Getting out of sticky situations
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Even with a 4WD a guy can get in a little trouble. I got in too much snow today but had a shovel and got out. What do ya'll carry along to help out? I've heard of cat litter and other things. I found a couple racks in an old refrigerator once that got me out of a bind on a muddy road. I'd like to find 4 short lengths of expanded metal to carry along.
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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A high lift jack has gotten me out of more than one pickle. Jack the truck up in the air and either shove stuff under the wheel or shove it off the jack sideways out of your rut.
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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A log chain around each tire on the end you are trying to go. Hook it to a deadman. As the wheel spins it will either wrap around the wheel and pull you out fast or break an axle stub. I have done it several times when stuck alone in slush on the lake. It works......all except that one time that it didn't.
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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A log chain around each tire on the end you are trying to go. Hook it to a deadman. As the wheel spins it will either wrap around the wheel and pull you out fast or break an axle stub. I have done it several times when stuck alone in slush on the lake. It works......all except that one time that it didn't. My old m 715 kaiser jeep had lugs on the center cap to hook up for air lifting it. The manual also showed putting the lug wrench in the lug and a chain or strap wrapping around it to pull it out. Had to try it at least once. It worked but would have been better it it had a rear locker or turning breaks like a tractor because itt didn't move it much before the other side started spinning and it quit moving
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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When I’m stuck it’s cuz I’m hung up. Just a shovel. And good tires!
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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I carry a Phone and shovel I will call a landowner with a tractor if I can dig myself out.
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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Shovel, 30 ft tow straps, come a long & wire lath, the honey comb type, 4 ft lengths, doubled up under the tires works for me.
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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Shovel, 30 ft tow straps, come a long & wire lath, the honey comb type, 4 ft lengths, doubled up under the tires works for me. Like chain link fence? Not a bad idea.
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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… straps and come a long… a couple tee Post and a driver doesn’t hurt either
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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5000lb winch on front of SxS. Sunk the Honda last week. Took me an hour and 2 pulled up willow trees to get out.
But...I drive that Honda right up to the beaver dams if possible...thank goodness for that winch.
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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. You must be about 67 59....too old to be carrying around sheets of expanded metal, chain link fence t-posts, etc....lol Ha..I just realized you may have meant 67°...lol
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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Lol I don't even carry a spare tire. I just don't drive places my Honda Civic or 2 wheel drive truck might get stuck. I'm about 30 miles from you..I'm guessing you're not venturing out much lately!
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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Chains and common sense. Even thinking about putting chains on, bring me to my common senses. I usually know if I'm going to get stuck so now, I'd rather not try knowing I will get stuck. Common sense has kept me out of a lot of work, but it was the school of hard knocks that taught me the most. The chains are going to rust to dust if I just use my common sense.
Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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You haven't been stuck until you have been stuck on a lake or in the slush. In the slush, minutes matter sometimes. On the wet, slick, polished ice................
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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A couple T-posts, a driver, and a come-a-long ride around with me where ever I go. I keep a shovel handy, but those things don't fit my hands very well.
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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Sand bags for weight and if needed open one up and spread on shoveled tire path. If in rut put whole unopened bag in rut
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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Nothing likes slush not even track machines. Getting stuck in slush is the worst IMO.
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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That ought to cover it! I wouldn't drive out on any thickness of ice. Call me phobic! As soon as you spin a tire on the lake you are hosed. The more you spin, the more deep and polished the ruts gets that the tire is sitting in. Any moisture runs into that hole. It is SUPER frustrating. If you are lucky, you can jack it up all the way to the top with a hi lift jack, shove it sideways off the jack to get out of the ruts and away you go. Other times I have drilled a 10 inch hole in the ice and used a dead man and a come along to pull the truck 8 feet at a time and of course it is always windy on 20 below zero. This may be why I don't ice fish anymore.
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That ought to cover it! I wouldn't drive out on any thickness of ice. Call me phobic! As soon as you spin a tire on the lake you are hosed. The more you spin, the more deep and polished the ruts gets that the tire is sitting in. Any moisture runs into that hole. It is SUPER frustrating. If you are lucky, you can jack it up all the way to the top with a hi lift jack, shove it sideways off the jack to get out of the ruts and away you go. Other times I have drilled a 10 inch hole in the ice and used a dead man and a come along to pull the truck 8 feet at a time and of course it is always windy on 20 below zero. This may be why I don't ice fish anymore. We ice fish on snowmobiles, 4 wheelers and by foot. No need to get truck stuck and you can still ice fish
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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I see "overland" vehicles here running up and down the interstate with high lift jacks and traction boards bolted onto their bed racks. Funny thing is none have any mud or scratches on them. I marvel at the hood mounted Jack's. Brilliant for a new $80k vechile.
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I carry a 4x8 sheet of 5/8 plywood ,that fits great in the bed of my pickup. The rear end went thru the ice and I was lucky to jack it up and slided the plywood under the tires. Worked great that time!!
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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A 70 pound Bruce anchor a 12000 pound winch with 90' of Amsteel on it .... tree saver steps, snatch blocks, soft shackles and kinetic rope. Since I have all that in the truck together with a chain saw I have not managed to get stuck and use it mostly to get others out of the pickles they got themselves into. Got the neighbor out of a ditch yesterday. No one was hurt and just a bit of plastic of the bumper splintered. Good tires are a big help when it gets white outside.
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Re: Getting out of sticky situations
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I have done that a few times myself. Lust last fall needed to get through low spot that had drifted and was to deep to make it through. Didn't take long to do and got a good path through and poured the inion to it and saved me about 3/4 of walking to get where I needed to be. I was running snares and in the first picture you can see my track up ahead. I was headed south and the NW wind just piles the snow in on the south side of the hills. I am running stubble so the tops are pretty open. It would have been a lot shorter a dig to go out forward, until I came back. Then I could dig out what I did to back out. There was no way I was getting out to the south and then making it back north to the house with out more of these therapy sessions. I know what it will look like over the next hill from what the last one looked like. We have a small ground blizzard going now. You can see, just not far.
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