Ok after last week I'm interested! Do these work? How about frozen ground
So how a dead man anchor works, which I believe is the same as a pull pall, is basically the same thing as a plow.
It's a sharp angle with a tie about midway up. You put the pokie end into the ground and sort of hammer it in to get it started. You hook your winch up to the tie point and slowly winch. You lean the top away from the rig forcing the pointy end to bury itself into the ground (think plow)
After a few seconds it becomes so buried that your inch cable is literally in the ground with 3 feet of iron anchored. It works in mud, skeg, frozen tundra, you name it. It's not as handy as a tree, but nearly every moose buggy has one.
You can make one out of a 2x4 to try it out, but they suck. We use heavy steel and just bolt it to the front of the buggy as a bumper. Hi lift attached to that.
There's videos, but that's pretty much how it works. It just buries itself until nothing could move it. You then winch out and just drive over it and it pulls right out.
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