The MaxTrax MkII is the original recovery board, sold here as a pair in olive drab. Each board is 45 inches long, 13 inches wide, and 3.5 inches tall, molded from UV-stabilized, fiber-reinforced engineering-grade nylon. Two boards weigh about 15 lbs together and ship with two orange telltale leashes so you can find them once they sink into the muck.
The aggressive cleats are the whole point. They bite into your tire tread on one side and the terrain on the other, so a stuck tire climbs out of sand, mud, or snow instead of digging deeper. A shovel molded into each end lets you clear pack from in front of the tire before you wedge the board in. Six built-in handles make them easy to grab, carry, and seat with cold hands. The nylon is tested to wrap fully around a 33-inch tire without snapping, and it resists cracking or stress-whitening under normal use.
This is the standard MkII size that fits most full-size trucks, 4WD SUVs, vans, and overland rigs, and it works for ATVs, UTVs, and snowmobiles too. Mounting pins to rack-mount the boards are sold separately; for recovery itself, no rack or hardware is required.
