Yeah but this dude's heavy foot always spins his 4 wheels as the intial condition! Surely the main aim in towing a stuck vehicle is to make use of static friction between his own tires and the sandy/muddy surface(?) I think his initial thinking is to get buoyant, as if that makes his situation any better(?)
I think this particular dude is obsessed with buoyancy(?) His strategy is to rebuild his vehicles so they're as light as possible .. I guess so as to not end up getting stuck himself .. (which he usually ends up doing anyway).
Just goes to show how the idea one starts out with in one's head, (whatever that might be - buoancy in his case), sets in train what will happen, eh?
.. and also use some 'purchase power', by doubling or tripling the tow rope using pulleys? This dude obviously has a lot of weight to start out with (ie: the big V8). He carries and occasionally uses his winches, but his preference is always brute force and heavy foot action - get 'em spinning first!
The classic was when he got stuck in a big bowl full of very dry sand. He whined about how it didn't matter which direction he took, the end result was always that both vehicles still remained trapped in it. Why he didn't stay at the bowl lip and use winches/buried anchors on the tow/winch vehicle, never seemed to occur to him.
(Oh yeah .. he's a 'give it a good yank' strategist too .. y'know, floor it to build up energy in the fabric tow rope and use that to overcome static inertia).
Fresh snow ain't too bad for grip. Its the refrozen meltwater (black ice) underneath that causes the big problems, eh?
Beats me why the dude (or the unthinking rescuees) don't use chains in such conditions?
