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What is the theoretical max slope one can safely traverse? Anybody know?

Angle is a varible thing,i.e. speed,load.up,down,in between... Just drive it and when your butt clinches set the brake and if you can and get out and look. Sometimes it feels a lot worse than it really is. When learning a Pinz,take some friends in case gravity wins!
Mark

What is the theoretical max slope one can safely traverse?

I think the number from the factory is something like 42 degrees; I'm assuming that is for an M, but I'm not sure whether that is loaded or not. But I've been in a 710M (with 9 people) that I swear was at 45 degrees! (for several seconds, not just an instant!).

I have a bubble inclinometer between the visors - I've told my wife she is not allowed to scream until it gets to the red (30 degrees) - she studies it carefully and stays quiet below that angle - then she screams and says "it was in the red!" but I'm ususally so thinking "oh crap" that I never notice it, or her!

Jim M.
710M and 712W

blackstack wrote:What is the theoretical max slope one can safely traverse? Anybody know?

Thanks for the answers gents....I read 42 or 43 degrees somewhere and wanted to confirm....Someone told me the german army did tests to see how people reacted to listing and found the discomfort level started to rise around 12 degrees...

I have a clinometer mounted between the visors also and a second one on the passenger door panel that measures pitch

thanks again for your comments

I have purposely NOT installed the factory inclinometer for the simple reason that the urge to max it out would be too strong for me to resist. Plus, when you do get tippy, you will be staring at the guage instead of getting out of trouble!
I have come very close to tipping over sideways though. I literally reached out the drivers window, put my hand on a rock wall and stopped the truck from tipping into it once. The pivot point was so slight that with my one arm, I was able to push the truck back onto all four wheels! Yikes!!!
P.S.- If you do end flopping a Pinz over, you can most likely keep driving it once it's back on it's wheels. Not so with most 4x4's.

The pivot point was so slight that with my one arm, I was able to push the truck back onto all four wheels! Yikes!!!

Wow, that must have been in the border line of scary-awesome feeling...

Uh, yeah. It's just past this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usdk/colle ... 012827641/

Look for Paul in the ITO club... D'oh.

As stated, so much depends upon speed, terrain, and CG of load. I know I have done 45 on rock with two people and no load.