[AT] Semi-OT - Looking at Hemi hauler (traction)

[Ralph Goff]

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From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Semi-OT - Looking at Hemi hauler


>
> !!!  Isn't that what extra wheel weights are for?  :-)
>
> Larry

Those cast weights would be pretty effective but they would need to be 
securely bolted down. The thought of several hundred pounds of cast iron 
hurtling towards the front of my truck box in a panic stop situation is not 
a good scene. :-)
Seriously, I think today's trucks have better traction than the old ones. My 
Dad's first pickup, a 59 IH B110 was pretty terrible in snow, even with good 
grip tires. For a while we used a rear wheel off an old Cockshutt tiller as 
weight and it did help a little. This big steel wheel with solid cast centre 
must have weighed a few hundred pounds and we just set it to rest in an old 
truck tire in the box. In later years we went to sandbags as it was easier 
to handle a few bags of sand rather than a huge lump of cast iron.
Nowadays I don't carry any extra weight in the truck box and seem to get 
along fine. Better tires, weight distribution, who knows?

Ralph in Sask.