craziest vehicle recovery...

[tanbuddy]

I jsut buryed a few trucks up to the frame in mud or over a snowbank. Took my backhoe or small dozer to pull it right out.
The best was when i wheeled alone and got high centered (thanks to my friends great spotting skills). Walked out to get a floor jack and oll changing ramp to get her high enough to get out.

 

[PaleBlue90]

this didnt work but it was still funny to watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrT_-Ehl_OI&feature=related

 

[Will]

Well, our road is very narrow--17' wide. That means 2 8' wide trucks either break their mirrors or one drops off the shoulder. About 8 years ago the dairy truck took the plunge about 100 yards down the road.

First the a neighbor with a FORD tractor came and couldn't budge it--but he did scrape a lot of ice off with the rear blade.

Then the local yokels showed up with a 1-ton tow truck, gazed at the truck and left. They came back with the medium duty truck. I tugged and slid and tugged and slid. And then they gave Gallic shrugs and left. And the long day wore on.

A sherriff deputy showed up and painted the local flora with his blue and whites for a few hours until dusk decended upon the valley. Then it came.

One of those big arse semi-wreckers. Three pairs of drive axles. 100,000 LEDs lighting up the chrome and naked lady mudflaps--the works. A twin stacked 379. A mammoth of a hydraulic arm was extended out the back, it llifted the dairy truck back onto the road without a single skip in the track and then slipped away into the night.

You gotta have the right tool for the job.

I spent a similar day back when I was in the field artillery. We were on a jungle track pulling 155s down a road that was meant for jeeps. The gun went off the road on a switchback. No amount of snatchblocks and winches could get at it. We were out of ideas and looking at court martial, death or worse. When above the trees we saw the book of a giant crane. Some damn thing. It has "32 Ton" stenciled on the olive drab boom in black letters. We never even met the operator. We threw on an HST sling, the crane lifted the gun and drug the whole mess back onto the track and then backed off down the road. I'm sure a couple cases of beer changed hands between some gunnery sergeants.

It's great to be saved.

 

[brendank]

this didnt work but it was still funny to watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrT_-Ehl_OI&feature=related

If I ever saw someone do that, I'd strangle them with their own tow rope. Sure is funny to watch though.

 

[mud_bogger]

The one that sticks out in my mind happend a couple years ago.
I had just got off work an got a call from a buddy of mine. Seems he was going down a hill in his ranger when he went into a slide. He had his arm outside the window an the truck slid into a oak tree, pinning his arm between the door an the tree! To make it worse the truck had slid onto a rock an was high centered.

I grabbed a saw an jumped into my jeep an headed his way. Seems he called everybody he knew as there was a ton of 4wd rigs headed up that road. I hooked a winch onto his truck but bout the time I got tension on the cable The winch cut out (battery conection it turned out).

Ended up limbing the tree an then cutting chunk by chunk off it untill we were low enough we could cut below his arm an not worry about the tree falling on the truck or him.

busted his arm up pretty good because of that.

 

[mud_bogger]

just remembered ONE more lol.

I got my old f-150 stuck in a hole up on some backroads. Called in the calvary (friends) to pull me out. It was one of those one lane dead end logging roads an the first rig in there was a dodge flatbed. That got stuck bad. Therefore blocking the road for everybody else. So we called in more people. Ended up with 5 stuck rigs that were all stuck due to tryin to pull that damn dodge. Took about 5 hours to get him out.

Oh yea, 2 guys walked behind my truck an just gave me a lil push an I was out lol.

 

[dusto2]

got reminded of another one similar to wills only it was down the side of my friends drive way he lives about a mile and a half down a dirt road well somone ran him off it and went down about 150ft or so it took about a hour to get him back up the mountain pulling him 9ft at a time width of the road basically and reseting the chain and straps each time dug 4 hole about 4foot long foot wide and foot deep from where i would stop and just spin my tires

 

[PaleBlue90]

The one that sticks out in my mind happend a couple years ago.
I had just got off work an got a call from a buddy of mine. Seems he was going down a hill in his ranger when he went into a slide. He had his arm outside the window an the truck slid into a oak tree, pinning his arm between the door an the tree! To make it worse the truck had slid onto a rock an was high centered.

I grabbed a saw an jumped into my jeep an headed his way. Seems he called everybody he knew as there was a ton of 4wd rigs headed up that road. I hooked a winch onto his truck but bout the time I got tension on the cable The winch cut out (battery conection it turned out).

Ended up limbing the tree an then cutting chunk by chunk off it untill we were low enough we could cut below his arm an not worry about the tree falling on the truck or him.

busted his arm up pretty good because of that.

wow

 

[Turbo-T]

When I was a youngster my father decided to go down by the river and pick up some firewood. He borrowed an old Jeep pickup from work and He and a neighbor and I went down to the river to get our "free" wood. Well, the wood was water logged and lying on a mud flat. Yup, up to its axles in a split second. Dad hiked out to a phone, and called Mom to come down with our Jeep station wagon. Got it stuck, too. He hiked out and called for a tow truck. They sent their smallest rig. Got it stuck. They had to call for a bigger rig. Got that one stuck, too. Along about midnight Dad asked them to get the station wagon free so he could send Mom and me home. He drove it through the brush around their 2 rigs and sent my Mother and me home. He didn't get home until 6 in the morning. They tried to bill him for all the damage they did to their rigs.

 

[compleckz]

Craziest recovery?

I find it hard to imagine something crazier than this:
http://www.offroaders.com/readers/bad-recovery.htm

Though I suspect the "crazy" is a different sense than you meant it....

haha i read that sometime last year i think, it was a good one

i bet after that incident he decided to get some halfway decent tires, and possibly some lockers... or some smarter friends.

 

[mdmarble]

haha i read that sometime last year i think, it was a good one

i bet after that incident he decided to get some halfway decent tires, and possibly some lockers... or some smarter friends.

This one's pretty funny. I ended up getting real lucky in the end.

I was out screwing around with my buddies. We were on our way home and my friend goes Mike, lets go on the green belt and do donuts! Great idea! Theres this grass field that meets with a dead end street. No one is ever back there. Its sort of the end of the park. I jump the curb and start doing donuts with my friend in the passenger and other friend in the jump seat. I start sliding sideways and theres a tree in front of me. I hit the brakes and stop. My luck I slide into a patch of grass about the size of my truck that is that marshy land type grass. You know the the grass you go walking in and you sink in it. Anyways, all four tries dug deep, and I couldnt get out. That was the deepest oh shit feeling I've ever had. Not that I was stuck, but stuck on public property. It was about ten o clock in an area that didnt have much traffic. There was a party up the street you could hear, so I wasnt concerned about the people around us. I tried everything to get us out. Friends in the back, pushing. Turns out the party made a cop come by and check it out. He pulled up and all of us go ooooo shit, he turns right into the street before us and I'm like thank god. They my friend goes crap, he turning around. Turned around and put the light on us. Basically called me an idiot and made me call my dad. My dad comes in his Mercedes SUV and pulls me out with a 35' 3/8" polypropylene rope. That damn rope stretched a looooong ways. I cant believe it didnt break.

It sucks. My friends give me crap all the time. I got stuck in grass trying to offroad in my piece of shit ranger and ended up getting pulled out by a Mercedes. True, but not all the details....

Funny now. But I couldn't sleep that night with the thing with the cop. First time in trouble with a cop. I think mine might beet the biggest ego breaker

-Mike

 

[Redneckryder]

I got stuck in grass trying to offroad in my piece of shit ranger -Mike

thats sacralidge...dont blame the truck, you'll hurt its feelings.

 

[Loanranger]

Well, this one involves a Ranger, it was the 2wd ranger that I bought from a buddy to use the motor and trans out of for Fordzuki.

Down the end of my buddies road, his uncle lives right at the top of a hillside, and owns 3 acres on top of the hill, and 5 acres down the hill. Well a while back, he decided to log the 5 acres down the hill, and made a skidder road, which after he had logged it, went overgrown for quite a few years. Well, I moved into a mobile at the back of his property for a few months while saving to buy my house, and decided to take the Ramcharger I had at the time down this skidder road. Well, its a very narrow trail, with a dropoff at one side, and the hill is mostly made of sand. To say the least, it is an exciting drive down. After a few months of running around down there, I had a few nice trails, and my buddy decided to take his Ranger down the hill. Well, it had been raining off and on for a couple days, and so it was a little muddy, but once he got to the bottom of the hill, it started raining pretty good. He decided to turn around and make a run up the hill before it got too sloppy, but he was too late. He made it about 20 feet up the hill, and it wouldn't go any further, so I brought the Ramcharger down, and hooked onto it, with the plan of just pulling him up the hill. Well, with the ranger in tow, I made it about 1/3 of the way up the hill, and the ramcharger lost traction in the mud, and started pulling real hard towards the dropoff. So we backed the two rigs back down the hill, and I gave it a second run. Same thing, and at that point I was hoping I could make it back up with just the Ramcharger, so we didn't have two rigs to recover. I unhooked, and made a run at it, and with just the weight of the Ramcharger, it walked right up the hill. So we went down to another neighbors, and borrowed about 400 feet of 3/8s cable, and went back to the top of the hill. My buddy ran one end of the cable down to the ranger, I hooked the other end to the Ramcharger, and we gave it hell. Well, with 400' of cable, I was able to pull him up the hill, while staying on flat ground the whole time, but I ran out of room when I nosed the ramcharger into the far back corner of his uncles property, and had to stop and double back the cable to the ranger to shorten it up, and pull him the rest of the way out. That had to be the funnest recover I can think of.

 

[86ford]

early on in my "wheeling" adventures my brother and i both had 2wd trucks we would give hell at a local spot. well i went a few times in my ranger and had a blast. i always had help with me and supplys to get out, no biggie. my brother on the other had sporaticly. would go and get hard core stuck at 10pm or even later THEN call me! it got to the point he would be on his way there and call me to make shure i could go pull him out WHEN ,not if but WHEN he got stuck. little shit head. it was hilarious tho.

86

 

[MikeWild]

This is by far the best recovery I've seen....

http://bb.bc4x4.com/showthread.php?t=131616&page=16