Just had a survival situation

runningboar said:
light in the rear pickups are horrible if you don't throw some weight in the bed. Chris
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Mine's a GMC 1500 with a 350 under the hood. I keep 4 or 5 hundred pounds of sand or gravel over the axle in the winter. Ice + light rear end is a very bad thing.
 
runningboar said:
I think it is time to buy that high lift jack I have been meaning to get. Chris
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I wouldn't think of going wheeling without my Hi-lift. Next you'll need onboard air a winch and a welder. Then you can extract yourself from anything! Seriously though the Hi-lift rocks, go for the biggest red one you can get. I also think they have a new model that is uber strong.
 
I got a rear wheel drive tin can and in all my years in the outback I aint never been stuck. The only people who would ever need a 4 wheel landeater just haven't taken the time to learn the skills to use a real vehicle like mine.;)
Stuff happens even when you do everything you can to keep from steppin' in it, don't it?
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m said:
Stuff happens even when you do everything you can to keep from steppin' in it, don't it?
m
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That's why we come here and talk about it. :thumbup:

Man I got to get down to OZ and get some driving lessons. ;):D
 
Helped some co-workers extricate a 3500 truck from a big bog once. We ended up just using a couple of regular jacks. It was buried to the frame so we first had to dig down to have a place to put the jacks. Large rocks were the bases for the jacks. The jacks weren't high lift, so we'd jack a little, then put more rocks in. Jack some more on the other jack, then add more rocks (and dirt). Water and mud everywhere of course. Had to sort of "feel" what we were doing. Once we had the front out of the muck and lots rocks and wood under the rear, we could drive forward off the jacks and out of the muck.

High lifts and winches are great of course, but regular jacks and comealongs can get the job done too if you are prepared to sweat and get muddy. An axe and shovel (or two) are usually necessary too regardless of what you have. Short 4x4 wood cribbing is nice for soft ground and gravel or sand are a big help in ice.

It was much easier in the military. Just call for a 5 ton or a gamma goat.
 
Man I got to get down to OZ and get some driving lessons
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Me too. I got stuck once due to my own stupidity. It was late and I didn't notice a stop sign untill I'd blew through it, crossed a highway, and jumped the other side into a valley between two slopes. Of course the grass was wet. Luckily, I had enough weight in the bed to work the truck back and forth till I got enough traction to make it up one of the slopes. The luckiest part was that if I had been going a little bit slower, I wouldv'e been a hood ornament on an 18 wheeler.:eek:
 
Chris,

Good for you gettin out. I bet you would have been fine for a few days if you didn't anyway.

Dont forget a tough wide block of wood to support your new high lift jack in the soup as it will sink. ;)

Skam
 
runningboar said:
I even sent my son out to check the hole and he walked across it and tested it before I drove on it. It was dry and cracked on top so you could walk on it but when I tried to drive on it it was soup underneath.
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I have to admit my first thought was how long have you been using your son as a bomb test dummy? :D

KR
 
heh thats like the me on socks in the forest thing

an incident like this immediately gets ur brain in higher gear, eliminating all trivy to reach one goal, to get out of that situation and back home
 
kr1 said:
I have to admit my first thought was how long have you been using your son as a bomb test dummy? :D

KR
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Well Joe turns 18 next week so about 12 years.

He is good for lots of other stuff too, electric fence tester, cold water tester, chili spice tester, hot wire or hot battery tester, beer fetcher, fish cleaner, and tons of other things I can't think of right now. Chris
 
There is a Murphy corollary: "The better the 4 wheel drive the farther out you will get stuck".:D
 
runningboar said:
Well Joe turns 18 next week so about 12 years.

He is good for lots of other stuff too, electric fence tester, cold water tester, chili spice tester, hot wire or hot battery tester, beer fetcher, fish cleaner, and tons of other things I can't think of right now. Chris
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Isn't having kids great! If you have enough of them, they can also push a vehicle when it gets stuck or runs out of fuel, and the list goes on. My six kids have to somehow make up for all that expensive outdoor gear I couldn't afford while they were growing up.;):D
 
runningboar said:
Well Joe turns 18 next week so about 12 years.

He is good for lots of other stuff too, electric fence tester, cold water tester, chili spice tester, hot wire or hot battery tester, beer fetcher, fish cleaner, and tons of other things I can't think of right now. Chris
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:D:D:thumbup:
 
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