Anyone here used either sand ladder or a bridging ladder and their personal experiences would be appreciated. I am thinking of purchasing one but they are on the pricey side my experience is limited to floor mats only so please share your opinions, Thank you.
i always did wonder why the heck he had giant cheese graders on his roof..
I thought it was because instead of an Engle/ARB fridge in the back, he had a wood burning pizza oven...
On a more serious note, are the Aluminum ones strong enough to bridge with? The steel and fiberglass bridges are much more expensive, but also come in 48" lengths, which could probably be mounted cross the FJ, rather than front to back (I couldn't mount them that way, due to tent and axe/shovel mount). Anyone else have them? who's used them??
Guys, you know I use them to communicate with the inhabitants of Tyberon 5, and that they use them to send me the coordinates to the mother ship. What the heck are sand ladders?
This thread asked about using them, though. I'm shamed to say that I've not yet been on a practice run to test them. Right now their only use is to make my truck look bangin'.
Re: bridging: the ones I have are indeed NOT strong enough to bridge, although there are some aluminium ladders that have more rigid design and can be used to bridge.
I thought it was because instead of an Engle/ARB fridge in the back, he had a wood burning pizza oven...
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I too have been looking at Sand Ladders myself. There application is made for expedition type environments were there are a lot of unknowns about the route and being very removed from civilized areas. I think they are kind of an insurance policy myself, you will probably won’t need them most of the time, but when you do, they will pay for themselves at that moment. Mark is right about the bridging ladders, they are more beefy and reinforced structurally for taking the weight of a vehicle. These tend to weigh in a lot more with the exception to some heavy plastic ones that I found on the web.
The only thing I don’t like about them, is the lack of design of “flat” areas that would provided “floatation: in the soft sand and muddy areas, they would tend to sink and you would loose attended purpose of self recovery because of their waffle design.
I looked at these also and like the design better than the waffer myself:
So with all that being said there are many options out there with diferent designs, I think some are better than others IMHO, but thats just my 2 cents.
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