Some different recovery track options

I didn't study them nor have I used them. Just two criticisms. They seems way too short and I would prefer a brighter colour that would stand out in mud etc and of course at night.

Phil

Hard to say . . . some softer type recovery devices (like the ladder tracks) can just wrap around a spinning tyre.
Have seen a few you tube vids where that happens.

Most times it is due to people going too hard, spinning wheels, etc.
Which you can't do with any recovery device, even Maxtrax and TREDS need a nice easy foot, using 2 low as a general rule.

Other things you can try are FGRP ladders (which could be your first pic ?), shadecloth, strips of old carpet, planks of wood with tek screws screwed into them in a pattern, car mats, hessian bags you partially fill with sand, and probably other things I can't recall right now.

For sand, you can even get a watering can and dampen down the sand in front (or behind) the wheels, once you've shoveled enough away.

I had a discussion on this topic not too long ago when Aldi Stores were selling recovery tracks at a price substantially cheaper to the other alternatives on the market, including Max-Trax.

It was put into some perspective when one in the group said, if you didn’t have recovery tracks in the vehicle you would use anything you could find that was lying around, tree branches, anything, so at $99 how could you go wrong?

I can never understand why people reach for "recovery tracks" instead of a tyre guage
I have been 4wd all my life and have never been in a situation where tyre pressure wont get you out. That includes Sand Mud Snow.

Cheers
Richard

I have used square foam pieces ( like the type that interlocks) to get out of trouble in sand. Now thanks to bunnies I have a couple of skinny lengths of ply wood that I have no concers of anyone knocking off from the back of the ute.