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- As an ex-tow truck operator I’m saying good job, I cringe on almost every other recovery video I ever see, even the ones done by “professionals”.
They did that exactly how it should have been done. - It would have been a much tougher recovery with out the second truck loaded with a TC. I've tried heavy recoveries with a lighter vehicle before: Sometimes you can dig the wheels into pits so the winch does not drag the lighter vehicle into the ditch other times you can tie off your vehicle to another anchor point or vehicle and hope you don't damage yours at the front and rear. Those traction tracks were a great help in reducing the recovery angle to get back on the road - You can end up crabbing the the vehicle you want to recover and never get it back on the level if it is too steep. They were able to alter and reduce this angle by digging the high side and stacking the tracks on the low.
noteven wrote:
The video explains how. Nothing to do with the tires or traction.
Video narrator says attempt to dodge a large pothole. Doesn’t say if tires or traction were a factor in getting to the edge of the road or not.- Well done.....
- Keep my Lewis Winch in the truck on all trips. So long as you have an anchor point and snatch blocks, self recovery is possible.
noteven wrote:
Excellent recovery work by those people.
I enjoyed the double snatch block set up. I've done one snatch block many times, but never two.jimh425 wrote:
Not sure how the TC and truck ended off the road, but those “all season” tires probably didn’t help. ;) I guess he believed that he’d have plenty of traction with that TC in the bed. I can say that my overly agressive tires did great in the 500 miles of inclement weather that we drove in. We could have stayed longer but more snow was on the way.
The video explains how. Nothing to do with the tires or traction. If you get off on a soft shoulder on a muskeg road with high c of g rig like that you drive it in the ditch or flop it.
Excellent recovery work by those people.
Thanks to the op for posting going to watch this series.- I live on dirt potholed roads. You just need to slow way down and drive through some holes.
- I got that link off the lance owners web site. Someone said they thought he got to close to the road edge dodging a pot hole and dropped the passenger side tires off onto the low shoulder. Instead of trying recover by turning back towards the road, he turned into the drop off to prevent the high cg rig from rolling. I have found myself in many jeep situations where I have said to myself, self, if this jeep starts rolling, gas it and turn into low side. Its worked for me in the past in certain situations, but not advisable on narrow exposed Rocky Mtn shelf roads above the treeline. :)
- Not sure how the TC and truck ended off the road, but those “all season” tires probably didn’t help. ;) I guess he believed that he’d have plenty of traction with that TC in the bed. I can say that my overly agressive tires did great in the 500 miles of inclement weather that we drove in. We could have stayed longer but more snow was on the way.
