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A Simple, Portable Object that Easily Frees Your Stuck Car
The Trac-Grabber Traction Device should be a first-year Industrial Design case study
What's more frustrating than having paid a premium to own an all-wheel-drive vehicle, and still getting stuck? Spinning all four wheels in either snow or mud is maddening, and you could often get free if just one or two of the wheels could get some purchase.
For this problem a simple, low-tech device exists: The Trac-Grabber Traction Device. It's portable, relatively quick and easy to install and looks quite effective:
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Enter a caption (optional)The Trac-Grabber is sold in two-packs and four-packs, in both standard and XL sizes, the latter for oversized off-road tires.
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Enter a caption (optional)This product should be a case study for first-year Industrial Design students: What useful item could you make out of webbing straps, a D-ring, some Velcro and a chunk of rubber? I call this good design.
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These were called cheater chains in my day. (mid-century) The strap was joined by 2 short length of chain and worked in the same fashion as the rubber ones you featured but on sheer ice you could drive on them at low to medium speeds and not skid. They are probably still available somewhere.
Looks like an awesome product. Sincere question here, would a tie-down, and 2x4 work? presumably a driver already has tie-downs in their trunk / pick-up bed / back seat. Would you be able to do the same thing with those two items, or do you need the interlocking rubber piece to actually get out of a jam?
This is really a simple useful design compared to the bag that you had to bury in a huge hole and would only work if you had a winch.
Excellent!
Rain, you are going to be needing this now that you moved upstate! :-)