Causes of getting stuck?

[toomany]

The fact that big ass wide tires dont help like people think they do. Theres two mud scenarios, mud with a solid bottom, mud without. The only time that wider tires help is when you are in mud without a solid bottom and when your in a 4000-55000lb rig it takes some damn big tires to float over the slop with no bottom.

Skinny tires get you down into the mud to the more solid dirt faster.

Personally I believe the only place wide tires prevail is in bottomless snow. Give me skinny meats any other day of the week.

The problem with wide tires is, most people don't have the power to spin them to clean them out in the mud. If I have a choice, I run wider tires and use a lower gear to get the wheel speed up. But I also have a motor that dyno'd at 415hp at the crank. And am building a 454 to replace it.

 

[bigjohn79]

Reaching for another beer and not looking where youre going

 

[derherr65]

Great post Metrodps. That's exactly what I was talking about. Once you start pushing mud or rocks with the frame it's all over, and the 300% force shows why.

 

[Russell]

90% of the time I get hung up by one of my diff pumpkins, not very often that I get into soup that powers me out, or is so slippery I can't move.

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

Here's my opinion on the wide vs. skinny tire deal:


In the most basic form, the available frictional force is based on the weight of the vehicle and the coefficient of friction of the road surface. Looking at only this, tire material, tread design and width have absolutely no effect on available traction.

But in the real world, there are two more things going on:

First, tires actually have some physical adhesion to the road. This is why plastic wheels wouldn't work well at all while "soft" tires grip very well. In this case, wider tires will be better which is why race cars run very wide tires.

Second, tires can make a mechanical connection with the road surface (think paddle tires). When there is mud in between the tread, the tire can actually push the vehicle forward. Same thing goes for rocks, etc. Even on asphalt the tire will "flow" into the little voids in the asphalt and provide more traction (which is why you often see low tire pressures in drag racers). In this case, wider tires are better in some situations (mud, snow) and narrow tires are better in others (like in the rocks, the narrow tire will be forced to conform to the surface more due to higher contact pressure).


So, IMO, skinny tires are better in the rocks and wider tires are better in the mud and snow.

 

[sope]

Most of my stucks I would say is due to diff clearence. I often have to jack my truck off stumps that I managed to get my front pumkin or tube on. As for just having trouble making it up stuff (not really stuck) is traction on wet dirt. I feel taller fatter tires would help for both as I have 1 tons and 38/ 12.5's.

 

[Randy92782]

I think we're forgetting sand situations too. In my experience i've always had better luck with the wide a/t's over any kind of narrow or m/t's.

I almost got stuck this past summer with the 265's i had on my truck. After the lift and tire change (35x12.50's) it did ALOT better

That's just personal experience. Think it also helped that the bigger tires kinda dogged my truck down where i wasn't spinning the tires near as easy. Slow and easy

 

[NewUser]

Reaching for another beer and not looking where youre going

or depending on geographic location inbreeding could be a major contributor to getting stuck(i.e. "hey uncle paw daddy watch me drive this here truck thru that there mudhole)

 

[bigjohn79]

or depending on geographic location inbreeding could be a major contributor to getting stuck(i.e. "hey uncle paw daddy watch me drive this here truck thru that there mudhole)