[frizzen]

I was going to go with some stainless MIG welder wire, but the paperclips I had were closer to the gauge I wanted. "Make truck strong, like bull!" Plus everybody has paperclips! Almost did an exocage for this ugly mother, but thought it might be over the top, guess I ought to start a mockup.

Yep, totally. I'm not laying cable, I'm just trying to winch myself out of here. Some people have done 3rd channel for the winches, I'm not sure how they did it, nor do I plan on doing it anytime in the near future. Mine is gonna be a little different. Low-Tech, a brass hair spring providing retract tension for cable. Can't use it to winch up stuff but you use it like a "dead rope", hook onto other truck, both of you put in gear going same direction, both trucks are able to move past obsticle. Works best when they're geared pretty close to the same, but my 'fastest gear, fastest motor truck' can pull my 'lowest gear, lowest motor, crawler gear truck' up the 2" edge of my keyboard that way, so it should be enough for the micro trails.

A tiny servo winch would be ideal, but you'd have to swap in a Propo RX board with a 3rd channel, and go to a 3 channel TX, modify your servo to act as an ESC instead of Servo... Definately possible, but a bit over the top for the amount of $$$ I'm dropping on these.

Any pics of your ride?