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Through your dungeon home, gimp.
I told you, I WANT JOE COCKER TO PLAY AND I DONT CARE WHAT IT COSTS .
We blame all the shit on the maids at my house too.
Some grades around Wolf Creek Pass in Colorado used to be marked at 13%. The old highway across the canyon was even steeper but unmarked. I don't remember what state it was in but the steepest grade I can remember seeing was 17 or 19 percent. That was coming off of the great divide in a straight line. East side of the divide and I only took that route going east! You could coast for miles in a car.
While some of the grades have runout lanes for trucks they also have big fines and reparations for having to use one. You downshifted eighteen wheelers at the top of the grade because there was no such thing as down shifting once you started down. If you tried you were stuck in neutral and in deep shit. I doubt the new disc brakes can handle coming down those grades, no question drums couldn't, they would get so hot they melted.
I noticed grades and other issues having been a trucker now and then. Told folks hiring me I was a flatland southern boy though, I wouldn't drive in snow or mountains. I got in enough trouble as it was. I was balling along pushing eighty when I saw a sign flash by over my head, "Low overhead, 13'10". Who in the hell ever heard of a low overhead on an interstate? My load was 14'2", I wasn't running with permits, and I wasn't stopping, not even slowing down much. Too late. I grabbed the wheel with both hands, tucked my head between my shoulders, gritted my teeth, and hung on! They lied, fourteen two could get under there. Not the last time I went through there at 14'2" but it damned sure was the last time I did it at eighty.
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Rusty in Montana
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The steep roads I'm most familiar with are the Dayton Cain highway in northern Wyoming , Bairtooth Pass outside of Red Lodge Mt and the Lewiston Hill near Lewiston Idaho .
And the back way to or from Elk City Idaho which where it's the worst is a single lane jeep trail at best I drove my 1969 3/4 ton 4wd down it and both mirrors were in the cab with us before we got to the payment ha ha
And the back way to or from Elk City Idaho which where it's the worst is a single lane jeep trail at best I drove my 1969 3/4 ton 4wd down it and both mirrors were in the cab with us before we got to the payment ha ha
soyale
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the lewiston grade is no joke.
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Would you skate it?
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Just a little bit of road grade information since we are talking about grades admittedly a bit of a side trip for this thread. I remembered that the percentage grade wasn't as simple as it appeared to be.
The run is the level distance from point A to point B. A theoretical distance obviously, there is a grade in the way! The rise is how much higher the road is at point B than at point A. To add a little confusion, they don't call the percentage in positive or negative numbers so the sign is the same for a ten percent rise or fall in the road height.
It gets confusing now. The difference in elevation between point A and point B, the rise, is divided by the run. This gives a decimal which is then multiplied by 100 to get the percentage that is on the sign.
I think I have explained this properly but I am including a link to the information for those curious. For a long time I tried to compare the sign to what I was experiencing thinking that the percentage was some part of a 360 degree circle, or some portion of that circle. It is but the way they calculate and express it is a little strange. A ten percent grade is getting pretty steep when it seems it should be pretty minor. Twenty percent would probably require tracks to climb!
Here is the link I followed for the curious. No big deal but it was one of those things I knew I didn't really understand. I'll get back to funny now.
Hu
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The run is the level distance from point A to point B. A theoretical distance obviously, there is a grade in the way! The rise is how much higher the road is at point B than at point A. To add a little confusion, they don't call the percentage in positive or negative numbers so the sign is the same for a ten percent rise or fall in the road height.
It gets confusing now. The difference in elevation between point A and point B, the rise, is divided by the run. This gives a decimal which is then multiplied by 100 to get the percentage that is on the sign.
I think I have explained this properly but I am including a link to the information for those curious. For a long time I tried to compare the sign to what I was experiencing thinking that the percentage was some part of a 360 degree circle, or some portion of that circle. It is but the way they calculate and express it is a little strange. A ten percent grade is getting pretty steep when it seems it should be pretty minor. Twenty percent would probably require tracks to climb!
Here is the link I followed for the curious. No big deal but it was one of those things I knew I didn't really understand. I'll get back to funny now.
Hu
Grades, Highway | Encyclopedia.com
Grades, Highway The term "grade" is used in several different ways with respect to roads and highways. The "sub-grade" lies beneath a roadway and is used as a supporting base. "Grading" a road means to smooth out the roadbed with earthmoving equipment during the construction phase. In this...
Rusty in Montana
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More than one logging truck driver has been killed on the Lewiston Hill when his brakes failed with a load of logs in the bunk behind him or her . The cab doesn't offer much protection when they get to moving then the truck hits something solid .
I'll add more to the list Pipestone Pass between Butte and Whitehall and Bozeman Pass between Bozeman and Livingston , Pipestone has run away truck ramps on it that are used on a regular basis !
I'll add more to the list Pipestone Pass between Butte and Whitehall and Bozeman Pass between Bozeman and Livingston , Pipestone has run away truck ramps on it that are used on a regular basis !
Colorado uses runaway ramps on several down grades.
On one, where the upside of the mountain is on the other side of the freeway, the runaway is level with the road, but several hundred yards of deep sand to gradually bring a speeding heavy truck to a halt.
This is on a stretch aptly named Dead Man's Curve.
Back in the 80s, I'm coming down, Jakes keeping me at a steady roll when I see the craziest thing.
There on the side of the road is a parked station wagon with out-of-state tags. And right in the middle of the strip of sand is a family, sitting at a portable picnic table, having lunch.
Yes, it's the ratio of elevation change to horizontal distance, expressed as either a fraction (20'/100', for example) or its equivalent percentage (20%). It could also be expressed as its angle from horizontal (20/100 = ~11 degrees).
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