Conecting points when stuck.
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Conecting points when stuck.
Ok, please tell me it's just my friends that are stupid and people all over don't conect a chain to the leaf spring to get pulled out when they're stuck or the torrsion bar.
All of my friends have chains, except one he has a strap like mine, but when he gets stuck he still decides to use a chain an get jurked out.
So, anyone ya'll know do this.
All of my friends have chains, except one he has a strap like mine, but when he gets stuck he still decides to use a chain an get jurked out.
So, anyone ya'll know do this.
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i will be the first to admit, i have done it! for lack of any other option (on a 81 f250 with no bumper) and extreme caution it worked without issues.... however NOT something i would wanna do all the time!
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i have done it with the jeep and will never do it again. my truck was facing down hill and the bed was full of water and had been for a while becuase it was out of gas. so i decided to hook my truck up to the jeep and pull it up and then get in it and roll it in neutral back down so the rear end was down hill, well the hook on the strap slipped off the spring and my truck just went a rollin. it ran over a pile of rocks, front end caught air, we had a wood holder thing it was land scaping logs in an X and when my truck was in the air it came down on that and wedged in the fender well and stopped it, if that hadent happend it woulda been the tree 20 ft away down the mountain. i had jumped out of the jeep to try to catch it before it got to far but i turned around and the jeep is in 4low just idelin away up the hill. that was one crazy day. i ended up having to jack my truck up and take a chain saw to the wood holder to get it out.
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its definitly not a good idea, my first real bad stuck ever i ended up hooking to m,y front leaf hanger, because i had nothing else, bent it a good bit
now i have tow points on the front and rear
im sure you remmeber that stuck cutts, daryls mudhole with the 36 buckshots
now i have tow points on the front and rear
im sure you remmeber that stuck cutts, daryls mudhole with the 36 buckshots
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Yeah there are slot in the frame in these trucks that are a much better source, but when in a bind you can get away with it but don't make a habit out of it, but say when having to tow a vehicle on flatish ground from one place to another (like to a gas station, or from the backyard to the shop).
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The first thing I bought for my four wheel drive was a set of tow hooks for the front, it came with a Reese hitch in the rear. Now I have heavy duty solid- to the frame mounted receiver hitches front and rear on this truck, and wouldn't have it any other way.
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yep. i've done it. buried my truck with 38.5 boggers deep and then hit a rock and snapped the front driveline so it acted like an anchor poking into the ground.. ripped off both bumpers and snapped two grade 8 bolts on both my front mounted tow hooks. went to the leaf spring perch and had to have two blocks and 6 other trucks involved( 2 dead men anchors and 4 pullers) to finally get it out. the spring perch is one the strongest points on your truck since it is designed to hold all the weight. not the best solution to hook to since the pressure comes on it at a horizontal angle as opposed to a straight down vertical weight, but it'll work in a bind.. BTW I figured if nothing else the running gear would stay there and i would have everything from the frame up.. LMAO
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One of my buddys said that's what he uses most of the time.
Then he talks about getting stuck real back and using a chain to get pulled out and having to be jurked like 10 times until he was out.
Then he talks about getting stuck real back and using a chain to get pulled out and having to be jurked like 10 times until he was out.
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Originally Posted by KubotaOrange76
its definitly not a good idea, my first real bad stuck ever i ended up hooking to m,y front leaf hanger, because i had nothing else, bent it a good bit
now i have tow points on the front and rear
im sure you remmeber that stuck cutts, daryls mudhole with the 36 buckshots
now i have tow points on the front and rear
im sure you remmeber that stuck cutts, daryls mudhole with the 36 buckshots
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From: charlotte, nc
ive got a old plow mount on the front of the truck that i stuck a hitch pin into and hooked a tow strap to pull up a tree and pull my dads dodge out of the backyard when we pulled the tranny. when i snatched that tree out of the yard it bent the half inch hitch pin almost in half.
