Some friends and I went out to the local sand pit / off road area today. I got my new tires earlier this week, thought Id try them out. Well I succeeded 
The new more aggressive tires are a big improvement, let me do things I couldn't do before.
I saw my friends riding around in this water covered area- it seemed to have an OK bottom, water was only about 8" deep. I took off across the hole, it got softer in the middle, where the 4wheelers were riding on top, my truck sank quite a bit. In 4 high, I punched it and made it all the way through the hole. I don't have a video of me, but here is a friends jeep crossing the hole. I crossed a little further to the Right then he did. He took the edge so he could pull me out.
http://www.explorerforum.com/files/45215/DSCF2987.AVI
Once I got across the hole, I wasn't sure where to go and my friend was sitting there on a 4wheeler. The ground looked dry and solid, I pulled up next to him and stopped. I sank like a rock. I tried to back up, just spun, tired to pull forward and dug in. I was buried up to the axles instantly. My tires were free spinning. My sliders were sitting on the ground. IT took us a while to figure out where to pull from because the ground all around where I was because it was so soft. The Jeep nearly got stuck getting back to my truck.
Here is the hole I went across-
Here I am stuck
Buried to the axle-
Here is a video of my getting pulled out-
http://www.explorerforum.com/files/45215/DSCF2988.AVI
And me going back across the hole after being pulled out-
http://www.explorerforum.com/files/45215/DSCF2989.AVI
Here is my truck after getting across the hole the second time
The new more aggressive tires are a big improvement, let me do things I couldn't do before.I saw my friends riding around in this water covered area- it seemed to have an OK bottom, water was only about 8" deep. I took off across the hole, it got softer in the middle, where the 4wheelers were riding on top, my truck sank quite a bit. In 4 high, I punched it and made it all the way through the hole. I don't have a video of me, but here is a friends jeep crossing the hole. I crossed a little further to the Right then he did. He took the edge so he could pull me out.
http://www.explorerforum.com/files/45215/DSCF2987.AVI
Once I got across the hole, I wasn't sure where to go and my friend was sitting there on a 4wheeler. The ground looked dry and solid, I pulled up next to him and stopped. I sank like a rock. I tried to back up, just spun, tired to pull forward and dug in. I was buried up to the axles instantly. My tires were free spinning. My sliders were sitting on the ground. IT took us a while to figure out where to pull from because the ground all around where I was because it was so soft. The Jeep nearly got stuck getting back to my truck.
Here is the hole I went across-
Here I am stuck
Buried to the axle-
Here is a video of my getting pulled out-
http://www.explorerforum.com/files/45215/DSCF2988.AVI
And me going back across the hole after being pulled out-
http://www.explorerforum.com/files/45215/DSCF2989.AVI
Here is my truck after getting across the hole the second time
