Two wheel drive or 4x4?
Looking at purchasing a new tow vehicle and considering the pros and cons of two wheel vs four wheel drive. Which do you have and why did you make that choice?
Forum Discussion
Folks:
please step back, take a deep breath, and THINK!
The OP here is NOT asking about four wheel drive where you live.
The question being asked is does the OP need four wheel drive for winter in North Dakota.
I repeat, WINTER CONDITIONS IN NORTH DAKOTA!
So I suspect that most all have NOT experienced a North Dakota winter. And have absolutely no room to talk or offer advice here.
Not trying to be mean, crude, or impolite.
But being a native North Dakotan, and having lived through way, way too many of those brutal winters in North Dakota, you folks in other states offering advice AGAINST four wheel drive are really doing this fellow a disservice.
You have no winter experience in North Dakota, yet propose that since you in Illinois, Louisiana or where-ever don't need it, then this fellow does not either.
You cannot imagine how terribly brutal winter conditions in North Dakota can become. Winters in Illinois are nothing compared to North Dakota. Winters where I am now are nothing compared to North Dakota.
I have seen instances where local governmental authorities had to go to extraordinary means to get an injured person from a small town to the nearest hospital. Calling out the National Guard to use bulldozers to clear snow drifts off roads. That failing (it was storming that badly) volunteers on snowmobiles finally got this person to a hospital.
Trains get stuck. As big, heavy and powerful as a railroad locomotive is, the railroads get shut down by snow.
For those that do not live there, and have never experienced the worst winter can deal out in North Dakota, it is almost beyond comprehension.
And I for one, am really glad to be away from it.
The OP here is going to work up there, in oil fields I assume. The OP needs four wheel drive. Its not a choice of needs versus wants. Need only.
please step back, take a deep breath, and THINK!
The OP here is NOT asking about four wheel drive where you live.
The question being asked is does the OP need four wheel drive for winter in North Dakota.
I repeat, WINTER CONDITIONS IN NORTH DAKOTA!
So I suspect that most all have NOT experienced a North Dakota winter. And have absolutely no room to talk or offer advice here.
Not trying to be mean, crude, or impolite.
But being a native North Dakotan, and having lived through way, way too many of those brutal winters in North Dakota, you folks in other states offering advice AGAINST four wheel drive are really doing this fellow a disservice.
You have no winter experience in North Dakota, yet propose that since you in Illinois, Louisiana or where-ever don't need it, then this fellow does not either.
You cannot imagine how terribly brutal winter conditions in North Dakota can become. Winters in Illinois are nothing compared to North Dakota. Winters where I am now are nothing compared to North Dakota.
I have seen instances where local governmental authorities had to go to extraordinary means to get an injured person from a small town to the nearest hospital. Calling out the National Guard to use bulldozers to clear snow drifts off roads. That failing (it was storming that badly) volunteers on snowmobiles finally got this person to a hospital.
Trains get stuck. As big, heavy and powerful as a railroad locomotive is, the railroads get shut down by snow.
For those that do not live there, and have never experienced the worst winter can deal out in North Dakota, it is almost beyond comprehension.
And I for one, am really glad to be away from it.
The OP here is going to work up there, in oil fields I assume. The OP needs four wheel drive. Its not a choice of needs versus wants. Need only.
