Squash
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Use it or Mall Cruise it?
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Does someone wish they had a winch to go along with that bumper? 
DirtScaresMe
Trouble Maker
That mall needs better roads.
Someone want to explain what is going on here? New to the 80 and haven started wheeling at all as I'm still working on baselining it. Not following why the hi-lift is being used. Feel free to school me here
mudgudgeon
Resident galah
Hi-lift? Looks like the Mall manager has put one of those newfangled wheel clamps on it for parking outside of the marked parking spaces
Flank
American by Birth, Texan by the grace of God.
i'm having a hard time understanding why it can't be dropped and driven out - especially with chains.
Three wheelers have been outlawed sir
With chains that thing shouldn't be stuck!
LINUS
Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
Were you spinning about 10' back & kept going forward into the puddle?
To whoever asked, looks like the hilift made the appearance to drop that log under the tires, but I'm web wheeling riht now.
I bet OP makes funds available for a winch sooner now too.
Winch > anything else. (Aside from driving someone else' 4wd)
Frankly with that snow I'd sooner do donuts in a mall parking lot than wheel in a single rig/no buddy. Less work, same smiles.
To whoever asked, looks like the hilift made the appearance to drop that log under the tires, but I'm web wheeling riht now.
I bet OP makes funds available for a winch sooner now too.
Winch > anything else. (Aside from driving someone else' 4wd)
Frankly with that snow I'd sooner do donuts in a mall parking lot than wheel in a single rig/no buddy. Less work, same smiles.
Thats one hell of a speed bump!!
This is what i would do if i were stuck like that. First I'd use the hi lift jack on that wood log to keep the jack from sinking in the mud and snow. The reason I'd be jacking up the truck is so i could clear out as much snow and mud from under this truck as i could, seeing as it's been sunk up to it's axles. Once I'd cleared out the snow and mud I'd lower the wheels down on that log and use it for extra traction to try and drive out. All though i have to say the easiest way to get out of this, is to have your buddy hook up the winch on his Land Cruiser to your truck, and pull you out. In this case it would be a hell of alot less work then digging in the snow and mud for a few hours.
Once you've sunk it to the axles, there by high centering it on the frame, chains are not going to do a thing to get you out of that.
Squash
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Getting stuck allows one to become creative.
Special situation when alone so every move is calculated.
PS of course is mud always has been, DS is solid ice and further down is pretty thick but sides are treacherous because the trail is crowned. Think I'd have made it if had chained all four before I took the chance.
No car mats or paddles were harmed during this extraction.
Special situation when alone so every move is calculated.
PS of course is mud always has been, DS is solid ice and further down is pretty thick but sides are treacherous because the trail is crowned. Think I'd have made it if had chained all four before I took the chance.
No car mats or paddles were harmed during this extraction.
Impressive! Must've been a sale at Tommy Bahama!
I am sure that is what the owner was thinking until, "OH F$%K, i think i am stuck" and the realization sinks in.
Like people have said. High centered on the frame or heavy suction in deep mud and only so much you can do. I am a extrication novice but his plan looks good enough. use the log as a jack base, lift it, clear the snow ( a little sketchy working under the truck like that) then set it back down on the log for traction. It would be great to do the same to the other side if possible. Really that is the side that needs to be lifted to break the suction and then set on something firm.
Extrication is SO easy to armchair quarterback. I am guilty of that also. But mostly i try to learn from it other mess ups. I know i make plenty of my own messes.
It looks like he is lifting from the sliders. I bet the sunken side would be hard to get the jack under the slider if it is baried deep enough. But maybe this is where one of those "soft shackle loops" would be helpful?
Is your cruiser locked ?
Vehicle is sunk to the frame/axles on passenger side. No chance of getting a jack under that side (and doing any good).
OP is likely trying to remove some of the snow from underneath the vehicle.
But...the vehicle is 'listing' so much to one side that 'traction' (on the drivers side) is pretty much impossible even IF he has lockers. IF he doesn't have lockers (open diffs) all the power is going to the two wheels (front and back) on the drivers side. He might as well be in neutral.
A good winch is the answer here.
OP is likely trying to remove some of the snow from underneath the vehicle.
But...the vehicle is 'listing' so much to one side that 'traction' (on the drivers side) is pretty much impossible even IF he has lockers. IF he doesn't have lockers (open diffs) all the power is going to the two wheels (front and back) on the drivers side. He might as well be in neutral.
A good winch is the answer here.
All Speculation, It's possible that if he has locker's and the patients to dig out under the reg to get him self out
"Speculation" my arse! The vehicle's body and front bumper are up against the rut he is in. No doubt some portion of the frame is also in contact with that mess.
OP is trying desperately to get some traction on the drivers side tires. There is no set of chains on the passenger side front tire, don't know if he lost it or if he put chains on the drivers side after getting stuck. They don't look dirty to me.
It would be a patently bad idea to get underneath that vehicle far enough to dig out enough of anything to do any good. It is supported only by a high-lift jack, one of the most dangerous tools you can use IMO.
And I can tell you from experience....it will be summertime before he digs that thing out, so I hope he has lots patience (not 'patients').
