Sweet! I've always favored tall, narrow, self-cleaning tread designs for mud-running, just as did the early vehicle-borne explorationists depicted in the clip.
My first employer, Phelps Dodge (the mining company, not a Dodge dealer), provided its exploration geologists with a fleet of custom-ordered late 1960s Chevy Blazers and Suburbans with 7.50 x 16 10-ply pizza cutter mud tires, two spares, a Ramsey winch, 4-speeds with granny lows, and 3.07 gears. Those trucks could fly down the paved highways in the Basin and Range with those tall gears and still crawl at walking speeds in the mountains with the granny low and low range in the transfer case. How I'd love to have one today!
Thanks for the totally cool link!
Foy