4 wheeling Tips

bring along a quality firearm as well. if you're stuck over, you might need it to ward off predatory animals or humans.....i recomend the 45acp, very good deterant.  
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i will never walk into your camp at night!!!  
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got my 410 double barrel pistol, watch it.  
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the pocket shotgun! man i haven't seen or heard about one of those in years! cool gun mud  
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a short handel shovel,1/8" welding rods(in a waterprof contaner),jumper cables,zip ties,and most important DUCT TAPE(color does not matter,for holding broken u joints/tire pluging/broken bones/ect.)  

my wife calls me the duct tape king. you know the saying, if ya can't duct it.......lol  
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did any one say tools?Iwas wondering if someone came up witha new version of sand ladders?  

what is a sand ladder?  
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ak_stoddard:
3 Always take a wench to get out of tough spots

Dirty_Dog:
I would recommend a winch, rather than a wench. While they certainly have their uses, I doubt that a barmaid (the original meaning of the word) or woman of negotiable virtues (the more modern usage) would be of much use in getting out of trouble. In many cases, they're far more likely to get you IN trouble than out....

Know your and your vehicles limits.
     If you exceed them, you're going to need all the recovery and repair gear you brought.

Know your rigs weakest link.
     Better yet, PLAN the weak link. As an example, I run Warn hub fuses in my front axle. Why? Because it takes 15 mins and an allen wrench to change one, and they cost chump change. It's MUCH more difficult, not to mention an order of magnitude more expensive, to replace the axle when the u-joint blows and the ears on the shafts get chewed up.

Make sure people NOT on the trip know where you went.
     It's a lot easier for S&R to find you if they know which trail you're running.

Don't be stupid. This is the most difficult rule for many.

how do these work and where can i get more info? thanx  
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Saw it mentioned a while back in a magazine,sometime in the last 20 years,any way it wasa guy that used old pieces of perforated metal from air strips like they used in WW2, ok when he hit deep sand in the outback he would unload them and drive onto them,getting the forward momentum to scoot some more foward. He had ropes tied to them so when he passed over them they would drag behind him from now unstuck truklet! it was an Aussie that wrote about that now that i remember.said it would get him across the sand over and again by leap froging the ladders.Thats real adventure wheeling innit!Pretty sure some brother trucker from down under can enlighten me further if i missed any points. My ladders would be made of some poly plastic like the stuff used in poly tanks ittl staiten out,and if you put some perforated metal like they use on oil field tanker platforms,bolt it on and climb aboard,yea i know ime long winded but ya'll see what i mean?  

yeah i get it. thats a heck of an idea, thanx!  
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Expanded metal thats the word i was looking for,the kind i saw had a nubby tooth like tread and about an 1/8 inch thick. the Plastic is a really thick poly used in the ag an oilfield industry, only thing though, its brittle at anything below 20 degrees, but its fairly light so u can fold on hinges carry it on rack or bed or where ever,exp metal will let ya get traction and not break easy,2x12 wood too heavy but ime sure someone has a better way.  

don't forget the camera or no one will beleive you lol.  Also highly believe in not drinking hard and riding the trail that has gotten me rear ended in the middle of the woods.  Yeah imagine what he thought when i said get your yota out from under my truck.  I ended up with whiplash a de beaded 44 and no way to get beaded, really hurt my sidewall gettin to camp.  
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