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willardguy
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maxtrax get yourself unstuck!
any of you car guys use these gizmo's. they look pretty handy.
http://www.maxtrax.com.au/
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Barry A.
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The concept has been around forever, and we relied totally on similar items back in the '40's and '50's with much success in getting out of sand with
2-wheel drive vehicles. If they stand up to abuse, then I think these look fantastic, and they are much lighter than the steel mats we use to use.
I would give a 2-thumbs up to these, in concept anyway, despite the $300 price tag.
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How much in USD is $299 Australian?
"Life is tough".....It's even tougher if you're stupid.....
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by dtbushpilot
How much in USD is $299 Australian? |
$268 USD
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willardguy
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theres a cheaper version called "tred" that'll save you some dough but the offroad guys claim they're not as good. you know how that goes....
remember the surf fishing video? might have saved that tundra?
[Edited on 2-25-2014 by willardguy]
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Cliffy
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Way easier and cheaper to use pieces of chain link fence. Cut them 3 feet by 8 or so feet, jack up buried wheel, fill in with sand, drop fence under
wheel and rive off. Worked for me many times.
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cliffy
Way easier and cheaper to use pieces of chain link fence. Cut them 3 feet by 8 or so feet, jack up buried wheel, fill in with sand, drop fence under
wheel and rive off. Worked for me many times. |
Where do you carry the "chain link fence material" when not in use? "8 feet long" is pretty space-taking?!?!?!?.
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3 feet rolled up . . .
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David K
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Or deflate your tires and drive more than a few feet.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Or deflate your tires and drive more than a few feet. |
Gizmos like these are instruments of last resort-----or at least that is the way we treated them long ago. We had no 4x4's in our stable in those
days (40's and early '50's), so air-downed tires were the rule of the day. Still, you COULD bet stuck in sand even with the low air pressure, and
"gizmos" came in REAL handy then.  
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willardguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Or deflate your tires and drive more than a few feet. |
think dakar sand david, not shell island sand. now
picture robby gordon with a roll of chain link tied to the top of the "gordini"
a maxtrax weighs 8 1/2 pounds. (then again being robby gordon he'd go with razor wire!)
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| Quote: | Originally posted by willardguy
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Or deflate your tires and drive more than a few feet. |
think dakar sand david, not shell island sand. ...
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Now you've done it. We'll see a plethora of photos depicting driving up and down the sand of "Shell Island", airing-down tires, and probably myriad
other unrelated subjects.
Allen R.
[Edited on 2-25-2014 by bufeo]
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willardguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bufeo
| Quote: | Originally posted by willardguy
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Or deflate your tires and drive more than a few feet. |
think dakar sand david, not shell island sand. ...
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Now you've done it. We'll see a plethora of photos depicting driving up and down the sand of "Shell Island", airing-down tires, and probably myriad
other unrelated subjects.
Allen R.
[Edited on 2-25-2014 by bufeo] |
don't forget maps, lots and lots of maps!
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Right, Shell Island is worse because it doesn't compact, being so mixed with shells! Neal Johns has a story or two...
The Maxtrax look real neat... and if you left home without a tire pump to re-inflate, then a great idea... but only good as far as you can drive off
of it.
I sure could have used it in 1980 when I sank my 4WD Subaru in mud trying to get on the island, at high tide around midnight. I wondered a foot off
the firm track into the oatmeal like mud... and with 13" tires and 4 cylinders and no low range, the mud won! Slept in the front seat and after
sunrise took a walk and found a plank of wood to get under the tires... That was my 'Maxtrax' in 1980!
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....I've got 10'' bed-boards in th'minivan just for that purpose
,,,,,,,the tiremarks add to the 'ambiance'! 
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Cliffy,
Around 1980, in the Mojave, an old desert rat miner used a section of chain link fence and tied it to his truck with a ten foot rope. He did not stop
until he got to hard ground. I learned something, hard to believe!
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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It can be used for many things I used it back in the mid 60s to get my VW unstuck from the desert north of Reno out in the middle of nowhere. It can
be used to drag behind a vehicle on dirt roads and then the next morning drive the same route looking for what tracks have crossed the road at night
:-) Throw it across rocks at a fire and use it for cooking, Many things Many things.
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Bedman graded the road to Gonzaga from Chapala for his motorhome, pulling a section of fence with his Suzuki 4x4 (Emma driving it). That was in 2001
or thereabouts.
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DK's Tacoma or our FJ Cruised would not have a need for such gadgets.
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Or deflate your tires and drive more than a few feet. |
Udo
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I just bought myself a pair of MaxTrax for my just completed Baja adventure (more stories later). I found them very useful for getting my van out
when stuck in mud -- which I managed to do twice. They don't solve the problem when you've sunk your vehicle down to the axles though. 9 hours of
digging and jacking solved that little issue.
(MaxTrax in place for front wheels.)
As for sand, I've always managed to get myself unstuck by letting air out of my tires. At least for dry sand.
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