Pillow Track Recovery Bags/Mats

Thought they were a very interesting concept, hence the post.

Maybe a bit more flexible and useful overall than Max Tracks.

Good points Craig and I largely agree with you, I to use diff locks and a shovel followed by a winch.

I guess they would be aimed at the less experienced off road traveller who may feel the need for the Max tracks or other similar traction aids??

I must admit their videos weren't that great... but there is some merit in the concept though. I wonder if Doug T could have used one of those pillows to 'float' his truck out of that 'waterhole' he drove into recently.... lol...! Either that or used the 'pillow' to rest his weary head on after all that digging, swearing and winching.... lol... (:
regards

You beat me to it Crackles.

I didn't see anything that I could not have overcome by putting a rock in the hole or shovelling some dirt.

I don't think the pillow would last long shovelling hot coles onto the lid of the camp oven either.

Duncs

As a regular sand driver I wouldn't give up my long handled shovel & tyre gauge :-)

As a regular sand driver, I've never seen the need for maxtrax or shovel!!
But a tyre deflater and a mate with a tow/snatch strap is pretty handy :-))

As a regular sand driver I've got a shovel, tyre deflator, tow/ snatch strap and a set of maxtrax.

Work bought me the Maxtracks and they do work, cost a lot and are easy to use.

Guess it depends on how many readys you have and wether you see the need to part with them on Maxtrax.

Before I used them prob not , Now however, Work will be never be getting them back off me lol.

Cheers Wilko

Phil if you've never needed a set of Maxtraxs despite doing some of the most difficult remote outback routes in Oz then I'm wondering where someone would actually need them? Surely you're not suggesting that $300 worth of plastic can be replaced with driver skill ;-)
And yes boys I know they work, just questioning the need to carry additional gear when other simple options are available.
KISS
Cheers Craig................

You're right Craig - plenty of options out there and you don't need to carry them all. I think Maxtrax have a place, and if I were a solo traveller, I'd probably grab a set. But from what I've witnessed with them, they are of no use if your vehicle is buried to the chassis, and as such they seem to be a method of getting a vehicle out without lowering tyre pressures to where they need to be.

Not sure where you put your maxtrax here:
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Bit of digging required there Phil LOL. I reckon I'm going to be in for a similar issue if not worse with the extended chasis of the new ute.

Cheers Mick

Just use your hi lift to chuck em under the back wheels- that would raise the vehichle decreasing the amount its belied out

I cant justify the expense but when combined with a hi lift i can certainly see uses for them. I have use sheet rocks off of granite which maxtrax would have worked better and we used to take big heavy planks of wood to put under wheels when jacked up to get us out when bogged on the edges of saltlakes with no trees to winch.

There just a tool like any other. Most tools are usufull to some extent and it just a matter of how many tools you want to carry

I agree with you about the people thinking they are a substatute to running low tyre pressures.

Its not often you will find a beach so soft lowering pressures wont get you out.
The one time it happened to me it was because slacko tied driving the beach with tyres up