Getting stuck in sand

"I just went down this route last week in my 31ft Class C with a motorcycle carrier on the back which increases my length to 34FT. I had the transmission in 2nd gear and didnt go over 3 - 5 mph. It is a beautiful view, but i wouldn't do it again...EVER"

A year from now you'll be looking at your maps thinking...'that wasn't so bad'.


Gary Haupt

I witnessed a DP sink in sugar sand in Florida.
Right behind my MH no less! And the local tow trucks would 'not' come out to that area to tow because of the sugar sand. :R

Here is what we all learned NOT to do.

Do NOT Hook up any ratchet straps and or a tow rope to pull it out with someones truck. Both of those broke and sent the hooks flying almost killing one guy.

Do not shove wood under neath the tires, it does absolutely nothing except sending those shooting out like guided missiles also.

After hours of all that NOT working we look up and see a guy in a suit carrying a shovel walking towards us.

He calmly takes off his suit coat and starts to dig around each tire. And I mean 'digs a huge circumference' around each and every tire!

When he was done, told owner of the DP to get in and that heavy bus just drove right out.

If you don't want to shovel much but still get unstuck out of just about anything, from my research here's the top rated portable solution out there ... made in Austrailia, super tough, and from everything I have read about them - THEY WORK (not cheap though, but neither is each extraction by a Caterpillar): https://www.amazon.com/Maxtrax-MKII-MKIIs/dp/B00HYCVSW6

pnichols wrote:
If you don't want to shovel much but still get unstuck out of just about anything, from my research here's the top rated portable solution out there ... made in Austrailia, super tough, and from everything I have read about them - THEY WORK (not cheap though, but neither is each extraction by a Caterpillar): https://www.amazon.com/Maxtrax-MKII-MKIIs/dp/B00HYCVSW6

I bought a set similar to what you posted after getting my tow car stuck in sugar sand, they are about 8 in wide and 2.5 ft long made out of orange thermoplastic material. They were under $20.