Posted on 02/21/2021 12:42:45 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Six pickup trucks work together to pull a semi truck up an icy, snowy hill in this video.
It happened in Saline County, Arkansas this past week near Interstate 30 and Alcoa Road.
According to the Facebook post by Stephanie Cole, initially three pickup trucks chained themselves to the big rig, but it wasn’t enough power, so a fourth, fifth, and sixth joined in to help, sled dog team style.
In the clip, several of the pickups can be seen slipping and sliding, but the team eventually gets it done, and people can be heard cheering in the background as the semi truck regains its footing.
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Imagine the stress on the truck immediately hooked up between Semi and 5 others.
YES
And that is why I suggested in #11 not to use a serial linkage for a Prius team attempt.
I’ve shoveled more snow into the bed to help the traction on a 4x4 truck.
One summer working on my thesis with a non-4x4, I put heavy pyritic rocks off a mine dump in the bed in order to have traction to ascend a very steep grade dirt road. Of course at the top when I wanted to come back down that grade after a few days of camping out, I had to throw them out before the descent attempt.
I envisioned two lines with three trucks in each line. That’s dog sled style. Whoever wrote has obviously never seen how a dog sled team operates.
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