Stuck the truck!
07-17-2012, 02:12 PM
#1
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Stuck the truck!
Well it was bound to happen sometime I guess. I went out to our property a couple hours after it stopped raining, 10" over 2 days. The neighbors cattle had got on to our property through a gap in the fence. While I was herding them back with my truck I hit a SOFT spot and it was all over from there. I managed to cross 300 yrds into the field then it was like I hit a brick wall. The front passenger side sunk so I stopped and tried to reverse and knew right then I wasn't getting out without some help or a shovel.
The pictures aren't great and the grass is real high after all this rain we've been having but that's standing water all around my truck which didn't help matters.
The pictures aren't great and the grass is real high after all this rain we've been having but that's standing water all around my truck which didn't help matters.
07-17-2012, 02:23 PM
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To my surprise when we went out the next day all that water had soaked into the ground which made getting it out much more pleasant than it could have been.
The front crossmember was on the ground so we had to dig it out from the front and jack up the truck with a floor jack. We stuffed wood under the tires. For good measure my old tacoma and beater bronco 2 were hooked up for some pull.
We tried pulling it out before digging and that simply wasn't going to happen with the trucks we had and no winch.
The front crossmember was on the ground so we had to dig it out from the front and jack up the truck with a floor jack. We stuffed wood under the tires. For good measure my old tacoma and beater bronco 2 were hooked up for some pull.
We tried pulling it out before digging and that simply wasn't going to happen with the trucks we had and no winch.
07-17-2012, 02:34 PM
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yes to the Terra Grapplers. I take my truck down the beach in south texas and never had a problem even through some really soft stuff. The combination of truck weight and saturated sandy mud at our place did me in.
