Off road gear

[Mopper]

Not sure why anyone would have an aversion to using a come-along............ Often you would need pulleys and rope to create a mechanical advantage, but with enough rope, pulleys and determination you can move just about anything with a come along or chain along.

When I used to teach mechanical advantage rigging to Bomb Squad students, we would teach them to move a full sized sedan with multiple pulleys and a 1/4" rope using nothing more than their muscles and hands.

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” - Archimedes circa 250 BC

 

[wpage]

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” - Archimedes circa 250 BC

^^^ When you are stuck and alone in the wild. Amazing what you can do with what you have... Survival to move on !

 

[EOD Guy]

Those that know, do....... Those that don't ask questions (not a bad thing) and there are those that don't know, but think they do and spread the word that may not be accurate but now those that are asking because they don't know, spend lots of money that they really don't have to............

 

[Mopper]

The point on multiplication of force is correct though. Any failure in recovery at best leaves somebody stuck. At worst, somebody just got killed. But it really isn't hard to do right.

Good you started asking, now do yourself another favor and spend some more hours researching (YouTube is a fantastic tool, and watch some of the 'went bad' material- it'll remind you of potential costs). Key words "off road recovery"

 

[MSINAL]

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” - Archimedes circa 250 BC

This is flawed in real world application. The elasticity of the lever quickly becomes problematic with heavy loads requiring long levers, as does the fracture point of the material(s). But in india they put derailed trains back on the track using levers as part of the cost of travel, so there's that - if you have a 20' piece of forged rail, 20 men, and a cross-tie handy.

Having an electric winch is awesome and very necessary for some use cases. For the average light off roader it's overkill when you consider murphy's law - whenever you're stuck with an awesome winch on the front, you need to be pulled out backwards and there are no trees or suitable rocks around to perform the rigging. Or, you forgot you loaned your shackles out.

 

[Mopper]

Forgetting you loaned shackles out could cut anybody down at any time!

 

[ATbuckhunter]

"very basic things that could help me if I get stuck in a muddy area"
I know that's a bit off topic, but just in case...
Have been hunting logging roads in North Maine for at least 30 years. Mitsubishi Montero, 3-5 gen. 4Runners and now LC LC.
Nowadays I take with me saw, good ax, shovel, jump box, come along winch, recovery rope, air compressor, Garmin Montana 700i(SOS enabled), sidearm with +P hard cast ammo, switchblade and hunting knife.
Plus regular stuff such as bottled water, protein bars, couple MREs, two lighters plus matches, multitool, two flashlights, first aid kit including rubber tourniquet, laminated map of the area.
Going to Maine/Canadian border for grouse hunt in a month and it is a cakewalk. Traditional Thanksgiving deer hunt could be challenging due to snow on logging roads. Once I got stock in a snow covered ditch and it was not fun. Had to ax bunch of 3-4" branches to shove under my wheels.

Maybe I'll see you out there! I'll be up in Portage Lake/Ashland area grouse hunting with my dog 10/11-10/16. If you see a black LC with NY license plates, you'll know its me.

For everyone else, I have been doing quite a bit of research on what I need. I've got a good list of things that should help. I have my cousin coming along with a full size chevy truck, so thankfully I wont be alone. I doubt I'll even get stuck, but just wanted some basic stuff just in case. I would never push it too far and actually get bogged down that heavily. I'm not ashamed to swallow my pride way before and get yanked out before it gets too bad.