put the ranger in the ditch last night

[pontiac_fiero_g]

was delivering a pizza and i made it up the hill by flooring it and spinning like crazy and slowly moving forward but on the way back down i had my foot firmly on the brake and i was sliding not rolling but sliding and run her into a ditch but i managed to get her to pull forward enough to straddle the ditch and then go forward until i could get her back onto the road. and i spun twice last night and i never got her over 15mph

 

[adsm08]

Need more ballast.

 

[Jspafford]

Perhaps had you let off the brake you could have regained your steering control?

 

[feellnfroggy]

nope not with what we were sliding in, I slid mine too at 10 mph in 4 wheel. Once it lets loose theres no stopping it. The only thing you can do is let off the brake a little and hope to point it in a safe directions. but the hills here in knoxville are NUTZ!

 

[Iron Ranger]

Downshifting would also help out greatly.

 

[pontiacfieroguy]

Perhaps had you let off the brake you could have regained your steering control?

i didnt lock up my brakes. i mean that when i pulled out of their driveway and was pointing downhill i slid the whole way down without ever having gotten over 3mph.

 

[heptofite]

Sounds like a great huge glob of 'don't know how to drive in the winter'

 

[Funnyman141]

at least you didn't flip into a ditch, lol
otherwise it sounds like really crappy conditions or that you need a little more weight in the back.

 

[ozziemo27]

Sounds like a great huge glob of 'don't know how to drive in the winter'

+1

 

[mywhip]

was delivering a pizza and i made it up the hill by flooring it and spinning like crazy

Why would you go up a hill that you are obviously having trouble with? Any vehicle + winter + hill = no.

 

[doorgunner]

stop at base of hill......remove 4-wheeler from trailer---deliver pizza....

 

[feellnfroggy]

Sounds like a great huge glob of 'don't know how to drive in the winter'

nice dickheaded way to say it. Its knoxville tennessee. We dont get much snow and when we do its enough to be mashed into a sheet of ice. You may be right, but hell, dont kick us in the nutz when you say it.

 

[Bryan22]

whenever we get snow in California (once every 2 or 3 years maybe) first thing i do is get a shovel and fill the bed with snow. then have fun while it lasts!

 

[pontiacfieroguy]

Sounds like a great huge glob of 'don't know how to drive in the winter'

your right, that is true im not very experienced at driving on ice but i dont know if it could have been avoided

 

[pontiacfieroguy]

Why would you go up a hill that you are obviously having trouble with? Any vehicle + winter + hill = no.

because the tips are pretty nice when you make sure they know how much trouble you went through to make sure that they didnt have to get off their butt and cook dinner.