you see that's the problem with ice road
trucking need people don't understand
the amount of preparation and the amount
of thought that has to go into these
kind of things you can't just take any
normal truck out onto the ice roads you
got to be able to have the proper tires
you know you want to be able to get out
there and make sure you have the
traction when you go you can only do ice
road trucking really when it's under the
certain circumstances and you have
enough ice that's even possible because
the conditions are dangerous this truck
has locked differentials in the rear at
all times usually using it on the
asphalt doesn't work very well because a
heavy load will actually push this
because the differentials don't allow it
for it to turn so ice road only little
nervous today but at least I know that
I'm gonna have plenty of pulling power
with the rock for 12 the 1,200 kV is
gonna give me lots of torque and that's
the thing I really need to think about
when I'm out on the ice is I don't want
to get the truck and the load going too
fast or else it'll create a ripple on
the ice and get a wave going underneath
and I definitely don't want to see this
truck going under the ice that would be
catastrophic but I'm gonna get out there
while the goings good get the truck
loaded up
so here I am with the trommel this
weighs in scale weight almost 50,000
pounds it just comes in it just under
50,000 49,000 but we got to get this out
of here for no other reason than the
viewers have been asking for a and Ice
Road Truckers and there's very few
conditions under which it can work but
we're gonna make it happen today
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there we are that's better
good okay let's get out of here come on
baby
you can move
there we go
there you go
is a heavy trommel and soft soil
it's not even the ice road sometimes
it's just getting access to it that's a
challenge
and then finally the ice this trommel
trailer is enormous
coming out onto the ice is like the most
nervous part
here we go whoa look at it push there
the reason it's pushing is because that
front tire of course is not driven it's
just a steering tire and if it gets
anything caught underneath it it's
impossible to turn will push past it
though I got lots of traction that one
tire needing to get that snow melted
we'll run over a fracture in the ice
right now let's see if we can get a turn
and there goes
very easy I can hear the ice cracking
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here's a pressure ridge where two slabs
of ice have come together pushing one up
over the next just try to maintain speed
as I go across here oh that was that I
was worried about right there traction
people are gonna be telling me I should
have chained up it ain't so easy with
these with these trucks not a lot of
room in there to wiggle around with but
I'll say that a little bit more speed
will help me through when in doubt
throttle out let's get some traction
going
up and over there's that rock for 12
pullin pullin come on uneven terrain
look at that I should have gone around
this completely that's the problem when
I'm paying more attention to the camera
than I am to driving
yeah now I'm stuck it's roller forward a
bit
keep that momentum moving forward
total traction loss
because of that front tire has that snow
in front of it wiggle my way through
slow and steady always wins the game in
hauling I'll tell you what specially on
the ice road
just trying to navigate some of the
riffs in the ice with the right amount
of speed can be a challenge
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come on baby
yes
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you can see the ice look it there's
bubbles underneath it
Oh stuck right there
except I kind of cockeyed sideways
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so close yes traction is mine
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well I got to say after spending some
time on the ice running back and forth
here I don't see what all the big
dangers about