Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire 2wd Pickups outnumber 4wd pickups about 4:1 down here.

Plows are all 2 wd here too. When you've got a front plow in front of you and a couple tons of sand/hopper on the back with the right tires you can do some damage. Turn that truck loose in a couple feet of fresh snow with no plow up front and he'll look like that picture pretty quick though.

2WD?


Seriously?!



I really want a gas engine, SRW 4x4 for the chitty days.............

Keep the diesel DRW for roads and easy traveling.

Yeah most trucks in Texas are 2wd. Now the concrete cowboys will have an f-250 or F-350 jacket up, out fitted with light bars and yeti stickers. That once or twice trip to the lease or ranch requires it.

By being lifted, it’s easier to fill the corn feeders. lol

Time was all we had was 2wds and they worked just fine , hauling stuff to and fro , up & down the highways , byways & backroads.

Nowadays folks gotta have 4wd just to leave the house.

Says more about these modern day no-driving-fuddermucks than it does about the pickup trucks.


Mike

And most all of our UPS trucks are 2WD and deliver to backcountry towns like Elk City and Dixie..School buses are all 2WD/delivery trucks etc..Ilived in McCall Idaho for like 40 years and regularly had ro shovel out my windows for light but the kicker in this snow retreat is atleast half the town of locals drove 2WD trucks and cars...Most of the Alaska State troopers on TV are 2WD and they run down the bad guys in 4WD..Laughing..

Logging trucks are basically 2WD with an option to lock in another axle which id 2WD..They go in unbelievable places and haul out heavy loads on snow/ice and mud..To be fair,most have lockers and lock in that other axle but nothing up front pulling,it's all pushing..Most all the old road graders are 2WD but some new one can have AWD...

How in the world did they ever get by before 4WD was invented...But they did..

Not a real truck if no 4wd.

To each their own, but I would curl up and die if I couldn't have 4WD, even though I use it less than 1% of the time, even while out hunting.

When you need it, you need it. I don't buy that it'll only get me stuck further from help. I've used it way too many times to get out of a slimy area that I drove into early when the road was frozen, and came out after the sun came out and melted everything...among many other situations.

Getting out to put chains on to make it through a 10 yard long mud hole just doesn't make sense to me when I can just flip a switch instead. It does cost more and require more maintenance, but I am more than willing to take that trade off.

This is not 4WD..(laughing) but it is kool..

Someone mentioned Flave. Did he become a monk or WTF.

sand

Dragging a horse trailer around this summer I was quite happy to have 4WD.


Hills can be a bitch if/when you spin out.

That applies here too.
It seldom snows enough that a 4X4 is truly needed, and the majority of trucks are driven by people who seldom go offroad.

South Texas and most of Texas simply doesn’t need 4x4. One reason is unless you own land you aren’t off roading. And even if you do there isn’t that far to go. And it almost never snows. Here we have millions of square miles of public land. Hard winters etc, the new truck dealers don’t sell 2wd here. You would have to special order it

Same here. But personally I wouldn’t own a pickup that wasn’t 4-wheel drive.

2WD if 'ya know how to use it...

Growing up in the snowy North East everyone had at least one 4x4 Jeep, when I moved west for my wife job I stopped in a SoCal Jeep dealer to look for a used Jeep. Everything they used Jeep they had was 2 wheel drive what a waste.

This exact thing happened to me today...glad I didn't have to do any stupid chit to make it out of the hunting spot. Threw it in 4, cruised on until met pavement. Funny how some people scratch and claw to fight against progress...



This would have sucked in 2WD...

Also, going up rocky mountains in 2WD is extremely hard. 4 just crawls up...

Put studded snow tires on the back of a 2WD F150,....load it down with 500 lbs of sandbags in the bed, and snow is no problem.

Copious quantities of mud might be a different situation.

2wd = gay., add sand = gayer....4 wd = a working skinny man want ta b with sand kicked in his face...2wd with a locker and no gay jazz sandbags = MAN !

I'm beginning to wonder why they make 4 wheel drive pickups.