Post by flipflop on Nov 25, 2009 12:47:35 GMT -8
Quick Story:
Was on a Christmas Tree run with another club many years back down at Goat Mt. outside of Estacada Oregon. We had a group of 20+ trucks and about 60 people/kids looking for that perfect Charlie Brown Tree. We hit snow that day at about 1900' and it got deep really fast, not to mention that it was starting to snow really hard. So I aired down to 10psi. This worked well till we got to a large area with a big frozen over lake on the right side of the snow covered forest road. I aired down a few more pounds which seemed to make a big difference in the fresh snow. After many snow ball fights with the kids and a few toasty hot manifold burrittos, we located our target and fell the tree in the wrong direction
With all of the snow on the tree we decided to hook up a strap or two in order to safely recover the tree, and it worked great ;D
After our good byes we headed back home with our new tree and a bed full of snow. At this time in my four wheeling life I hadn't taken the time or stepped up and purchased any sort of (on board air system). I would usually just air down to 10-12psi and take it slow on the way back from Snow wheeling or Browns Camp and air up at the first gas station, no biggy right...well while making our way back to Beaver Creek Or. I took one of those 25mph "S" corners to fast found myself in the oncoming lane heading towards the ditch. The sidewall on both the front and back tires had actually folded over and started to role under the wheel After some professional driving and few "Hail Mary's" I managed to get the truck under control and slowly moving in the correct traffic lane. After my wife beat me senseless, I vowed to not four wheel till I got some sort of onboard air system. I first tried a portable unit from Viair 440P model. Which worked really well, not quite as fast as a CO2 tank but very respectable. After several years of heavy use I finally got it to hot one day and it know sits in a junk pile in my shop. While out on one of my many outtings to Harbor Freight I noticed a similar looking and style portable air compressor which happened to be on Sale for like $60 bucks. Well to my surprise the little unit did alright at filling my 35" tires (5psi to 20psi). I never actually timed how long it takes to fill them up but it felt like maybe a minute longer than the Viair unit.
Not airing up your tires before you hit the pavement can kill you, if you don't have the luxury of trailering your rig I highly recommend investing in one of these two air compressors below:
www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=66399
www.amazon.com/Viair-44043-440P-Portable-Compressor/dp/B000X9BXQS
flip.flop
Was on a Christmas Tree run with another club many years back down at Goat Mt. outside of Estacada Oregon. We had a group of 20+ trucks and about 60 people/kids looking for that perfect Charlie Brown Tree. We hit snow that day at about 1900' and it got deep really fast, not to mention that it was starting to snow really hard. So I aired down to 10psi. This worked well till we got to a large area with a big frozen over lake on the right side of the snow covered forest road. I aired down a few more pounds which seemed to make a big difference in the fresh snow. After many snow ball fights with the kids and a few toasty hot manifold burrittos, we located our target and fell the tree in the wrong direction
With all of the snow on the tree we decided to hook up a strap or two in order to safely recover the tree, and it worked great ;D
After our good byes we headed back home with our new tree and a bed full of snow. At this time in my four wheeling life I hadn't taken the time or stepped up and purchased any sort of (on board air system). I would usually just air down to 10-12psi and take it slow on the way back from Snow wheeling or Browns Camp and air up at the first gas station, no biggy right...well while making our way back to Beaver Creek Or. I took one of those 25mph "S" corners to fast found myself in the oncoming lane heading towards the ditch. The sidewall on both the front and back tires had actually folded over and started to role under the wheel After some professional driving and few "Hail Mary's" I managed to get the truck under control and slowly moving in the correct traffic lane. After my wife beat me senseless, I vowed to not four wheel till I got some sort of onboard air system. I first tried a portable unit from Viair 440P model. Which worked really well, not quite as fast as a CO2 tank but very respectable. After several years of heavy use I finally got it to hot one day and it know sits in a junk pile in my shop. While out on one of my many outtings to Harbor Freight I noticed a similar looking and style portable air compressor which happened to be on Sale for like $60 bucks. Well to my surprise the little unit did alright at filling my 35" tires (5psi to 20psi). I never actually timed how long it takes to fill them up but it felt like maybe a minute longer than the Viair unit.
Not airing up your tires before you hit the pavement can kill you, if you don't have the luxury of trailering your rig I highly recommend investing in one of these two air compressors below:
www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=66399
www.amazon.com/Viair-44043-440P-Portable-Compressor/dp/B000X9BXQS
flip.flop