Have you ever had to McGuyver your way out of the backcountry?

Ronaha said:

Try to imagine yourself stuck out there all night, you'd probably want a small tarp too, also make sure your byetter half looks more delicious for bears.

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Hahaha....i always size every one out first. You just don't want to be the fattest and slowest in the group, you just need to be a bit faster then your buddy. Or have him or her carry the fish home LOL.

My uncle cut a tire not way of patching or plugging it. We rammed it full of dried slew grass. Never even popped off the bead.
Another time I ripped a valve stem out and never had an extra. But I had those sticky tire plugs, so I filled the valve stem hole up with those then used the needle for basketballs to fill the tire. Drove the whole weekend like that.
Another way to get the tire on the bead is use off to blow it back on, or pick up the quad or sxs and drop it down it will push the tire on the bead.

Me and the group i ride with
used mechanics wire to hold my sons dirt bike chain link together to get him out of the cadomin area

Was at goodfish rally last year, put a hole on the side of my tire about the size of a toonie. Had a bungee cord I cut to 2” inches and then folded it in to half, jammed it in like a tire plug and filled with one bottle of slime, aired it up and held 30 clicks to the truck!

I don't have a quad, but have done some things in the back country. One of the first was, while hunting, stopped at an old homestead and when we went to leave the car wouldn't run. I found the fuel line plugged, tried to blow it out but couldn't. Scrounged around the homestead and found 6 whisky bottles and an old oil can. tied the oil can to the firewall and crawled under the car and pulled the drain plug on the tank and filled the whisky bottles. Took a vacuum line off the car and put it in the oil can and hooked it up to the fuel pump, (carb engine). We got home, I think we used about 18 whisky bottles of fuel.

I carry small inner tube slices, very handy. on a couple of occasions I have tied the skis together on someones snowmobile with a branch to replace a broken tie rod.

I remember when someone lost the end bearing on the main driveshaft on a snowmobile, (too far too tow out), hammered off the inner race and took apart a bogie wheel and used it's bearing, (had to hammer it on, didn't exactly fit), got him home.

Coming down in the steep hit a tree and broke a brake lever, used a 7/16" box end wrench as a replacement.

Friend of our destroyed left rear hub on his rhino at ruby falls .so we cut a tree jammed it under the drivers seat strapped under a arms worked great we got a log per 3km lol.last year another friend with brand new defender broke a tie Rod .made a tow truck out of a high lifter ranger needles to say he will never go out with all popo guys again lol