Looks the ride of the month gets to spend the night, in the woods, by its self tonight. I was leaving a rig today and said "hummm I wonder where that road goes". Every said that before? Its been raining for the last two days, but I didn't care, I have four wheel drive and winch in case it gets to bad. The road got to a point where it had water standing on it. You know, low ground that has a way of never drying out. When you add that with the weight of a F250, well, bad things happen. I put in 4 wheel drive and hit the gas, had to, there was no where to turn around, plus it was only like 100-150 ft of what I would call wet road. At some point the truck quit going forward. I tried going backward with no luck. Time to use the winch. Now, I love my winch. It has got me out of more binds than I can count. Something is wrong with the freespool, but it will power out and in. The bad part was they have clear cut this land just not to long ago, so just not alot of trees to tie to, but I find one about 90 ft away. It was only about ten foot off the road, but there was a ditch in between me and it. No way to jump across, so I walk on in. The water was over my knees! It much have been about 55 deg. out today, maybe lower. Well, I get all rigged up, and start pull my truck down the road. After a while the tires start moving the truck forward, good thing because I was almost to the tree. So, I put it in park and unhooked everything and tied it all to the front of the truck. Get back in and the truck went down in the mud again. This an't good. Wheeling and driving around the back woods should be fun. It was at this very point that I stopped having fun. I took off back down the road again to find another tree. I have a 120 ft of cable on my winch, plus 30 ft of chain, and two 25 ft straps. All of that was not enough to reach the big tree that was growing just out of my reach! The only other tree was closer wasn't near big to pull the F250 out. So, I tied on to it and pull it out of the ground. this is not looking good for the home team. Mean while the truck is still sinking the mud, talk about soft ground. It was almost up to the diff. A little back in the woods was two trees growing real close together, about 4" each. I tied around both of them and started pulling. Maybe if I had tied to them first I could have started move the truck again, but it was to late now. The truck had been sinking in the mud and now it was up to the diffs., front and back. I bogged the winch down to where it was drawing the max amps. I have a low battery alarm in my truck, and when it goes off you better let off the power on the winch. Because it will drain the battery and steal all the juice from the engine tring the turn the winch. Its bad when you are stuck and the truck want start. I pulled the snach block out of the tool box and rigged it up, that was when I pulled the two 4" trees, I was tied to, out of the ground. There was nothing to then, but start walking and report the truck stolen! All I would have to do is smash in all the windows and take the battery out. It would have been blamed on kids joy riding! spankn Bad idea, I know, so, I started walking and called my wife to come get me before she went to work. I got back to the house and climbed into the Blazer and hit the road again. That was a cold ride, my clothes were wet, and I don't have the doors or the top on it. My wife came with me, but she drove her truck out there, just in case I got the Blazer stuck too she could get to work on time. I tied on to the Blazer, but it just pulled it backwards even with me spinning the wheels on the blazer. The Warn 12000# winch has what it takes, I'll give it that. While I was at the house I got my 6,000# straps I use to tie the Blazer on the trailer with. I went ahead a tied the front of the blazer to that big tree I could reach earlier. It only took a few seconds for the strap to brake. Sounded like someone shot a gun when it broke. Anyway I had to give up then. The last time I looked under the truck the mud was up to the tire rod. Tomorrow I'm going to go back out there and try tieing some 4"x4"x2' blocks of wood to the tires and see if I can get it out.
Just thought I would share my story with ya'll. I think my wife got some pics on her phone, I'll upload tomorrow.
Just thought I would share my story with ya'll. I think my wife got some pics on her phone, I'll upload tomorrow.