Wednesday, Jun 13, 2007 at 23:35
Dunno about plastic lattice but this is what I used in sand dunes (canning stockroute) and it worked:
Bought a sheet of weldmesh, galvanised, 25x50mm mesh size, 3mm thick wire. This was cut into strips (with bolt cutters) 1.8m long and about 300 wide, got 6 of them out of the sheet.
The wire ends were cut flush on the long sides and on one of the short side. On the other short side the ends were bent back (with a tube) to form hooks. Bend it so the hook forms over the cross wire, not aweay from it.
The hooks allowed me to hook the strips together and make one twice as long or longer.
To use them was to place two hooked together stips of mesh ahead of the front wheels and one ahead of the rear wheels. Digging their ends a little under the wheel helped too.
After carefully driving onto the mesh, enough momentum could be gathered to clear the dune where we were silly enough to stop on top of to take pictures.
The mesh was a bit deformed from driving over it but that was easily straightened by jumping on it on a flat piece of ground.
I carried all 6 pieces strapped to the bull bar, they are not heavy and did not restrict the air flow.
I would imagine they work equally
well in mud but would advise to tie colored ribbons to the strips so they can be found again afterwards, they were hard enough to spot buried in the sand.
The strips are still in the shed, waiting for the next adventure.
Klaus
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