Thread: *Appropriate* preparation for a 1 month trip

Originally Posted by Samblers

Tyre inspection:

Are these the tread wear indicators on my BFG MT's? They seem not to have tread wear indicators similar to other road tyres. I measure around 2mm to these shallow grooves.

Not familiar with the KMs, but usually there is a little arrow on the side of the tread to indicate where the wear indicators are.

Originally Posted by Tins

You can also bury max tracks for the same thing.

Someone has found an actual use for maxtrax!! Although you can bury a spare wheel for a ground anchor. I guess an advantage with burying the maxtrax would be that you wouldn't have to bother digging them up again. Oh hang on- then you would need a high-lift jack to bolt to the roofrack...

Originally Posted by POD

Someone has found an actual use for maxtrax!!

Not a fan, Pod???? I won't leave home without them, to quote a big nosed actor from way back. In fact, I never needed them until they arrived, but IMO they are worth their weight.

Originally Posted by POD

Although you can bury a spare wheel for a ground anchor.

Yes, Jack Absalom thought he'd invented that, and the Leyland brothers, but we were doing it in the Army as well. And, strangely, it works! You can even use it with a tree branch if the engine is broken.

Old timer's tricks work. It's amazing that young timers don't learn from them. When your high tech solutions fail, old timers come to the rescue.

Originally Posted by Tins

You can even use it with a tree branch if the engine is broken.

What do you mean by this?

Originally Posted by Tins

Not a fan, Pod????

Nup. I just don't get it. I've driven in almost every type of terrain in Aus over several decades and have never been in a situation where I wished I had either a high-lift jack or a set of maxtrax. I must be missing something. Although I have very little experience of beach driving so maybe they have a role there? When my wife points at them on someone's roof rack and asks me what they do, I tell her they're doing it now.
Apologies for the hijack.

Originally Posted by POD

Nup. I just don't get it. I've driven in almost every type of terrain in Aus over several decades and have never been in a situation where I wished I had either a high-lift jack or a set of maxtrax. I must be missing something. Although I have very little experience of beach driving so maybe they have a role there? When my wife points at them on someone's roof rack and asks me what they do, I tell her they're doing it now.
Apologies for the hijack.

Highlift i don't see the point, but maxtrax i do, now that i live at the beach and do a bit of beach driving.

Originally Posted by POD

Nup. I just don't get it. I've driven in almost every type of terrain in Aus over several decades and have never been in a situation where I wished I had either a high-lift jack or a set of maxtrax. I must be missing something. Although I have very little experience of beach driving so maybe they have a role there? When my wife points at them on someone's roof rack and asks me what they do, I tell her they're doing it now.
Apologies for the hijack.

Yep agree....

Hi-lift has been in the shed for 15 years collecting dust

I do have 4 maxtrax but I didn’t pay much for them, haven’t used them for myself, did use two helping a young girl out on the beach. She is now wiser about tyre pressures. I’m still debating if I take them on my 2 yer lap.

You guys need to get out more...

I can think of countless times where some form of “track” is the only way you’re going anywhere.