lol why i dont have a jeep

[CountryBoy704]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJA3J--g_yI

 

[heptofite]

a ranger would have been ripped apart just as easily, if not sooner.

 

[89PBR96]

Old video but funny It's how they hooked it up

 

[4.0B2]

they are just idiots that don't know how to recover a vehicle..

 

[straycat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJA3J--g_yI

I have a Jeep and it is better than any Rangesr that I have owned or any other Ranger, Bro........I never had any troubles with any of my Jeeps.....never been stuck and I towed a lot of Rangers out of the muck!!

 

[gribly]

Completely the result of error, in part by everyone that was there. Guy in the Jeep was in reverse for some of the tugging attempts...

 

[cammeddrz]

that is a 6 minute long video that was like pistol-whipping a blind kid......nobody had a high-lift jack that alone with a piece of wood or something to keep it from sinking would have helped a bunch (if used properly). it's not like they were out in the middle of nowhere, it looked easily accessable to just about any vehicle. the cost of calling a tow-truck to use its boom and 50,000lb pto winch to get him out would have been less than the damage done by those idiots.

i got seriously stuck one time out in the middle of nowhere, in steep rocky terrain. we hiked out, got friends, came back the next day with 3 other trucks and winches, and it still took all damn day to get it out. when you are stuck you need to take your time and use finesse, "hook-and-yank" is not a good rule to live by

 

[Jason]

You don't have a Jeep because you are also dumb enough to recover from the axle instead of a proper recovery point?

 

[schaffer]

thats about 15 minutes from my house actually...that coal dirt is like quicksand and half the time you just sink into it.


that being said,i always have a shovel and would have dug it out before trying to do a snatch recovery like that...and if i had a jeep the first think i would have done was bought a hitch and a the tow hooks with the tie in brackets....damn unibodys.

 

[gribly]

You don't have a Jeep because you are also dumb enough to recover from the axle instead of a proper recovery point?

I had to recover a Cherokee from the rear axle once - dang unibody with no holes in the frame and the idiot had no tow hooks. I made him agree twice that I was not responsible in any way, shape, or form if I ripped his rig in half before I would even hook up. Luckily nothing broke or bent, but I also took up all the slack before even letting the clutch out all the way, and I didn't use any throttle. Just used the off-idle torque in low range. Those things don't have factory recovery points on some years, or even a spot that is close to being good. I would have used the bumper, but that started to rip off on us.

 

[cammeddrz]

his jeep obviously had open-axles, that didn't help. mixing "quicksand-like" mud and open-axles is never a good idea

 

[4.0B2]

umm... look at his cherokee bumper again. he had clevis mount hooks...

 

[gribly]

umm... look at his cherokee bumper again. he had clevis mount hooks...

I wasn't commenting on what they did in the video, that was pure stupidity - but they were hooked up to the bumper. Their problem was one of the tires was lodged in and didn't want to move, and the Jeep probably has a cheap-ass lift that just couldn't hack it. I honestly do not think a stock TTB would have ripped off like that - that looked like it broke wicked easy but I wasn't there, so I cannot say for sure.

 

[heptofite]

I wasn't commenting on what they did in the video, that was pure stupidity - but they were hooked up to the bumper. Their problem was one of the tires was lodged in and didn't want to move, and the Jeep probably has a cheap-ass lift that just couldn't hack it. I honestly do not think a stock TTB would have ripped off like that - that looked like it broke wicked easy but I wasn't there, so I cannot say for sure.

i can say from personal experience that a stock TTB won't do that.

it'll collapse the radius arm and put a 45 degree bend in the frame and it still won't detach from the truck.

 

[straycat]

You don't have a Jeep because you are also dumb enough to recover from the axle instead of a proper recovery point?

^^ yes and yes for dumb and dumber!!!