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:lolup: i bet so no one else has posted yet and i think you've got eveyone beat lol
 

nubuilder

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Haven't been stuck yet (knock on wood) :fingersx:.
Although that will probably change this winter with going back to a 2wd truck for driving in the winter. That's why I'll be carrying 300+ lbs of sand, a small shovel, recovery strap, jumper cables, flashlight, along with an assortment of sockets and wrenches (in case anything breaks or falls off).

I hope you weren't in the truck at the time Scott. What happened?
 
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YellowEyes89

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It was a long time ago, but my buddy's step-dad got his 2005 Excursion high-centered, if you looke closely, you'll see the shock burried in the snow:

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Haven't been stuck yet (knock on wood) :fingersx:.

I hope you weren't in the truck at the time Scott. What happened?

Back in Feb. '96 I went on a late night service call about 40 miles from my hometown in Central WA. It was snowing, and then turned into a nasty freezing rain, so I took my new Ford 4x4 since the company had no 4x4 service trucks. No problem. After I finished the service call, I headed carefully towards home creeeping along the glare ice in 4 hi, and came to the roadblock at the small mountain pass on I-82 between me and my house.The State Troopers were closing the pass until further notice, you couldn't even stand out there on the 3 inches of wet ice, it was nasty!I turned around carefully and headed back the other way, with plan "B" in mind. (Yes this is where I ****ed up) This plan consisted of going through the old road around the mountain, which is a river canyon road. I passed 15 cars in the ditch, smiling as my trust Fors was doing pretty good on this shit. I had deflated the tires to 12 PSI and had pretty good traction.I made it 15 miles when it happened. I was coming up a 1 mile grade, and a Peterbilt pulling a fuel tanker was coming down the grade with the trailer coming around in my lane. It was like a scene from an action movie.It was funny, I had not seen any other vehicles up to this point, knowing they had closed this road as well on both ends after I got on it.
Anyhow, I slowed and got as far over on the gleaming shoulder as possible and missed the trailer by about an inch. My truck rolled to a slow stop, and I was so proud that I had not paniced and locked up the brakes.Like it mattered. The place I stopped was at a slight grade towards the 800 foot river below. The weight of the vehicle overcame the "friction" of the tires and I slid sideways off the shoulder.The truck ended up on a small snow berm 15 feet below. My lights shining on the ice covered river far below. I slowly opened the door, looked over the vehicle, looked over the slope I just slipped down, and said to myself "no problem"I walked up and down the 12-15 foot slope a couple of times, the ice was cleared and I saw no reason I could not back my shiny Ford off that berm and back onto that road. NOTE: This was my second and final mistake of the evening. I put it in 4 LO, left the driver door open, ready to bail out in case I had to, and slowly began creeping back up the grade in Reverse. It lost traction right near the top, and slipped right back down to that snow berm. I jumped from the truck and stared at it. I heard 3 cracks, and a crunching noise and down she went. Into the river. I had no GAP insurance, and had to fight with the insurance company for this $15,000 recovery, and had to pay a $1000 EPA fine (note the ATF on the ice
 

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Well.. here's mine... after trying to get my buddy unstuck off a geo in the woods.... I blew apart the ring gear in the front... soooo 2wd + heavy ass truck + fine sand = fWONked. I managed to pull it around.. but hit that one section.. it buried and i got pissed and stood on it... lol... axle was under sand... LOL This was back in 2007 I think.

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nubuilder

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Back in Feb. '96 I went on a late night service call about 40 miles from my hometown in Central WA. It was snowing, and then turned into a nasty freezing rain, so I took my new Ford 4x4 since the company had no 4x4 service trucks. No problem. After I finished the service call, I headed carefully towards home creeeping along the glare ice in 4 hi, and came to the roadblock at the small mountain pass on I-82 between me and my house.The State Troopers were closing the pass until further notice, you couldn't even stand out there on the 3 inches of wet ice, it was nasty!I turned around carefully and headed back the other way, with plan "B" in mind. (Yes this is where I ****ed up) This plan consisted of going through the old road around the mountain, which is a river canyon road. I passed 15 cars in the ditch, smiling as my trust Fors was doing pretty good on this shiz. I had deflated the tires to 12 PSI and had pretty good traction.I made it 15 miles when it happened. I was coming up a 1 mile grade, and a Peterbilt pulling a fuel tanker was coming down the grade with the trailer coming around in my lane. It was like a scene from an action movie.It was funny, I had not seen any other vehicles up to this point, knowing they had closed this road as well on both ends after I got on it.
Anyhow, I slowed and got as far over on the gleaming shoulder as possible and missed the trailer by about an inch. My truck rolled to a slow stop, and I was so proud that I had not paniced and locked up the brakes.Like it mattered. The place I stopped was at a slight grade towards the 800 foot river below. The weight of the vehicle overcame the "friction" of the tires and I slid sideways off the shoulder.The truck ended up on a small snow berm 15 feet below. My lights shining on the ice covered river far below. I slowly opened the door, looked over the vehicle, looked over the slope I just slipped down, and said to myself "no problem"I walked up and down the 12-15 foot slope a couple of times, the ice was cleared and I saw no reason I could not back my shiny Ford off that berm and back onto that road. NOTE: This was my second and final mistake of the evening. I put it in 4 LO, left the driver door open, ready to bail out in case I had to, and slowly began creeping back up the grade in Reverse. It lost traction right near the top, and slipped right back down to that snow berm. I jumped from the truck and stared at it. I heard 3 cracks, and a crunching noise and down she went. Into the river. I had no GAP insurance, and had to fight with the insurance company for this $15,000 recovery, and had to pay a $1000 EPA fine (note the ATF on the ice
Holy crap!
Dawmn man, you go lucky. I can't believe a semi driver would risk it (would have lost his job if anything happened to him).
Looks like they had to use a crane to pull the truck up. The company you worked for at the time should have helped with the bill since you HAD to take YOUR truck instead of a company truck.
So they nailed you $1,000 for leaking ATF on the snow?? Seems a bit harsh. I didn't think that stuff was as toxic/harmful as anti-freeze.
 

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