[AT] The terror strikes again. - Studebaker speed response

[charlie hill]

Steve, I'm sure some reading my recount of the trip think I'm very careless
but that is not the case.  I know my limits and the limits of my truck and
try to stay well with in them.   The situation on that trip was that 
conditions
were going down hill rapidly.  If I had driven along at 25 mph like most of 
the
other on the road were doing I would not have made it home before it go so
bad that I couldn't.   Was I taking some chances? Yes but they were limited
to damaging my truck.  I didn't put myself in a situation where a collision 
would
have caused any death or severe injury.  My 94 year old (at the time) mother 
was in the
passenger seat.  She was not one bit concerned and never expressed any 
un-ease
or worry.   The roads I was traveling toward the end of the trip were 
without places to
safely stop and wait and we had no provisions in the truck to stay warm 
without running
the engine and burning the gas we needed to get home.  I might take chances 
where my
own safety is concerned but not when it affects my family.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Stephen Offiler
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 8:13 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] The terror strikes again. - Studebaker speed response

(replying to Charlie's note with a lot of snipping...)

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:27 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> john I put some weight in the rear of my 4 WD truck if possible but
> usually not more than 200 or 300 lbs.


I usually don't add weight, and the reason why not is because my truck is
not a daily driver; it comes out when I need to haul something meaning I
generally need the bed to be free of dead-weight obstructions; and
otherwise it comes out when the snow is really bad.



>  I know those who don't have 4 WD or
> don't want 4 WD or just don't believe in it for one reason or another 
> don't
> want
> to hear this but there really is a dramatic difference when driving in 
> snow
> or
> anything else slick or deep.



This is really the part I wanted to focus us.  YES!  It's just a fact.  The
2WD supporters have found that it works for them, but clearly they aren't
taking their trucks into some of the same situations as Charlie and I have
described.

SO
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