I got stuck!

[Okie-Go]

After 850. 00 for a locker, 250. 00 for a pair of mudgrips, almost 200. 00 for a pair of wheels I get stuck the first time I go to the farm. The mudgrips just filled up with mud and the front tires wouldn't hardly roll. It just kind of sunk down in front with the tires trying to push the ground almost like a plow. I think then it was a realized exactly how heavy these thing are. I know my 93 chevy with the posi-trac would have made it. My uncle pulled me out with a tractor but had to leave the 5er there till it drys out a bit. Needless to say unless you have 4wd. better keep em on the road or at least make sure it is dry.

 

[RATTLINRAM]

DOH!!!

OOPS!!!

This just reminds me of why I don't put my 5er in the back field anymore. Had to use the CJ to get the rig and my 2wd Furd out a few years back. (And it didn't have a heavy diesel up front).

 

[DRR-24V]

I'm With You Guys !

I love my Ram, but for Offroading my old 1/2 Ton Chevy would eat it up. (in the soft stuff) I am about 3000 lbs heavier.

 

[EricBu12]

The michelins that came with the truck did pretty good in a 4wd I went slinging the stuff and made tracks 6" deep and the tires were aired down to make good traction. Now I have the bf goodrich tires at ko 265-75-16 and they work good too. I did some slick rock cruising here in utah and the heavy cummins made good traction on the stone, just don't go nose down more than 20 deg or you'll spill some oil out the vent tube!

 

[LSMITH]

Okie, you are not kidding the front of these trucks are heavy. I was turning around at the office one time and the drivers front went about 3 feet off the pavement and into the lawn. It dropped like a rock!!!! The rut was deep enough that the diff case was touching the pavement. A quick pull into 4wd let me back out but I was about as close to stuck as you get without walking and had 3 tires on pavement. If you have had any serious amount of moisture recently be careful leaving the roads. If you were truly stuck in one of these trucks with 4wd and decent tires you had better hope the winch cable will reach you or there is a dozer or big farm tractor handy I left my 76PW in a field one time for 4 days so it would dry out enough to get it out, it was sitting on the frame in the mud. Nothing but little Toyotas and Jeeps would get to it, but they had no prayer of pulling it out. The thought of that with this truck is not pleasant.

 

[DieselDoghouse]

Hmm sounds like when I parked the doghouse NEXT to (no, not in) a recently dug and refilled trench in the backyard (severe off-roading here folks). We'd had alot of rain recently and when the ground caved in I had the lefts buried up to the step rail. Only thing sturdy enough around for an anchor was friend's blazer and horse trailer—except that with all wheels locked on them I still pulled 'em 15 feet across the yard and I never budged. Finally got something solid enough for the winch to pull ME out. Heavy, you Betcha!!!

 

[Bill Stockard]

Okie-Go,

On the farm, we have an old gas powered Ford F350 SRW 4x4 we use to feed the cows big round bales. I don't use my CTD or my brother his PSD to drive out in the soft wet pastures.



Too much weight on the front axle for soft muddy pastures!!!



Bill

 

[Matt S]

Okie-Go,

You weren't driving through a swamp trying to pull a house were you? Still like the locker?





Matt

 

[Mark_Kendrick]

Okie,

I just moved from Point Blank, TX last summer (by lake livingston).

Man, if you're in east texas and don't have a 4wd stay on the road. You'll do fine if you don't break the surface, but if you do



SE Tx has no bottom to the mud. I've seen lifted 4wd's get stuck. Anything can get stuck down there when the woods get wet.



Its not like Okla. There you usually have a harder clay base and tall narrow tires are the way to go. They sink down to the hard stuff. In Tx you have to float, and our trucks float like rocks

 

[JConley]

I heard from my brother in law who works at the co-op, that a lot of ranchers are going back to 1/2 ton trucks with gas engines because they can take them in the pasture without getting stuck. I also talked to one guy who works in the oil and gas business, and he went with a gas 1/2 ton 4X4 because he always burried his diesel in the mud. In East Texas the mud is so thick and sticky, that even tractors will get stuck.

 

[Okie-Go]

Bill, I truly know what you mean by too much weight. matt, I still like the locker. It isen't the lockers fault I was stuck. I mean both tires were spinning. Some of the guys on here can't say that if they have the lsd. I had prolly 90 gallons of fuel and an ice chest. When we got there we went to bed and about 2:40 in the am I heard it raining. I knew I should go move the truck to get it across the low spot but I went back to sleep. Sure enough it rained enough to make the dirt soft and I dug down when I tried to get it out after the hunt. My uncle pulled it out with his Massey Ferguson. The neighbor down the road has a 7420(I think) 4wd John Deere. I was kinda hoping the Massey wouldn't do it so I could go get the Deere but the Massey pulled it on out.