Off Roading worst stuck

[cyborg]

Any stuck cummins pix?

 

[XcumminsX]

My 03 got stuck pretty horrible in northern wisconsin. I didnt get any pictures of it because i was terrified of a huge rock my truck almost slammed into going sideways in the mud trying to get out . It was fun though.

 

[ndurbin]

I buried mine upto the frame within the first week I had it. Did pretty good for a set of street tires really. Then about a year and a half ago I got stuck trying to pull another truck out. That was a mess, clay/mud ditch, and you could see water coming up outta the ground after I'd rock back and forth in the ditch. Took 2 trucks to get me outta that one, a 91 F250 7. 3NA and a 90s F250 w/302. And I almost sucked the 2nd truck into it with me. No pictures tho since I never thought I was going to do much mudding when I went out both times.



Nathan

 

[manganos]

I've been stuck

 

[GotDiesel]

I've been so stuck that it took almost 7 hrs to get out and two trucks and a whole lot of digging. At one point we thought we were going to lose it. It started to sink then slowly roll over to the passenger side, at one point the mirror was touching the ground, I thought it was all over, goodbye truck! We were about to give up, and call a wrecker when I remembered the highlift jack, we jacked up the back and they pulled me while I was on the jack, it was enough to move me backwards a few feet closer to solid ground. After a few more of those maneuvers I was out and home free! No real damage except for a small dent in the rear fender and a tore up rear Ranchhand bumper, it just messed up the diamond plate we were jacking on. I didn't have a camera but we went back and took pics of the ruts. They were so deep that when you stood in them it was up to my waist! NOW that is STUCK!

LOL,



Joe

 

[BarryG]

This wasnt in a CTD but a good stuck anyway. 74 Chevy 4x4 pickup late one night after at least one beer we decided to go wheeling. Went to a place we had been many many times. There was a pond that had a bedrock bottom that we used to drive through part of it. Well halfway through the truck died (out of gas). We walk home at 2am. Hook up the next morning with my bud and get some fuel drive over there. Put in the fuel, get truck started, uh oh it wont go. Did I forget to mention that it was winter time and the temp dropped below 0 over night and snowed about 8 inches. Well the pond which wasnt frozen when we were wheeling was now frozen enough that walking out to it to put in the fuel I didnt break through the ice. When opening the door the bottom of the door would rub the ice. Anyway it didnt take long to figure I was going to need some help. Had a friend whose dad was a farmer and would let him use one of the tractors to plow driveways in the neighborhood we lived in. He was out that morning so we get him and his huge JD tractor with 4 huge wheels on the back. He was saying oh yeah no problem, we get back to the truck and his tractor all hooked up, all it did was spin and spin. Didnt even budge the truck. He gets ****** and goes home and brings back a Versatill (sp) Another huge JD tractor with 4x4 and 4 huge tires front and rear still a no go he hung his head in shame in not being able to pull me out and said you are screwed. Call me in the spring. The next day I go back and to my amazement there is cat dozer about 1/4 mile away working. I sweet talk the guy into giving me a yank. He gets over there we hook up all the chains etc and still a no go. He says he is afraid if he pulls any harder it is going to rip the frame out and leave the axles, at this point I believe him and we stop. Go back the next day and to my amazement again is a huge track hoe being unloaded right down the road. I sweet talk this guy. He says come back tommorrow as he was still waiting for the counterbalances to be delivered. I go back there the next afternoon and find him digging one heck of a trench. He drives that thing up to bank of the pond. Reaches that bucket out there (which is bigger than my truck) and scoops all the way around it. Well he now has the ice broken and it is about 3 inches thick. He has me go get some lumber off his tractor trailer and tells me how to hook everything up. (he had me put the lumber on the sides of the truck to keep the chains from trashing the body and hook the chains to the spring shackles) and hooked all the chains to his bucket. That sob picked up my truck, ice and all out of the pond and swung it over on to the side of the pond. He was just shaking his head the whole time asking me how the hell I got into this mess. After a couple more hours with a blow torch and hatchet of melting and chipping the ice from the wheels etc. The truck started right up and I drove home. Only took 5 days to get out. No damage to the truck. I was only 16 at the time. Try to explain where your truck is for a week to your parents without telling them what really happened cause that would have surely been a beating (deservedly so in this case but since I had gotten a few that I didnt think were deserved in the past I felt it best at the time to lie about it). Its been over 25 years since that happened and I like to think that I am smarter now but sometimes I wonder.

 

[John L]

great story!!



John

 

[Nick2]

definately some entertaining at- work reading

:-laf

 

[ProMac1K]

Wow! Nice story!



I can't believe the tractors couldn't pull you out! Crazy!

 

[MMiller]

I have been stuck once where one tractor wouldn't budge my truck. When a tractor is on frozen ground or ice, they won't pull anything. They are very difficult to drive in those conditions too.



I try not to take pictures of my truck when its stuck. Sometimes I don't want to remeber!!



One night a friend and I went wheeling where we always used to go "muddin". Drive down a couple miles of dirt road, then drive along the fence line around the road closed sign down a steep hill to the river. The bridge has been gone for many years. Anyways I was in my old 75 and got to the river. It was frozen over. So I pulled out on the ice and halfway across my trucks front tires fell through the ice. I tried to keep going forward but it would not climb up on the ice on the other side. It would not back out and get on top of the ice. So my friend who followed me in, backs down the trail in between all the trees. Trees are so thick you have to back down the trail quite a ways to turn around. Then he backs back down to the river bank. Did I mention that the bank drops about 6' down to the river? He hooks up to the rear of my truck and yanks, and yanks. Then we put the strap around his gooseneck hitch and he yanks again. This time with enough lift to pop the front of my truck back on top of the ice. All's good right? WRONG! Now one of the front tires is leaking air after hitting the edge of the ice hard. Do we have a spare? NO. So with the truck sitting on the ice, we leave it, drive about 15 minutes to get my spare, jack and tools(this was when I was young and didn't think very far in advance). Went back and changed the tire. Did I mention this was after midnight? Get the tire changed and drive the truck back off the river and notice that its not driving very well. Then figure out the 8 bolt rim was 15" and rubbing hard on the caliper. So we pull off the spare, and switch it with one on the back. Then we drove home for the night. Funny thing is we thought is was a lot of fun, after we got it out of the water!!



Michael

 

[DISPATCH]

"74 Chevy 4x4 pickup late one night after at least one beer we decided to go wheeling. " ... ... "I was only 16 at the time. " i remeber those days and your worried about your parents and the truck!?!?

 

[ProMac1K]

"74 Chevy 4x4 pickup late one night after at least one beer we decided to go wheeling. " ... ... "I was only 16 at the time. " i remeber those days and your worried about your parents and the truck!?!?

Hehehe, I remember those days! Scared the **** out of ya after something happened. :-laf



Man these stories make me want to get a second truck. I almost bought a '74 Chevy 1/2 ton for $1200. I felt sorry for my buddy since he was interested in it and waiting for the loan approval so I let him have it. Boy it was a sweet looking truck and could go through a lot. Cool transfer case too, full-time 4wd.



Good stories guys! Keep 'em cummin!

 

[PullinRam]

Here's a few for ya'll to look at. Im usually a phone call away for people stuck in the local state forest which sometimes get's me in some "sticky" situations. But it's all good fun. I didn't build this truck for nothin!



My front bumper was 2" from touching the center of this rut

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Also from that stuck

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This one took 6 hrs, 4 trucks, 1 5ton chainhoist, and alot of firewood to keep warm lol. I was inspecting the marsh for deep spots and boy did i find one! Then the dually on 36" swampers backed out to get me and buried it to the frame with the strap tight.

 

[Grunt]

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'nuff said

 

[starring]

It all started when i got way to cocky after making it through some pretty big pits that a Ford with 44's couldn't make it through. I was thinking that i was invinsible at this point. Oddly enough this was actually shallower than some of my previous attempts, but needles to say I did not make it out on my own. It took 3 trucks, about 5 hours, 2 jacks, and eventually a spare tire to get me moving under my own power and back on to the main road.

I have some awesome pictures, but i am in no way smart enough to post them.

 

[ProMac1K]

Hey starring,



Sounds like you had some fun! You can email those pictures to me and I would be glad to post them for you.



trever@maas. to



-Trever-

 

[ProMac1K]

Here's the pic's! Pretty sweet!



Can't get them to post one here with the image function. The UBB code looks right but it leaves them as a URL instead of a Image.



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[Featherman]

Stuck

I just had an interesting experience. I've been stuck plenty of times, but this was my first time in my '04 3500 CTD. I'm always chasing old Chryslers and it just so happened a co-worker had a 63 Saratoga out at his cottage. We made plans to head out and cut a trail to the car, since it hasn't been moved for 14 years!!!!! After we cut the trail it was time to bring the truck in. When I was backing up towards the front of the car, I felt the ground was a little spongy under the weigth of the CTD. I thought I was okay, till we hooked up the car to the truck with a chain. Tires rotated once and down she went!!! The front end went down about as fast as it could've.



The saving grace was we had a jack-all, but we had to dig the front of the truck to gain access to the tow hooks, since this is the only place one can jack up the front. It took us 5 hours to get out of there. I can only assume the weight of the truck played a huge role in getting this beast stuck. Not to mention the lousy tires!!!



To remedy any future incidents, I just purchased a Buckstop bumper complete with a 15k winch from a fellow TDR member. Will have to research tire options soon.



It was different experience with the diesel, I didn't notice the power requirement that a gasser has when one wants to rock the truck to gain some movement.



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