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getting stuck
So today, for the first time in the 2 years ive had the truck, i got stuck in the snow, while plowing my driveway out in the country ! not fun .... lucky a friend drove by in a van and helped me get out !! so anyone here have a plow on there superduty 4x4 and get stuck ? howd you get out ? any suggestions on doing this ?
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Ive got a Boss V-Plow, so id say something to try making the plow go into the inverted v (upsidedown looking v) and then pull on the joystick to turn it into the V position, while in reverse, could help !
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Yeah.. Try forward and reverse, try turning your front wheels, also try angling, raising, and lowering the plow. I've never gotten a vehicle stuck plowing, I mean, not so stuck that I couldn't get myself out. bigger commercial plows are pretty strong.
I'm curious how exactly you got stuck? Slip off the driveway?
-Jay
I'm curious how exactly you got stuck? Slip off the driveway?
-Jay
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I have got stuck twice in my SD, both times got pulled out by my bosses Chevy H-D, kinda sucks, lol I was plowing snow the first time and went to push a huge pile over the side of a parking lot into a ditch and couldn't get slowed down fast enough and went over the curb with the snow, the curb was a tall one and the ditch was three foot strait down, the right front tire fell all the way down and the plow had all the snow wedged making a wall of snow so the truck wouldn't even move one way or another, bosses truck on plowed ground pulled it right out. The second time I was trying to back my trailer up in my buddys pasture and the truck sank to the axles, it's the only time the trucks ever really gotten dirty and boy did it get dirty! It took a couple pulls and a lot of spinning tires but it came out, took 3 hours to get it clean, not again!
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lotta ice, no weight and a small ditch is what got me !! didnt slow down early enough and under estimated the width of the road, but the main problem was the damn differential i know for a fact if i had lockers i woulda been able to get out myself ... but im not about to put 700 - 900 in lockers for my truck when i only snowplow around my neighbourhood !
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I would have been stuck many times if it wern't for the lockers. Just a little sand and it will drive up a cliff. BIG difference. I plow really steep roads and uphill so the lockers are a must.
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last year plowing my moms drive way i forgot about a low spot off the side of her drive. i was stacking the snow and started to raise the blade and sunk in the snow. it took about 45 minutes of me and my girlfriend at the time digging to get it out. she wasnt happy and of course was COLD. now she is my fiance so i must have done something right.
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congrats 04 superduty!
now i had to go to my neighbors to pull out a 2x4 ford out of his yard ...long story but i used a dad's 2500hd to pull him out and a ford wouldn't do it because of the differential and dad had the locker. anyway i pulled him out. now he had tried to get his grandpa's ford to pull the 2x4 out originally all by himself with no help mistake 2. so this 4x4 ford is also in upto the axils. so i back in to hook onto this truck and i am stuck. so we hook the ford on to the front of the dmax and he pulls us both out because he was on the driveway where he could get a grip.
the moral of the story get someone to help you! it will save tons of time and a lot of work clean the trucks not to mention leveling the lawn and grass seed. lol
the most fun i think i ever had though
now i had to go to my neighbors to pull out a 2x4 ford out of his yard ...long story but i used a dad's 2500hd to pull him out and a ford wouldn't do it because of the differential and dad had the locker. anyway i pulled him out. now he had tried to get his grandpa's ford to pull the 2x4 out originally all by himself with no help mistake 2. so this 4x4 ford is also in upto the axils. so i back in to hook onto this truck and i am stuck. so we hook the ford on to the front of the dmax and he pulls us both out because he was on the driveway where he could get a grip.
the moral of the story get someone to help you! it will save tons of time and a lot of work clean the trucks not to mention leveling the lawn and grass seed. lol
the most fun i think i ever had though
