Deadmen
Use of the spare tire as a deadman/ground anchor is a tried and true offroading recovery technique.
As a historical note, just down the road from where Rob Love lives, the 19th century steamboats coming up the Assiniboine River to Fort Ellice in the spring shipping season would use a series of deadman ground anchors - logs or heavy timbers, taken ashore by rowboat, buried square to the pull of the line, and then winched up to, using the steam-engine driven capstan winch on the bow. They would work their way up the Brandon Rapids winching and holding from point to point - very slow going.
Seem to have got off the CMP tools track here, though ...
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