got a funny story for today!!

[4byRANGER]

me and my brother went for a drive in my truck today, and we got the great idea to go hit some mud so we drove over to our towns old firestation cause in the feild next to it there was a grip of mud and some hill to go over. so were gettin ready to go in to the mud and i punch the gas to get threw it and i go no where..

my rear just sunk int he mud and i was instantly stuck, as we get out to see how bad were stuck i quickly realize this was a bad area to go cause it was just plowed and we just has heavy rain storm so the mud was that sticky clay thay just packs its goowyness right inti your tires. so after 30 or 40 mins of packing rocks, wood, more mud behind the tires a helpfull neighbor saw us over the fence and he decided to try and help us pucsh the truck out while i jam on reverse.. lol that didnt help at all he just got all muddy but i thanked him anyways..

about 2 mins later we were sittin there just waiting for another idea cause i had non of my freinds to tow me out.. then this city truck comin down the road and im like oh shit, hopefully hes not pissed cause im out on the undeveloped houseing land.. but he was mad or anything he just said "hey you need me to winch you out"?? i reply'd with "hell yeah!!"


well thank god for the city trucks cause they have winches on the front!!!

 

[4byRANGER]

Read It!!!!

 

[Sunk]

Nice, and you're lucky you didn't get in trouble. People tend to get angry when you drive on their/private/city property. I found that out the hard way, before I learned better, but fortunately I also got lucky.

 

[Carlos Murphy]

stuck

Yep, been there done that...
Was stuck in a mountain meadow south east of Carson City one beautiful spring day, chasing my friend on his Honda four stroke dirt bike. We stopped for a brake and then my friend took off to check something out about fifty yards away so I took a different line to where he was.
Got about twenty yards from him and down my Ranger went, under the green ground cover was a under ground spring, had no idea there was water there let alone mud.
I made it about ten yards and my diffs were pushing black mud, was able to back up to where the mud started but was up against a hard shelf and couldn't get over it and at the time I had 33" Super Swamper STS tires on it, great in sand and rocks but quickly learned they were useless in mud.
To top it all off there was NOTHING to winch to but two four foot diameter boulders and all we could do was drag one of them a few feet. I could have dug a hole past the mud line to bury my high-lift with winch cable attached but had no shovel.
About fifty yards away there were the remains of a small house trailer a local indian lived in many years back and now looked like it had been run over by a monster truck.
Since my rear tires were up against a hard bank my bumper was over hard ground so I jacked up the rear until the R/R was clear of the mud and water, got some debris from the trailer including a cinder block. When I dropped the cinder block into the hole under the tire it disappeared so we dropped in more stuff (many trips to the trailer) and finally after three and a half hours we were out.
Got back to Gardnerville and spent sixteen dollars in quarters at the car wash to get most of that black mud off.

The very next day I drove to the hardware store and now have a brand new pic and shovel mounted in my bed.
Oh yah, am now running 33" Baja Claws

 

[almostclueless]

Read It!!!!

lay off the caffeine and sugar...

 

[mikhail]

sounds like last weekend for me, my lockout hub broke so I was stuck with 2wd. It rained here alot so theres mud everywhere and I was driving down this newly cleared path and it didnt look too bad at all, but then i got close to a spot with a little water, and it sucked me in, took me about 15min to get out. I usually wouldve been fine.

when you have 2wd you cant just slam on the gas, and if you start spinning tires, stop and back up or go forward. keep changing directions so your wheels dont get burried.

 

[4byRANGER]

yeah i was very disapointed in my NITTO "mud grapplers" they didnt seem to grapple the mud at all they just turned into slicks.. damn 2 wheel drive.. i need to get my front diff changed to 4.56 like my rear diff.

 

[RaceRanger97]

you talkin about that feild off of copper? I live in fresno too and that sounds really familiar.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Wheeling in plowed ground (or any ground) that isn't yours without permission it never a good idea.

A couple years ago some local kids got caught tearing up a field, they got into some serious legal trouble.

 

[metalmacguyver]

you talkin about that feild off of copper? I live in fresno too and that sounds really familiar.

Try sending him a PM. I dont think he is on that often and might very well miss this thread.

 

[PaleBlue90]

Wheeling in plowed ground (or any ground) that isn't yours without permission it never a good idea.

A couple years ago some local kids got caught tearing up a field, they got into some serious legal trouble.

i agree