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To: Sunnyflorida
Spinning is idiotic if you want traction.

Depends on the surface. I found that on a deep sandy hill in Moab, Utah, it was best to maintain enough wheelspin to keep the speedometer around 30-35 MPH to transcend the incline. Unusual, and against ones' instincts (especially someone like myself who grew up driving in the Northeast Ohio snow), but that was the only technique that got vehicles up that hill.

91 posted on 05/27/2008 6:51:49 PM PDT by meyer (Still conservative, no longer Republican)
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To: meyer

“I found that on a deep sandy hill in Moab, Utah, it was best to maintain enough wheelspin to keep the speedometer around 30-35 MPH to transcend the incline.”

Could be there climbing hills with momentum. I see the big special purpose dune trucks with huge tires and loosy suspension - is that what you are driving. But that will get you stuck down here. See it all the time. Steady is best in FL. Problem also is this is a farm and we gotta stop and do stuff. If you hammer down to 30-35 you are going one place - down to your axles. LOL I pull out the vendors all the time.


99 posted on 05/27/2008 7:00:21 PM PDT by Sunnyflorida (Drill in the Gulf of Mexico/Anwar & we can join OPEC!!! || Write in Thomas Sowell for President.)
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