"I can't get stuck"

[heptofite]

So yesterday, when i buried my B2 in a mudpit, i had to get help getting out.

after about a half hour of trying to find somebody, gf's cousin has her friend come out with a nissan xterra and a ratchet strap.


Not exactly my first recovery option mind, but beggers can't be choosers, and it was a 4k pound strap.

so, mind you, my truck is cocked at a 45 degree angle nose up, about 35 degrees to it's side, and it's turned about 20 from straight, since what had happened was i was driving around the mud pit rather than through it, and the ground caved into the pit, and my back end slid in before i could do anything about it.

so back to the story, her nissan had a receiver, but not hitch, so i had her back up towards my B2, and i tell her not to get too close because she might get stuck, she said, and i quote "this thing can't get stuck"

Now, her totally radical badass invincible offroad masterpiece (bone stock xterra) is sitting on the very ground that had previously gave way and swallowed my b2, but she thinks she can't get stuck.

long story short, we hooked the two together with the strap, tightened it up, and with her pulling, and me spinning the tires in reverse, we got me out.

But it got me thinking, believing you can't get stuck and that your rig is invincible is a dangerous, how many times have you come across somebody like that?

i mean, i know the limitations of my rig, as soon as the ground gave way i knew i was boned so i shut it down rather than bury it further, but when we started to slip coming out she punched it and painted my truck brown(er).


so, have you guys run into people with rigs that "can't get stuck" ?

[NMB2]

i dont get stuck.

[Gotta_gofast]

I don't get stuck either

[Dweano]

Not really a rig, more the person. My buddy has (had...blown engine) this bone stock chevy half ton. And I swear he was unstoppable. It had like...not big tires at all. 245/70/16 or something. And they were pretty much bald cuz when wasn't bagging it off road he liked doing burnouts. But somehow he got thro almost everything. I don't know how he did it. I think it was his philosophy that if you hit something fast enough you will get thro it, that and the utter disregard for his truck...hence the blown engine (famous last words..."oh the oil pressure goes low lots of times, I just don't worry about it) haha

[B2 Addict]

i dont get stuck.

I had that mentality for a long time until I took off down a trail designated for 4 wheelers (quads) only. I figured, how deep could these holes be considering it was a 4 wheeler trail! :headbang:

I soon found out! :shok: It took a 4 wheeler with a winch tied off to my buddies heep to get me out. Yes, that's right, a 4 wheeler with a winch! :bawling: The pics don't make it look bad, to put it in perspective those are 33s & I have no lockers!
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[souldoubt88]

I can get stuck, but it takes some effort:D

[Andres629]

I actually know a guy with a Land Cruiser, a 45 series wagon to be exact, that literally has never gotten that thing stuck. He's running a 'Yota turbo diesel with 5.13 gears and dual t-cases. In first gear and in 4-lo-lo he can just about idle up anything. He says he wants to get rid of it because it is no longer fun to drive, because he can just look at something, say "I wanna go there" and go there with no worries of getting stuck. But he never does get rid of it because of all the money into it. Haha.

[JohnnyU]

It depends entirely on the terrain, but if you aren't getting stuck, you aren't really wheeling....

:stirthepot:

[sloth69mustang]

man you guys are going to all the wrong places if you cant get stuck lol. only time i get stuck is if there is a hump in a pit that my difs cant clear. but outside that bone stock ranger with 31s seemed to be pretty unstoppable. i have buried the truck half way up the grill in creeks with np but those super deep pits cant you cant see whats in it.... they seem to be the ones that get me stuck.

edit... i agree with johnnyU

[Colin]

I haven't got stuck .... yet ....

[RedneckSTX]

I used to own a 1986 F-250 that I thought was unstopable, I used to joke around and say "that truck can go through mud holes all by itself", and it would as long as it was not too deep and there was ruts to keep it straight, I would put it in 4-low, and shift it into granny gear, get straight with the ruts and let out on the clutch and climb out and let it idle through the hole on its own, while I walked along side the hole, and when it come up out of the ruts on the other side I would jump back in it, it was easy to do because in granny gear and 4-low top speed was slower was less than 5 mph, but anyways that truck never got stuck when I owned it, but I was young and dumb and traded it for a 87 4x4 ext. cab Ranger, 2.9L, 5speed

[NMB2]

It depends entirely on the terrain, but if you aren't getting stuck, you aren't really wheeling....

:stirthepot:

completely dependent on a persons opinion of "stuck"


i RARELY get stuck, i cant remember that last time exactly i had to be pulled out of something... I usually either make it, or i dont.

EDIT: i actually do remember the last time i was stuck.
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[BeaterMan]

when in doubt.... use the skinny pedal!!! :headbang:

[wrecking-crew]

i never get stuck

theres always 4lo reverse

[mhughes165]

i never get stuck

theres always 4lo reverse

i can take u a place where there will be no 4 low reverse becasue your truck is in quicksand essentially

[kennykenny]

Getting stuck is half the fun...the other half is getting out!

[Downey]

^^ agree that what makes it exciting if you know you can do anything whats the point there is no challenge

[Will]

She got you out, she didn't get stuck, she's the one telling the stories right now.

My B2 with both axles locked and 31" MTs gets stuck sometimes--a lot really. With 35" Hawgs it almost got stuck once. Of course the mud was only up to the windows, so I won't say it wouldn't get stuck.

I've never gotten my Bobcat stuck. I've floated it on it's belly-pan before, but having a bucket on the front sort of helps. And the same with my backhoe. Hard to stick that too--it just pulls itself along. And my little dozer. That doesn't even acknowledge the mud--things that tires disappear into it floats right over without sinking. So there are exceptions. Nissan Xterras obviously belong in this group. Especially when operated by the friend of a friend of a cousins friend. :D

[trail B2]

What gets you stuck around here is snow the hills get snowed in for the winter you plow around there you get stuck but its clean to dig your way out or winch if you got something to pull against.

[joldtown]

<--- gets stuck in traffic, with 4wd.

[wrecking-crew]

i can take u a place where there will be no 4 low reverse becasue your truck is in quicksand essentially

where? as long as i wont lose my truckor blow it up) im game:D

[BDAB]

I don't get stuck. I get temporarily delayed

[85rx7_93ranger]

I used to think having 40" ground hawgs, welded front and rear danas, and a 350 meant i would never get stuck. actually i just meant that id get stuck even more,

see when i had a jeep i would go through little mud holes and puddles and have fun but with the blazer those holes were no longer fun and i looked like a posser driving my massive rig through them so the only things left to drive through were lakes and rivers and shit, so i got that damn thing stuck like every damn day lol so bigger is NOT always better

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r49/mitch2160/Photo0547.jpg
if you notice thats a 8 foot garage door and behind the blazer is a scout on 33s which looks pathetic lol it was about 9and a 1/2 feet tall haha

[Doom's Day Custom]

i am not sure if they do it any more but new Egypt speedway was running a mud drag where the hole started shallow and then it got and deeper and the objective was to go the longer distance in the mud for your class and i know English town raceway did it but and the last hole was like almost 6' deep and not many trucks got the threw that!!!! That event was only held one time and never done at english town but i heard that new egypt was doing it..

[kennykenny]

New Egypt does them all summer. It's not really worth the cost of entry as a spectator, you can't see well through the fence.

[Chance]

I don't get stuck. I get temporarily delayed

Me too...

I get delayed at least 3-4 times each time I go out.

I'm "that guy who tries everything".

My most common phrase out wheeling is "Oops, bad idea. Get the straps."

And then I try it again :icon_twisted:

[ozziemo27]

completely dependent on a persons opinion of "stuck

I'm not quite sure i understand what you mean? My definition of stuck, you're unable to move under your own power, when you don't have the equipment to recover yourself and you need another truck to help move ya. Whats your definition?

[BigPimpin91]

It depends entirely on the terrain, but if you aren't getting stuck, you aren't really wheeling....

:stirthepot:

My mentality.

"If you didn't break something, you didn't go wheeling."

Although this doesn't always hold true.
Buddies 3500 kinda decided to throw a U-Joint on level ground before getting to the hill.
I guess you can say it shit it's pants. :icon_rofl:

[BDAB]

Me too...

I get delayed at least 3-4 times each time I go out.

I'm "that guy who tries everything".

My most common phrase out wheeling is "Oops, bad idea. Get the straps."

And then I try it again :icon_twisted:


now I get stuck ....... stupid stock SLA Chevy with crappy pizza cutter tires that sits way to low to the ground to be a 4x4....... seriously, if it didn't say 4x4 on the side of the box I would have thought it was a 2wd the first time I seen it....... stupid 245/75/16 odd ball sized tires....... While I have issues with doing an SAS to a TTB truck ...... I have no issues with an SAS to one of these crappy set ups..... SLA suck ass unless you got about 6 or 7 grand to dump into it.


this is going to be my daily driver while I look for a Gen 1 Explorer and a military blazer to steal the 6.2 out of.

[Chance]

^aye. I noticed alot of people who own new chevy's get really pissed when I ask them if their truck is two wheel drive and lowered :icon_rofl:

I feel ya about the sla... need to get my parts gathering finished yet... I do like the ground clearance that sla gives ya though (assuming you don't have those faggitty torsion bars/rock-stump anchors anymore)

[RumpRangerSTX]

if u don't get stuck u not going to the rite spots and i do get stuck sometimes

[wrecking-crew]

^aye. I noticed alot of people who own new chevy's get really pissed when I ask them if their truck is two wheel drive and lowered :icon_rofl:

I feel ya about the sla... need to get my parts gathering finished yet... I do like the ground clearance that sla gives ya though (assuming you don't have those faggitty torsion bars/rock-stump anchors anymore)

my truck was like that new......they why it got it lifted.

[NMB2]

I'm not quite sure i understand what you mean? My definition of stuck, you're unable to move under your own power, when you don't have the equipment to recover yourself and you need another truck to help move ya. Whats your definition?

some people consider if you have to use your winch, you're stuck. I dont consider that stuck.

[GoodOld85BlueBalls]

some people consider if you have to use your winch, you're stuck. I dont consider that stuck.

Thats kind of like saying "I wasn't stuck cause my hubs wern't locked in....."

[NMB2]

Thats kind of like saying "I wasn't stuck cause my hubs wern't locked in....."

not really. If you seen alot of the stuff i wheel, you would understand... a winch is required for alot of obstacles.

[ozziemo27]

not really. If you seen alot of the stuff i wheel, you would understand... a winch is required for alot of obstacles.

Theres the difference between backwoods wheeling in the mud and getting buried a$$hole deep to a tall indian and rock-crawling.

[Lil red ranger]

i got my 91 ranger, 2.3 2wd stuck a couple weeks ago in a field, i didnt try to but its a long story, lol. anyway, i buried my truck til the tires were 3/4 the way gone(i couldnt see them cuz i dug em so deep) but i got the truck out with no help so i think, if you want out youll get out, i wanna make it an off roader but i dont think its worth it with the 2.3

[dirtsquirt]

LOl, getting stuck or not getting stuck, Is simpily a matter of terrian, if your just trail wheeling on good ground u never get stuck, but mudding, peit bogging, your going to get stuck.

[Shran]

I do not get stuck in mud because I simply do not go into it. I hate everything about mud and I especially hate cleaning it out of everything. I just see no reason to get filthy, sticky clay crap stuck all over my $6,000 truck.

That said, I am building a VERY low budget mud truck out of one of my Rangers. I have less than $30 into it so far including the cost of the truck. Mud is fun in something I don't really care about!

So back to stuck situations, I have been stuck in snow or hung up in the rocks more times than I care to remember. It's just part of wheelin, and the recoveries are usually pretty fun.

[kennykenny]

It must be nice to have the option of going in the mud and not going in the mud...'round here if you're wheelin', you're muddy!

[dirtsquirt]

lol about the same here in the spring thaws or when it rains

[77'cj7]

Well, if being unable to self recover is the definition of bein stuck, i've been stuck once. After watching my winch cable snap for the second time, i admitted to myself that I was screwed and started calling for help, soon followed by realizing i had no phone service.

Also, this instance pretty much proved karma to me. I had spent the recent set of snow days pulling out dozens of stuck vehicles in Rapid, including several plow trucks. Didn't give that up till I popped a front u-joint in my rubicon, then switched to the ranger.
So i was out on some planned subdivision road near Lead, with no houses built on it yet. Road was unplowed, and i was just playin around. Drifts were deceiving, and i dropped the front passenger tire off the edge. Snow was very heavy, and was deep enough to cover my winch. Dug the winch out, and tried a 45* pull across the road to pull my truck back up. Winch pulled the truck maybe a foot before the cable snapped. Next, i tried a straight pull across the ditch by wrapping the end of my winch cable around a tree. Barely moved before the cable gave that time.
So, after realizing i have no cell phone service, I start walking out to the main road. Its dark at this point, of course. I make it about half way out, where the subdivision road has been plowed for some reason. I see a set of jeep headlights up the road, so i flag with my flashlight. The jeep ends up being a stock 4dr JK, so I start to ask for a ride into Lead. I aimed my flashlight at the hood, and was damn surprised to see the rubicon badge.
I explained my situation to the driver, and he was willing to try to pull me out. He was able to follow my ruts back to my truck with no problem, and found a relatively shallow place to turn around, we managed to get a strap hooked up to my truck. However, when he tried to take off, the jeep spun and sunk before the strap even got tight. After digging/rocking the jeep out 3 or 4 times, I ended up digging a 40 foot or so runway for him. Any time he tried taking off in the snow, the jeep would spin and the diffs would hang. With the runway, a couple false tries (had to explain how recovery straps worked) and two good pops on the strap and my truck came free. Got it back to the main road, and made it back to rapid in time for supper with friends.

Being found by the one stock vehicle capable of performing the rescue (Rubicon), by a non-wheeler, where no one had a reason to be anyways, I'll chock that up for karma.

[dirtsquirt]

Karma has a way of showing up at times, I have stoped and helped lot's of people over the years. It's something i have always done and alway's will..

many years ago. my sister was moving to college, i had at the time a 1972 bronco. and was towing a u-hual trailer with my sisters furniture in it. I was on the highway out in the middle of no where, and the hose from the water pump to the block the blew up.

I had no spare and there was no cell's in those days. Well the first truck that came along stoped to help. this was on a sunday and the chance of getting a replacement was slim on a sunday. Well the guy that stoped, his brother owned an auto wreckers about 40 mile's from where we were. this man drove me out to the wreckers. we found a hose. got some water, and a couple tool's, and a ride back to my bronco.
When the truck was fixed. I tryed to give the guy some money for helping me. he refused and said to me just stop and help others when u can, And off he went.

Well about 15 years after that. i was heading down the highway, it was late and the weather was turning bad. i seen a truck broke down on the side of the road. we were about 70 miles from no where. i stoped to help, as i always do. this young man had a broken u-joint. i was in a pete, with an empty lowbed. so i winched the truck onto the deck and off we went. While i was getting the truck onto the deck, i noticed a small sign on the truck (chase river auto wreckers) I asked the young man about it. His uncle owned the place.
It turned out, I was helping out the son of the man who had helped me out so many years before...

[Shran]

Also, this instance pretty much proved karma to me. I had spent the recent set of snow days pulling out dozens of stuck vehicles in Rapid, including several plow trucks. Didn't give that up till I popped a front u-joint in my rubicon, then switched to the ranger.
So i was out on some planned subdivision road near Lead,

Just curious, where are you from?

[kennykenny]

Karma has a way of showing up at times, I have stoped and helped lot's of people over the years. It's something i have always done and alway's will..

many years ago. my sister was moving to college, i had at the time a 1972 bronco. and was towing a u-hual trailer with my sisters furniture in it. I was on the highway out in the middle of no where, and the hose from the water pump to the block the blew up.

I had no spare and there was no cell's in those days. Well the first truck that came along stoped to help. this was on a sunday and the chance of getting a replacement was slim on a sunday. Well the guy that stoped, his brother owned an auto wreckers about 40 mile's from where we were. this man drove me out to the wreckers. we found a hose. got some water, and a couple tool's, and a ride back to my bronco.
When the truck was fixed. I tryed to give the guy some money for helping me. he refused and said to me just stop and help others when u can, And off he went.

Well about 15 years after that. i was heading down the highway, it was late and the weather was turning bad. i seen a truck broke down on the side of the road. we were about 70 miles from no where. i stoped to help, as i always do. this young man had a broken u-joint. i was in a pete, with an empty lowbed. so i winched the truck onto the deck and off we went. While i was getting the truck onto the deck, i noticed a small sign on the truck (chase river auto wreckers) I asked the young man about it. His uncle owned the place.
It turned out, I was helping out the son of the man who had helped me out so many years before...

That is really cool.

[77'cj7]

Just curious, where are you from?

At the moment, Rapid City. Goin to school at SDSMT.

[ozziemo27]

Karma has a way of showing up at times, I have stoped and helped lot's of people over the years. It's something i have always done and alway's will..

many years ago. my sister was moving to college, i had at the time a 1972 bronco. and was towing a u-hual trailer with my sisters furniture in it. I was on the highway out in the middle of no where, and the hose from the water pump to the block the blew up.

I had no spare and there was no cell's in those days. Well the first truck that came along stoped to help. this was on a sunday and the chance of getting a replacement was slim on a sunday. Well the guy that stoped, his brother owned an auto wreckers about 40 mile's from where we were. this man drove me out to the wreckers. we found a hose. got some water, and a couple tool's, and a ride back to my bronco.
When the truck was fixed. I tryed to give the guy some money for helping me. he refused and said to me just stop and help others when u can, And off he went.

Well about 15 years after that. i was heading down the highway, it was late and the weather was turning bad. i seen a truck broke down on the side of the road. we were about 70 miles from no where. i stoped to help, as i always do. this young man had a broken u-joint. i was in a pete, with an empty lowbed. so i winched the truck onto the deck and off we went. While i was getting the truck onto the deck, i noticed a small sign on the truck (chase river auto wreckers) I asked the young man about it. His uncle owned the place.
It turned out, I was helping out the son of the man who had helped me out so many years before...

that is one great story man! talk about coincidence!

[dirtsquirt]

It was was something out of the twilight zone for sure.

[lil_Blue_Ford]

i am not sure if they do it any more but new Egypt speedway was running a mud drag where the hole started shallow and then it got and deeper and the objective was to go the longer distance in the mud for your class and i know English town raceway did it but and the last hole was like almost 6' deep and not many trucks got the threw that!!!! That event was only held one time and never done at english town but i heard that new egypt was doing it..

There's a place in Erie, PA that has something like that. IIRC they only open it up once a year for anyone who is not a club member or something like that, but they have a pit that they claim has only been crossed twice. And both of those times were back in the 80's by true monster trucks. One year someone decided to try to run a military 6x6 across it in the off season. They made it about halfway before burying it. Rumor has it that they tied the winch off to the only tree in the pit (a big pine) and when they came back with help, the only way they found the truck was by following the winch cable back to where it had sunk. Took a couple big dozers to get it out.

She got you out, she didn't get stuck, she's the one telling the stories right now.

My B2 with both axles locked and 31" MTs gets stuck sometimes--a lot really. With 35" Hawgs it almost got stuck once. Of course the mud was only up to the windows, so I won't say it wouldn't get stuck.

I've never gotten my Bobcat stuck. I've floated it on it's belly-pan before, but having a bucket on the front sort of helps. And the same with my backhoe. Hard to stick that too--it just pulls itself along. And my little dozer. That doesn't even acknowledge the mud--things that tires disappear into it floats right over without sinking. So there are exceptions. Nissan Xterras obviously belong in this group. Especially when operated by the friend of a friend of a cousins friend. :D

I thought our skid steer was unstoppable before. There's been times it rode on it's belly pan but like you say, you can usually use the bucket to lever yourself free if you have to. That is, until we were building our new house. When we were clearing the lot and cutting the driveway in, we took a bucket full of rocks off the end of the driveway about 50', straight shot, dumped them and tried to back up. No luck. Tried using the bucket... and just filled it up with sticky-gooey mud that wouldn't shake free. Had to resort to shoveling the mud out of the bucket to lighten it, shovel around the tires some, and throw a couple bags of mortar on the mud. Was just enough traction to get out. Dad asked me what we should do with the stuff that got dug out for the foundation... I told him we should make a mud pit out of it.:icon_rofl: