Well, I wouldn't knock the capability of those either, I'm probably just a little more willing to get body damage. That's only because everything behind the cab is more body filler than metal. Once I start fixing the body I'll be a little more hesitant about where I take it, but I would like to see what it can do before then.
I've never offroaded the truck, just go it back running in 2019 after a 12 year nap, then it was broke again all of last year. I rode in it a lot with dad before I ever got a drivers license. Mostly rough logging logging road stuff that most people wouldn't think about driving on when wet, but never got stuck and almost never used 4x4. Probably had more to do with the driver than the truck.
I think the only times I ever remember him actually engaging the 4x4 was to retrieve stuck trailers. One when I was real little, a friend of his had a trailer jump off the ball going down the highway and it ran off into the edge of a swamp, towing company said it was lost. He drove the truck in, hooked up and drug the trailer back out.
The other was a scout camping trailer. This thing was actually an 8x10 or 8x12 storage building with a heavy duty steel frame and axle bolted under it. Scout master packed it so tight floor to ceiling that if everything wasn't exactly where it belonged it all wasn't going back in. Shortly after I was out of the troop they went camping on some local farm land they got permission to use. It had a lot wet spot that never dried out and the owner was going to convert this portion into a pond and build a house there IIRC. Well scout master drove his 2wd, crew cab, long bed, Chevy 2500 right through the center of it. Needless to say both truck and trailer got stuck. They called, we tried to go help but couldn't find the place that night. By the time we got there the next morning the property owner had come and tried to help. They got the truck out and stuck a big John Deere front end loader w/ backhoe. Dad got there the next morning, I had to work IIRC, drove through the mud pit they made, hooked to the tractor, and drove right on out. Heard those boys talking about it for months, truck screaming, mud flying everywhere, and drove it right on out. To add insult to injury, he then hotwired the tractor and crab walked it out of the hole before the owner got back.
Sorry got of on a tangent. Lot of good memories in that truck, want to make a few more like that before I get to the point of not messing it up again. I'll still use it like a truck, but a little more cautious.
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