300-400 lbs sand in the bed - over the axles. take it slow. If stick, higher gears. Auto - try 3 or 2. getting it going is easy - stopping not so much! This is what will bite you. Gear it down as much as you can.

IF it starts to get away from you, and in 4x4, just let go the steering wheel. no gas and NO BRAKES! It will right itself. Don't fight it. then EASE back into the gas (taking the wheel back, of course!)

use the curb or even grass edge. Don't spin the tires if at all possible. snow will actually help vs the slick packed snow/ice.

If you are spinning the tires - get out and toss out some sand.

You get back home safe?

The roads here are packed snow that has turned to solid ice. It is hard to drive anything but a steel tracked vehicle on ice, unless you have snow chains.

fat rats chance finding chains around here... only place I have even seen them advertised is O'Reilly's... Then, most probably wouldn't know how to put them on...

I can't see snow chains helping much at all on ice. There's a set in the shop at work but I doubt they would have fit my tires

There is no doubt they'll help, if you can get them on.

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Traffic so bad I couldn't get there. He made it to his aunt's house. Truck did fine. .. made it everywhere easily. So I gave rides to stranded people in my part of hoover for 7 hours. I would guess there were 200 vehicles crashed or unable to navigate the hills. Took 30 folks home at least. I wasn't alone. .. lots of men with 4x4 trucks doing the same.

straycat

Good job Mike, you get a gold star on the good book.

the right chains work great on ice. They bite, just like crampons! But there is a trick to driving on chains. It is an art.

Sorry but yoteslayer is right. Putting it in a lower gear does more harm than good when trying to stop. I lived in Nebraska for 6 years and am very familier with driving in ice and snow. The reason for neutral is it keeps the wheels from pulling which fights against the brakes when they are being applied. Best thing to do is already be driving in a lower gear then shift to neutral and lightly pump the brakes when coming to a stop.

WHOA this is from 2014

Yeah....

Duchess should be along shortly.

I ust noticed that too..

12-15 psi gets maximum traction on ice, this is what i ran when i was in north dakota, also chains will make a huge difference.

Ahhmmmm,


THIS IS A 2014 THREAD!!