I know it's been done, but I love to hear the horror stories! Who's been stuck the worst in there SD while out 4 wheeling?

I'll Start. Last month I was out joy riding one night and was on my way back home from sloshing around in the mud when I took one last go, in the wrong place. I had it in 2Hi at the time cuz what i thought was just a puddle jumper, turned out to be a 3 ft sinker. Before it was all said and done I was sunk all the way to the doors on my passenger side by morning. I never dug it in, it just sunk! So I figured I could get my buddies jeep and in 4L on the gravel road would have enough power to tug it out. Didn't even move it, and popped a 15,000lb strap. Then we went up to the shed and got the Ford 4X4 tractor, chain and some boards and fiqured peice of cake, it will jerk it right out. Nope, White smoked the tires on the gravel and still only moved it about a foot. By this time we had an audience down at my place(around 12-15 people). Another buddy of mine brought his Duramax dually over, 4door, 6inch lift and 35's, tied onto to it, dropped it in 4L and screemed that Dura-s%& and nothing, maybe a foot. So at this point I was starting to worry?
My next step was to go get a back-ho and dig it out. But before that we decided to hook the tractor and the Duramax at the same time, and after about 5 minutes of straining both engines it came free.
That was my worst.

 

My story is pretty similar. Out 4 wheelin' in the gumbo mud around Regina late in the fall. Blasting across a really mucky pea field in the dark, I failed to notice the rather large slough ahead of me. By the time I came to a stop I was suddenly aware of the rather foul smelling mud and water that was covering my ankles, while I was sitting in the truck!

The truck was right buried in the mud and sinking. My buddies and I had to slog out through mud and VERY cold water up to past our waists. Fortunately we were only about 75 yards from a road! One long and very cold walk to the nearest farm yard and we had a buddy come pick us up after we walked to the nearest accessible road.

Went back to assess the damage the next day with 2 4x4s, and try as we might, that truck wasn't coming out. It took some pretty good 4x4'n just to get to it!

No tow truck company would go anywhere near it so I went to work and "borrowed" a 744 John Deere payloader and every foot of chain or cable we had. I had to walk the loader about 20 miles out to where the truck was stuck, not fun for me or the loader. Needless to say the loader popped her out pretty easy. It took more than one box of beer to set things straight with the boss though.

Like everyone here I'm sure, I've got a hundred good 4 wheelin' stories. Of course now that I'm old and "mature" I don't get myself into trouble like that anymore. Plus, I can't stand the thought of twisting up my new SD.

Waxy

 

My stories can't even compare to the ones you guys have, but I'll tell 'em anyway.

I was driving to the video rental place during a HEAVY rainstorm quite a few years back in my Camaro. I saw what looked like a deep puddle in the roadway, and decided I would floor it so the momentum could get me to the end of the puddle. Man, was I wrong! Before I knew it, I was stuck in the middle of the "puddle" where it was over a foot deep and the engine refused to run! Couldn't open the doors otherwise the water would have rushed in, and in that kind of weather I knew AAA's trucks would have at least a 2 hour backlog. Instead, I called my dad with my cell phone, who arrived within 5 minutes -- he simply drove his Jeep Cherokee up to my rear bumper and pushed me out! We left my Camaro in the closest parking lot I could find, and I came back the next day with a new air filter, wiped-out the inside of the distributor and she started right up!

Nest story... during the downpour of Floyd in 1999, I decided to do some puddle jumping with my Jeep (the same one in the story above -- by this point, it was my truck). That thing managed to go through "puddles" that were taller than its bumper! I swear, one of them was almost to the hood. It stalled out twice going through the deepest water (thankfully not until I got accross) but started right back up. The big mistake I made was not leaving it running when I got home -- I tried to go out a few hours later to buy an extra sump-pump, and my puddle jumping caught up with me when she wouldn't run. I wound up taking mom's ML-320 SUV to Home Depot, almost stalling it inside the "river" flowing accross the highway! The roads were so bad that day, I actually went South on a Northbound highway in order to avoid going an extra 5 miles it would have taken to make a U-turn! But in the end, I did get home, and both vehicles worked just fine.

I was at my vacation house "in the sticks" over the weekend and managed to get my F-250 stuck in the snow. I guess it serves me right for pushing my stock Fireblowns beyond their limits. The only good luck I had was it happened on my property, about 200 feet from the front door to the house. Walked to the door, grabbed the key's to Dad's Expedition, and towed my F-250 out. Kind of embarassing seeing towing straps between an F-250 and an Expedition with the SUV doing the towing, but at least it was a Ford!

 

I stuck my 2wd Toyo*a in 12" of water. It was a gravel road with a low water area in the road. I was chugging at 5 mph with a camper, pulling a boat and the engine just quit. No restart, nothing. Problem was I was 10 miles from the nearest town in the Yukon. I had sucked water in the air intake which was positioned above the front bumper , and the water had splashed up. Well, it broke TWO RODS and the oil pan. It ended up in a 6.5 hr. tow and stuck 9 days in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Thats my story and I'm stickin' to it!

 

HA, i got yuns all beat! i let one roll of into a lake!


-nathan

 

Not really a super duty stuck story, more a F150 stuck, but I own a PSD too so I guess this story counts:

We were out after the 4+ weeks of snow and rain and thought it would be fine, we had new tranny and trans case, and the lift and new tires, that seemed to make it thru everything, but our luck we had problems! We started around a big mud field and tried to get stuck, no luck!, My buddy told me to go to the flood area by the creek, we went there and did every hill, puddle, and mud pit, we couldn't get stuck, but we were sliding a ton, we decided to head back to the house, then it happened, we saw a tree infront of us and didnt want to hit it so I turned, then saw that we kept sliding towards it so I paniced and hit the brakes, and we slid down this hill into a pit right infront of the tree it was the perfect ange and depth, my back end was up on the hill, my font was up to the top of the rim on 38" tires, but I wasnt on my frame..... Yet!.
I tried to back up and I could move about a foot, but kept getting hung, I didn't know what I was hitting, so I kept rocking her, and in turn I just buried her I was up to the top of the tires in mud in the front, and the back had dug down so that the frame was sitting on the hill now!!!
We tried to winch her, but I couldn't get to my front winch spot, and when we pulled the back, it just suckked the rear end down, we had to go forward.
We had a bright idea, and got the 4x4 kobota tractor, and pulled and pullled, looked like a toy tring to pull me out.
it dug holes and got stuck.
Finally I decied to get a 3ton chain hoist, and hooked it to the truck and tractor, and pulled for what was about an hour to either pull out the tractor or truck, finally the truck pulled up out of the hole and I drive her out, but the tractor was still stuck, so I had to winch it out.

All of this and I didnt take pics!!!!


Jt

 

You gotta' love those gettin' stuck stories! I'll add another one to the mix -- this time, though, I was the one doing the extraction rather than getting stuck!

I was driving down a local road the day after the 2-foot snow blizzard we had, when I saw someone trying to flag me down. When I pulled over, I noticed this guy's half ton GMC plow truck stuck in a downhill driveway. It seems he mis-guaged the curve of the driveway, and managed to stop with his front end in the lawn. With the steep slope, the plow weighing down the front end, and the elevation difference between the driveway & the lawn, he couldn't get out.

I attached my towing strap to the towing harness, and handed him the other end (in case I rip part of his truck off, at least I'm not liable). His response was, "So can I hook it up to my back bumper?" I told him, "Only if you want me to tear your bumper off!" -- Iny case, once we were both tied in together, I pulled his truck out like it was a toy! He tried giving me a couple bucks, but I wouldn't let him. I even gave the guy my cell phone # in case he got stuck again. It feels good to put the Super Duty to use!

 

last week climbing a snowed in logging road, it was plowed but had a foot of new snow and banks on the sides, we were going up this, it was pretty step, we start to spin, seen as my 250 is 2wd so i kicked it in neutral to roll back down, but we side slide back frist into the bank, that was a fun 10 min of digging to get out, but we made the hill on the sencond try
thats all for me, i jsut got the truck a few weeks back and have only gone a few times

 

Check this out. This is not me, I just happened to be in the desert at the same time.

Not a bad looking beast pulling it out either.

 

Hey Doc, how the hell did that 'Burb get in the water do you know.
That is a sweet custom F-650 that pulled it out

 

Well this is out in Glamis, CA. There is this rivine that runs water for as far as you can drive. People go driving down the dirt roads at night and there are roads that lead to this rivine. New-comers to Glamis may not know that it is there and in the darkness just drive straight in. From what I know they were driving down the road and saw it coming from ten feet away. You can't stop from ten feet away when you're doing 30mph. It could happen, and it is so much easier with alcohol involved.

 

O I C

I've seen a lot of pics from there, looks like a cool place to go

 

That F650 is sweet! I've seen it in several Off Road Mags!

 

Hey ROTTNDOG -- check the URL on your "PICS" hyperlink. Doesn't seem to be working -- I guess it disabled itself until your baby comes back from the shop!