My great grandpa was an avid fisherman and was often the first one on several of the lakes each spring. He drove a beat up 2wd Chevy truck that he used a hammer to bang out the dents. My dad says that he used a bar that he'd drive into the ground so that he could winch to it and would open the road to the lake one length of the winch at a time. I guess this is another tactic to get through the snow...
Must ave been some tasty fish in that lake.
For my friends and I it started out as a solution for one particular corner that with spring sun would melt the snow on the inside corner, creating a 1/2 bowl around a large pin tree, and the outer edge was a guaranteed rollover if you slid off that side. Back then we were all running 31-33's w/open diffs, and during late spring trips we could spend a couple of hours getting rigs through that section, by dropping into the bowl then shove and recovery strap our way out the other side providing we got the first rig though. Like most, my buddies didn't like the idea of digging w/o being stuck, but once we tried it and and they seen how much less effort it was, we started using it on sections that we usually turned back from due to high risk of injury/death if the one end slipped off like what happened to FJ.
