Impressive performance by a Dodge

[Bob McNeill]

Richard I bet your heart skipped a beat in 94 when the mighty Mack went down in the nose and wouldn,t move till a Matador just idled away with said Mack. Seemed that super singles went thru while duals became slicks.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Bob McNeill

Richard I bet your heart skipped a beat in 94 when the mighty Mack went down in the nose and wouldn,t move till a Matador just idled away with said Mack. Seemed that super singles went thru while duals became slicks.

Good on you Bob, I never got a photo of the Austin. Funniest incident was one of our members with a Dodge M37 (I think), fitted with a garage breakdown crane and towing a caravan. He drove on to the field along the metal trackway and as the Dodge dropped off the end into the mud, the crane slammed down onto the caravan roof!

regards, Richard

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Hanno

That is a really good video, but would the bounce traction method work on some thing larger? Say 20 guys in the back of 3 ton.

Thanks to Keith for starting another good thread.

Cheers Phil

[motto]

I would imagine that so long as they were coordinated it would have some effect but wouldn't it look funny! Sometimes merely having a couple of ton on board or removing outside duals will make a truck perform better.
There was a fellow in Queensland who had a replica VW Kubelwagen. It had a rear bumper that was ideal for standing on. With one or two blokes traveling on the bumper to bounce at the appropriate time that vehicle would go anywhere a Jeep would go.
That was the first vehicle I'd seen 'bounced' for traction and I remember being surprised how effective it was. Probably more effective because of the bouncers (bouncees?) being right at the rear.

David

[Lynn Eades]

V dub's by design, are very good cross country.
Another thing many people don't consider is tyre pressure. I did see in Hanno's car trial footage, that at least one car had deflated the tyres.

[motto]

That's the reason for the DUKW central tyre inflation system.(And others).
As regards traction, I once got my WLA Harley Davidson stuck on a hillside and couldn't get it out of the situation no matter how I struggled. That was until I took a rope I had with me and wound it round the tyre passing it through the spokes. I then walked it out. I imagine that I wasn't the first to have done that with a rope.

Another trick I heard of was through a friend that had a cement truck unable to drive up his wet, slippery access lane. The driver sprinkled lime on his tyres and proceeded on his way.

David

[Lynn Eades]

I was stuck once. I foolishly went down a greasy hill and only had 1 way out. Back up.
When I gave up trying to drive out, I reversed the front wheel on my 4x4 Dodge. Tied a wire rope to a tree, put the eye of the rope through a wheel hole. poked my wheel brace through the eye, locked up the brake on the other side, and in 4wd drove up the rope. It wound up on the brake drum. A lot of mucking about, but at the time was short of options. It worked well.
Maybe if I'd deflated the tyres from road pressure she might have climbed out on her own, but never had a tyre pump with me.