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Whoops!! Let's see your whoops, stucks, and general catastrophic deviations from the plan!
Just like you'd see in the back of any of the main four-wheeling or off-road magazines, let's see your whoops! Basic structure should be something along the lines of the plan, what happened, what the solution was, and the aftermath. As one would expect, posts without pics are absolutely worthless
This thread is inspired by my...adventure late last night. Went to scope out some night fishing at a local-ish spot. During the day it's just too awkward to squeeze the Ex in there between the ruts and other people's vehicles. About the ruts... they're moderately deep, but not impassable - especially if you straddle them, you know.. typical stuff. Well with the rain we had the past couple of days, I had a severe lapse of brainpower. 1/2 tons and Jeeps navigate around or through them just fine, however throw 9200lbs of fun into the same terrain, and what was solid ground rapidly dissolves into swamp mess. My first pass, the it did the typical ***-end slides off into the ruts, pulls the front in, and was able to snag reverse and throttle out of it. At this point I decided to get out and poke around with a stick to test the grassy stuff, which ended up being good. Should've poked around a lot more, because....
What's that you say? That's not really stuck you say? I would be inclined to agree until you realize that it's sitting on 35's and a 4" lift, and there should be a HELL of a lot more clearance between the tires and the fenderwells...
Indeed, that is bumpers and running boards flat on the ground. While I was able to walk around perfectly fine on the crust over this primordial muck, the aforementioned 9200 pounds smashed right through it and Stay-Puft sank like a Sherman tank dropped from a C-9 without a parachute. Only on two small holes though, as you can see in the pictures. The water around the front tire wasn't there prior to getting stuck, when the tire busted through and sank it created a channel and a huge rut allowing the lake water to meander its way into the hole.
Thankfully Razzi (Toreador_Diesel) was awake for my mayday text, and he and a Jeep friend showed up and ended up winching me out. This all took place between 1045pm and 0200am so I couldn't take very good pictures with my phone and a flashlight. I shall revisit the scene later today and take some daylight pictures of the ground and the 4 FOOT deep ruts and holes that I got snared in. I also have a new appreciation for Warn winches, that little 8k on the Jeep was working serious overtime even with the snatchblock, but it did the job. Mud creates some hellacious suction.
Aftermath was your typical mud stuck, with the addition of a 4x8 sheet of plywood that was lurking in the mud wedged under the truck.
Again, night pictures with a phone don't come out super well. I'll snap a few more come sunrise, hopefully it'll be a bit easier to see. There is mud literally EVERYWHERE on this thing now. Spent $20 at the coin-op wash just cleaning the undercarriage, brakes, and steering components then washing it all off into the grass so as to avoid being "that douchebag" that leaves his muck all over the stall.
I expect Razzi will have a few pictures of his own and I think a video or two to contribute, should he have the time.
I have some of those but never document them with pictures.
I happened to be alone and doing some exploring on some small back roads.
Folding my mirrors in was only a small solace. I will need to buff the sides of the truck "a little".
Kind a tight between the trees, leaves, branches and things, but no dents as I was able to navigate in to some back country lakes, and back out successfully, be it will a bit of missing clear coat. Can't see the stripes, but you can see the end result of the search, some nice country.
This first one isn't mine... Will the owner fess up???
The rest I fess up to. For all the places I go, and the miles and hours away from help I find myself, I've had few malfunctions and the ones I've had were in good company.
This first one is more of an optical allusion.. I didn't actually get stuck. Swear. I was an anchor for another truck that was winching a VERY stuck truck out of the mud. One little tug and I was free to go home.
Later that trip I blew a coolant line....
On the way home my brake caliper dislodged and jammed up in the wheel.
A simple flat turned into a big deal thanks to a terrible tow truck driver...
And in an unrelated, but still embaressing moment...........
07-07-2014, 05:01 AM
