Recovering a semi truck

In my last post (here) I mentioned using a set of MaxTrax to recover a semi at the 2015 Overland Expo.

Found the video.

In 2015, a late-season snowfall followed by heavy rains rendered the venue grounds a muddy quagmire. The BFGoodrich semi was having a hard time extracting itself from the tire-sucking muck—the Overland Expo Training Team, led by 7P International's Nick Taylor and Duncan Barbour, used 8 MAXTRAX and a set of Crux Offroad aluminum bridging ladders to extract the beast; only one of the MAXTRAX suffered a crack. Find out more about Overland Expo at OverlandExpo.com and 7P International at https://7p.io

Also visible are the Crux Offroad aluminum bridging ladders (here), which also survived with only minor bending and were perfectly serviceable afterwards. Since bridging ladders are designed to be rigid, the fact that these—intended for vehicles the size of Land Cruisers—survived at all was equally impressive.

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