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sofaque Member
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Hello everyone, I’m fairly new to quadding and the site. I have a 800 XT. I’m trying to get a list of critical items to take with me on rides, so the question I have is not really quad specific. I hope I'm in the right area. What I have is a hypothetical situation and I’m wondering what you carry on your quad that would help you get out of it, and how you would get out of it. Here is the situation, you are with a group of friends in a remote area, for a quadding trip. It’s a weekend or longer type trip, and so you are at the campsite with everyone preparing for the days ride. Everyone is set and heads out, you are a little late in getting going, so you hop on your quad and leave with everyone else. About 20 minutes into the ride you realize you forgot something, smokes, pants, water, soda, whatever. Point is you need to go back to camp to get it. Everyone stops at the start of a trail and you mention you forgot your stuff and you will head back to camp quickly and meet them up the trail. Since you aren’t that far, everyone agrees and says they will see you soon. You head back to camp and are driving along a river bank towards camp. The water is not deep, and the shore is rocky. Because you are preoccupied about forgetting, you aren’t paying attention and you dip a little close to the water and some how find the only really soft muddy spot in the area. Your quad is stuck. You get off and asses the situation. There are no trees within 500 feet, and nothing else you can see that you can winch to. Everyone is continuing on thinking it will be at least 40 minutes until you are back, so you can not expect help for at least 60 minutes, and that’s if your lucky. Chances are they won’t see you until they are returning at the end of the day. What I’m looking for is what do you carry or what could you do to get out of this situation. I’m not looking for, I have this brand of quad with these tires and they never get stuck. I don’t want to start any kind of arguments, I’m looking to hear from all the experience in this forum and use it myself. Thank you so much, and I hope I’m not too long winded.
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kraked
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cell phone & beer
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outlandish Admin 
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no signal..."can ya hear me now?" seriously, I'd be in trouble I carry extra rope, have a winch etc but that won't help much..... the friends would come back to check on ya
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outlandish Admin
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BTW welcome to the forum
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Buwahnah Member
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Sofaque, Check out the "Xtractor" from Montanna Jacks (http://www.montanajacks.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=988), I believe this would help in your scenario. I think Cabelas also sells a similar product. Buwahnah
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sofaque Member
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Thanks for the welcome. That's excellent, that's the kind of info I'm looking for. Thanks so much. I guess I have to stock up on beer for while I wait!! 
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OSOKILL Admin Assist/ Enforcer 
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here is the one from cabelas.... kinda cool has a built in slide hammer for puttin it in place and gettin it out
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ilovgalparts Member 
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heres one my brother and i figured out. You some how get stuck out in the middle of a bog, like you said, no trees, no buddies. Take out your axe, find a large longer (tree) , cut it and limb it. Put it at a 45 degree angle in front of your quad, put your cable tight around the top. Start winching. The longer will start heading down into the bog til it reaches something solid and then start pulling the quad up the tree and out.  It works. On a long shot it don't work, sit and have that beer and wait, they'll come back. 
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windrider67 Member
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Buwahnah wrote: Sofaque, I just can't see that device working very well. The quad in the video was basically just high centered on some soft sand. He probably could have walked it off if he'd just stepped off the quad. In the muskeg that we ride in up north, we've brought down smaller trees in our attempts to winch out. That little shovel would be useless.
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Buwahnah Member
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Hi Windrider, I can't comment on the efficacy of this item in sand or in northern muskeg, but I've used it in clay soils here in Texas and in the Seitz soils (pale cobby loams) of Colorado quite successfully. The key step in using this tool (Xtractor) is ensuring that you bury it properly and not just stab it in the ground like a ship's anchor. Buwahnah
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Crazy8 Member
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you said it was rocky use the rocks to anchor the winch cable or a log to pry the front up and fill the holes in with rock
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Ruffles
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I've made my own anchor out of a few pieces of rebar. I'll take 3 bars about 3 foot long and hammer them into the ground about 3 feet apart. I connect my winch to the first one at ground level. The top of that one then connects to the second one at ground level. The top of the second connect to the third etc. The rebar takes up little space and it's easier to hammer in a bar than dig a big hole to burry one of those boat anchor things.
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sofaque Member
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Great info guys, I really appreciate it. Ruffles, That sounds perfect, I don't suppose you have any pics of it in action? I'd love to see it. Sounds simple, but I need to wrap my head around it. Thanks to everyone for their responses as well, lots of great info.
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Buwahnah Member
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Sofaque, Here's a similar approach to Ruffles' idea that was posted on "ATV Frontier". Buwahnah
For an anchor, I have seen people use a length of chain, and some steel stakes. About 3 feet of chain works good, get a chain with big enough links so that a fairly big rod can fit through the link. Lay the chain on the ground, and drive a stake every 6 inches or so through the link into the ground. You want the chain strung out so that when you pull on the end, it puts pressure on ALL the stakes at once. 5/16 or 3/8 rod about 12-18 inches long works good. Weld a washer on top to keep it from pulling through (or bend the end in a J shape). All of this can be held in a 3 inch PVC pipe strapped to your rack.
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WallyD Member
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I just cant see carrying all that stuff, even if it would work. The most important rule is that your riding partners know that they are responsible for the guy behind them. When you don't show up, they come back and look for you! By the way, great topic.
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Powassan Member 
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Chainsaw or just a saw, cut some trees and wedge them under your tires, pry up, drive out. Last edited on Sat Mar 1st, 2008 02:18 pm by Powassan ____________________ Ride it like you stole it |
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compact64 Member 
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More beer that the way we do it here, so far i havent had the luck of sitting drinking i've been the one to go back on get popo, kawi, yami and a suzuki sierra [samuai]out. But i have found that the lift[buy what ever means] and fill under the tyres and reverse out is the best option. And what ever u take u always need some thing else and what u need depends on where u r riding sand, mud, forrest............ Last edited on Tue Mar 4th, 2008 05:55 am by compact64 ____________________ 2006 800 Outlander Red Ram mounts GPS/Drink Garmin rino520 gps 27 Swamplites 14inch ITP 106 HMF pipe Richoet plates XT front bar HID lights Winch 3000lb crutchfield shocks dalton clutch kit |
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GOTTOYS 
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Drink a beer, drink another beer, have one more beer. Pour some gas on it, light er off. Somebody will come and rescue you when they see the smoke....Good idea hey?.....GOTT
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Revicm
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Either that or fight the crows off what?
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WallyD Member
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I carry everything but the kitchen sink already. But, I spent another day in the woods yesterday and thought about putting a wyoming saw in the box. Just a small flat saw. It might work for a tree if you needed it. Also might work as a hacksaw for fashioning that parts fix if needed. Whatdaya think?
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Revicm
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Got the power to haul it...what the hell.
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norsepeak Member
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The easiest answer is "pay attention" and don't get stuck by yourself. That being said I have ride by myself a couple thousand miles a year and have gotten stuck in the snow where I couldn't winch to anything lots of times. I have a small folding shovel and a folding saw that I carry and they have gotten me out of many a jam. Just have to be creative.
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Amo Member
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2-way radio required for deep backwoods stuff IMO.
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