Dodge Goes Through Deeper Snow Than A Chev D Max.

[Jeff H]

Are little county road drifted over tonight. I got home at about midnight. I had no problems exept for the exess axle wrap. AT around 1am I noticed some people out on the road. I gather up some chains. I drive out to them. We have are selves a duramax with a plow stuck in the snow. I tried to yank them but it was worthless. So we spend over an hour digging them out. Then another vehicle comes out and gets stuck. Oh man its gonna be a long night. I told that guy in the dmax punch it once you start rolling and don't let off. He gets loose and drives it all the way to the stop sighn. He turns around and starts plowing the road. Then we start working on the other guy and get him out. The guy in the dmax says I'll wait to make sure you get out. I didn't have any problems getting out at all.

My thoughts are the Dmax is to light to go through the snow. It sets to low wich really sucks because we really had to copletely dig it out. The power definatly was not there like gm claims. Didn't seam like the dmax with snow plow prep had posi traction. Basically a fancey cadilac with a plow is what I saw.

I'm shivering my ass of right now. The actuall air temp is 0 deg F. Wind was rellentless. At around 35 to 40 mph wind speed. In the middle of flat farm country.

My dad helped out 3 other people earlier this evening and saved the others for the wrecker. So about a total of about 8 vehicles got hung up in the same area. My Dodge CTD was the only thing going through. I give my truck a 2 thumbs for being able to do a tough job. Dmax guys liked the exhaust sound on my truck.

Anybody else have any 2 thumbs up stories like this.

 

[illflem]

I don't know if this is BS but I ran into a guy who said he uses his Dodge to pull out stuck snowmobiles...

 

[Sticks]

I was making my annual x-mas tree trip to my Cabin on Gore Pass (15 NW of Kremmling CO/120 miles NW of Denver) the first week of December.



This was the first time in about 10 years that I could not drive all the way in. Unfortunately I made this decision about 15 feet too late as I was going down a rather steep hill (35*). There was about 1 foot of that evil nasty dry fluffy powdery stuff on layers of light snow pack, and ice, with a snowmobile track up the center. At the bottom, before it starts a gentle uphill climb again, all forward movement stopped, and the vertical movement started, as the 4 wheels on the LS rear end and at least one of the front proceeded to verify for me that there was indeed a thick layer of ice from the fist snow/melt. Now my pumpkins are digging into the snowmobile track. This is why I carry a shovel. At the top of the hill there was a PS, Toy, and an Exploder parked. This should have been my first clue before I turned the corner to go down hill. After digging a path 30 feet long on both sides in front of the truck, I Got in and went willy nilly for the top of the hill to do a sweet power slide to turn around and point me in the way out of this embarrassing situation. While I was digging, I overheard some nasty little shots of “POS Dodge is going to have to be towed out, cause I’m not gonna’ take the chance of being down there with him. ”, “No way that Dodge is gonna’ get out, Ford maybe but not Dodge. ” And others directed more towards my decision making process (I deserved those). It only took 3 attempts to make the 1/8th mile trip back up the steep side. Cake once I got the first 2/3rd cleaned of the powder.



Once I got to the top, I hopped out to clear the snow from the Rims and Brakes before they iced up on me. The owner of the PS cam over and commented that he got stuck the previous week, and that was only about 30 feet from the top, where his driveway was. And he did not have the extra foot of powder to deal with. It took him 6 hours and the neighbors D-9 to get him out (IOT he tried for 5 hours and 45 minutes before the D-9 showed up). In hind sight, some weight in the back end might have saved me a little embarrassment from having to dig a path to get started, that and checking the conditions before I dove in. Live and learn. :{



Arrogance of having just driven 140 miles on I-70 at night from Vail to Denver, Chain Law in effect all the way. Ice, snow pack, and 6” of powder, depending on where DOT had been. I stayed in 2wd to see how the truck would do in these conditions. NO PROBLEMS. No slippage, no pucker moments and kept it at around 45 mph all the way. Just watched 5 cars and 3 SUV’s spin out and land in the ditch.



God I love the manual transmission’s .

Sticks

 

[FFutch]

My bro was on his way down south a couple of years ago,middle of winter,back county road,up hill,steep,2wd 1500 Ram,with a 26 foot enclosed car trailer . The snow wasn't too deep but had a nice layer of ice under it. It was 2 a. m. when he left,I told him too call if he had any problems. 10 minutes later I get the call,he made it all but the last 75 ft to the main road. There was no way he could back the truck trailer 100 yards back down the hill,so I get around him,hook up to truck/trailer(about 8,000 lbs. of dead weight). My old 265 michelens were pretty worn so I didn't know if it was going to pull it or not. I put her in 4 low and tell my brother if we get moving I AM NOT STOPPING so get in your truck and hang on!Once I got going NO SWEAT for the CTD. . I got him to the main road which was bare,and said"have a nice trip,me and the Cummins are going to bed" ... Doug

 

[Rob Thomas]

Originally posted by illflem

I don't know if this is BS but I ran into a guy who said he uses his Dodge to pull out stuck snowmobiles...

Whoooops, I didn't know I told anyone that. :-laf :-laf





Later, Rob