Anyone in boone have a trailer wanna make some $

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So, my little brother blew his jeep up in Mtn. City, broke an axle shaft, ripped his ball joints off = lost knuckle. and broke a window out. His friends called me and think they will need a trailer to get it out, he can use AAA when he gets to the campground but his friends didnt' know if they could get it to the campground, anyone around the area with a trailer wanna make some cash if they can't get it to the campground?


Hopefully pics to come :flipoff2:
 
Big built rig-couple of logs strapped to the axles- jack the broke rig up-strap it to big built rig-drive to camp ground.
Old story, new characters
 
We don't really have a "big" rig, its SPOA87YJ, and 4slow ( i think) all of their rigs are relatively small. I tried to call them to tell them but of course, no signal....
Should I send the sheriff after them? :lol:
 
Way to help newman. I told him to heed the word of the Chris. You don't talk much so when you do it usually counts :flipoff2:

why don't you get your brothers XJ and come help us get his :flipoff2:
 
Atleast its a good story. :lol: It went in so nice and came out so....well...atleast it came out.
 
:lol: i cant be still cant belive how much shat broke.

here is one off my phone... :flipoff2:

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Where on the trails did the ball joint break? Window break? Whose leaf spring? Details! Come on, all those college guys, there's gotta be a writer :)
 
the ball joints went backing away from the water fall the first window borke when it hit a tree the 2nd window broke on the rock wall near the water fall both front shafts broke its austens leaf thats about it i think
 
all that happend on the waterfall and on the way back to the gravel road. once i get the rest of the pics and the vid up you will see how bad it really was...
 
Writeup delivered:

Matt and I left town around 10:30 with 2 other local rigs. We had a guy running late so we decided to drive up to the waterfall and play around untill he caught up. It had just rained the day before so that waterfall was pretty slick. Matt finally caught the right line after trying and crawled up. I had to take a "little" different approach. 4.10's and 38s=alot of Petro. After trying a few different lines, I kept getting heavier on the gas. Probably should have pulled cable and kept riding, but we had a video camera so whats a guy to do :)?? Ended up breaking a YJ main in half. Winched up, all was good.

About this time Braden caught up with us in his xj. He pulled up to the bottom of the waterfall and somehow broke a longside 30 shaft. He backed up to inspect the damage, and immediately backed into a tree that took out his driver's side rear glass! He pulled forward and got wedged on a rock sitting at the bottom of the fall. We decided to try and winch him up but......that didn't work as planned. Ended up having to regroup and try and move the rig backwards away from the waterfall.

About a minute later, he tried to move the rig under its own power, and the Passy side knuckle completely ripped of the inner C. So, after much laughter we tried the "log sled" trick but it didn't prove to be successful. With daylight running out we decided to hook up the winches and drag him off the trail. In doing this we broke the other rear window, the short side shaft, and politely persuaded the passenger side of his jeep along some rocks. Minutes later the exhaust got ripped off and on and on the carnage went. Ended up leaving the rig and calling it a night.

Carnage list as follows:

Matt--winch cable snapped in half (5/16)
Austin--Broken YJ main, destroyed roller fairlead
Chris--Smashed running boards on virgin 4runner
Braden--Both 30 shafts, both rear windows, knuckle ripped off, upper and lower balljoints, housing probably trashed, exhaust destroyed, body very mangled etc. etc.

All of this happened within the first hour we got there
 
"Ended up breaking a YJ main in half"
Main what?
 
Main leaf. The tow truck just dropped the XJ off at our house..... I'm glad I didn't go :flipoff2:

I'll try to get some body damage and any new caranage we find pics up
 
Ah. I was wondering how you broke a main bearing, haha. Sounds like yall had a rough time.
 
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