Has anybody ever stalled their truck while climbing this steep continuous gradient 
When ever I go up in my fully freighted ’57 DAF CF I am reduced to 3rd gear at 23 mph on a good day, you get a good run up off the roundabout bit just dies’s half way up 
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Has anybody climbed this hill and failed or even started to slide back down
My truck dont have a crawler gear 
Chap I think you missing something. Is your CF a rigid and if so what size engine is it? The only hill that I have ever experienced that is difficult to get up is coming from Gregory Distribution at North Tawton. I also think that if you are doing 23mph in 3rd you may be ready to pop your engine. The torque is in the green band not blue or red. You shouldnt even have to think about using crawler gear even if you had it. If your engine is stalling your changing too late and letting the engine struggle.
wizzygti:
Chap I think you missing something. Is your CF a rigid and if so what size engine is it? The only hill that I have ever experienced that is difficult to get up is coming from Gregory Distribution at North Tawton. I also think that if you are doing 23mph in 3rd you may be ready to pop your engine. The torque is in the green band not blue or red. You shouldnt even have to think about using crawler gear even if you had it. If your engine is stalling your changing too late and letting the engine struggle.
bad choice of words its not so much steep (I don’t now what the gradient is on it) but it is long and continuous .
It’s a rigid ; don’t know what engine size is, just what ever the standard one is. I kept it in the greenish, it didn’t like 4th though, had foot to the floor and it just slowly but surly climbed the hill at about 23-25 mph. thank god for crawler lanes
the crawler gear comment was made TIC 
Managed to get a top speed of 21mph going up telegraph hill 
That was in a rigid merc axor, our company decided to buy the axors with a smart car engine
bubsy06:
Managed to get a top speed of 21mph going up telegraph hill
would that be the one comming out of bath? how dare ya say my lorry struggles up there lol 
Trucker beads:
bubsy06:
Managed to get a top speed of 21mph going up telegraph hillwould that be the one comming out of bath? how dare ya say my lorry struggles up there lol
No its the hill on the way to Torquay and Adam’s lorry don’t like going up it.
bubsy06:
our company decided to buy the axors with a smart car engine
think your self lucky, our trucks are powered by elastic bands
pecjam23:
bubsy06:
our company decided to buy the axors with a smart car enginethink your self lucky, our trucks are powered by elastic bands
Whats your MPW (miles per wind)?
bubsy06:
pecjam23:
bubsy06:
our company decided to buy the axors with a smart car enginethink your self lucky, our trucks are powered by elastic bands
about 500 miles i wish, meters per wind i think you mean.
we have to reverse the truck to wind the elastic band up then once you feel it getting tight let go of the brake it propells your forward, bit like those toy cars you had when you were a kid, push them back until you feel it wont go anymore then let go and is zips forward
our trucks dont do well when it get cold in winter mind 
pecjam23:
wizzygti:
Chap I think you missing something. Is your CF a rigid and if so what size engine is it? The only hill that I have ever experienced that is difficult to get up is coming from Gregory Distribution at North Tawton. I also think that if you are doing 23mph in 3rd you may be ready to pop your engine. The torque is in the green band not blue or red. You shouldnt even have to think about using crawler gear even if you had it. If your engine is stalling your changing too late and letting the engine struggle.bad choice of words
It’s a rigid
the crawler gear comment was made TIC
I can grant you that you do have to drive a small rigid harder abit like you stole it. They arent that bad. All gears can be used there`s no law against it. Good luck if you ever get to telegraph hill or the on i told you about in North Tawton