controlled skid

[Apache]

Skid steering on tracked vehicles ain't the same thing at all.

I'd hate to see one of them Centurion sized vehicles sliding sideways at me, or any other way for that matter

Hey Andy, that Warthog didn't seem to have differential track steering. Just seemed to use the brute force in the hydraulic articulation to 'bend' the vehicle in the middle!

Our big chamber has a painted floor, so I was able to steer left and right without moving. Like a big 17 ton dog wagging its tail!

[slobodan]

I see your point.

I figured he meant skidding with wheels locked, which is the normal kind of snow / ice skid when Joe Bloggs sticks his foot on the brake and finds he doesn't stop, so just jams his foot down harder and screams all the way to the tree.

That made me spit me Ribena,
I can remember doing that when I was younger, trying to push the pedal through the floor pan.

[wishbone]

I see your point.

I figured he meant skidding with wheels locked, which is the normal kind of snow / ice skid when Joe Bloggs sticks his foot on the brake and finds he doesn't stop, so just jams his foot down harder and screams all the way to the tree.

That's what I was alluding to in my post - that people panic and freeze with their foot on the brakes. You need a bit of training / practice to get used to the idea of releasing them. I did a days training at Castle Combe - it was brilliant !

[lord lucan]

i used to do loads of skids when i was young, but they were mainly in my pants

[slobodan]

i used to do loads of skids when i was young, but they were mainly in my pants

Uncontrolled?

[Growler]

Hey Andy, that Warthog didn't seem to have differential track steering. Just seemed to use the brute force in the hydraulic articulation to 'bend' the vehicle in the middle!

Our big chamber has a painted floor, so I was able to steer left and right without moving. Like a big 17 ton dog wagging its tail!

Bet you ain't got much paint left on the floor then

[Predictable Bob]

i was thinkin same thing lol,tanks also use skid steering as do bob cats,but i do get andys point

That's one way of describing it but they can still slide out of control - I've seen a 432 slide sideways into a wall on ice and I was commanding a 434 which persisted in carrying straight on despite the driver putting his full weight behind the right tiller ...

I was fortunate enough to learn to drive in Germany so I've got half a clue about driving in snow and ice but 80% of the muppets on the road over here haven't any bleeding idea !

PS
If I sound grumpy it's cos the stupid tw@ts managed to gridlock Reading on Monday night and it took me five and a half hours to get from one side to the other

[Albannach]

Getting back on topic. The more I think about what the idiot in the subject was doing, the angrier I get. He is a f@nny of the highest order.

As has been mooted, it was thankfully just a hedge that was hurt and not someone in front of it.

It's a crying shame that he was able to taint the gene pool in the first place, but if he continues the way he is, he and his son will probably end up being deleted from it.

Although totally pointless and with little talent required to do it, 'drifting' on a track is a totally different thing to skidding, sliding, slipping on the road. When these drifting idiots eventually crash, they only hurt themselves. Doing any such activities on public roads can have much more serious implications.

[Apache]

Bet you ain't got much paint left on the floor then

Rubber tracks. No problem!

They aren't as 'rubber' as I remember them being. They are like a polyeurethane plastic.

[Predictable Bob]

Hush puppies - great for reducing road damage from steel tracks but not so good when they detach from the track and get fired at following vehicles ....

[Apache]

The whole thing was really quiet. At low speed in the carpark, it was drowned out by our fork-lift!