Thread: Recovery Tracks

Maxtrax are the superior of the two.
Don't own them myself but having held both of them at the same time the finish quality of the Maxtrax was superior.
I've seen broken Treds, but not broken Maxtrax.
Treds will probably be okay for light to moderate use, but I would want to have Maxtrax if I really needed them.

I concur.

the treds work for a while but much spin on them melts the plastic back.

dont forget to invest in some good rope that you can use to pull em out of hte muck with.

Maxtrax are longer and appear to be stronger (and thus more expen$ive).

If you've got room to carry the extra length I'd say Maxtrax (we carry them on all trips and haven't had to use them so far).

I think they now come with tape to attach to them to locate them if they're buried after the task.

I used them once,used a fancy fold up sand anchor as well,just more crap to carry IMHO. Pat

I have treads. They seem well enough made for the use they are likely to get from me. I got Treads because a while back Supercheap had a really good sale price on the longer version with a free bag and then because my daughter works there part time I got an even better price!

I've heard that TREDs are no good unless you have a very open tread tyre as the knobbles on the TRED's are too big to get into the tread.

Maxtrax on the other hand use 'blades' which fit into almost all tyre type treads.

I own a pair of Maxtrax.

Any photos of the lads recovery?

Add one more Vote for Maxtrax

The pain of lugging them around is soon forgotten when they get you out of a sticky situation..

Luckily one of our group (LROCWA) had 2 pairs of Maxtrax in his Disco when 4 of us got bogged down on the beach south of Northcliff.
We had to climb quite a steel slope to get back on the top of the beach and believe me we couldn't have done it without them....plus plenty of hands to dig sand away and retrieve them.
They're next on the list of things for the Cook to buy me.
AlanH.