that pic makes me happy!! snow fun...way down there!!!

 

My experience has been the stock BF Rugged Terrains absolutely suck in the snow in the wet...a complete disgrace to have on a Hummer. The stock Goodyear Wranglers are not bad & alot better than the BF's but other off road tires much better of course in snow.

 

Well, I guess I have the not-so-stock 285 Wrangler MT/Rs on mine. They do alright in snow, ice, and rain. They really shine in mud.

I hunt bears in Minnesota in the fall. I have swamps to go thru on the way to some of my stands. I haven't had to use the winch up there yet.

My old Jeep needed the winch quite often.

 

I live in the Chicago-land area too, actually out in the burbs that got more snow than the city itself a couple weeks ago. 20+ inches in some parts. I tried to get stuck, didn't happen. Drove through 3'+ high drifts without even taking it out of standard AWD. It was a blast cruisin' down the roads while other cars (SUV's and trucks included) were literally being abandoned in the middle of the street like it was the apocalypse because they were stuck. Even drove through some plowed spots that were 2ft high by a few feet wide in order to cross the street or get into the grocery store parking lot.

Based on my experience this past storm I think it would take considerable effort on the drivers part to get an H3 stuck in the snow.

2006 H3 Adventure Pckg with stock tires.

 

02-08-2011, 01:17 PM
drtom
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Stuck? Oh yeah!! check the above post!
quite simple, i just drove off the driveway into the yard in abt 10 inches of fresh stuff over a few inchs of crunchy stuff and spun all 4!! i could look out and watch em rotate in neat little pockets!

in freezing weather its dangerous to be over confident if you must walk far !
i wont travel without a shovel to dig out. if you dont get stuck, a lot of luck is involved.
yesterday i almost did it again on the side slope i lost it on last yr, started to slide sideways down my sideyard,caught it in time. these big fat tires are like snowboards.

glad its melting fast,goodby sno!!

 

No one with a Hummer ever gets stuck, you are just temporarily detained.

 

Great writup Diesel! Just what I wanted to hear!

 

Hey drtom; What kind of tires are you running on it?

 

last yr stock 265, 07 lux
now 10 adv with stock 285.
i guess there just not so good for sno !

 

My wife got stuck this year, we had about 24+" of snow on the ground at the time. that is not the funny part though....

And really neither is this part funny : My mother in law helps out with families troubled by alcohol abuse, and in this region that even includes Amish families. So it is the day after Christmas and my Mother in law calls and asks my Mrs. to help her get some gifts, food and general goodwill to a young Amish mother and her kids (the father was shunned from the Amish community due to his alcohol abuse and actions)...

Anyway ONTO to the funny part , since the snow is so terrible my wife takes the H3 and traveling is fine on the township plowed roads all the way til they get to this Amish girl's farmouse...a long uphill driveway, unplowed with 24" of snow on it, and nothing but a few horse and buggy tracks breaking the surface. Well she gets 1/2 up or so and there gets to be just too much snowplowing in front of the H3 on its uphill climb and it stops her forward progess and they get a bit stuck for a minute...sure enough up the driveway comes horse and buggy that rides right past with no problems this symbol of modern innovation and off-road capability. After the buggy passed she got the H3 unstuck by going in reverse and backtracking out her plow path . On her second attempt she was not so ginger on it...and made the climb right to the frontdoor.

A million dollar opportunity was missed by not catching a photo of the horse and buggy, passing the stuck H3 on that driveway...A motivational poster perhaps with the title "Technology only gets you so far"...LOL