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#21 ckent323

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Posted 04 January 2022 - 12:18 AM

<I am gonna have to run out and buy me an inclinometer.....glue it to the windsheild..>

 

While on a level surface.  ;-)


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#22 rubberlegs

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Posted 04 January 2022 - 06:21 AM

By the way, a Tacoma has about 63” width between tires. So 20 deg is about 23” hight difference. Call it 2 feet. I think I can judge that better than angle.
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Posted 06 January 2022 - 01:02 AM

The important thing to note here is that any intelligent person will back off long before the vehicle is in danger of tipping on a static side slope. Most capsizes occur completely unexpectedly when a verge gives way or a tire drops into a hole. Or of course from hooning.

 

As to that truck and camper on a 30-degree slope. Let's just say that if it really was 30 degrees, I'm impressed, and astonished that a trainer would put a client's vehicle in that position. I've had Jeep Wranglers at a genuine 30 degrees plus, and it's eye-opening even with that vehicle.

 

In dozens and dozens of drive-alongs with participants at the Overland Expo, on a precisely built course, owners usually start to feel really nervous at around 15 to 20 degrees—and that's a good thing.


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#24 Jon R

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Posted 06 January 2022 - 03:53 AM

Well I just learned a new word today - hooning
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#25 JHanson

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Posted 06 January 2022 - 04:23 AM

Well I just learned a new word today - hooning

 

A useful and, these days, widely applicable term.


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#26 craig333

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Posted 06 January 2022 - 05:31 AM

I don't like inclinometers because when its that steep the last thing you want to do is stare at your dash. If I'm uncomfortable I'll turn around. I was going to take the west road out of Cerro Gordo and it was a long sidehill. Short sidehills I can handle. I turned around. However if I'd been in a group it would have been no problem. I back out much earlier when I'm solo. 

 

Hooning. New word to me. Experienced it on New Years. A car club took over the parking lot across from the dog park apparently knowing security wouldn't be around. The donuts and such didn't bother me as much as the immense amount of trash they left behind. 


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Posted 10 January 2022 - 03:33 AM

Dang...! I am gonna have to run out and buy me an inclinometer.....glue it to the windsheild...... :eek:

Worst thing that I ever did was give "My Infamous Scout Friend" one of those little bb in a curved tube inclinometers. He now drives paved mtn roads seeing how long he can keep the bb stuck at the end of the tube........

 

I use a much simpler inclinometer. When I no longer need a seat-belt to stay in the seat it's time to back off and turn around. IF I'm not solo my ribs start hurting well before that point, from being whacked there.

 

I've been thru Tom Severin's class as well. That side-hill demonstration is very effective.

 

Seeing the list of steep streets makes me wonder why Ventura, CA's Palm St. isn't on the list. I was told that the reason that it stays poured concrete and hasn't been asphalted over is because they can't legally pave a street that steep.


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#28 JaSAn

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Posted 10 January 2022 - 05:45 PM

I have a very good 'danger' gauge in my backside.  When my butt starts to pucker its time to reassess.  As I have gotten older I put more weight on the cost side of the cost/benefit equation.  Maybe its age but am not as interested in 'pushing the limits' any more.


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#29 Jon R

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Posted 10 January 2022 - 06:55 PM

I have a very good 'danger' gauge in my backside. When my butt starts to pucker its time to reassess. As I have gotten older I put more weight on the cost side of the cost/benefit equation. Maybe its age but am not as interested in 'pushing the limits' any more.


Sounds like wisdom to me. “A man’s got to know his limitations. “
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Posted 12 January 2022 - 04:30 AM

JaSAn and I are using the same, highly accurate and easily calibrated measuring instrument. It works!


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