Thread: Snow driving lesson

I like things to be dual purpose - so I have a fire grate which is basically a 36" x 18" piese of ARC weldmesh (like they used to have on school fences) with four bolts welded on which the legs (suitable length 12mm bolts) screw into.

With legs unscrewed for carrying/packing, it fits neatly into an old fertiliser bag, lays flat and can also be used as a traction aid in sand, snow, mud etc when required. Sometimes it gets bent a little but you just jump on it to straighten it out before cooking your tea &/or boiling the billy.



If your travelling companions also have similar fire grates, then if necessary you can shackle a few together to get through that extended bog hole.

PS - I also carry tyre chains if I'm heading into country where I think I might need them, but for smaller bog holes, the above works a treat.

Ice is Ice mate....even if super flat it's hard to get any 'real' traction. The first obstacle you come to, like a frozen block of ice, will probably stop you unless you don't have all four wheels on the ice in the first place, maybe have chains fitted or are running spiked tyres....LOL!!!

I wouldn't feel too bad about it.

Originally Posted by solmanic

Just a thought, as Max tracks are pretty expensive... Just keep the cutout bottoms of a couple of milk crates in the back. Smaller, cheaper and will provide just that necessary bit of grip when they are wedged under the wheels to move you off the worst of the slippery stuff. I wouldn't feel too bad about the Defender getting flummoxed by ice blocks. Ice will stop anything. I have been stuck digging out a coach that had chains fitted and still couldn't make forward progress.

Now there's an idea however, I might use bread crate bottoms as they are longer than milk crate ones.