Sand driving

Nailed it! lol

Bring a strap, piece of board and a shovel. If you start spinning, STOP! Another good one, if you drive on at Cape after a storm, DO NOT try and drive through the little ponds of water up on the beach! Every year people do and they sink like quick sand. If you actually want to drive on to fish, head south of Cape. Less crowded and better fishing, in my opinion. Just use common sense while you are out there. A couple weeks ago the life guards were out at IRI for try outs or something. Well, the supervisor got stuck and had to call a ranger to come help get him out. Instead of leaving through the proper entrance/exit, he tried to drive up over the dune where people walk over. And don't forget those stupid nuts that hang from your hitch!

 

I'm on the beach most of the year with my beater . rule of thumb for me . even before i lower pressure . if i can put it 4 high and take my foot off the brake and the truck still wants to crawl , I'm good in 4 high . but if it doesn't , i go 4 low . The same with 4 low . if it won't crawl when i take my foot off the brake , i lower pressure just a tad . i save lowering the pressure all the way to 15 or 20 when i feel the truck starting to dig in . And if you keep a tow rope and a big duffle bag in the truck , u can use those to get unstuck . dig a hole 30 ft in front of truck , fill bag with sand then rap it with one side of tow strap then cover it in the hole u just dug . then take other end rap it around front tire . starting with the tow rope going under the tire , then rap it towards the front . then slowly engage the strap by creeping forward . Bailed many stuck 4wheelers on the beach that way with an old tow and kite bag .

 

I don't think I have anything to add to this threadelle. Everyone touched on all the good points.

This one time in college, my roommate was Schmitt faced and took about 7 of us back from the Irish pub and back to brigantine. He thought the beach would be safer than the blvd. After cruising around 40 mph hit something and everyone went flying. He blew all his fender flares off.

Good times!

 

I saw this on the news last week. This was my first thought as soon as I opened this thread and before I saw that you posted this haha.

I'd never take my truck that close to the water. If I did, I at least wouldn't get out and let it sit. I might run it through there and that's it. I'm surprised he was able to drive it out of there. I would have thought for sure that he would have gotten water coming in through the floors and ****!ing up the wiring and god knows what else.

I've went through a over a foot of water in my f350 and splashed up even higher than that and it was running all fu cked up for a few minutes. I had an old 73 f250 back in the day and took it through a swamp and got my distributor all wet and the thing ran like sh!t for days. It even stalled a few times, it was a mess!

 

I've driven on the beach at NSB and Ponce Inlet at high tide when there's hardly any dry sand to drive on and they start shutting down the North end of NSB because it's getting too high. I had a Tahoe with 4WD which helped, so never got stuck but have driven along the waterline. It never came close to getting stuck, not even up where the soft / deep sand is. Miss that vehicle.

 

Let the dam air out of your tires...nothing worse then driving 10 miles + down the beach and getting vibrated to death in the tracks because many morons just don't let the air out of the tires...and they run the risk of getting stuck and it seriously puts a ton more work on your drivetrain...I have no problem if you don't let the air out if your going a very short distance, but don't be an idiot and drive the entire length of the ORV/OSV zone at full pressure. Surprise I have fillings left when driving to va line in the fall.

 

What about the po' wittle piping plovers??!!???

 

Sorry, but f those plovers...iam all about taking care of the wildlife, but shutting down 95% of the beach area for one nesting pair is ludicrous. Glad my daughter doesn't see this...she was a coastal steward for coastal bays for many years educating tourists about ai.

 

He didn't drive out, they had to come yank him out. He was able to drive away, but there was water damage. Hit lights were blinking like his alarm was going off, but he insisted on driving away.

 

I meant drive it away from the scene, rather than have it flat bedded out of there after they pulled him out. That thing's gotta be all kinds of ****ed up.

I have a 2000 F350 with the diesel that I have taken on the beach to LBI before. It has 345K miles at this point but it's still starting and running at peak performance every day.

I had a 73 F250 with a 460, years and years ago. I took that 4-wheeling all the time. I can't believe the motor lasted as long as it did. The body of the truck was shot and the motor was still going at 27 or 28 years old, despite the rest of the truck falling apart. When it came time to junk the truck, I donated the motor to a friend to put in another truck and it still lasted another 5+ years, before he junked the truck because the rest of it was falling apart. It was still working when he junked the thing. You could beat the **** out of that motor and it wouldn't stop.

 

Funny thread! Kinda sad for those ppl in the videos... Some great info... specially that trick with the rope and duffle bag

Got stuck in the sand once... in a rental truck in rincon PR years ago...I wasn't driving, but about 20 ft into the sand we realized it wasn't 4wd lol oh man was that ever crazy. Middle of nowhere... didn't know what to do. We prayed, then started to walk back a long dark road, heard some loud engine slowly coming toward us, but no lights. Happen to be some guy in the middle of no where in the middle of the night driving a crane /forklift thing with like 5ft wheel. We flag him down. He laughs at us... then helps us out lol turns out he was setting up scaffolding for a surf contest at Maria's

 

Dual sport with paddles for the WIN!