found this online today, looks real handy and worth the money.

http://www.pullpal.com/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wPCF9LePdU

I have HEARD that they work pretty well. Pretty much their just a big boat anchor that will dig into the terrain when you begin pulling on it. It's shortcomings are rocky and uneven terrain where it can't get all three feet mounted well. IMHO, a buddy to wheel with is way cheaper and more effective. This might tempt some people into thinking they can go hit the trails by themselves.

They've been around forever.

They're most useful in terrain where you get bogged down too far from a decent recovery point....like in the sand on a beach or dunes, desert, etc.

Those who traverse that kind of terrain as part of their regular commute, IE: Alone, or, who have no friends, etc...find them useful.

As mentioned, if you wheel with others, you don't need one...as your buds are your recovery point, etc.

They do work if the terrain is soft enough to bite into, like a boat anchor essentially.

That same soft terrain causes skinny tires to bog down. Land Rovers and other old rigs with wheel wells too shallow to allow fatter tires, used to have to carry these, and sand ladders, to be able to get where they had to go.

yeah. i was just thinkin about how good this woulda been to have when i got stuck a few months ago!

better than having nothing at all

Exactly....that's WHY those with no friends, or who have to traverse this type of terrain alone, etc....use them...

Another option is to bury the spare tire, and recover from that as an anchor, etc.

They're kind of expensive, more than an equivalent boat anchor at least.

As many of the boat anchors fold as well, one for a large enough boat works the same way.

:D

You could MAKE one too.

A simple hinged metal plate with a stop and a shackle does the same thing, and so forth.

The product shown is very light for its strength though, and does work great a recovery point if needed.

When I was surveying we managed to bog a swamp buggy in the marsh. We used an aluminum boat anchor as a recovery point and winched out. Unfortunately we didn't have the anchor in the buggy. I had to crawl through about 150 yards of marsh to where our other crew met me and make my way back with the anchor. One of several reasons why I'm no longer a surveyor. :) The point is, a decent boat anchor works great and costs less.


This is what we got stuck, only ours was smaller. The tracks pass around sealed float pontoons, so it will float like a boat. I would have thought you could never stick one, but the mud was so fluid and slick that we couldn't get traction to climb out of a hole.
http://www.airboat-transportation.com/NewGal/images/Swamp%20buggy%20side%20view.jpg

The expo guys love them. One should be on my truck in the next few months....

The swamp buggy rocks.

:D

Its cheap to build 2x2 square tubing and 1/4 steel with the same design would be way stronger and cheaper..

We used a version like the pullpal when i was stattioned in England although we called it a land anchor. Just like TJ said, it's good for terrain with a proper recovery points (trees, rocks, etc.) although I don't agree with the no friends aspect. I was stuck with three friends on a hillside with no recovery point in sight. I kinda wished I had one at the time, but we ended up getting help by a passing Rover.

Speaking of which, if you guys ever watch Top Gear, there was a good showing of the land anchor in the exact environment it was designed for. it starts around 2:40.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW9JXyClzdU

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what i do/ did was take a breaker bar...cut it in half. then welded a washer on the top...used the same holder for my cheap and easy shovel holder mod and i am set!!! works great.

Always thought I should carry one here's a couple of others the ARB is about $500, the pull pal is $300 and the Wasp is $140. Here is a review but seems a pre-determined opinion. The Wasp metal doesn't seem as well made as the other 2 (copy of the ARB?) but if it gets ya unstuck and you bend something it's worth it but not if it comes flying back at cha.

http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24641

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4745/detail848arb230.jpg (http://img200.imageshack.us/i/detail848arb230.jpg/)

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/6371/pullm.jpg (http://img31.imageshack.us/i/pullm.jpg/)

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3070/waspk.jpg (http://img200.imageshack.us/i/waspk.jpg/)

Been around forever.

one minus to land anchors....take up a bunch of room!

i was about to buy a wasp and my god it id take up an entire yack rack!

LOL

on the "No Friends"

I mean if you have friends you can use as recovery points...like hook your winch to them, and use their truck as an anchor.

:D