If'n some of you fellas would show up on one our rides, you would see how silly this teir stuff CAN be.
Ask Zukbilly. We went to Hale Mtn last weekend. Plenty of carnage. A really broad range of rigs including axle and tire and engine sizes. Go ahead ask Billy who broke what? (I'll tell you, a little bit of everyone! But be sure there were 60s AND Rockwells on the list. And you know what, a sharp rock don't care if that tire is a 31 OR a 44.)
When we ride we sometimes get a literal mob of people, but generally break up into smaller groups. IMO anything more than 5 or 6 in a group, and this turns into a spectator sport. Not saying that is bad, but it is the truth and I am going to ride, not watch.
I wheel almost 100% of the time with rigs on tons or bigger and 42" and up tires.
My rig is on D44s (alloys, detroits, 4.88s) and 39.5" Pitbulls. Yes I have to drive with some sense, no I can't take the same lines, yes my winch gets a bit more use, and occassionally things break. But almost without fail it is usually the BUILT rigs that suffer the most carnage. Makes sense since that is generally why it was built, so it could get hammered on.
Point of this rambling is as stated earlier.................respect for the abilities of your equipment is
, going hand in hand with driver skill/exp.