First Snow Experience

[5thranger]

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Naughty boy ?

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[IdahoRanger]

Naughty boy ?

Just talking about testing the snow. ?

 

[CG Ranger]

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[Chris M]

I DID IT !!!
Just a quick in and out , just enough to get it wet (sexual innuendo intended)

Normally that happens the other way around, doesn't it?

 

[Blmpkn]

yeah, youre definitely going to have a hard time with a 2wd pickup in snow like that.

Ooh the misfortunes caused by being a southerner lol.

I drove RWD's for years, through all sorts of terrible winter weather, and never had an issue.

Couple hundred pounds extra over the rear and knowing how to drive really works wonders..

I didn't even bother changing out of my mud tires for the last couple winters I drove this one.. and it weighed a full ton less than a 5g.


4x4 donuts in the snow are much more fun than 2wd though..

 

[NotBudule2]

Normally that happens the other way around, doesn't it?

Not if I'm in a hurry and don't warm it up first...

 

[Dgc333]

yeah, youre definitely going to have a hard time with a 2wd pickup in snow like that. best to stay warm. at the very least a GOOD set of snows and maybe even chains if you wanna get anywhere

A 2wd pickup can do as well or better than a 4wd pickup if you load the bed up with weight. Of course the 4wd will be even better if you load the bed up.

In high school and college I worked at a service station that was in the corner of a shopping center parking lot. We used to plow that parking lot with a 2wd GMC pickup. The key was the two 55 gallon drums full of water that was lashed down in the bed. During the Blizzard of 78 where all of South Eastern Massachusetts was closed down for a week I shuffled people between police stations with my 2wd Dodge D100 pickup. I had loaded the bed with snow bank snow up even with the top of the cab. Since then I have always kept a bunch of logs cut to the length of the bed sized to fill the space between the wheel wells. Since I have started owning 4wd pickups I have gotten lazy and not put the logs in but will if it is real bad.

 

[5thranger]

Just talking about testing the snow. ?

Sure, you were.?

 

[dano42]

Studded snow tires. I had them when I lived in Utah and they were great on my old Volvo. Go over Parley’s summit with 8” of snow on the highway in the middle of the night (I worked a swing shift), no problem.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Well we finally got a decent snowfall here in St. Louis, the only real one of any consequence in quite a few years, maybe 5-6 inches (now don't you guys out in Colorado laugh). So this was the my first experience in snow with my 2021 Ranger XL with the FX2 package and locking rear diff. Still wearing the original 265/65/17 Hankook ATM's, which are pretty good all around for my driving, mostly around town and some forest roads. Nothing crazy.

Suffice it to say, things didn't go all that well. I had parked the truck in my small garage, which the Ranger just fits in, to keep it out of the snow. I tried to back it out just to see how it would handle. I used some new traction boards I recently bought from on-line vendor Vevor, which carries an interesting array of products at reasonable prices. The boards themselves worked pretty good. This was the first time I ever used any since I'm not really an off-roader, at least yet. I treated it as a learning experience. They held up well, and even took a bit of rubber off my tires.

The tires. They're an older model of all-terrain tires, which I think they've discontinued and upgraded to a better design. They were not up to the task and couldn't handle the snow, even with the traction boards pitching in. I know they're not snow tires by any means, but I thought they could of at least gotten me out of the garage, but no. Halfway out I gave up, pulled the truck back in and went inside for a nice hot cup of coffee.

Since we don't really get much snow here and if we do it's usually gone in a couple of days, I don't have and normally don't need snow tires, so I guess I'm socked in for a while (we're going to be near or below freezing for most of the rest of the week).

By the way that turned out, it sounds like you still haven’t had your First Snow Experience - just sayin’

 

[Dgc333]

Studded snow tires. I had them when I lived in Utah and they were great on my old Volvo. Go over Parley’s summit with 8” of snow on the highway in the middle of the night (I worked a swing shift), no problem.

January 2015 I picked up a new Mustang and took it directly to my son's shop to put dedicated winter tires on it. Winter 2015 turned out to be the worst winter for snow in recorded history for the Boston area. At the time the heater in my 99 Dakota 4x4 wasn't working for shit, because the Mustang with winters and snow driving mode was so good I just used the Mustang that winter.

Here's my Mustang wearing it's winter shoes.

 

[bobobama]

A 2wd pickup can do as well or better than a 4wd pickup if you load the bed up with weight. Of course the 4wd will be even better if you load the bed up.

In high school and college I worked at a service station that was in the corner of a shopping center parking lot. We used to plow that parking lot with a 2wd GMC pickup. The key was the two 55 gallon drums full of water that was lashed down in the bed. During the Blizzard of 78 where all of South Eastern Massachusetts was closed down for a week I shuffled people between police stations with my 2wd Dodge D100 pickup. I had loaded the bed with snow bank snow up even with the top of the cab. Since then I have always kept a bunch of logs cut to the length of the bed sized to fill the space between the wheel wells. Since I have started owning 4wd pickups I have gotten lazy and not put the logs in but will if it is real bad.

I left Boston because of that blizzard in '78. It was nasty. I couldn't take those damn winters anymore. Moved to Atlanta (too hot there in the summer though).

 

[NOVA_Ranger]

Halfway up a mountain on rough logging trails, stayed the night in my off-grid cabin through a decent snowstorm, hunted, and slid my way back down the following day.

 

[5thranger]

Studded snow tires. I had them when I lived in Utah and they were great on my old Volvo. Go over Parley’s summit with 8” of snow on the highway in the middle of the night (I worked a swing shift), no problem.

Had them on my 1969 Road Runner I loved the sound they made with a posi rear when you hit dry pavement.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Halfway up a mountain on rough logging trails, stayed the night in my off-grid cabin through a decent snowstorm, hunted, and slid my way back down the following day.

Hmmm, Filet Mignon, huh? You sure know how to rough it!

Now, would someone from the bacon industry talk to literally ANYONE at Zip-Loc.

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