As the post says hands up all those who sink or get suck on non hardstandings, normally when this topic appears i recommend bread trays (which you have to pinch)oops borrow. Well today i've found the perfect solution
I work next to a plumbers merchants & on the top of their rubbish pile was a PLASTIC pallet roughly 3ftx4ftx2in honeycombed with 3in squares, these they say are a chuck away item, i've just cut mine up width wise & it's made 2 pads 24 x 32 x 2inch thick
Took me 30mins to cut up & to remove the stumpy legs, so keep your eyes open remember this is rubbish that will save you a lot of strife
I use the cheap plastic door mats, the ones that look like grass, worked OK so far.
Park with front drive wheels on one each then two more to use as door mats front and back (garage door) and then use those when required, once going you can then usually keep going.
We were down at Escot Park,in Devon (for Beautiful Days Festival) and the car parks and campervan fields were an absolute mud bath(..a real buried to the axel job!)...
There were ex-mod,Landy 101s and Bedford 4x4 trucks,needing to dragged out by tractors..and yet some folk were STILL tattin' about with those ribbed,yellow mat things!
use the milenco mud mats - much better than those yellow things, these are made from rubber and actually have a bite on them to get you moving - we never pitch without them, even in summer (remember that do we?)
and yet some folk were STILL tattin' about with those ribbed,yellow mat things!
The yellow mat things are Satan's toilet paper. People buy them thinking that they are going to work - they don't. You would think that by now there had been enough bad reports on them on UKCS and other similar websites that no-one bought them any more
Brill tip about the plastic pallets. I've used bread trays for years and they can be a bit too flexible at times.
When all else fails, including asking the warden with his four wheel drive tractor, or owner with his ancient Land Rover, as we did once on a CL, (I am not going to put 2 tonnes of Sedona with only front wheel drive into a muddy field), it can always come back to sheer brute force and ignorance. Alternately chock the back of the wheels and 'walk' the unit out by pulling the towbar first to one side and then the other. Not pretty. Not fast. But works, well did on the Pennine when we got stuck in a field.