Ever been stuck real bad??

[Mightyfordranger]

I have a few reall good getting stuck stories. Like dragin full-size trucks with rangers and running out of gas while in a mud hole twice went wheelin with a truck that didn't have reverese we all have some the only problem with mine are I already know them so I wanna hear yours!!

 

[Shoddy Cologne]

Dont have any great stories but.. I had a few beers in me at the local mud event and decided id hit the trails with the B2 on 235 75 15 all terrains( no lift wasnt intended for trails) and encountered a hole i decided was too deep so i tried to turn down another trail but at the bottom of the hill was another huge hole. Anyway i got stuck on the hill with no where to go and my hubs wouldnt lock. Here comes a K5 blazer on 44s rollcage and badass engine. Oh and working 4x4, the whole bit. He gets stuck on the hill behind me. Lol. I got a tug out of there from a friend and the hot headed blazer backed down the hill and went on his way.

After being freed from the hill i floored it back down the trail i came from and forgot about a nasty woop and hucked the front of the bronco in the air. Scared my gf but she was drunk and laughed her ass off. Broncos definately have a well deserved name.
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[lil_Blue_Ford]

Not sure that I really have any good ones aside from getting my Ranger stuck once. I used to run mud tires on the rear in the winter and aggressive AT tires in the front. I took my GF at the time and we were going to go play around a friend's farm with my 88 Bronco II that I had stored there at the time. Well, when we got up there, I couldn't get 4x4 to work on the BII, so I said f-it and we took the Ranger around. First trail I go up, I make a left to continue up the hill (going straight would have taken me out in the owner's dad's yard). Got turned up the hill and that was it. Buried the back till the axle was sitting on the ground. I looked at my GF and she goes "Oh no, you can't really be stuck. You better get us moving again right now." (On the way up, I had joked that maybe I should fake getting stuck so we could make out).

Walked back to the field and flagged down the owner's brother. Talked him into bringing his Chevy 2500 to free me. He didn't want to do it at first, but I got on him about how he was talking up his Chevy that he had a lift on it and off road tires and whatnot. He finally decided to show me what a Chevy could do. Hooked up a tow strap and the Chevy digs in... and doesn't budge my Ranger. He gave it a couple tries and then gave up and unhooked the strap, said he'd go fetch his brother. Goes to leave and... yep, he's stuck. So he hooked up his quad to his truck and it pulls the Chevy out. He comes back with the quad and tries pulling me with that, but it's a no go (although the quad moved me more than the Chevy did). So we fetch the landowner and he tries driving my truck out. Got it out of the holes I dug but not really anywhere else, so he fetches his Ford backhoe. Yep, I had to get dragged out by a backhoe.

Other than that, most of my stucks have been kinda stupid. Got my 89 Eddie Bauer BII hung up on a snowmobile track once, got a yank from a Chevy 2500 to get out. Got my Ranger stuck on a logging road when the hitch landed on top of a water bar and became an anchor. Got my F-150 stuck when I first got it because the auto hubs were blown out and I didn't know it, mom's Explorer pulled be back up onto the driveway. Got the F-150 stuck once plowing snow, was getting ambitious stacking snow and had it spill over the top of the plow, filled up above the level of the hood and buried my 7.5' anchor, got pulled out with a Chevy 2500. Almost got the F-150 stuck when I pulled off my driveway with probably around 1.5 tons or so of wet dirt in the back (instantly sank to the rear axle as soon as it left the stone driveway), but 4-low saved my bacon. Buried my choptop up to the frame in swamp mud. Probably would have made it out if my D-28 wouldn't have grenaded, got pulled out by a YJ Jeep on 34's. Got my 89 Eddie Bauer pulled out when I buried that in a swampy area simply by stopping moving for a minute to evaluate the trail ahead, got pulled out by same YJ.

 

[Shran]

My favorite one was not me getting stuck... but a buddy of mine went hunting and took his Toyota pickup. Slid off a fire trail and got stuck in a snow bank, and called his cousin who came out with his Jeep/buggy thing and got that stuck too. Seems like there was a broken front shaft or something involved too, I forget. It started snowing really hard and long story short, Search & Rescue came out and got them with the snocat.

So a couple days later, those two, myself and our buddy took my Ranger and an Early Bronco out and pulled out both of their trucks in the dark after work. What a wild ride up the hill, it was a full throttle assault all the way up and we both had to stop and winch several times but four guys and four vehicles ended up back in town and in one piece that night.

 

[Shran]

Oh, one more, couple years ago one of my oldest friends was in town and was scrapping some cars at his mom's house so I decided to hang out there for a while. There was one old car in the corner of a field, and to get to it, we had to drive through this little valley that appeared to be dry...but was clearly NOT...tall grass concealed a swampy mess about 50' wide. Needless to say his grandpa's Chevy sank quickly...rockers were on the ground.

First we decided to build a tow cable and since we only had about $20 between us and my recovery gear was 50 miles away, we got a bunch of 1/4" cable from the hardware store. We then succeeded in breaking the flatbed bale loader on the Chevy by pulling with that, then snapped the tow cable several times and dented the tailgate on his mom's Super Duty.

So what's a guy to do now...get bigger equipment... like a 4x4 Michigan loader! Unfortunately those apparently can get stuck too. Might have helped if either of us knew how to drive the thing, but in any case it ended up immobilized in the swamp. Gave up at that point.

I called him the next day and asked how everything was going...said he got everything recovered...when I asked how, the only answer I got was "a bigger tractor."

 

[adsm08]

So we have my dad's 90 F250 up on a trailer with a spun thrust bearing being towed with my dad's 97 F-150 with the perpetually broken CAD.

My dad tries to tow this thing across the drain field of our yard, which also drains the hill behind us. Its been raining for two days. Predictably he sinks the trailer and the back of his truck. Took two hours of pulling with two other trucks. Then I had to let the ground freeze up before towing the 250 out with my Ranger.

 

[Curious Hound]

Just one story and it wasn't the Ranger. I had an '88 F150, years ago. stock truck except 33"BFG M/T's. Took it into the woods on a newly cut road on Mom and Dad's new property. I powered through a soupy muddy low spot around a turn - wet red clay in South Carolina. Then had trouble going up a small rise. So I backed down to try a different angle. But when I backed down, a small, partially loose tree stump popped back up and grabbed hold of the fuel filter on the frame rail.

There I was, in 12" deep red mud and fuel pouring on the ground - no engine. I put some vice grips on the fuel line to stop the leak. Got the builder, who is a family friend to come over and he pulled me back out to the gravel road with a small John Deere bulldozer. A neighbor then took me to Advance for a new fuel filter, piece of hose and hose clamps. It took a while to clean all the mud out of that truck cab.

 

[Mightyfordranger]

There's some good ones I like the snocat story that's a ruff day right there.

Ok I'll share mine then too. was out wheelin with a bunch of buddies riding in an old 77 f150 4x4 with no bed and there was three of us riding on the frame rails in the back because the cab was full. we ended up getting caught on the diffs cause the 33s on it were smooth bald but we did have lockers so that helped some but we ended up off camber and all the fuel ran to the opposite side of the pick up and the truck quit. So we had to walk like 3 miles back to my house to get my Jeep I had at the time to go get gas. (Yes i left everyone in the woods while I went for my Jeep lol) so I got back with gas and crawled my Jeep up a big ass ditch and went back to pull the truck back out. In the end we got the truck out finally BTW my Jeep was completely stock too

I feel the need to note that: I DO NOT suggest that anyone ride in on or around the outside side of any vehicle. Whether it's a on road or off-road vehicle it is dangerous and you may get hurt.

 

[chewy012]

Ok I got a pretty good one, no Ranger involved though...

Few years back we were up camping in the mountains, bro I was with a 1500 RAM, Stock truck with mud grips. We went out to hit some trails, him driving, me hammered. Found a big puddle, I said "tryna see what this thing has or what, bro?" So he goosed it.

Turns out it was an old beaver dam and we high centered on a log.... Two mile walk back to camp to grab the guy with a Jeep and winch...

Jeep gets out there, gets stuck. (Not my Jeep, not my winch, not my truck, I'm smashed). Dude tried to winch out backwards running the cable up under the axles starts pulling the tree down and now its dark. Guy says f* it and we walk back out... Leaving the cable in tension... Underwater... Like cold below 60 degree water.

Next morning, tried the winch again and what'd'ya know, the cable snaps. Some how after this, the guy managed to spin the tires back and forth enough to weasel out. Got across the pond, tied the cable in a knot and winched the truck out.

No one really wanted to wheel much the rest of the weekend.

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[Mightyfordranger]

Oh that sucks alot.. And ya know ya never really realize just how good you are at comin up with some shit in a pinch to save your a$$ untill your stuck in the woods swatin mosquitoes trying to find a way to get a rig unstuck and its getting dark

 

[hntr45]

One time I was out wheeling with my friends on an old service trail for water lines. All of us were 2wd only except for my friend's Ranger. We got through a pretty big mud hole with a slick hill at the end, i had to get pulled up it cause I had junk tires at the time on my Ranger. We continued on and got to a huge mud hole. This sucker was deep and wide, and there was no avoiding it, but my buddy with 4wd decides to hit it. He gooses it, pops the front end off the ground, and it slams into the hole with half of the front end buried in water and mud. We tried pulling him out with the F150, but he couldnt grip for nothing in wet grass... Lol. My friend stayed out there for 6 hours before he got pulled out by a fullsize Bronco on 35's.

Another story... My friend has a jeep sitting on 35's. We were going up to a mud hole with a good sized drop at the start, easy enough. Before I knew it, my friend goosed it and shoots the thing off the ground and it slams hard in the hole. Realized that the back tires werent spinning and 4wd wasnt engaged. Further inspection showed that the tailshaft had broke clean off the back of the t-case along with the driveshaft. We were able to get it into front wheel drive to get it home.

As for my own truck, a 2wd Ranger 2.3, Ive buried it to the axle in fields a couple times and bottomed out when i was running 225 70 14's, but this truck doesn't seem to get stuck real easy as long as I don't go crazy

 

[chewy012]

Oh that sucks alot.. And ya know ya never really realize just how good you are at comin up with some shit in a pinch to save your a$$ untill your stuck in the woods swatin mosquitoes trying to find a way to get a rig unstuck and its getting dark

Yeah, threw a few sweatshirts in the mud and tied them on either end of the cable. And stood welll away while the winching was goin' on haha

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[85_Ranger4x4]

I was trying to cross a water way last year, had the wheels down on the disk. As soon as I smelled sour water I knew I was probably in trouble... right after that before I could clutch it the front tires went out of sight and the rears started digging so I was pretty much commited. When it was all said and done I could go forwards and backwards about 8' but just couldn't get out of my trenches.

Dad lumbered over on his John Deere A and a chain (he had just started putting it on the planter on the A and luckily hadn't go very far yet), it pawed a bit but pulled me out fine. I had to dig mud out of the front wheels so they would rotate but other than that no harm.

Not real bad in the grand scheme of things but that is one of my worse sticks and the only one I have pics of.

 

[Mightyfordranger]

So my buddy got his truck stuck trying to help out these other guys get pulled out and hia truck was stuck there for 3 days untill me and my cousin came out with his 2014 f150 to pull it out so through the woods we went running Trees over and long story short we got him unstuck then we got the Ford stuck then used come alongs to get it out when it was all said and done we ended up flat towing the Dodge with a destroyed front end and a blown out rad

 

[BlackBII]

This is with 33 inch tires and lockers front and rear.

Getting pulled out by a front end loader