| [GMCnet] Re: Beach Towing [message #369277 is a reply to message #369276] |
Sun, 27 March 2022 09:38   |
stu@97381.com, Emery
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Larry
When we lived in Michigan we did a lot of beach camping on fresh water. Great beaches along Lake Michigan, Lake Charlevoix, and many other places. Easy access from roads. No long drives across sand.
Emery Stora
77 Kingsley
FrederickCO
> On Mar 27, 2022, at 8:27 AM, Larry Nelson wrote:
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> I am going by my NPINS (north Padre Island National seashore) experience. I discovered way back then how easy it was to get stuck in sand. I did not
> even know I was stuck until we were ready to pull out. If you get off the packed "road" sand, you are in trouble. No, I did not know about deflating
> tires or having any sort of ramp products. A good samaritan and with a one ton dually easily pulled me out (a distance of about 8'). This beach in
> Nebraska requires towing some hundreds of feet, to get you to a place at the water side. The GMC, and I love mine to death....just is not made to
> drive in deep sand (or head up a snowy mountain road from a dead start :lol: ). I would assume that the deft touch of the Tractor Guys operator would
> have as much to do about saving my frame as anything else. This also might be a pipe dream. I aways wanted to camp on a sand beach on FRESH water.
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> Larry Nelson Springfield, MO
> Ex GMC'er, then GM Busnut
> now '77 Eleganza ARS WB0JOT
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