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First of all, thank you to all the posts and threads I've been reading tons for about a year now and I finally got into a new 17 350 Plat, at the end of November.
I absolutely love the truck! There is nothing so far that I don't like about it.
We went to Fernie, BC to visit some family and we had a big bonfire in the back country and on the way back into town I was following my buddy in his Xterra and we got stuck behind one of those snow groomers grooming the trail. So when the road opened up my buddy passed and then I waited for a wide spot in the road and I thought the groomer guy had moved over to let me by but as soon as I went to go around him the shoulder of the road was so steep, I just got sucked right in.
It was one of those moments were I knew i shouldn't try passing but went for it anyways, I was only going max like 40km/hr.
I stopped right away cuz i know there is no hope of trying to power out of it you just get sucked deeper.
My buddy tried to pull me out with his jeep but I set him up in the wrong spot and he just pulled me along the ditch, i needed him on the far right side of the road with a short ****** strap so he pulls me up and onto the road.
So that didn't work and then another friend of mine was behind me so he pulled me backwards and by this point I was even deeper in the ditch.
By now the plow guy had went to the end of his loop and was coming back so he offered to pull me up, I got him to stay on the right side of the road and I shorted my ****** strap and it took no effort after that.
Usually I love stuff like this but when my truck literally only has 1,500km on it I was a little stressed about scratching it up.
The other photo was just a mountain road we went up to get some wood. not the main road i got stuck on.
Once the shocks and pumpkins are dragging, you're going nowhere.
Some tire chains might have let you reverse out. No grip, is no grip. Lockers, tires, it don't matter. But chains can bite in hard. If we get a worse winter, I'll invest in another set for my next set of tires.
Yes your stuck but that's not a good stuck. You had other trucks around for help.
Back in the 80's friends and I used to go ice fishing in one truck 10 to 20 mile back in the woods on roads no one traveled. (private lakes)
Wish I had pics of some of those stucks. We never went without a few come alongs
Yes, that much is easy to see. What I can't see is if it's a home-owner, farm/ranch or professional grade saw. The pro-grade saws almost always have a white handle with a black insert ... got 7 of 'em in my stable ... MS661C-M w/ 36" bars, MS441C-M w/ 25" bars, two MS261C-M w/ 16" & 20" bars, MS201TC-M w/ 16" bar, and two MS150TC w/ 12" bars.
Went & checked, and it looks like the farm/ranch saws now have those handle colors, too. So there's goes the easy spotter's guide.
I was the recovery vehicle for the truck club I was in. Pulling a vehicle out of a ditch when the stuck vehicle is parallel to the ditch can be very difficult.
The easiest way that I've found it to pull the rear end of the stuck vehicle back onto the road/trail first. It sounds easier than it is, depending on how much traction the recovery vehicle has.
My preferred method is to position another vehicle to the side of the stuck vehicle and then use a ****** block. The line will go from the recovery vehicle to the secondary recovery vehicle (through the ****** block) and then to the hitch of the stuck vehicle. This will pull the stuck vehicle's rear end directly up to the road/trail without dragging the entire vehicle through the ditch.
If a secondary recovery vehicle isn't available then I use a tree.
Below are a couple pictures from one of my recoveries that shows what I mean. The mountain on the downhill side of the stuck vehicle was much steeper than on the uphill side. The only thing keeping the stuck vehicle from rolling were the trees it was up against.
