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"I can't get stuck"


heptofite

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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" ?
 
i dont get stuck.
 
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
 
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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I can get stuck, but it takes some effort:D
 
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.
 
It depends entirely on the terrain, but if you aren't getting stuck, you aren't really wheeling....

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

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