If I go buy chains, will it get me out of this whole?

When is the right time to use the ATC button. Cause I can't see where it helped at all.

 

Sand and salt mix and it still wouldn't come out? Must have been too cold for the salt to work. Calcium chloride works better than salt.

 

Thats what I thought too when I read that post...I've used a couple coffee cans full of rock salt when its been 0° many times and its always worked for me but I also try to let the truck roll ahead 5 or 10 feet 30 mins or so after I park so I'am not sitting in a hole when I want to leave

 

Yes 4 wheel drivers often use a kind of rubber pad that they can put down in front of wheels that helps them get out if they get stuck / bogged in the mud in river beds and creeks etc etc that has something on it for the tyres to grip these would be handy to carry with you in future, obviously if your stuck right now this won't help, something someone told me when I first started driving in the ice and snow was when you park up because the tyres are quite hot while you've been driving wait an hour or two for them to cool down after parking then move the vehicle an inch or two this will help the tyres not to stick to the ice. Alternatively before you park you could carry a bag of sand with you pour it out in front of or behind the wheels then back onto it or move forward before you park up.

 

Not necessarily, if you come in off the road and set the brakes on snow pack or ice your warm tires will melt down into it. You should move forward and back every so often until your tires cool down, that’ll keep them from melting a nice little hole.

 

I wheeled into an IA Select site one night and set the brakes and went to bed without thinking. Load crew woke me up and I was stuck, couple shovels of feed and a littler rocking and maybe a few strong words of encouragement and I was out.

 

Large grain, white potash fertilizer... It will melt ice down to about -5°F and it helps with traction.

 

Carry a couple strips of carpet large enough to extend 6" out in all directions from you drives when parked on top of the carpet... Lay them down and park on them when ever you have to park on snow pack or ice. Take less than 5 mins to lay out or pick up, rolls up small for easy storage, adds almost zero weight.

 

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I've never had kitty litter work for me in that spot. Draping a chain over has worked, but usually doesn't. What's always worked is just getting a tug by another truck,road grader etc... It doesn't take much to get you off the slick spot and then you're good to go.

To avoid getting in that spot when you're parking for the night on snow/ice go ahead and pull forward and back up 6-8 ft 2-3 times and you'll be good to go in the morning.