Finally got to use my maxtrax this morning for the first time. Not happy about getting bogged, but very happy that they worked!
At Chile Creek, near Lombadina, Dampier Peninsula, north of Broome.... on the way to the beach.
Instructions from a local ... "stick to the track, use 2nd high & stay off the clutch & you'll be fine". Took a wrong track & wanted to turn around & there were tyre tracks where somebody had done the same thing. Moments later - not going anywhere in the soft sand. Digging plus use of maxtrax - 4 times got us back onto the track eventually. Later was told "that sand would have been fine at a different time of the day when it was not so hot", & then added "you also need 15psi all round" (we had 20).
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MB (24th September 2018), Yeti's Beast (19th December 2018)
My little bit of experience has taught me with 12" x 33" muddies around 20 gets me most places in sand but extra fine soft stuff 15 is the go , sent you a pm Cuppa with the address of that door card maker but I had no luck using the link , waiting for my son to get back to me .
When we were up at cape Leveque, in that area where you are, the sign on the beach said 'drop tyres to 15psi - yeah right, so I was at 25psi, go about 3 ft and started to dig in. A Ford F350 rumbles past me as I was de-airing and he has 13psi in his skinny tyres and romped it up the beach. After dropping to the suggested level, happy days - pays to take heed!
Last edited by PeeBee; 24th September 2018 at 05:57 PM.
Hot as hell, soft skinny inland sand tracks up at Waddy Point Fraser Island I kindly got schooled by a Pizza cutting 12psi aluminium Rover in the 90’s.
350Chev NA powering 35x12.5s -20psi couldn’t beat local store owners knowledge too!
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That’s why and only I buy big tyres, big man :-)
EDIT: “I wish for more tread”
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Last edited by MB; 24th September 2018 at 09:20 PM.
Plasnart (24th September 2018)
Got the message, ta.
https://australiandoorcards.com.au/ worked but I couldnt see any that weren't Masonite. Same people?
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