This.
And...some situations can be to precarious that you either take the hit and keep going...or you brake too hard in avoiding them......and roll your truck.
I know that sounds far-fetched, but here is a spot where the factors were exactly that (see photo below).
This decline was so tippy, so severe and unevenly steep that I was hanging my driver tires repeatedly...while attempting not to roll to the right and down. Would have been very bad. But...when at the edge of tipping, braking too hard would have been all it took to go beyond the limit. So...taking the hits here was literally a choice. Hard to describe...and this photo does NOT do the scenario justice.
@TonyP was spotting and can vouch. This was super iffy. Banging and avoiding a roll-over was far better than braking to avoid bangs...and losing the entire rig...
What you can’t see in this photo are my hanging left side, and the more iffy section I’m about to drop into. Pretty sure it looked worse as a spotter than as a driver... because the angles were more obviously nutty from outside...
But anyway... I’ll take skids.
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I have taken much harder hits than this one scenario, but it’s an interesting example of how sometimes even well-chosen line can still bang.
). I’ve had stock skid plates on it up until late April this year. The factory skid plates are pretty adequate for overland type trips. Mechanical Sympathy and careful tire placement go a long way. Adding a super robust skid system is pretty far down on the list for me if you have budget constraints. Taking the $1200 that a nice skid system costs, and paying someone like Bill Burke for a driving lesson will be money much better spent. That being said we currently have a skid system in R&D and we’re putting it through it’s paces.
