stuck in snow and ice

Pour bleach on your tires so instead of just spinning on ice, eventually you will start smoking and create a big cloud of smoke making you look super cool instead of looking stuck? Thats my best guess.

 

Poultry grit and a stout spade shovel

 

Slag from the steel mills provides maximum traction without turning soggy. You can fill your pails at most concrete or landscaping suppliers where they sell it for filling pot-holes in dirt driveways. In snow country, before hooking up, shovel and prepare the ground under the nose of the trailer by throwing slag where your drive tires will end up.

 

https://www.honestcardealer.com/what-to-do-when-your-vehicle-is-stuck-in-snow/

Bleach is one of the options noted in the link. It softens rubber to get more grip. I have never tried it on tires, but I have on rock shoes. It works well on dry rock, but I don't know about snow and ice.

I do have a collapsible snow shovel in my truck, the kind sold for back country skiing for avalanche rescue. I have used it several times these last few winters to get underway after a heavy snow.

 

Making my tires softer would also make them wear faster but I like the cool factor idea. Sure beats the extra long gear shifter.

 

STAY away from lightweight kitty litter. The lightweight stuff is shredded newspaper. You want the old fashioned, cheap, clay based kitty litter. If it ain't heavy, you don't want it.

 

A plastic jug of it Is convenient. Sprinkled into tire path and on top of drives. Gets it under tires and works great

 

Ok After just prior reading that you should not use lightweight kitty litters I started to fatten up the litter of Kitties.

Man this gettin unstuck is gettin costly

 

One tip from the link I thought was worth consideration as a last resort before breaking out the chains to get all of a truck length before you get on bone dry highway:

Throw your floor mats under the drive tires.

I got stuck in mud once, helluva time getting out. Finally I started to take that first chain off the rack to start getting messy...but then I thought, "Why not just throw them under the drive tires to get traction without actually doing the whole chaining up in sticky mud"?

So that's what I did. I threw a chain under all four outside drives. It worked!

Then I pulled forward past the mud to go get my chains. They'd disappeared. It took half an hour to find them all buried deep in my tracks. BUT I think the concept would work for a quick "Get Out Of Jail Free Card" in snow, and the chains might more easily be found and recovered, since chains are dark and snow is white. Those dark chains in dark mud were a ##### to find.

 

You can carry one of these around but it’s not a cheap alternative by any stretch.

This is a base model but there are all sorts of available options if money is not a concern