Which tires on Triple Axle to put tire chains on?
We will be headed up to a ski area in a couple weeks, and I want to know which tires/axles to put chains on the toy hauler if I am required to. Triple Axle, 40' fifth wheel toy hauler.
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snowpeke wrote:
If I was pulling a 40 footer I would not go in a snow storm. I have seen them stranded on I80!
They were probably stranded as they thought they did not have to do anything special while pulling a trailer in the snow. Little did they know. Pulling a trailer is a bit tougher than just driving in the snow. BUT< it can be done safely!
I remember driving all 60 miles home in the snow from I90 snoqualmie. Easy until I got off the interstate. Granted I had chains the whole time. Got to with in 3 miles of home, a city cop tried to stop me at the last minute from going down this hill. He slipped and fell on his butt trying to get in front of me to stop me. I drove around him, past 4 cars spun out and a local transit bus that was dead in its tracks. Went around the corner at the bottom just fine. Hill is probably 5-6%. That was the easy hill. I had a 1 mile 9% grade to go up just to get home! only to have a link on the chain braker 1/4 mile from the hill I had to goup. Took off the chain, already had the truck in 4wd, just hoped the one chain on the drive axel, factory GM lcoker, went up, pulled into driveway at the top of the hill, had a few issues, backing the trailer thru 6-9" of snow into the driveway.....otherwise, it was just fine! Kids thought it was fun too seeing the cops faces as we drove by with out slipping! not to mention having a foot of snow on the top of the trailer! LOLOLOL
Marty
