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I decided to share all mine, figured we'd get some good ones up in here :D

 

Once my brothers friend decided to mud bog his Supra. Although he was "just turning arond" in the same place he got his Jeep stuck :thumbs:

I got pulled out by a Ranger like Paco's once :(

My friend Ryan has a 2000 Wrangler Sahara, 6" lift w/ 35's, he got stuck on a contrsuction site

My brother got stuck in a ditch when we were camping. He decided to follow my dad's friend Steve, Jason couldn't make it

Me, my friend Sean, and Ryan were out in the HUGE adobe field (close to downtown), Sean almost headed-on a big oak tree, Ryan went in a creek that was almost to his window (can't be good for under the hood, even w/ a 6" lift), I just took it easy. All the sudden there rolls up three po-po's :puke: Ryan was the only one who got a ticket :D

I rolled the quad down a hill I tried to climb

My friend Jerrod was in his mom's Grand Cherokee, he gets to the top of the hill and floors it, there's a tree right smack ahead of him :eek:

 

 

That about sums it up for idiotic ones I guess

What's your story? or Stories...

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Heh... My ex-girlfriend's sister got her pathfinder stuck on their wedding night!

 

She and her new husband were riding some backroads here in Mississippi looking for some bed and breakfast place, and got lost. They could see the Natchez Trace parkway (main highway) across a pasture, and decided to cut across it in their 1991 Nissan Pathfinder 2wd. Not a good decision, it had been raining for 3 days prior to this, and there was probably 2 inches of standing water all over this pasture.

 

Well, they made it out about 200 yards from the road, and met a drainage ditch about 5 feet deep, and 10 feet across, so when they swerved to miss it, they went right back toward the middle of the pasture, and sank it. 200 yards from the road they left, 50ft from the drainage ditch, and probably 300 yards from the road they were trying to get too. They called me on my cell phone at 11:00PM to ask to come help. It was 50 miles away, and they didn't tell me how bad or where they were stuck, so I threw a peice of 50ft chain and my come-along in the back of my 89' 2wd Chevy reg. cab, street truck (actually had N20 at the time even, lol)... Oh boy. I get there to see their flashers going out on the middle of a field, which looked a lot like a pond. I park the truck and walk, having to take my shoes off (it's 40 degrees) and basically wade out to their truck, which is sunk to the axles. Hopeless, but since the girl is crying her head off, and the guy pleads with me to help, I figured I'd try.

 

First I called a tow truck, and while it was in route I tried something really ignorant, even though it ended up working in the end, for me anyways. I backed up down the road, and entered the pasture (in my 2wd) at about 75mph, and pretty much skipped across the top until the side of the drainage ditch, that was hard enough to support my truck. From there I tried to use the come along and chain, but to no avail, it would just pull the truck's rear end over... Even worse now, is that I have to go through 250 yards of flooded field without the benefit of having a good way to accelerate. Bad... Well, I loaded up the back of my truck with all their krap, and them, and backed up ~100ft or so down the ditch as far as I could, then just gunned it. When I turned off the drainage ditch, my speedo was gone (> 85mph), and it didn't come back until right before I got to the road, it had gotten down to about 15MPH real quick, about the time I made it to the road. Then, when I hit the road there was so mud under my truck, I slid across it and went into the ditch on the other side. But luckily I could back out after a few minutes.

 

About then, 2 cops and a tow truck driver showed up, the cops thinking we were going mud riding or something when they saw the lights and heard my truck... The tow truck driver saw the lights out in the field, and said no way, there's no cable gonna be long enough for that, but he'd call some friends from near by town. One of the cops also called a buddy, who showed up pretty quick as well. My gf came and picked up the newlyweds, while I stayed out to try and figure out how to get the nissan out. Within 30 minutes there were 5 trucks there to help... A 3/4 ton 4wd dodge V10 with 38's, a toyota 4wd with ~33's, a newer Z71 with stock tires, and a toyota 4wd w/350ci with 44's, and a ford ranger 4wd. It was insane... They never could get the truck out with any of those, they got out in the mud and the dodge sank within like 5 minutes, followed by everyone except the 44in toyota. I waited around an hour or so, the just left to wait until I could bring a tractor in a few days or something. It was crazy. It ended up just being a bunch of crazy rednecks slinging mud all over the place.

 

A towing company ended up going back 2 days later with 3 trucks, and drove two out and sank them, and using the winches towed themselves and the pathfinder out. Their bill was $750!!!!!! lol. I think it's funny as hell now, but it probably took me a whole day to warm up and clean all that mud off... Anyways, there's my story. :)

asilverblazer Senior Enthusiast

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Okay not "4 Wheelin" but we were putting a round bale of hay out for our horses, it was slightly muddy. Bad enough to get a 2wd stuck in. I pulled the bale in with a chain and would back into it to push it farther in to the pen. Well I was only a young lad at the time and still in training. When my Dad told me to back into it I intended to push it with one BIG push. Needless to say I got a run of about 50' and with pedal to the metal I backed into the bale of hay (about 5' in diameter and 4' wide.) End of story the trucks back wheels where two feet off the ground. I backed into and almost over the bale.

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My worst stuck was about 28 years ago. I was just out of the service and just gotten home for a few days and was goofing off with some friends with a 4x4 I bought while station in texas a few years before, a 72 GMC 3/4 ton 4x4 w/4sp and factory dual tanks. We started to cross a creek feeding into a small lake on property my parents owned and it was a hot dry summer day and water was just trickling through a foot wide path at the time though that area of the creek was actually much wider (about 25 feet) when flows were up. It turns out it was crusty on top (you could walk on it ) but it had about 3 feet of mud and silt under it. We went about 10 feet into and stopped cold like we hit a wall. I got out to look and front axle and tires were out of site under the mud and water and mud was plowed up to the grill. Needless to say it would not move even though back axle was still and fairly firm ground. We called a wrecking and it could not even budge it the stightest bit. I was starting to think about having to pay for a big wrecker when a neighbor kid happened by on a old Massey Harris 44 farm tractor that weighted about 8500 lbs. First couple attempts were futile and on the last attempt with several people in the back of my truck and me in reverse and the old tractor doing slow motion wheel stand pulling, we broke the suction and got it out and no damage was found. Even the custom made step bumber made in Texas was not bent the slightest amount from pulling on it! Needless to say I was a lot more carefull about creeks after that.

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Well my story took place yesterday.

 

I was bored and decided to check out this powerline easement trail near here. It's basically a dirt and mud road that starts just after a paved service road off of a highway ends. The first part of the trail wasn't too bad, the Ranger tore over the rocks and through the puddles with little trouble. I then came to the top of a fairly steep hill with a mud puddle at the bottom. The puddle didn't look THAT bad from inside of the truck, I figured it could handle it. I hit the puddle, went about five feet, and then I went down. The truck sank down to the bottom of the doors and I knew it was all over. I got out and knew I wasn't getting out without some help. In fact, the puddle was deep enough to be home to some wildlife in the form of a five inch long craw fish that came out from under the truck. I called my mom and she came in the other Ranger and we tried digging, but it obviously would not work and we didn't need two stuck trucks, so a towing company was called. One of their trucks shows up and he heads down the trail only to get stuck too. He has to winch his F-450 out of the trail and calls for a 4WD tow truck...turns out the only nearby 4WD tow truck is being repaired. So it is decided that two tow trucks will be used to get the Ranger out...one will go down the hill and pull the Ranger out while one at the top of the hill pulls the tow truck towing the Ranger out. F-450 number one backs (well, slides) down the hill and winches my mud soaked Ranger out...he goes up the hill until the F-450 starts to slip and both trucks are stopped while the F-450 at the top of the hill winches both the Ranger and the other tow truck out. I think three winch cable extensions had to be used. It was very slow moving, but all of the trucks got out. It was smooth sailing down the trail until a now much deeper puddle is reached (it was very driveable when I went through it the first time, but two tow trucks driving over it multiple times made it quite a bit deeper). The tow truck in the lead makes it through, but the second one gets stuck. The winch attached to the Ranger is given some slack and the tow truck is pulled through, followed by my truck. Once we got back to gravel I could see the aftermath in full. My truck was a MESS. Mud was ALL OVER the side...there was grass hanging off the a arms and rear axle. The interior had mud all over it from me getting in it and the tires were caked with it as were the mud flaps which were now at least an inch thicker with mud. The tow bill was paid and I drove home leaving a nice mud trail down the highway. I'm not going down that "road" in my truck again.

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