Dakotakid
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I could have used both this weekend.
Saturday was good, blasted through some deep drifts. It warmed up Saturday afternoon and going was easy. Three foot drifts were not a problem.
Sunday we decided to go down into a draw, chained up the fronts, most drifts not too bad but a few blown in were 16” thick hard pack- the kind you could build an igloo out of. But not hard enough to drive through.
If the Utv broke the crust I could drive through, the oh_s_point was when we crossed the creek bed into a hard drift without breaking up the drift first. I almost made it but she high-centered.
Utv had to go get backup.
I don’t think the lockers would have helped, maybe.
We were in baron dry creek bottom without a winch point.
I think a axel shaft driven into the frost might have made a sufficient anchor but it being silt it might not have. I need a winch and accoutrement to test it.
I need to change my vote to both.
Saturday was good, blasted through some deep drifts. It warmed up Saturday afternoon and going was easy. Three foot drifts were not a problem.
Sunday we decided to go down into a draw, chained up the fronts, most drifts not too bad but a few blown in were 16” thick hard pack- the kind you could build an igloo out of. But not hard enough to drive through.
If the Utv broke the crust I could drive through, the oh_s_point was when we crossed the creek bed into a hard drift without breaking up the drift first. I almost made it but she high-centered.
Utv had to go get backup.
I don’t think the lockers would have helped, maybe.
We were in baron dry creek bottom without a winch point.
I think a axel shaft driven into the frost might have made a sufficient anchor but it being silt it might not have. I need a winch and accoutrement to test it.
I need to change my vote to both.
