By all respects, if you have several hundred horsepower on tap, enough rubber to afford traction and enough weight to keep those tires planted, then dragging another vehicle around shouldn’t be that big of an issue. If you have an equally stout truck on the other end of the strap, you have now crossed the line into warfare, and the name of the game isn’t to just mat the gas and hold on tight. Tug-of-war isn’t checkers, it’s chess…sometimes, being patient and waiting for the other guy to screw up is the name of the game. Torque down, keep the brakes set, and once their tires lose grip and start spinning, feed in the power until you’re easily dragging them along for the ride.
XXX Motorsports got this footage of some beastly tug-of-war combatants from the Trucks Gone Wild event in Florida recently, and they say it’s some of the best they’ve seen…and trust us, these guys know what’s up when it comes to these rigs. You might want to check your volume settings…one truck completely overrules the microphone!
Are´nt they using the wrong tires here,mud tires don´t put much rubber on the ground.
And those two guys standing between the tugging trucks, potential victims ?
One of these days a hitch is going to break and take one of those guys\’ heads off. Or someone will get ripped apart while stuck between a tire and those barriers. Imagine if a tire blew on the of those 3 feet from your face? Everyone is all \”safety is dumb\” until ole Johnny can\’t talk right anymore because he caught some U-joint shrapnel to the skull.
You’d load up the tow strap a LOT more with slicks. Not only would that make it a lot more likely that a strap or hitch would break, you’d have it release a lot more energy if it broke.
The way they’re using a plastic tow strap scares me. I understand that having something with a bit of stretch in it is less likely to break. But if it DOES break, it’s got a lot more stored energy to whip around and injure a spectator. It could slice right through that chain link fence… and anyone behind it.
They should at least have a weight in the middle of the strap to pull it to the ground if it broke instead of it flinging wildly in whatever direction it chooses.
There’s a whole lot of stupid in that video. In addition to decapitating curly and moe sitting on the Jersey barriers, the suddenly unbridled trucks would have an interesting time getting on the brakes if that strap broke.