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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | I've run nothing but 4X4's foir the last 33 years towing. Almost every year there are a couple times where I needed the 4 wheel drive or I'd have been screwed. Mostly it is snow and ice early and late or steep gravel Canadian launches in summer. For all the other times I've been in 2 wheel drive, but every truck had some form of limited slip rear end.
It's a learning curve. You do it enough you get pretty good at figuring out what you can and can't do in 2 wheel drive. For the most part 2 wheel drive is all you need.
Part of the learning is if can you get your boat off and on the trailer without getting your trailer wheels into a hole, behind a big rock or off the edge of a ramp. All it takes is something blocking the trailer wheels and you're in worse trouble with two wheel drive. With care you eliminate that problem and then it's just simple traction problems from ice, and loose gravel/sand that can make it miserable to launch and load.
You can always take along a bag of salt/sand for real early or late trips if there are below freezing temps and ice patches on the ramps. |
