well in the words of the all mighty petersons 4wheel and offroad mag. i figured i would find out what everyones funny or not wheeling incedents were.......i my self would be last april going wheeling on a trail near a lake here everything was going good and hitting numerous trees didnt bother me at all (it tends to happen when you cant stay on the trail due to bald 38" TSL's) but hey its fun anyway right?....back to the story to get to the trail the entrance is a pretty steep hill you have to go down off of the road now not a big hill just steep. well it was muddy and i didnt have any trouble on the trail but for some reason when we were leaving i decided to unlock the hubs and take the ole' ride out of 4x4 and well lets say i made an *** out of myself when i got stuck trying to get up the hill. needless to say after slideing back down the hill damn near sideways locking it back in i got out. lets say it wasnt all that fun digging the lockouts free after about 15 minuets of about 4grand trying to get off the hill. so i learned not to unlock the ride untill you are home free......well thats my imput so how about everyone else??

 

How about this: saturday I was comming home from work, and on my way past some of the local trails (I always look in) I saw a truck that was burried, so I turned around and went to see if I could be of any help. I went in, and it was a simple pull. Now the funny part... The next day I came on here and found that it was another user on this site.

 

Back when I just bought a new '97 Ranger 4x4, I took it out after a big rain storm on a well traveled dirt road (we're talking HUGE ruts!) I was doing fine until I came to the spot where a tractor got buried trying to pull a guy a few months earlier. Now the funny part. Needless to say, I got stuck in the tractor ruts, probably in the range of 500 yards into this trail. Well I call the rescue team ( my buddy who had a '78 highboy with a 460/44s) and he only made it about 100 feet before burying both axles. Now the sad part. We called our other friend who had a lifted Chevy on 35 and he pulled us both out after driving through the cornfield next to the trail ( yes we had permission). The the best part, was I went futher into a sloppy mud road with a stock 4x4 Ranger that a fullsize built for mud!

Stryder

 

We spent Memorial Day at our favorite off-road campground. Me in my 78 F150 (that I spent less than $2k on), and my cousin in his Chebby (that he spent over $15k on). We got there early Friday and decided to take a quick "nice & easy" ride through the trails and see what they're like. Not more that 100 yards into the ride, he attacks a huge rock/mud hill. He got stuck on a giant rock but kept hammering at it. We heard a few pops and clunks so he backed down. Turns out he snapped the spline end off one of the rear axles and ripped the u-joints off one of the fronts, complete destroying both shafts. This, all in the first 30 minutes of a 4-day holiday weekend.

By noon Saturday, we found a few local boneyards, found the parts, replaced everything and headed out again.

It was only funny because it wasn't MY truck.

Kevin K.

 

happened yesterday.

Went out hill climbing in a local sand pit, one that I've been to many of times doing the same thing as of yesterday.

Withing 10 minute of being in there I rolled her over a couple of times. (pics are in gallery)

Now it was'nt funny at the time it had happened because I had a truckload of people & we were out in the middle of nowhere, not to be found unless another decided to use the old adbandoned pit. (cell phone came in handy, but they still had problems finding me)

After living that through, making sure everybody OK, & still driving the truck home after I got it back on all 4's ~ I am sitting here laughing my *** off.

 

This story has to do with 5 different types of vehicles, Ford, Chevy, Jeep, Isuzu, and Bobcat .

This last summer I was sitting in my buddy's basement watching weather radar patterns trying to go figure out where to start our storm chasing at. Then I got a call from another friend saying him and his brother were stuck in the mud out at our local offroad park. I thought that he couldnt be stuck very bad becuase he had bald street tires. Well I got there, in the rain and saw his 79' ford on 33s' buried up to the rockers in mud, and his brother's chevy on 40' TSL's wedged up against a tree going up a hill. The Chevy was stuck bad, his 4wd didnt work in the first place (duh?) and he buried the rear axle going up this hill trying to get around teh ford to pull it out. I hooked up 4 straps to my Grand Cherokee and to the ford. The 4th strap was one with metal hooks, and i absolutely hate metal hooks. I put that one closest to the jeep so if it snapped, it woulnd have as far to stretch in the first place, and put some heavy floormats over the hooks. I yanked on the ford for 20 minutes maybe moving it a 1/2 inch at the most, then i busted the strap with hooks. Without that, I couldnt get far enough away from him without being in the sloppy crap too. (I guess everything was sloppy, it was raining hard). I called my buddy with a Isuzu Trooper and a 8500 warn winch to come try, and to bring me a tire patch, cuase i put a hole in my tire. I patched my tire, and he tried to pull the ford out, with me hooked up to the backside of his trooper to keep it from pulling forward. He didnt budge it. Then we attempted to try the Chevy. We had to pull on him from the side since he was right at the bottom of this hill we couldnt get up due to the sloppiness. His truck is one of those really really non-functional offroaders that is more for looks that real wheeling. You know, the kind that is 12 feet tall and 4 feet wide? Yeah. So we about tipped his truck over trying to get him yanked. Didnt get him either, so we all piled in my Jeep and ran back into town to get some shovels and come-alongs from my shop. By the time we got back, it was dark and one of their buddy's had brought his bobcat out with the mud tracks on it and was trying to free the chevy. He also had to pull from the side. He got a strap to the axle, and lifted the front end of the chevy up and tried to swing it towards the bobcat for a straight on pull. He ended up blowing one of the 40" TSL's off the bead, so they changed that while the truck was still in the air. Then they ripped off the front bumper and slammed the truck into the tree it was wedged against. I had had enough of the stupidity, so i left. They ended up getting both trucks out, and getting home about 4 AM. All in the freezing !@#$^$ RAIN!!!!

Edit: I think i spend at least 30 minutes a day for a week or so trying to get all the mud out of the inside of my Jeep.

 

I was cruising around the local riverbed where I used to live in Kansas. My truck... a '66 F-100 2wd longbed w/ a 390 H.O. from a mustang. During my travels, I happened to notice an old vintage 1950s refrigerator sitting in the middle of a little pit that I liked to run through. My truck was a little beat up.... I got a little hair up my rear end and decided I was going to ram this refrigerator right outta that pit (I was only 16 at the time... gimme a break)! All went well until the fridge slid under my front end, rolled over so it was standing upright, and got me high-centered. My rear bumper was on the ground, rear tires were 4" off the ground, and my front crossmember was sitting on the upended fridge. I jumped outta my truck and could not believe what I saw! It was dark, so my headlights were shining straight up at about a 60 degree angle! Oh yeah, and the engine was still running.

Luckily, my buddy in his new chebby 4x4 happened by about that time and came and rescued me. All went fine, nothing on the truck got tore up. The funny part was, as he was driving up, he had his windows rolled up, radio blasting.... and when he saw me I still heard him holler "what in the @#$%"...

 

I was at a local hillclimb event the hill is a a 75 degree angle its steep my truck runs on fresh 48 terra tires and 2 1/2 tone axils but it has alot of horsepower and torq so the lined me up with the hill and started me of I was doing pretty good with alot of wheel spin as I got to the very top my tires were absolutly digging into the gravel and my hood was facing stright twords the sky I was at a stand still with my front end over the hill and my back end still on the hill anywase I kept my foot on the throttle then I saw one of the officals waving his arms at me and yelling to STOP STOP!!!!!! so i let of the gas a I was stuck after 10 minutes of twisting and turnuning I got back down the hill next after me was a little CJ-5 Jeep with a Turbocharged Ford 351 hit hill full throttle and made it just as far as I did but the massive ruts my 48s left behind caused him to almost flip his Jeep but he saved it and thankfully nobody was hurt but I won the compitition just becus he could not get past my ruts hehe.

 

i was on my former college campus one day, inbetween classes just out walking around. I come up on a campus van that was stuck in the mud of some construction that they were doing. Well, one of the construction guys said he'd pull the van out with his old beater chevy. Well after he buried his chevy to the axles he gave up and said nothing short of a wrecker with a winch was pulling the two of them out of there. Of course me being the loudmouth i am said i'd pull them both out at once. So i go and get my truck, lock it in 4lo. and hook up my tow strap to the front of the chevy, which in turn is still hooked to the van. The guy in the chevy is all going off on how i'm just going to get stuck too. So i tell him to put his truck in nuetral and just watch. I lay into it shooting 4 rooster tails of wet sloppy mud in the air, and consiquently into his windows .....of course that wasn't planned. Pulled both of them out at the same time. The best part about it was i had a cheering crowd by the time i was done.

 

i have enough stories i could write a book. the best one was on a foggy night near sanford michigan at a place called the turtle ponds( it is closed now unfortunetly) at about 4:00 in the morning we were leaving going down a muddy dirt road and out of the fog was two kids in tuxidos, with there dates in thier prom dresses in the car, they were looking for a party that had been gone for hours, the kid said it was his dates mothers new car and he had the wire wheel hubcaps full of mud, i pulled him out i don't remember what he said but he made some comment i did not like and then he said be gentle, needless to say i gave him good jerk to wake him up. it was by far the strangest night of wheeling and would take a long time to tell the whole story but that is the night my wheeling buddys remember the best and we all wish we could be there when he brought the car back to his dates mother.

also i have adopted a new rule that if your truck has a calvin peeing on a ford you must scrape that off before i pull you out. i have a 20,000 lb pto winch on my highboy so i get called alot when someone is stuck

 

'73 Highboy, I like your idea about taking the decals off before being unstuck. I was wheeling around the bottom of a reservoir (empty) and just screwing around when I came upon a chevy 4x4 buried up to the rocker panels in the wet silt right next to the water. I was removing my chains and tow strap from my 4by box when his friend screams up in HIS chevy, asking what I was doing. Breif explanation. He spits on the ground in front of me and states that no $%&( FORD (83 Bronco, I-6, 4spd) could pull any chevy out. Now, I had 35" mudders on and he had half bald street tires. So, I let him hook to my chains and strap and have a go at it. He buries his in about 15 seconds, maybe less. An observer comes over and offers his chain, which I put to the Bronco and pull both of them out at the same time (I was on drier land than either) Chevy boy #2 says he can't believe a $%*& FORD could pull out anything. I tried to explain about the tire situation, but he was having none of it. I laughed all the way home. Next week I saw chevy boy#1, he says it took 4 hours with a sprinkler under his rig to wash away all the dirt, and his buddy went out and bought tires like mine. Still laugh about it.

 

I like it! Now why didn't I think of that? I'll have to start carrying razor blades to make it easier for them

 

if it was me instead of making them scrape off the decal i would simply just pee on there chevy then pull it out

 

Or ....Make them pee on their own chebby!!!

 

Ya'll crack me up!