Working Rampart off season :)

[black95]

Heather, Claire, and I went out to play in the snow today- ran up Hotel Gulch and then a few Rampart trails. On the way home there was an 18 wheeler jack knifed across Rampart blocking the entire road near the middle school. There was no way around, so I asked the guy if I could try to winch him out of the ditch and onto the road, he said the truck was probably too heavy and he was going to wait on a wrecker. Told him we had nothing to lose in trying, and I believed it would work if he would help with the power the rig had. He let me hook onto him with my tree saver and snatchblock, double lined back to the ARB, and with him helping in low gear, I winched that truck back onto the road. Friggin' unbelievable. The Warn and Cherokee combo continues to amaze me. Then as my reward for freeing traffic, a suburban stomped on the gas, flew around us and sprayed me with slush. Lol. Yay me.

Didn't get a single dang picture.

 

[karas]

I don't believe a word of this nonsense.

 

[black95]

My wife and daughter saw it.

 

[karas]

Why was there an 18 wheeler on rampart anyway? Seems out of place. I do believe you, but you should have got pics. It would have made front cover of something for sure.

 

[black95]

Haha. It was a private "not for hire" double axle type rig hauling a very large camper. His wife was behind him pulling their hillclimb race car in a trailer on their way back from Canon City. Couldn't make the hill so he tried to turn around and ended up in the ditch. My wife found this picture, i think on the wife's Facebook page.

 

[karas]

Ah see we just had to poke at you and now we have pictures. Nice job. I hope he said thank you. You probably saved him quite a bit of money.

 

[Fitzgerald]

And yet, it couldn't help the 100 on Slaughterhouse...



But seriously, glad you where able to save that guy some headaches and some cash... hey people, yet again another example of why he's Mr. Wonderful.

 

[black95]

And yet, it couldn't help the 100 on Slaughterhouse...

The Warn would have drug you further if I would have used the snatch block. Just figured we would have gotten it in deeper and then had to drag it out too. As much trouble as we had getting the 40 out, we made the right choice being on the asphault and not pointing downhill on the ice helped too.

I'm not mr. Wonderful, I was mr. Hungry, it was time to get home for dinner, and there was a 40' RV and tractor in my way.

 

[Fitzgerald]

Well...you'll always be "Mr. Wonderful" to me. ♥♥♥♥

 

[karas]

Alright this is starting to get weird. At least this isn't the first time I felt like the third wheel.

 

[Fitzgerald]

No third wheels around here man, I've got plenty of love to spread around. A few more time wheelin' with ya and I'm sure I'll have a nickname for you too.

 

[Stokes]

Thats how you know you've made it in the Colorado Land Cruisers. When the Prez has a nickname for you!

 

[Fitzgerald]

Oh,.......I've got nicknames for you all. Most just haven't gone public yet.

 

[Stokes]

This is about to get good! Do tell

 

[Fitzgerald]

This is about to get good! Do tell

In due time...In due time...

 

[CO_Hunter]

Forget the pictures a video would have been great, sounds pretty cool. Before I saw the picture farther down, I did have a much worse mental image of the situation.

Travis, you are really starting to scare me...

 

[black95]

I guess when I said ditch, I really meant swell. I probably wouldn't have been able to pull it out of a full blown ditch. Make no mistake though, that was a full size tractor. Thankfully it had a huge anchor point in the center if the bumper.