iker42

found this on google...

OUR TRUCKS LOSE BIG TIME

Click here

Bosshawg600

Thats prety sweet. I bet that thing can puul the seld to the moon!

BigBlue

Did they even give it any throttle? Pretty cool.

iker42

It just kept going, and going, and going,,,Lol

Nate-03 D

How heavy are the sleds at truck pulls? Or at least the one in the video.

btw, i'd hook up chains and pull him down the road any day.

WUnderwood

different pulls have different weights. I have tried to pull 38,000 and 43,000 lbs down here in TX, but they were tiny pulls. in Indiana with the big dogs, who knows

durasmack

That was a baby sled..... at least as far as Ohio standards are concerned..... that thing is for lawn tractors....... I think what they meant to hook up is something more like this.... I think this one can be weighted up to somewhere around 60000+

sherod

Can't get the viewer, dang company firewalls.

From the discription, I take it that a M1A1 is hooked to the sled????

That tank in it's normal configuration weighs out at 60+ tons. 1500 hp standard from a turbine that will fit in the back of a shortbed with lots of room to spare.

I'm looking out the window at acres of them.

Ed

4x4not

sherod has it on the money.... the M1A1 weighs in at 60 tons and has 1500hp. It could pull that 60,000lb sled like it wasn't there. Now put a sled proportial to the weight of the vehicle.... NOW WE ARE TALKING

durasmack

How about a 1.4 million lb offroad truck.....

http://cmms.cat.com/cmms/servlet/cat...06&imageType=2

ihpower

i have seen the big Case quadtracks take a sled down the track turn around with the sled then come back. THat was at a county fair, Case wanted to be big dogs and show off there toys. wish i could have got pictures

durasmack

Theres a Quadtrack pullin a fair ammount of stuff around Alsaska

Nate-03 D

60,000... I thought our trucks were good for 24k something?

Im obvisouly new to pulling(never tried it), I assume the sleds have a guy inside controlling a brake or something.

durasmack

24k running down the road maybe. Truck pulling is a whole different animal. the weight on the sled starts out over the axles where the sled is easy to move. there are counter weights on the sled that slide forward over a steel plate which causes the weight of the sled to rest on the plate and off the axles.

At the full forward setting, the rear axle on the sled is actually off the ground putting nearly all of the weight on the plate.

For most pickups, even the open class modified trucks, they are usually under 50000 lbs.

mainer

So what do the gassers pull? I assume it isn't even close to what the diesels pull at these local pulls.

COop