Thought Id share this lovely story. Im a brand new bronco owner. Just bought an 82 and have put a little ove into her (mostly carb problems) But the 5th or 6th day I had her, I took her up into the mountains into about 3 ft of snow on a nasty dirt road. The tracks in the road were mostly compacted from previous traffic and were solid ice. I got a few miles up into the hills and found a Jeep, had slid out of the tracks in the road and into the 3 ft of loose snow. Driver was no where to be found. Went on a few more miles and found a lifted 86 4runner, same problem! The poor guy had been stuck there for 4 hours trying to dig it out! He was actually out there looking for the guy in the jeep. I turned around in the snow right behind him, (much to his dismay I might add) and jerked him right out. Im so proud of my new machine!

BTW, shes nothing to special (other than being a bronco)
stock 351W H.O.
4 spd manual
stock suspension
33x12.5 half worn, dry rotted tires from 1999

 

Yes, most of us have been extremely pleasantly surprised. I rescued a 4-wheeler from mud so slippery it was like ice and a tractor buried to the axle a couple of times. Just beware of stumps in sandy soil.

 

i dragged my john deere A through a foot of snow and into the shed when it has a frozen solid differential. water got in the diff and seized it.

2 winters ago i got my dad out of snow in our yard. i would say it was 2 feet worth. all i did was put it in 4 low and turned them all the way to the right and gave hell

these are very capable trucks

 

I love my Bronco 4wd eats through most everything and have never been stuck. I think these can climb the side of a building (HA,HA)

 

about 5 or 6 years ago when i had my 89. a group of us would go wheeling and someone invited a guy with a Hummer(real hummer,no H2),nice guy but kinda cockey..bout half way thru he slipped off the trail and got stuck in a deep rut, i backed up, we hooked a tow strap to him and i pulled him out. No big deal at all,...well one of the guys took a pic of me pulling him out and posted it on the clubs website and it just looked awsome, i gotta dig up the pic.

 

Not to blow my own bronco's horn but...I added some pics to my garage on here now that I got her lifted and new tires on. And Ive added a mini van to my list of things pulled out of the snow.

 

The name befits the beast! I lost count ages ago as to the number of folks I've extracted from precarious places. My fav though was another Bronco... poor guy managed to break the track bar under his '76... landed on a nasty chunk of granite in the hillside. He had all the power but no way to steer. Dragged him off the boulder and all the way back to base camp down the trail. Aside from being almost twenty feet longer by virtue of my "trailer" and a tow strap I came back down with no more effort than when I went up.

 

Good to hear you got new tires. I read your first post and was going to point out that you can kill yourself quickly in one of these if you get a tire blow out at highway speeds. I wouldn't go past 5 years on tires, especially on something with a high center of gravity.

George

 

Ford trucks in general are amazing machines. I love all of my Broncos. The diesel Bronc will pull pretty much anything, it's good in the snow.

 

I had no problems driving around in our last blizzard of 20"+ snow. I was everywhere in our county and couldn't be happier with the performance of my Bronco,it out drove and out pulled my brothers 94 Chevy 3500 dully turbo diesel 4x4 and another friends 88 F-350 4x4 with ease.

 

It's pretty crazy what Broncos are capable of, even stock they are pretty versatile. I have never been stuck to the point where I had to ask for help. I've had to dig once, but thats it. My 96 XLT has been in a few pretty bad situations. I went to the mountains for a ride one day and met up with a friend in a 3/4 dodge with a 5.7 HEMI. We decide to go cruising around the forest roads and we came up to a creek. The passing through the creek was frozen over solid and I figured I would go first while the ice still had some integrity. I thought it would hold me and weaken the ice so he would fall through instead of me. I got about half way over and whoosh, right through the ice I went. It was only about 6" deep, but the bottom was pretty mushy and the ice was still built up on the sides of the creek so there was no pulling myself out without climbing over the ice. I was locked the hubs in as he was getting a tow rope to pull me back out to go find another crossing. What kind of person would I be without at least trying to get out on my own? So, in 4 low it goes and the Bronco pulled itself out without even breaking a sweat. His turn, he went at it in four wheel drive and got hung up on the ice built up on the edges of the creek, even after my Bronco broke the ice down on the side of the creek I was now on. Not to be outdone by a Ford he continued to spin his wheels going virtually nowhere. After I got tired of waiting, I told him to either let me pull him out or I was leaving without him. He finally gave up and out came the tow rope again, only this time we used it.

I love my Bronco.

 

Lot of times I don't even need the 4wd. The only time I remember is when the 2 horse trailer was stuck behind some snowdrift that had piled up in front of it.

4-low gotter done.