travelytrain
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hey guys, what you consider essential to pack for off roading. such as shovel, rope, health kit, etc? thank you for the help
I feel yiur pain...ffsMate I had to write that post so many times as it was.
I've been stranded in places as remote as Cardiff , Manchester and Liverpool just because i lost my phone and with it several hundred phone numbers . I have since made a point of memorizing just one number so i at least have a link to my former life if it happens again .
You could buy a pencil Shayne...
Good stuff!On your own suggestion, a shovel and rope would indicate you going somewhere less firm than a stone track.
If you going near deep mud, and particularly if you're alone, then you should have a winch. Then, you need some winch-associated equipment, such as a snatch block (at least one), winch line blanket (or use a heavy piece of carpet or such like) spare rope (always useful) a tree protector (a rated 2 meter or more length of webbing with stitched eyes at each end), a number of rated shackles, more rope (rope is useful to stabilise a vehicle if it's perched at a crazy angle in danger of rolling over or sliding. Tie the thing to a bloody tree, attached to as may points on the vehicle and as many trees as your rope permits).
I carry a 3m length of chain which has proved useful, and when alone out on open mountain, I've taken to carry a ground anchor (only because I sweated for 3 hours one time, with one rear wheel sunk up to the top of the tyre in a deep hole, with the other 3 wheels on wet grass and not a tree, bush or anything stronger than a thistle as far as the eye could see).
On that occasion, I escaped using the main bar of my hi-lift as a giant tent peg, which I hammered into the ground. So I recommend a BFH (that's not a small hammer).
As Roger says, you could go on for ever with lists. I've got on-board air, but any type of air pump is useful, it's easy to pop a tyre off a bead, so you need some means of re-inflation.
Carry drinking water and some foodstuffs, anything that will aid survival if something goes wrong. That can be a simple roll-over or at worst a fire. So, a coat of some sort, and something waterproof such as a tarp or even just a plastic sheet will assist survival in an emergency, as well as the obvious fire extinguishers and first-aid kits etc.
And so on, ad infinitum....