well in the past week i had to pull 4 people out of ditches....including myself in my dakot
i was driving down a road yeserday doing about 30mph and hit a patch of ice....spun me around pretty good and backwards into a ditch.....8 people drove by, 3 stopped....the wife came out and got me and we went to get my rango with a good chain....
the durango wouldnt just pull the dakota out being the rango was sitting on ice...so i had to yank it pretty hard a couple of times and it came right out...from yanking it like i had to, i bent the hook that was on the pickups end and jammed it on there, so i threw the chain under the hood and drove home....

not that any of this matters, but i thought i would share some pics that i thought came out pretty good....too bad the wife didnt get any of the truck comming out[&:]



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Those BFG's are miracle tires!

What state are you in that's getting so much snow? Im in Southern Ontario and to date have gotten les than an inch

 

im in north central illinois.....we usually dont get a bunch of snow, but we did last week....now we probally wont get anymore until february or sumthing, but who knows...

i said before that i love these tires.....now i really do especially to get the dakota out while sitting on a sheet of ice....the dak was real;y stuck too

 

Not too shabby man but get rid of that chain and get yourself a good tow strap. If that chain snapped it could cause a lot of hurt whereas a strap won't.

 

oh i know....but there is no place around here that sells a good tow strap....but i have been looking for one...the chain i found in the middle of the road out by my work

by the way i had to yank the truck i think i coulda broken a few tow straps.....

 

yes , get a tow strap, you will pay if you dont. but man, i live in canada as you know, and even we get our roads cleaned better than that, i could skate down that road never mind drive

 

Just get a really beefy one and you'd do ok. I'm sure there is something on one of the sponsor's sites for you.

 

well i will have to check around. the chain was really heavy duty.....it fell off a truck thats hauls heavy machinery from a building thats down the road from where i work.....but either way, i will probally get a scrap...

and yeah, they dont do a very good job salting or plowing around here.....we got the snow on december 1st, and the road still looks like that

 

I use a recovery strap. They are the best in towing because of the rated strength. I've used chains before and I also use one. But I prefer to use the strap when doing things like that. But from being in the same position, I've needed the smacking abilities of the chains. From the pics it looks like you needed a chain anyway. Like I said I use both.

As a side note those D's can really move in snow and ice.

 

Yep we have the weight in the right places for that. Last winter I had a 3 series beamer with their RWD about to pass me after 28" of snow in 24 hours and I was doing 45. Needless to say right before he passed he hit some choppy snow and spun out. I'm just glad it happened before he got in front of me, the only reason I was doing that speed is because I had nowone in front of me or on the sides to worry about on a 3 lane highway and it was mostly straight at that point. This guy shouldn't have tried to go more than 35 with that thing.