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jefe_4x4
Jul 18, 2014Explorer
Out on the flat, down some county or F.S. road could work depending on your bravery and departure angle. You will know once you get there, but this is all do-able.
jefe
I'm reminded of an experience at Pismo Beach some 45 yrs. ago. While driving my Land Cruiser with big floatation tires down the beach we came upon a MoHo named, "Condor"; about 44 feet long class A whose rear axle was down to the sand. The rear end had a lot of distance to the departure angle and the bumper was sitting on the sand. I pulled around front and reeled out the winch about 75% attached it to the MoHo. I instructed the hapless driver to lower the pressure from 110 pounds to 40 pounds in all six tires (or was it 8? I can't recall if he had a tag axle). This took a while in the time before screw-on deflators. I then backed up in low range, 2WD against the wire rope to settle my rear axle to the frame. Then put the hubs back on and kept churning away leaving my entire rig frame on the sand. This would prove to be enough of a dead man to winch the rig (which outweighed my rig by 800%). Then the process. I told him to not spin the tires and not stop once he got going making a wide arc and go back from whence he came. I started the PTO winch up in low gear enough to get him dislodged from the sandy grave. I then shifted the winch to high gear to allow some momentum. All of a sudden, the guy lost all control and all hell broke loose with this tan, 20K pound monster flailing away in the sand. Luckily, the winch hook fell off and he made a wide, rooster tailed arc around my rig and vamoosed north on the sand at high speed never to be seen again. With no winch line connected, I simply backed out of my temporary anchor point and still had a great day. My Land Cruiser in 1969 with factory PTO winch:

jefe
jefe
I'm reminded of an experience at Pismo Beach some 45 yrs. ago. While driving my Land Cruiser with big floatation tires down the beach we came upon a MoHo named, "Condor"; about 44 feet long class A whose rear axle was down to the sand. The rear end had a lot of distance to the departure angle and the bumper was sitting on the sand. I pulled around front and reeled out the winch about 75% attached it to the MoHo. I instructed the hapless driver to lower the pressure from 110 pounds to 40 pounds in all six tires (or was it 8? I can't recall if he had a tag axle). This took a while in the time before screw-on deflators. I then backed up in low range, 2WD against the wire rope to settle my rear axle to the frame. Then put the hubs back on and kept churning away leaving my entire rig frame on the sand. This would prove to be enough of a dead man to winch the rig (which outweighed my rig by 800%). Then the process. I told him to not spin the tires and not stop once he got going making a wide arc and go back from whence he came. I started the PTO winch up in low gear enough to get him dislodged from the sandy grave. I then shifted the winch to high gear to allow some momentum. All of a sudden, the guy lost all control and all hell broke loose with this tan, 20K pound monster flailing away in the sand. Luckily, the winch hook fell off and he made a wide, rooster tailed arc around my rig and vamoosed north on the sand at high speed never to be seen again. With no winch line connected, I simply backed out of my temporary anchor point and still had a great day. My Land Cruiser in 1969 with factory PTO winch:

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