ways to get unstuck!

[broken_line]

my way is to keep a 4'x9" log and a come along in my truck. if you get stuck drill a hole pop the log in hook the come along and tow strap up!..

lets hear some other good tips for getting out of slush and snowbanks while on the ice with no other vehicles?

[GoneFish'n71]

tire chains

[riverview]

i dont drive vehicals on ice, it scares the lint out of my belly button. i will walk or use my ski doo or wheeler.

[Hd Wtr Hillbilly]

I keep a bag of salt pellets (for a water softener) in the truck- they are small enough to be sucked under your tires when they spin and they give great traction on the ice...just dont have your buddy stand behind the truck when you give it gas

[Surface Tension]

If your hung up a steel snow shovel will get you out.

Other then that don't get yourself stuck. Stuck is when you spin your tires and you dig yourself a hole down to the ice. When it looks like your forward progress is about to end take you foot off the gas and let the truck roll to a stop. Put it in reverse and ease back out on your tracks. Don't spin your tires! Back up enough to either turn around in a good spot or continue forward on your old tracks. You might end up only getting a few inchs of progress in forward and reverse. That is fine as long as you don't spin your tires that little progress can get bigger and bigger if your easy on the gas and brake to save what forward and reverse progress you made and don't spin your tires. Before you make things worse, get out and shovel before you dig that hole down to ice. Do that because if you were able to drive into it, you can drive out of it. Don't spin your tires.

[THEDOGG]

if your in a pickel on the ice and have a lack ot traction let a few pounds of air out of the drive tires - not too much thou and be sure to stop asap and fill them back up again - you just want to let enough out to make the tires squat a little for more surface contact =-= this saved my bacon on big winnie when by 4x4 blew a hub and the wind was blowing the road shut

[GRAND DAD]

Buy a V Plow for your truck then you don't have to worry about getting stuck.

[Whopper Stopper]

Surface Tension made some good points. At work we are always driving into places with unknown ground conditions. Some times the hardest looking yards end up being a truck trap waiting to gobble you up. I don’t know what it is about people that make them so intent on spinning their wheels until the axles are riding below ground level. We have spent hours and hours explaining to drivers that if they start spinning to wait and we will give them an easy tug. It never fails that by the time we get a call that someone needs a light pull the vehicle is in need of a half-track to fetch them out. Common sense is probably the best way of not getting stuck to begin with.

WS

[fishuhalik]

Surphase tension, you ever drive onto a lake w/ 2 feet of snow and find a slush pocket? By the time you're in the slush it's too late.

Brokenline, that's brilliant. Never thought of that. That idea would have saved me from a lot of shoveling a couple of times.

[GBPackerNut]

I dont get stuck, I get inconveniently delayed...

Used to have a winch that could mount front or rear, that along with a good grain shovel, and an ice bar. I could usually figure out a way to get out of where I was at.

Having a good shovel and some common sense goes a long way.

[Jmnhunter]

Buy a V Plow for your truck then you don't have to worry about getting stuck.

and then a new tranny at the end of the season

[buckx37x]

B.L. thats the method we used to pull are house out of the lake.Few yrs. back when houses fell threw south of the cities we had are 8x8 house floating in a hole about 20x20.We threw a hook threw the window and winched it out with come-along and 6x6 we put in a hole in good ice.

[bogwalker]

my way is to keep a 4'x9" log and a come along in my truck. if you get stuck drill a hole pop the log in hook the come along and tow strap up!..

lets hear some other good tips for getting out of slush and snowbanks while on the ice with no other vehicles?

That is using your head. Great idea.

[WIFisher]

This is a dumb question but are you using a motorized come along or just the hand winch style? Wouldnt thing the handwinch style would work but maybe?

[blackdog1101]

if your in a pickel on the ice and have a lack ot traction let a few pounds of air out of the drive tires - not too much thou and be sure to stop asap and fill them back up again - you just want to let enough out to make the tires squat a little for more surface contact

I grew up on the East Coast near the ocean. If we were going to drive on the beach we always let about half the air out of our tires so we wouldn't get stuck. Great idea.

[blackdog1101]

my way is to keep a 4'x9" log and a come along in my truck. if you get stuck drill a hole pop the log in hook the come along and tow strap up!.

How do you get a 9" log down an 8" hole?

[buckx37x]

WF just the old fashion armstrong powered come-along

[sfd]

a BIG hammer

[WIFisher]

Ok thank you. I might have to pick one up for just 30 bucks.. Then do you just put that on the board? Im interested in this since i have a car which tends to get stuck a lot in the places i like to go...

[buckx37x]

just hook it around the post, you can use a chain for more length if needed.

[WIFisher]

K thanks, Any brands better than others? Or any to stay away from i should say?

[Dozer]

Buy a V Plow for your truck then you don't have to worry about getting stuck.

Until you have real snow and it comes over the plow! Then your really stuck! I can go through/over more snow with a 1/2ton truck with GOOD tires on it than any 3/4ton that Ive ever seen. IMO a GOOD set of tires makes a HUGE difference! A 4X4 with a locking rear diff doesnt hurt either.

Once you are stuck though (everyone will be eventually) a shovel, come-along and something in a hole to pull on can work wonders. You dont have to be able to move much to get some momentum and moving again. Like said before not spinning your tires and momentum are the keys on ice and snow.

[buckx37x]

Any will do some may be better than others but they all winch your rig out, if you do have to winch out drill your hole at slight angle so post doesnt slip out so easy good fishin!

[WIFisher]

Thanks buck ill have to give it a shot sometime!

[mtheis]

What a great idea! I will remember that one.