway when I was just in rwd not spinning at all.

 

gotta love the song "Big Truck" by coal chamber

 

Well awesome video anyways semi looked stuck to me

 

Oh yeah. \m/\m/

 

I don't care if it's set up or not. That is far more realistic than the Chevy commercial of the dually haulling the train.

 

i drive truck , That rig wouldn't get out without help it was stuck. even if empty truck and tailer is over 30,000 pounds very impressive GREAT VID.

 

We used to run a Ford LN9000 single axle with a 30' pup. We would get her stuck, and a single axle has a lot more traction than a tandem, and with a litle "snap" from our f-150 RWD out she would go. Anyone who has ever worked around trucks understands how it doesn't take too much sometimes to help out. Stuck means you can't move under your own power and lot's of times a good tug is all you need. Of course there are times that a 966 has a hard time to break a truck out, but that's another story.

 

The F-350 was not pulling the total 80,000# by its self, it was HELPING the rig. Like someone previously said, sometimes it only takes a couple thousand lbs of pull to help aide in vehicle recovery.

 

I call BS to your BS! A buddy of mine has a 2005 F-250 SD 4x4 crew-cab long-bed 5.4L V8 gas with 3.73:1 gears and was pulling a tree stump out of the ground while he was spinning out on a concrete driveway in 4x4 LOW. See, even the smallest gas engine has plenty of torque in 4x4 LOW since it has a gear reduction of 2.72:1.

 

The background music makes me want to kill something small.

 

I have a 2002SD4x4 5.4/4.56s i pulled a single axle semi and a 47ft boat up a ramp the semi keep hopping up after throttel . the point is just a little help gets big results.

 

You talking about this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju-h_DiE9So

 

EXACTLY, it's not like the 350 was pulling 80,000lbs of boat anchor; 1. the semi is on wheels, and 2. i'm sure it's wheels were spinning as well, making it easier for the pickup. not taking ANYTHING away from the pickup, just saying it's not as "impossible" as "80,000 lbs" sounds.

great video, wish it was during the day!

 

I pushed a honda civic up a pretty steep once in the snow.WAIT before everyone attacks me and says "YOU CANT PUSH ~2500Lbs" Obviously not. its the same concept with the 80,000Lbs truck as bbender states above. simple concept

 

Haha, I love it when the diesel guys show up. It's just a good thing the F-350 was a diesel or it probably would have gotten stuck itself because no gas motor could even come close to pulling a SD through the mud. Even in 4-LO, there is no way that a gasser could make it on anything but flat land with the wind from behind.

Ok guys, I think if you mention needing a diesel just a few thousand more times you might justify why you own one and pay 3 times more for oil changes and parts and about 50c more per gallon of fuel.

Meanwhile, us gasser guys will polish up our street queens.

Look at the beginning of the video, you can clearly see the driverside tires sunk down to the rims. There was probably a trackhoe behind the semi pushing it. Haha yeah...

What a joke.