Thread: just an idea, lockers alternative, what do you think?

Tractors used to have two brake pedals (one for each big wheel). The pedals were "locked" together to become a large pedal by a metal latch. Flick the latch aside, and they turned into individual (R) & (L) brakes.

Similar concept.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

You can do this already with the drum brakes fitted to old landies. Lightly apply the brakes and the leading shoes of the faster spinning wheel engage with more effort than the slower spinning ones.

or

just retrofit Traction control.

What he said...

Lightly treading on the brake pedal is pretty much standard practice to those that know in slippery conditions. If one wheel is spinning freely and thus depriving the driving wheel of movement it is surprising just how lightly you need to tap the brake pedal to see the wheel start turning again. All you are trying to do is slow/stop the free-spinning wheel enough to get the biting wheel to move.

Manual traction control.

Also, while sidling in slippery conditions this method also works to some extent to stop wheel spin and the subsequant sideways slide.

One of the first things I learned from the old guy I fenced with (in the old series trucks) was this method. I soon learned to drive in my socks/barefeet if the going was going to be tough... takes the saying tread lightly to new meaning