A 2500 lb winch is cutting it close for a buried quad, most guys I know run 3500 or 4000 for that exact reason. Glad it pulled you out though, that clay near Danbury eats tires for breakfast.

$20 won't even cover the wax, let alone the dog.

Whoa, hold on, I gotta disagree there. That prediction wasn't late, it was just aimed at the wrong people. Your GPS is rerouting you because we all decided to live in the suburbs and drive everywhere alone. The gridlock was always coming, we just kept paving over farmland instead of building better bus routes. Those car phone folks saw the traffic part coming clear as day, but they didn't bank on us being too stubborn to change how we commute. So it's not that the advice was late, it's that we ignored it for thirty years and acted surprised when the roads filled up.