Getting stuck in your own yard

frankenyoter

frankenyoter

No Rain, No Rainbow
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Who else has had this happen? Not talking about the 2wd truck spinning in the grass, but goofing off in your rig and suddenly in a pickle.

I can recall at least a half dozen times this has happened to me. The most recent was Sunday evening. I was wheeling a retaining wall made out of telephone poles and slipped off of it. It was kinda tight and I kept drifting further down the hill as I tried to recover. I have a lot of wood chips back there and my tires kept digging it out. Eventually I was at the edge of a bank looking into my neighbors back yard, high centered on a firewood pile, and had field fence and barbed wire tangled in my front axle enough to where I couldn't steer.

I had to take a break, eat dinner, and get my daughter to sleep. Then went back out around dark to continue my battle.

Eventually I dismantled the wood pile from beneath the rig, have her hell and backed out after halfway climbing a tree. It took me 2 hours last night with a set of pliers, welding gloves, and an angle grinder to clean up the front axle again.

So am I the only one that gives into the temptation to wheel my yard and ends up in a situation? Hell I rolled it once in front of my shed...
 
paging drkelly :D

I've got my 4x4 towrig stuck in down in the backyard, in the wet grass. But that doenst count in this thread.
 
Haha, Yeh, I've been stuck in my back yard numerous times and had to walk back to the house.

When my Sami was bone stock, I got it stuck on a hill at the back of my property where I had slid off the trail and into a tree. I ended up walking back to the house for the chainsaw to cut the tree down so I could get it out of there. I think I was building my cab truck at that time so had no recovery vehicle.

Once in the pre-winch days of my Sami I slid off the trail and down an embankment due to heavy snow. I ended up leaving it back there a few days until the snow melted. I can't remember, but my cab truck must have been apart/broken at that time.

Got the Sami stuck in the creek another time. I walked back to the house and got my cab truck, and was able to pull it free.

I think the worst was when I got my Samurai stuck trying to climb out about a 3-4 foot tall creek bank. My cab truck was apart or broken, so I didn't have a recovery vehicle. I didn't have a winch yet on my Sami. It ended up taking me about an hour with my cum-a-long to get it out of the creek.

Got my cab truck hung up on a tree one time back there, and didn't have my in-cab winch control switch yet, so had the remote in my hand while trying to pull the truck free off of a tree it was leaning against. the winch remote wires got pinched between the exo-cage and tree, and shorted out making the winch run constantly in out mode. I had to quickly jump out and pull out the winch remote to stop the winch. Once again had to walk back to the house and repair the remote wires that were fubared. I can't remember how I got out of that situation, because the cable got all fubared while running out for a while before I could shut the winch off. Somehow I ended up breaking my winch cable during that mess, and having to fix that too.

John Thomas barrel rolled his Sami down a hilll in my back yard once. He also flopped his cab truck in my back yard twice. Once it was stuck in the creek on its side, and his battery went dead while trying to winch it out so we had to leave it overnight while we charged the battery.

There are probably more times too.
 
Can't say I've ever done that, worst i did was get the mower stuck and tear up the grass.
 
drkelly said:
...had to walk back to the house and repair the remote wires that were fubared...
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:confused: Does not compute...If the wires are F.U.B.A.R.'ed, how did you repair something that is beyond repair? :beer:

The best I can think of, was started by me and snowballed from there, I was about 10 years old and got my Honda 250 four wheeler stuck down a big hill in the woods in the snow. So my brother brings the Honda 300 4x4 to pull me out, bald tires so it gets stuck. Next comes dad in the Ford NAA 800 tractor, hits a patch of ice, slides downhill into a tree. So in comes the Chevrolet K30 crew cab dually flatbed 454, it manages to pull both 4 wheelers up the hill daisy chained, but bogs down and sinks into the ground pulling up the Ford tractor. Finally, after much persuasion to the cranky JD 4020 that doesn't like the cold weather, it came out and pulled the truck and the Ford tractor daisy chained up the hill. In hindsight, should have just left the four wheeler at the bottom of the hill till the ground thawed :D
 
I have done it a few years ago when it snowed. i jumped in my blazer to go to work and my hubs froze up so they did not engaged. i did not know this and I slide of the side of my gravel driveway on a hil and it kept sliding sideways. I had to leave it there for a week until the snow melted and the driveway was dry enough to get some one to pull me out. I might have a picture somewhere. it did not look much, but snow and a hill makes things very deceptive.
 
My stories usually consist of stump pulling after a storm or something...seems I'd learn by now. Usually end up sunk to the axles. Most recent scare was on a buddy's property...all I had to play with was my Lincoln...had lots of fun in the mud until I had to go back uphill, completely lost all forward momentum an traction, and starte sliding back down the at a 45* backwards toward a gully and trees. Ended up sliding to a stop just before the gully...picked a different line and made it up the hill.
 
haha bought a pretty nice ZJ from work a few weeks ago, pulled it into the shop dropped the swaybars off, removed the roof rack, removed the running boards, aired the tires down and told my daughter (5 yr old) lets see what this jeep thing is all about, (we are Zuk, Yota, and Chevy family haha) we ride around the field about 5 mins then my daughter says hey go up the big bank, where we usually go up!!! no lets try the bunny slope just to see what happens, it climbs about 3/4 of the way up the bank slides sideways pretty hard then cuts off wont re-start and the shifter is just flopping around now WTH?? well after a phone call the
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wifey shows up and drags me out it kinked the exhaust off (completely in two places) and where it had bellied out a snag had popped the shifter linkage off!! Haha yeah i have tons of those "had to walk back to the house" experiences !!
 
those are nothing... I got done installing a doubler in my truck and threw the bench back in planning on putting bucket seats in it the next day didnt bolt it down. Went to drive aroudn make sure all the different gears worked and shifted correctly. Was on the way back to the house to clean up and saw the mulch pile and set the truck in double low and it idled right up and over the mulch pile and rolled completely off the back side. The truck rolled 3 times and hit a tree with the rear of the frame breaking the frame a the spring hangers. THank God I jumped out that ride didnt look liike a lot of fun.

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I managed to get a brand new Tacoma stuck in the back yard the night we moved in. I got the mower stuck more times than I can count, mowing near the creek, up until I got rid of the turf tires and haven't been stuck since. Got a couple of other rigs stuck "blazing trails" back in the woods, had to do the walk of shame back and get another truck to pull them out.

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Some good ones here.

A few years back I got stuck in my neighbors landscaping when I was trying to help by knocking down the snow in their driveway. Ther was 16" of snow and to access their drive was down hill and to the right. I drifted off course and started churning up plants on the nice white snow!!! A friend winched me out. After the snow melted I went over and racked out my ruts.
 
Years ago I blew my head gasket when the thermostat did'nt open on a hot day, 186K . I realized it when i heard it spark knockin, looked down to see the guage deep into the red :eek: and shut it off to cool on the side of the road ( no cellphone back then )..........repete......3 times to get home. Weeks later after repairs I noticed steam from the exhaust in the morning, but it was summer :mad:. Drove it off and on for 6 months until one day it started pissin coolant out the tailpipe. Bought the 82 in the background w 42k, it had sat for 13 years after being rolled. Swapped the new, old engine in the yard and it purred like a kitten!!. Rolled the blown motor onto a pallet to drag it to the shed. On the way ( In low ) I found the leachfield in the backyard. I felt the truck sinking and goosed it:driver:. I swear I had never stuck this truck enought to be pulled out before this when it had mud tires on all 4 but I stuck it in the yard!!
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I got stuck in the woods behind my old house. After 2 days of non-stop rain it got a little sloppy back there. I was trying to climb just a slight grade through the woods. I was in 4high, locked front and rear, bouncing the rev limiter and just going backwards down the hill and got pinned between two trees. It was the only time I had to pull cable within 100 feet of the house. No pics exist of this incident.

Another time at the same house, my friend decided he was going to take a stab at crawling up a downed tree literally in the back yard. This is the result.
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I drove the WarBeast with the loaded trailer (junk car) attached down in the field after a heavy rain. She went down like the Bismark. Truck was stuck and the trailer jack was in the ground. Ground was so soft I couldn't unhook the trailer. I aired up the helper bags till I thought they were going to explode. I managed to get the truck to move ( sideways) but he trailer sunk almost to the frame. Finally got the truck turned enough to get a junk car (AWD Subaru Legacy wagon) we had that still ran hooked to the front of it and we finally got the trailer to pull out of the clay. The car on the trailer was unrecognizable. It looked like a huge mudball. The scrap yard took off money for the amount of clay on it.
 
^ sucks i cant agree cause my k5 never been wheeling since ive owned it!! Someday...
 
Infamous1 said:
haha bought a pretty nice ZJ from work a few weeks ago, pulled it into the shop dropped the swaybars off, removed the roof rack, removed the running boards, aired the tires down and told my daughter (5 yr old) lets see what this jeep thing is all about, (we are Zuk, Yota, and Chevy family haha) we ride around the field about 5 mins then my daughter says hey go up the big bank, where we usually go up!!! no lets try the bunny slope just to see what happens, it climbs about 3/4 of the way up the bank slides sideways pretty hard then cuts off wont re-start and the shifter is just flopping around now WTH?? well after a phone call the View attachment 46927View attachment 46928 wifey shows up and drags me out it kinked the exhaust off (completely in two places) and where it had bellied out a snag had popped the shifter linkage off!! Haha yeah i have tons of those "had to walk back to the house" experiences !!
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where did you get that step side? is it a 77? looks just like the one i use to own about 3 years ago and sold to a guy in pittsboro who sold to someone else
 
Nah Its an 83 i bought that was totaled and i put that 73 bed on it, wish i coulda bought that 77 my piece of junk was alot of work haha!
 
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