I'm with ya, Storm. That rig looked pretty darn stuck to me. Especially considering it had an at least 45' trailer attached.

 

A couple of years ago, on an episode of trucks; Stacy pulled a low boy semi with a full sized track hoe excavator. He did it with a chipped up 3500 Silverado dually. I believe the video. It was pretty cool...

 

Amazing how the arm chair experts chime in isn't it. It is possible, I have had to "help" many times getting stuck construction equipment "unstuck".

If a 300 lb Worlds Strongest Man competitor can move a 16,000 lb tractor, then a 7000 lb + SD can certainly help move a 80,000 lb truck.

Maybe there's some confusion as to what 4WD Low actually is !!!!

 

HaHa. That's all I've got to say. HaHa... if all you got is a gasser... haha!!!!! Well, if that truck can pull it out I guess I can go around towing semi's out of the mud huh?

 

heck, when i worked construction i hooked up my 1995 f350 to a dump truck that got stuck.

he backed up into a building site and dumped out his gravel but on starting to go, all the truck did was spin itself in. he backed in a bit far over a previous back filled area and the weight of the truck settled in.

so we just hooked up a strap we had and i pull him out, of course it wasn't a dead pull, but my tires were spinning like crazy so the truck had mud on it and looked pretty cool, but it wasn't like he wasn't applying power to his tires also to help get out.

 

actually yes, if it had a gasser it wouldn't really matter. i'm sure HP has a certain roll, but like other say its not as important as the low range multiplying the torque a vehicle can put to the ground. if that truck was geared low enough a 4cyl could do it. in this situation i'm sure HP had something to do with it because he was spinning his tires and had enough wheel spin for maximum traction on soft ground. hell how do those little tiny tractor looking rigs pull 747s around at an airport? thats a cool video and truck.

 

It takes neither 700hp nor having the Transfer Case in Low to spin 4 tires on dirt my friend.

 

Depends on what you think "stuck" means.

My definition of "stuck" is that you cannot move under your own power. So if you're sitting on top of a slippery surface and are unable to move due to a lack of traction, you are stuck. It wouldn't take much for another vehicle WITH traction to move you.

That's not the same as "stuck good", as in you're buried to the frame, your axles are acting as plows, and the mud is providing suction around your body.

 

It doesn't take much to get a semi stuck. The one in the video looked like the rubber was in almost to the bottom of the rim. That's in pretty good. Just enough that all the driver can do is polish the rutts. Hardly to the axles.

 

I guess I don't see semi's going mudding that often... I should get out more!

 

Quite a few years ago, More than I care to say. A trucker I knew at the time use to drive a super B mostly on lease roads for an oil company. He was crawling down a small hill with a turn at the bottom in a heavy down pour. The road was so greasy you couldn't hardly stand on it. It was also very crowned. After he had the rig stopped, it slowly slid sideways off the crowned center into the ditch. The whole truck just laided down like a big dog on its side. Now that's muddin with a semi. We had a good laugh over it.

 

The truck was stuck.

 

Was the semi applying power too?

You can be totally stuck, and a little tug helps a whole lot...

Especially when you get two drivers who know what they are doing.

If you have an idiot on either side, you're still stuck

 

The truck was stuck! I'm sure the semi helped but that 350 looked awfully good. I would also wonder if the semi had a load. I think not. Regardless, nice to see

 

I pulled a semi out of the mud with my 76 F-250 4X4, so I have no reson to believe the video is not real. BTW the truck I pulled out had four brand new Roll Royces in it.
I completely agre with Krewat on "two idiots". If both parties involved know what they are doing yoou might even be able to pull a semi out of the mud with a off brand truck....but breakage would be a real possibiliy