Max Trax

[shano]

tyres down to about 12 psi works a treat!

[Kleyny]

Why not just use an old convayer belt or thick rubber purchased from clark rubber?

a mate used to bog his zuk pulling out his jet ski. So he got some rubber from old Clarky then put it on the beach reversed his car onto it then drove straight off it.

neil

[rysa]

Hi guys,
I got hoplessly bogged up at Fraser at Xmas time, no one could get close to snatch me out, all the good stuff.. anyway someone rocked up with a pair of Max Trax and I drove straight out.. I have since grabbed a pair and wouldn't leave home without them. 1 of the best things I ever bought. I highly recomend them.
Cheers

[finding_time]

Phill

tell me more about these mats? Do they float on the mud pits in the pigpen at LCMP If so i now know why you were the R&D guy!

[Lucky_Phill]

well : bad eye " they work in Sand.

not mud...


they are similar to what Honky Dory has suggested. But, they have a number of holes cut in them. and they work.

Just having a conveyor belt does not work. it gets ' spun ' out from under the wheels once they are on it and power is applied.


phill

[finding_time]

Ahh very tricky!!!!!!! I'm with Shano though just drop the tyre pressure to 12 psi engage both front and rear diff locks and drive the beast into and out of anything!!!

Ian

[White Pointer]

G'day,

I've given up getting bogged now. Getting too old!

Years ago I made my own bog mats. Got the idea from looking at the mats of tiles that tilers use to lay bathroom floors.

This is what you do. Buy a couple of lengths of treated pine logs - the stuff they use for garden edging - about 100mm diameter. Split it in two or buy it split so you have half rounds.

Buy some fairly heavy gauge galvanised chicken wire. It has to be able to roll. Cut into strips about 1.5m long and as wide as your tyres + 50mm.

Cut the half rounds of wood to suit the width of the chicken wire.

Use galvanised fencing nails and securely nail the wire to the wood. The spacing of the timbers should be about 70mm. This will ensure that tyres bite on two logs at a time on all four wheels but also that the mats will roll up and not take up too much room.

Wash after use and they will last for years. Works on sand and in mud but if used mainly in mud make the timbers closer to assist flotation.

We are having fun!

White Pointer

[GBC]

Ahh very tricky!!!!!!! I'm with Shano though just drop the tyre pressure to 12 psi engage both front and rear diff locks and drive the beast into and out of anything!!!

Ian

Such cockyness will surely be your undoing Mr buttons, for I've had more beasty beasts than ye beasty beast stuck before And the problem with sticking a 12psi twin locked 3t beasty is that it takes a more special than average beasty to unstick it.... as ye would well know.

[finding_time]

Gbc

You still drunk mate!!!

[bdaearth]

My farther in-law has them and has had his hi-lux bog pretty bad with the caravan on the back and with two max trax walked it straight out!! he has also made another two out out 3-4mm aluminium cheaker plate that work just as well.

[GBC]

They didn't help the 'lux stuck at the first lagoon cutting at Bribie on Saturday....then again neither did two patrols joined together with straps.

RACQ recovery team came, scratched their heads and buggered off in about 5 mins.

After about 4 hours of fruitless attempts, much digging and numerous busted straps the day was saved by a bushie in a cruiser with a winch.

[Angla]

G'day,

Well, I managed to bog my cruiser again in soft sand last weekend while retrieving my tinny and I was wondering if anyone owns/has used those bright orange plastic boards (I think the brand is called "Max Trax" from memory).

You place them under the wheels to get traction and pop the car back up on top of the sand again.

I'm thinking a set of them might come in handy. Any feedback?

Cheers,
Roo.

The Max Trax sound like a great idea for those times when they are needed.

Would you have been able to drive backwards 1 metre and then forwards without spinning the wheels too severely as the momentum will pop you over the pillows that were formed in front of the trailer tyres.

I believe it is the trailer tyres that hold you in the bog position. The key to this maneuver is to go backwards 1 metre.

Cheers
Chris

[GBC]

Don't forget the boat motor to help during an emergency bogging - Requires more than one person obviously, but it is amazing how much a decent 'blip' at the rignt time will help the tow vehicle get traction and momentum.
It's certainly not the answer to everything, but at places like Fraser it works a treat.

[alfish]

Hi all
thought i'd add my 2 cents worth to this one.

I did the Hoggar route across the Sahara a few years ago, 600kms off road, in a 2 litre combi. With the tyres at 9 psi, a 10ft length of psp cut in half. Only had one major problem in the whole trip. It was good fun to watch 4wd stuck up to both axles in stuff that we just floated over.

The principal of the Max Trax is totally sound, and a damn site lighter than psp in the middle of the day! But with a healthy price tag!

Phil, your design looks pretty good and with the light weight and soft construction could even be tied on to save yourself a walk

al

[murf]

Hi all
thought i'd add my 2 cents worth to this one.


Phil, your design looks pretty good and with the light weight and soft construction could even be tied on to save yourself a walk

al

what a top idea

cheers Murf