late night callouts

[Sambo]

has anyone else ever got a call after 10:30pm to go pull someone out???
well around here there seems to be some coincedince about dodge 3/4 -1ton 4x4 diesels getting stuck.AMAGINE THAT:eek:...most of them were either hog hunting or out fishing somewhere near the water!:mad:

now if i was smart enough to carry a dayum camera with me at all times i would have pics,but i am usually in a hurry cause the inevitable "truck" is sinking! go figure,heavy pigs that they are:rolleyes:...so me and my trusty cheap@$$ harbor freight 9k winch go to the rescue...mind you i usually have to double line it when i arrive to find broken chains,straps,and what ever else they tryed to use!

but last and not least i tell everyone of them to go to our local hardware store and buy a HIGH LIFT JACK!
and the razzing from getting pulled buy a jeep has em ducking for cover when the braggin begins :D once back to town!

[bigun]

Yup them big diesels sink like rocks LOL

[gwinn]

No late night callouts to pull someone out from being stuck. Although, I have had late night callouts to find lost people.

[mathman]

...and the razzing from getting pulled buy a jeep has em ducking for cover when the braggin begins :D once back to town!

Just imagine the razzing if it was a 1949 Jeep pickup that was used to pull the Dodge out. My older brother got his Dodge stuck pulling my younger brother's 16' trailer. They unhitched the trailer, my younger brother backed his 1949 pickup (powered by the F134 monster engine) and hooked up a chain. Pulled the Dodge out and then went back and hooked up to the trailer and pulled it out. Haven't let me older brother hear the end of that one yet. Still wish dad would've had the camcorder out for that one.... :D

[Casey]

I get them now and again. Not from 1 ton trucks tho'!

I've made a few of them, too. :D

I got one years ago when I lived in Austin, a buddy and his friend were mudding in a sub-division to be, off the street about 150 meters and stuck a Ford Ranger real bad.
They had a tow truck come out and leave.
A couple of full size trucks get stuck and have to get out themselves.
The best pull of the day came from the Toyota truck that was in the original pair of rigs playing in the mud. Apparently they had been calling us (on our bag phone...remember those!?) most of the afternoon. When we got home later that night there was a message on the machine to call Randy & JoAnne...THEY NEED HELP!!! And they were almost out of beer.
The Mrs and I go out there and I was like, "no F'n way I'm going out in that slop"! After a few comments about how the little XJ Cherokee couldn't help anyway, I drove in and gave it the best I could. After two more hours of jacking, placing logs and rocks under the Ranger and watching it all disappear, I was about to give up. One final pull I says. I hit the throttle WFO and snatched that Ranger about a foot, the driver was hard on the gas and it popped out of the goo.
I had been driving around the stuck truck to get different pulls on it. One locker in the rear and some 31" BFG m/ts.
I recall the guy in the Ranger saying "I'll never look at one of those Cherokees the same way".

My neighbors kid across the street here has called before at 23:00 and his dad told me to let him get it out himself. A lesson to be learned I guess. The hard way. He had a long hike to the black top and a long night worrying about his stuck 'Zuk that night. They had to go back with another rig the next morning. I asked him what he learned from the experience and he said, "never go wheeling with only one rig".

Smart kid.

[95KY sahara]

No calls here BUT I do have one of those 3/4 ton diesels...not a good choice off road at all. I had a 2 wheel Ford and it would get stuck if you peed on the grass. The 4x4 Dodge is a little better, but it'll still get hung up in a heartbeat...especially with the cattle trailer on it. They are SOOOO heavy. When I go out to load cattle I usually have someone follow me with the tractor if it's the least bit wet.

[cttandy]

I got one last summer, and I wasn't even in my 4x4 truck. I was in my 2wd yukon. The neighbors friend got stuck about an hour from home, and my neighbor was afriad of getting his truck stuck. We get to the stuck truck and its in the middle of a big time development, no houses less then 6000 sq ft. The idiot was mudding through the middle of a prepped foundation. I got all the chains together and threw them in the nieghbors truck (00 standard cab short bed Z71). The F-150 was stuck down flat on the frame. They told me I would get stuck, I just work my way over, made them get out in the mud and hook up the truck. The first couple of pulls didn't budget it, so I gave it one descent tug, then one really hard one. It twisted the receiver hitch all up on the F-150. We heard the cops coming so we got out of their like a bat out of a hot place. We got back to the kids house, took about 20 minutes of beating with a hammer and yanking on the chain with the other truck to get the chain off the ford hitch.

The f-150 was on new BFG a/t's and the z-71 was on bald michelins. Something to be said for the newer style locking limited slip units in GM trucks.

[Shaggin' Wagon]

Are we talking about booty calls here?

[Sambo]

Are we talking about booty calls here? well if it happened in the process more power to ya!

i bet i can recall several phone calls like this...some of them i charge and others i dont...the ones i dont charge are my close friends,now those kids that wheel alone have to pay up!now more so than ever,since gas is dang near $4:mad:

our local tow truck wont even get near mud unless its the flatbed with a 10k winch on it...and you really have to know how to lie to em about where your at! you mention either one of our lakes,they tell ya "good luck"and hang up.
so being with CavernCity 4Wheelers either the club president or myself get a call...

[backroadin']

I've made one once - after midnight!

You know you have a true friend if you can call them in the middle of the night to get you unstuck!! Or for anything for that matter.

[Cory]

I had one in '04.

Corey,
Please:
You got like 8 mile wide pic's there (read Krista's pic posting rules) and some guy flipping the bird.
You know it's a family place.
Resize and crop that stuff out please.
Thanks,
Tad

[DieselSJ]

I have not had one of those in many years. I had a friend that was a security guard at an oil field. It was raining and he and one of the other guards decided to take their little 2wd Mitsubishi pickup out for some fun in the mud. When I showed up in my CJ, his buddy commented that we would need something bigger because my "little Jeep" would not have enough power. It only took one good pull to pop them out. I remember pulling them all the way back to the main gate. The guy commented that he didn't think the 6cyl in my Jeep would have been powerful enough to do that - the look on his face was awesome when I told him that it only had a 4cyl.

[Heavy_Metal_Thunder_81]

Ive only gotten 2 so far, on in my Wagoneer and one in my Cherokee. The One in the Wag was kinda funny because it had been raining real bad earlier that day and we (MattMopar440 and YJ_Wookie and I) had been our cruising and as we were passing our normal offroading place Matt got in the turn lane and dove in. We all know that this place is NOT a place for stock rigs after it been raining at all. So I get on the CB and yell that if you and Wookie get stuck dont call me to come get out out! I got the normal "Oh I got a 401, I wont get stuck!" :rolleyes: Well I made my 15 min trip all the way back home and as soon as I round the corner to my house I get a call.....the "mighty" 401 was stuck. So back I went in my "inferior" beater 360 powered Wag to save the day. :thumbsup: :p
The other I have gotten was a guy I used to work with's buddy stuck his bronco the day before someone was coming out to buy it. They tryed a HUGE lifted Ramcharger a stock '97 F-150 and another Bronco with no luck. The guy calls me because hes seen me pull some amazing things with this truck like pulling fully loaded semi trucks and U-Hauls out of ditches. So I get there and with no effort at all, pop the POS Bronco out. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Cory]

was it really necessary to remove the text too?!

and seriously, they didn't show up that big on my computer... how am I to know? Photobucket resizes them for me.

:rolleyes2:

for the love of freaking christ...

my NAME is my BOARD name...

isn't just a little inconsiderate to misspell it RIGHT THERE?!?!?!

[Tad]

was it really necessary to remove the text too?!

and seriously, they didn't show up that big on my computer... how am I to know? Photobucket resizes them for me.

:rolleyes2:

for the love of freaking christ...

my NAME is my BOARD name...

isn't just a little inconsiderate to misspell it RIGHT THERE?!?!?!
Sorry about the text.
I was just editing, I didn't notice.
The name, again, my fault.
It was not intentional, but yes, I should have paid closer attention.
Thank You.

[fulsizjeep]

Tad, you are way too kind. :rolleyes:

[FSJ-Earl]

Several late night calls. One was a yahoo that I worked with that got his grandfathers 67 Wag. stuck on a pole line. This was a SWEET 67 and he trashed it. One bent hi-lift jack and lots of tugging later, the 67 was free.

I also pulled a Suburban 2500 out of a mud hole that was up to the frame. They were trying to use an F250 to get it out buy pulling it all the way through the mud hole, I went around the back and pulled it back out the way it went in. The stupid, drunk fools never thought of that.

The best was a mid day call at school when the 18 wheel oil tanker truck got stuck on the playground after depositing 10,000 gallons of fuel oil. It just sat there in the grass and spun all the rear wheels, sinking deeper and deeper. I hooked up the 89 GW, dropped it in 4LO and walked it right out of there. After they tried to use the school district's backhoe with no success.

[DanHS]

I don't know many fools with 4x4s so I don't get calls for help, except for once someone I knew from HS called me one night the spring after I got the GW, she and her friend had gotten an Exploder stuck on the beach. I managed to drive it out before getting the Jeep, but couldn't turn around without getting stuck in the softer sand, so I went and came back with the GW. Effortless pull in 4lo.
I came across a guy stuck on the beach in another Exploder last fall, he was in the softest shiftiest sand on the beach, I tried pulling one way and only started digging in so bad I have to lift myself up and put wood under my tires to get out. I went around and hooked up behind him where the sand was firmer, dug out his tires and put all the driftwood we could find under the tires, and then I pulled him out easily.
A few weeks ago I was on my way home in my dad's Honda, when I found some kids waving for help not far from my house. They swore they weren't up to no-good, that they thought the private dirt road was a backroad and were lost, and fell into a muddy ditch when they tried to turn around. Well, the muddy ditch was true, the front of the frame was buried. I came back with the GW and we dug out the frame a little and dug out some of the edge of the ditch, which turned out not to be neccessary as I had them out without any effort at all.

The GW is great at this, I just wish it had tow points front and rear, one day when I have the $$ to build it up I'll make custom bumpers with recovery shackles. It could also use f&r lockers, makes a huge difference for sure when you don't have to worry about a wheel slipping and digging you a hole.

[710 Burner]

well if it happened in the process more power to ya!
i bet i can recall several phone calls like this...some of them i charge and others i dont...the ones i dont charge are my close friends...
Ummm.....OK. If you say so.;)