It began around 1900 earlier tonight, bouncing around some once-used backwoods trail inside the city limits. I found a mound of dirt, probably 30" high, placed in the middle of the path! This presented a problem, one I was determined to overcome. Took one minute from locking the hubs in, and the truck was high-centered. Transmission, frame rails, radius arm mounts and transfer case were sitting casually atop the mound. It had to have been comfortable anyway; they were all sunk in by nearly four inches!
Keeping this brief, I was on my way to the car wash about three hours after being hung up on that soil. I charged into the situation unprepared, not a tool with me save for a flashlight, and came out caked in wet dirt, scratched to hell, sore and tired. Good fortune placed a two-by-four in the area to assist my digging efforts. If ever there was a lesson for carrying one's own weight, this had to have been it.
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Anyone care to share their "stuck" stories? Please do.

[i]Moral: chance favors the prepared mind! In this specific case, a High Lift jack would have helped immensely. I could have raised the front end of the truck and easily been able to remove the peak of the mound. Instead, I ended up crawling around on my stomach for three hours on it.[i]

 

Hmm, best stuck I've gotten out of is when I was fooling around on some backroads with my friend in his 2wd Ranger. Went down a trail that lead into a muddy creek, so we decided to turn around. He reversed back, and both his front tires fell into a ditch 3' wide and 4' deep...great for leaving both tires hanging in the air, laying frame on the edges of the ditch. The truck was perpendicular to the ditch so there was no way we could turn the wheels and help them jump up on the edge. The angle of the truck was just right where the rear tires were barely on the ground still. We tried everything, me in the bed hopping up and down, stuffing crap under the rear tires, rigging up a stick to hold the gas down while we both tried to lift the front. Nothing was working. I eventually dug around in the weeds and found an old scissor jack, I thought it was rusted shut, but after spitting on the screw, it came free. What I did was put the jack right behind the point where the frame was laying, jack it up as far as it could go, dug out two notches in the ditch so we could put a 2x6 underneath the left front tire. The frame on that side was lifted off the ground so we figured if we left the truck jacked up, I sat on the right rear corner of the bed that would lift the frame just a bit more, and maybe we could drive out. It was damn hairy getting in the truck, trying not to wiggle so the jack would slip out. It worked...but the jack tore into his rocker panel, and I fell out of the back of the truck when the tires caught traction. I forgot to mention...this was done in the dark while being eaten alive by mosquitos and fire ants!

 

About 20 years ago I was helping a friend get some firewood that was in a woodlot behind a soybean field. There was about nine inches of snow on the ground and I had a 2WD F100 short bed flareside. So we hit the soybean field and gave it some gas so the momentum would carry us through the snow. Spare tire was leaving a couple inch drag mark in the snow. Got about half way throught the field when she bogged down. "No problem," my friend says, "I know the farmer." He goes to the farmer's house and they come back with an F250 4WD and hook up to my truck. The F250 digs big ruts and sinks in. Unhook. Pull out and reposition. F250 digs some more big ruts and sinks in. Seems where we bogged down was a low spot that was saturated soil under the snow--and the soil was not frozen. So the farmer says, "wait a minute," and takes off. Comes back with a huge Ford tractor with dualie rear wheels. Each rear tire is about six feet tall. Hooks up and pulls me out to the road like as there was nothing doing. Charged me a whole $5. Needless to say, my friend did not get his firewood that day.

Before I was done with that truck I also got pulled out by a bulldozer when I dropped the front wheel in a stump hole, got pulled out of a sand pit by a 4WD Ford truck, got pushed out by hand when stuck on a beach, had a tow truck pull me out when the front wheel dropped in a hole in a alley. Then my friend bought it and got it stuck in the front lawn of the apartment he was moving out of.

 

My best almost stuck story...

I was with a business associate in a rental car in the mountains south of Los Alamos National Labs one fine spring day. We were told it was the scenic route back to Albuquerque. I am almost a native of NM so I know a bit about NM weather etc, specifically flash floods.

That day we had a real gully washer. We crested a small hill in a canyon kind of area and I saw a waterfall shooting sideways across the road. I told my buddy to stop. Knowing about flash floods I said we needed to take a look at the road ahead. The road dipped down and it looked like we had a puddle across the road maybe 100 feet wide.

I said we should wait and watch for a bit. The water kept rising, and eventually was coing up our little hill to the point where I was afraid our little (Now) Island was going to sink. We stayed in the car and waited for about 2 hours, nice lightning strom, I love lightning. During that time we heard strange sounds. Kind of a musical tinkling and rumble. Sounded a little like big bells being rung but muffled somehow.

After the water went down, we eventually saw that what made the noise was boulders as big as our car had been rolling across the road underwater. Evetually a few brave souls with 4WD tried to cross the small stream. The first guy got high sided on a rock he couldn't see. After awhile the trucks started to make it so a few cars tried and got high sided or stuck in the mud. Eventually when you could finally see the muddy road we crossed at full speed, hoping to slide across the mud pit. We made it but the car was coated inside and out with that famous NM red clay. We missed our plane.

I wonder what the rental shop thought when we finally turned it in?

Jim Henderson

 

My stupidest "STUCK" was in a Geo Metro, believe it or not...

The front lot in the apartment I used to live in had a ton of road and utility work done on the street going past it. There was a tiny parking lot out back, and an even smaller one in the front of the place. -NO street parking at all, it was on Whilloughby Spit in Norfolk. (BEACH TOWN!)

One fine day at lunch I was driving the "Gorp" home from lunch. To my annoyance - all the spaces were full EXCEPT ONE.

Right in front of it was a hole dug out by a city crew to work on a water line, and this was a car the size of a fat Go-Kart that I had squeezed past the fence posts around the lawn with before when some crack-head jackass left their SUV in the drive from the front to the back lot while they visited their connection.

So I went for it.

Unfortunately, I miss-guaged the edge of the hole in relation to the cones around it when I rolled forward to line up better (after I backed in around the oak tree next to it)

I will never forget the sensations I felt as the front of the car went "KA-CHUNK!"... And landed on it's underbody with the front (drive!) wheels hanging just over the edge.

All it took to get it out was a chain and a pickup truck though. The car was unhurt because there were no lines running under the body from the engine compartment. And I can't help noting what kind of a truck it was that pulled it out...

There's no mistaking that blue oval!

 

I've had my Polaris 250 Trail Blazer stuck up over the back axle (it over tteh axle by about 4-6 inches), i got it out but it took a while. Boy did I get muddy that day, mud is very fun when you're on a atv going through it. Grinnnnn



82' Flareside with 400 horse under the hood

 

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp These are great stories! As I read them, I'm reminded of all those photos in 4 Wheel & Off-Road showing trucks and Jeeps buried to their frames in mud. One that really caught my attention was in the March issue... the mag took the best of their past "Whoops!" pictures and put them all into one large feature. Inside was a '93 F-150 with 39.5" Super Swampers - and the front tires were not even visible above the mud!
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp I don't suppose any of you guys have a few pictures of all this mayhem laying around? I got a few of my truck up on that berm, but I don't think it compares to some of this stuff! And Greywolf.... holy dogs! What were you doing driving a Metro? LOL. Good tales anyway! Need to see some more!

 

Well, my best stuck story comes from doing something I shouldn't have been doing(drinking and driving) I was out driving on the backroads in a local wildlife area when I spotted a large sand dune. Well the gears and beer kicked in and I thought it would be fun to climb the dune in my 79 F-150 4x4 with 36" tires on it. I got out, locked the hubs and pushed the lever up into 4 Low. I started climbing the dune, the 460 was screaming and next thing you know, I have 0 tires in contact with terra firma(the sand). The axles were burried in the sand. Well, it was starting to get dark and I was 5 miles from the nearest house. I spotted a snowmobile trail sign and decided it would make a great shovel. One small problem, I had no tools with me tyo remove the sign from the post. I ended up tearing the sign off the post and using it do dig the sand out from under the axles. After about 45 minutes of digging with the makeshift shovel I decided to try to get out. I got in, put the t-case in 4 High, shifted to reverse and stood on the throttle. I think I remember seeing the tach hit 5500 rpm (stock 460) and sand flying everywhere. I was moving! I held the throttle down and though the valves floated a bit, I was un-stuck. In the process of freeing myself I managed to lose the power steering belt somehow. In all my inebreated stupidity, I thought the power steering and the alternator ran off the same belt. So, I ended up driving 5 miles to a friend's house without the assistance of headlights. My friend had a belt for me to put on and I was on my way home. I learned my lesson after that. And I also returned the sign to where it belonged the next day.

 

My best "stuck?" I've honestly never been stuck in a truck. My friend the Chevy driver, now that's a different story. But back to my story- Another friend and I were out riding and we decided to go mudding...in his '89 CROWN VIC. We had fun for about 10 minutes...long enough for us to find a deep enough hole to get stuck in. We were in the mud for about an hour and a half trying to get that car out. A little while later(after we finally got it out), we went to a town about 20 miles away. We were going down a deserted gravel road purposely hitting ruts to get sideways(don't say anything...I admit that it was stupid, but the road was deserted and had recently been widened-we wouldn't have done it if it was a narrow road(we're crazy, not stupid )...and besides, it was around 1:30 in the morning...). It's a long story, but we had to go get the car the next night on a 16' trailer(no, we didn't wreck the car, just a little mechanical trouble).

 

i got stuck backing my truck into my friends house. this was right after i got my licence. there was like 4 ft high snowbanks and i managed to back right through one and get stuck. we all had a good laugh. in the end my dad came and drove the truck out

 

I've had my share of "Stucks". They all happened at a past job where we deliveried drywall/sheetrock to job sites with a boom truck. We pulled into a new home site once and stopped with the truck on the driveway. Went into to the house to see where we would place the drywall. Upon coming out about 5-10 minutes later the drive tires had disappeared and the bed of the truck was level with the ground. Ended up breaking a water line that had been laid just the day before. The other one was another new home site and after we had deliveried the drywall and were trying to back up and out. The ground gave way and the truck sank to the drivers side. Coming to rest with a tree between the bulkhead and the cab. With both of these we ending up calling for a wrecker. These were only two of many but they seem to stick in my head.

 

 

i have a story but first response to 79 ford dont use lo-loc in sand or mud you will get stuck you will spin tires to fast and dig a hole. anyway my story is i have a 78 f 250 4x4 4 speed truck my brother always ragged on me said his dodge ramcharger could out wheel my truck any day. well that day came about one saturday we went wheeling i have 33x12.50 cooper ap tires he had 33x12.50 tsl thronbirds .i went everywhere he did and more well he did get stuck a friend of ours was out there he had a 69 dodge power wagon he said ill pull him out i said ok well my brothers truck was to the floor boards he was down a hill in the mud my buddy pulled down the hill hooked up and tried his best but he got stuck to so i hooked my truck to his 69 power wagon he was still hooked to my bro i put it in lo-loc and creeper gear and gave it hell pulled both trucks out and the two dodge owners never had nothing bad to say about my ford again . sorry to make a long story long but ford trucks rule and i made people belivers and i do have it on video to prove it bad 78 f 250

 

i havent had the pleasure of getting my truck stuck yet but ive gotten my polaris trailboss stuck in a small water hole. i was out with two friends, one has a 250 dirt bike, the other has a 250 quad and i had my 250, well we went out to a water hole that we know about, it probally gets about 1 1/2 feet or so deep at most and this was in the winter so it was maybe only 6 or 7 inches. being cold out it was frozen(so we thought) and we decided to try going across it. i was the first one to cross and i made it fine, then the other kid with the quad went and i decided to keep going across and see if i could slid around and get sideways. the last time i went across i hit a thin spot and the front end broke thru. being two wheel drive and the back tires still up on ice i couldnt move. all i did was kick water all over me, then i relized that i had a chain with me and hooked it up to the other quad and it came right out.

it was fun before i broke thru.