I agree with 4biker wholly about chains for snow cable for soup, and studs for ice. Right on the money.

I found too that the more siped the tires were the better they did, on the harder pack and ice, if you don't have studs of course. Most of us don't.

 

I'm sorry but putting small chunks concrete in the bed of a truck is asking for trouble. Put inside some type of container to keep as one heavier item that can’t be thrown out easily if something were to happen. I say use sand bags or even snow. We put a scoop in a 3/4 ton 2 wheel drive Ford with a frontend loader last year at the construction site and that guy went everywhere even pulling out some 4 wheel drive trucks. He said he does it every year and at the end of winter it melts so he does not have to unload it.
When I was in Deadhorse, AK, all the tires were siped with studs for every day. Chains were used for when it was snowing. When we go snow wheeling here in Utah, I use a diamond style chain front and rear. If I run only one set of chains I will put them on the front, because they steer and drive and brake.
If you are pulling someone out, don’t “snap” them out. If something goes wrong then they will come back on you. If you pull them out in 4low nice and easy you have less chance of something happening. Those little tow points are what they are “tow” points. Most that I have seen bend pretty easy and will not stand up to “snaps”.
Something that I have seen is carrying cat litter as a traction aid on ice. You could do the same thing with sand. Floor mats work pretty good also.
My 2cents

 

^^ Nice Post ^^

 

THe concrete, if it matters, was from 3 inch thick, revealed aggregate slabs that we had in our yard that were about 3'x3'. we broke them up so we could actually lift them and then laid them flat all over the bed and packed them tight so that they would not move. It worked, and it was only for about 4 days and then the ice went away. The snow here doesn't last long.

 

It read better when I wrote it. To much smog in the head from when I lived down the hill from you. (Highland, about 5 blocks from where the 30 and 300 hooked up to head up the mountain.)

 

haha I had to move back to the smog too. I was up there for 3 years, now I'm in Fullerton/Brea area. Lets hit Cleghorn!

 

I moved out of that area in '87 when I joined the Air Force. Now I live in Utah. Moab is only 4.5 hours away, and most days I can hear the drums calling.