Well at least HE wouldnt be cold. lol

 

Small-Small town. Which means no bar, and burning a truck with only liability for insurance is no help, if I had full coverage it might have crossed my mind, but I never got to mad the whole time, you gotta stay calm or things get worse. When we first slid it in the drift my friend asked, "Are we gonna get out?" I said, "nope." But we started digging anyway since we had all night and my truck has all the halagens you could want and a full tank of gas and dual batterys. But really though, don't bash 86, I'm looking for a 75 to 79 F-250 4x4 w/ a 390 or 460 , I like em old, that way I can work on them since I always seem to be on a tight budget and could never bare to take the truck anywhere anyway.

 

alot of times the farm feilds can help if ya can clear the ditch. they work like quick sand if you stop cause the soil isn't packed by being plowed all the time. but = no ruts, like the road and ya can keep moving your fine. (don't ask how i know, never did it )

so if it was me i'd dig out where i could get a run in hopes of jumping into one of the fields and keep her hammered til able to get back on the road

 

I walked out in front of the truck and there was about 10 ft. of 2ft. deep snow then it tapered off into about 3in. and cornstalks. Lots of scooping

 

3 inches??? I can take that with my bicycle!!All you had to do was walk a trail with your buddy right behind you to break the trail the roll on your side to pack down the snow in between the tracks. You said it was beginning to melt. It should pack pretty good.


Well what did you do that no one here was able to come up with?

What would YOU do?

You have a 99 ranger 4x4 halfway in a ditch. (driver's side) Tool box contains; come-along, 3/4 inch 100 ft. rope, 4 inch strap 30 feet long, 3.5 foot high lift jack, and various hand tools.

The drivers side was up to the door in water and starting to come in the cab. And the cell phone with all the friends #'s is at the house. I have my step mom's but the battery is going dead. And the closest tree is a 4 inch diameter sapling about 75-80 feet away. And it was cold and beginning to get dark.
What would you do?

 

I would get some 38's or so, cut the fenders, add a winch, and get a couple lockers! then you prolly won't have this same problem anymore. As to what I would do if I was in your situation....I would call Ho' on my cell and tell him to brong his 8274 and then the 2 of us go have fun

-jason-

 

 

The field wasn't bedded for the winter? In that case, I would have hit the corn field once I got out of the stuck. The corn stalks should give great traction and keep the field from being a sloppy mess. As I'm sure some of you know, mud in fields with out foliage can get bottomless.

I was gonna say as a general rule NEVER drive through someones field, even if it looks like there's nothing there. Farmers spend lots of time and $$$ working their field to get them right. A 4x4 digging ruts across it can make for an extensive amount of work and put them way behind (ie farmer goes bankrupt).

Anyways, I'd make like Andy Duphrane (you know, the guy in Shawshank Redemption) and chip the ice away from my tires with the screwdrivers you had in the truck. Dig the unpacked snow with the box, make the friend push, give her heavy skinny pedal treatment, and shoot out into the corn stubble.

 

you just gonna leave your friend? who was willing enough to get out and push your sorry butt while you stand on the skinny pedal? Glad I'm not your friend!

-jason-

 

I was kinda thinking once the fire hit the gas tank it might blow it back onto the road

Did we ever hear what you DID do?

 

Opps, oh yea! I forgot all about the buddy who I just roosted with mud and snow! Oh well, we're only 3/4 of a mile from town. He can walk.


OK Redneck, what's the happy ending?

 

haha....happy ending? ok...

so you shoot out into the corn field but oops you fogot your buddy so you cut a 180 and head back for the road....sling the door open and let him jump in, and then jump the ditch and go back and get a bunch of 4x4's who think their trucks are 'the ****' and lay some cash on the table.

that's my ending

-Jason-

 

Ok, the time has come, first of all I'm a nice guy and would never make him push if I wasn't gonna (ecspeacially since it was my fault), next it wouldn't have did any good anyway, we had ruts scooped and the truck just wouldn't move.

After we had scooped out ruts for the front and back tires with the plastic box and pieces of wood we hoped back in the truck, no go. So we got back out and scooped behind the tires so we try any get rockin, no go. By this time it looked hopeless, I'd dug 4 giant holes by flooring it and even trying to creep out, the truck was on the verge of overheating, and we were soaked and out of breath thanks to the Marlboro man. So I says to him, "you ever put snow chains on before?" He said no, so I unhooked them off my headache rack (always keep your snow chains straight, 12:30 at night is no time to be untangling them) I proceeded to throw them over the front tires since all the weight was there and I fiqured if we can't get out w/ chains on the front then the back isn't gonna do nothin. Well the chain links on the outside of the tire were about a good 4inchs to the first link, the inside side was packed with snow, as much as I tryed I could not get either outside chain hooked. So I gave him very specific instructions on what the plan was (feeding the chains under the moving tires) He started on the drivers side while I shifted into 4 low reverse, I burned the clutch and just as it caught and climbed halfway outta the hole the diffy kicked in and we slid back in (about 6 times). Well now what, that wasn't gonna work, so we tried feeding the pieces of wood under the tires, wouldn't grab. So I got in the truck and tried to call my other friend w/ a 2003 4x4 powerstroke, not answering. I walk up to Mitch (the guy with me) and say "now what?" He says "I don't know." I say "looks like I'm gonna have to cowboy up and go for it." "Go for what," he says as I throw off my long sleeve shirt and hat (already muddy anyway). Well I knew are only hope here was the chains, so I got down in the drivers side rut we had dug and crawled through the mud and snow to the front tire. I asked Mitch to get me a piece of cardboard and that small piece of wood. I layed on the cardboard and started digging the inside side of my tire out w/ the wood, after 10min. we managed to reach the very end link w/ the locking hook mechinism fully spread (you're only gonna know what I'm talking about if you have chains), which was the very best we could do, I got out from under and was unable to hook the outside, so I got in the truck to try to move the break in the chain to the top of the tire, well it backed up about a foot and slid back in (thank you diffy), so now I ordered him to the passenger side to feed the other chain under for traction so we could get one side hooked. After about 5 min. of trying to get it to suck in the pass. side chain it caught, so I backed up a foot and since I had no parking brake I took the small piece of wood and braced my brake pedal. I got out and after some time got the outside chain link to hook right, but no luck with the inside, so I went around to the pass. side to find the tire had sucked the chain in unevenly making it inpossiable to hook, so I had to cost back into the hole agian, now I had him do the driving and I fed the chain in, well after 10 min. of that I was able to get the outside hooked, so I ventured under the truck to repeat what I did on the other side, and was actually able to feed my end through to the other side but it was bound up and it wouldn't reach, so while he backed up towards my head w/ me in the rut I jerked the chain out from under the tire. I got out and with some friendly violence got the inside link to hook. Good, that side is done, so I went back over to the drivers side and continued trying to get the inside hooked properly, well after some back and forth w/ the truck, and smacking the chain to the inside w/ the wood I managed to hook it, w/ my bare hands, since my gloves were to clumsy, by this time I was covered in mud and soaking wet and when I got back in my truck I could have cared less about the interior (until the next day, wow, what a mess) anyway I put it in 4 low reverse and it pulled out of those 6in. deep holes (despite all the digging) like we were on cement, I backed into a 3 ft drift with snow coming through my expanded metal talgate and thought, "should I try to go forward into the cornfield?" I said naw, better not chance it, cause if we get stuck w/ chains were really screwed, so I turned halfway to the left (front suspension is shot so I didn't want to catch anything) and pulled forward like nothin despite my back wheels being almost off the ground, I backed up agian even further and pulled forward into our old ruts (one side anyway, since we slid in sidways) and drove back to the dirt never spinning a tire hopeing to God I don't rip my brake line. When we got back to the dirt we were yelling w/ the happiness of being out, while I unhooked the chains and he pulled up, I threw them in the back hoped in and roded it back up the hill into town and flew home after a good hour of messing around.

 

Chains will do the trick almost all the time.. Unless you are high-centered.

 

I was high centered too, I was really surprised, I could barely believe we got out of there.