Thread: Bog out

Too fiddly, file it under gadgets. Like most gadgets, as long as you choose the location or the condition under which you use them they work very well. In the real world however....

Would it not be great fun to try and attach them to your wheel when you are bogged in a mud hole and have water over the wheels, especially in some real sticky mud with the gaps in the wheel rim filled with mud.
Be totally useless if you had solid rims.
You would also have to be aware that the strap does not get tangled with any low hanging body parts / cables / wires as it is being used.
It has its place but not in the back of my Disco!

Stumbled across this video just then.

[ame]https://youtu.be/JY4cKc4FKSM[/ame]

Cheers

Dan

Originally Posted by Disco-tastic

Stumbled across this video just then.

https://youtu.be/JY4cKc4FKSM

Cheers

Dan

Made for 6 stud wheels. That's a lot of gear to carry IMO. A tirfor, cable and some shackles would take up much less room.

Can just see you on the working end of a Tirfor

Ah, a comedian is amongst us I see...

Where did I say I was going to be using it....

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Can just see you on the working end of a Tirfor

When i was a kid the old man used to send us off with the Tirfor and a mattock, to pull out tree stumps.That was bloody hard work.

We used to try to break the shear pin,and when we did, he always seemed to find another one somewhere

Well i suppose it did keep us off the streets…

We have done something similar to this with a couple of old truck straps I had in the back.

Got into a situation where we couldnt go back (bridge was out) and were having trouble getting up a particularly steep and slippery (red clay) hill.

Neither of the vehicles had a winch, so after almost giving up I got these old straps out, tied one to the front bottom of each front wheel and the other end to very conveniently located trees, and slowly crept up as they wound around the wheels.

Was hard going as the strap kept slipping off the wheel and had to stop a couple of times and re strap, but it got us out of a difficult bind.

The lesson I learned from that....get a winch.