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    A warning to anchor your vehicle before winching!

    Yep, the jeep owner found out his parking brake wasn't exactly up to snuff for this kind of thing. It looks like this thread has turned into a great source of information. Perfect.
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    A warning to anchor your vehicle before winching!

    Pretty sure he drove onto it :steer:
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    A warning to anchor your vehicle before winching!

    They are actually two very sharp fellows that simply made a mistake in judgement.
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    A warning to anchor your vehicle before winching!

    I think part of the reasoning may have been an excuse to use the winch. r.e. anchors away: I had to come up with some excuse for the anchoring! :)
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    A warning to anchor your vehicle before winching!

    They really should have pulled the pickup back off of the hill, instead of trying to winch it up hill. Further discussion revealed that the truck was pretty much hard stuck with the bumper and chassis lodged on rocks. Pulling the truck up and into the hill just made the situation worse.
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    A warning to anchor your vehicle before winching!

    I suppose anchoring was the wrong word to use and could instill visions of a boat anchor being heaved off the rear end of the Jeep - "anchors away". However couldn't one "anchor" their vehicle with the brakes? Friend 1 and friend 2 were indeed fools and idiots at that moment. They have said...
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    A warning to anchor your vehicle before winching!

    :confused: That seems like a forest for the trees distinction. They weren't careful enough. Semantics I suppose. I changed the title to "Be careful winching".
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    A warning to anchor your vehicle before winching!

    Old thread, but to answer your question he couldn't see the other truck over the head wall from within the truck (crest of the hill).
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    A warning to anchor your vehicle before winching!

    Yes. It is what you feel if you put a vehicle in park without the parking brake.
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    A warning to anchor your vehicle before winching!

    More pictures.
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    A warning to anchor your vehicle before winching!

    Be careful winching I posted this in our local forum, but thought it would be beneficial for a wider audience to see. Here are some pictures of a friend's misadventures on the backway to Crown King. I wasn't with them, but received a phone call asking for a tow. Friend 1 was trying to...
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