Snitty
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Well.. the day started as a normal 10" snowfall day. I started by getting in the YJ and on my route to getting the local businesses and old people driveways done. half of the day went by and I get a phone call. It was a good friend of mine, we'll call him KB, his brother's friend called from a trail in the woods and was stuck pretty good. My friend and I seem to be the ones people call whenever they are stuck. In the past few weeks, we could have opened a small business and lived comfortably on just pulling people out of ditches and banks, we even succeeded in using my YJ to pull out a full sized moving truck. It was about 1PM when I put the plowing on halt and decided to go play hero. We switched over to our trailmaster attitudes and headed up the trail... it was a fresh 2 feet of snow, nothing that a beginner should be running on.. and that is exactly what we found stuck in the snow... it was a bunch of teens enjoying the pleasures of 4 wheel drive in their parents' 94 grand cherokee. At least they knew what to go out with. At first, I jump in to see what I could do with the E-brake, rocking, hopping, wheel turning, and weight tranfer tricks... it was a no go. so I then dug around the tires to get them free... still no go from the seat... out come the chains... I hooked them up to my YJ.... ON 3!!! 1, 2, 3!!!... nope.. Then we hooked up the KB's 4Runner to my rear for a train tugging effect... still no go... everyone's spinning, and the monster meats on the 4runner are cutting new ruts. NOW WHAT!!!??? hmmm... YESSSS... I remembered that I grabbed my come-along from the garage a few days back. That will surely do the trick, it always works... poop... there were no trees to anchor to... and the vehicles would slide if pulled against the buried weight. after a few more minutes of digging and pondering... BOOM... there's the idea... I put all of the equipment down... jumped back in my jeep, backed up... steamed forward and dropped the plow... the snow's flowing, building up, and eventually the plow snags the solid ice under the snow... there's our anchor... hooded a chain to my plow mounts... come-along to the victim, other end to the chain... put the victim in reverse... crank, crank, crank, etc... about 15 minutes later.... there it was... a set of 4 ice ruts coated with burnt rubber from its near meal... all was good... backed up the cherokee... BOOM... slid sideways on the trail RIGHT at the edge of a creek, resting in another deep one. now that is where we don't want to be... so... back goes the plow..slams in again... and we start cranking, cranking, cranking... give the signal for my jeep to be backed up to pull the poor guy back... victory was ours... loaded the equipment, and off we go... after reversing down the trail for about 1.5 miles, it was now almost 4PM... we meet a man in a blazer headin toward the trail... he was on his way to test out his new tires... we warned him not to... but his macho mannerism led him to "show us who's boss"... Well... I should have given him my cell phone number... because later, while listening to the police scanner.. we get the story... after his wife hadn't heard from him in 4 hours... the sheriff's dept went to investigate.... sure enough, there he was.... EXACT spot... stuck... all of their attempts were proven unjeepworthy, and the poor guys blazer is still in the woods as I am writing this at 3:30AM... but, he should have had his mind right.. when he saw 3 machines leaving the trail telling him NOT to try it... he probably should have listened. The moral of the story is.... "buy a jeep, just because"
edited by: Snitty, Feb 18, 2003 - 08:34 AM[addsig]
Well.. the day started as a normal 10" snowfall day. I started by getting in the YJ and on my route to getting the local businesses and old people driveways done. half of the day went by and I get a phone call. It was a good friend of mine, we'll call him KB, his brother's friend called from a trail in the woods and was stuck pretty good. My friend and I seem to be the ones people call whenever they are stuck. In the past few weeks, we could have opened a small business and lived comfortably on just pulling people out of ditches and banks, we even succeeded in using my YJ to pull out a full sized moving truck. It was about 1PM when I put the plowing on halt and decided to go play hero. We switched over to our trailmaster attitudes and headed up the trail... it was a fresh 2 feet of snow, nothing that a beginner should be running on.. and that is exactly what we found stuck in the snow... it was a bunch of teens enjoying the pleasures of 4 wheel drive in their parents' 94 grand cherokee. At least they knew what to go out with. At first, I jump in to see what I could do with the E-brake, rocking, hopping, wheel turning, and weight tranfer tricks... it was a no go. so I then dug around the tires to get them free... still no go from the seat... out come the chains... I hooked them up to my YJ.... ON 3!!! 1, 2, 3!!!... nope.. Then we hooked up the KB's 4Runner to my rear for a train tugging effect... still no go... everyone's spinning, and the monster meats on the 4runner are cutting new ruts. NOW WHAT!!!??? hmmm... YESSSS... I remembered that I grabbed my come-along from the garage a few days back. That will surely do the trick, it always works... poop... there were no trees to anchor to... and the vehicles would slide if pulled against the buried weight. after a few more minutes of digging and pondering... BOOM... there's the idea... I put all of the equipment down... jumped back in my jeep, backed up... steamed forward and dropped the plow... the snow's flowing, building up, and eventually the plow snags the solid ice under the snow... there's our anchor... hooded a chain to my plow mounts... come-along to the victim, other end to the chain... put the victim in reverse... crank, crank, crank, etc... about 15 minutes later.... there it was... a set of 4 ice ruts coated with burnt rubber from its near meal... all was good... backed up the cherokee... BOOM... slid sideways on the trail RIGHT at the edge of a creek, resting in another deep one. now that is where we don't want to be... so... back goes the plow..slams in again... and we start cranking, cranking, cranking... give the signal for my jeep to be backed up to pull the poor guy back... victory was ours... loaded the equipment, and off we go... after reversing down the trail for about 1.5 miles, it was now almost 4PM... we meet a man in a blazer headin toward the trail... he was on his way to test out his new tires... we warned him not to... but his macho mannerism led him to "show us who's boss"... Well... I should have given him my cell phone number... because later, while listening to the police scanner.. we get the story... after his wife hadn't heard from him in 4 hours... the sheriff's dept went to investigate.... sure enough, there he was.... EXACT spot... stuck... all of their attempts were proven unjeepworthy, and the poor guys blazer is still in the woods as I am writing this at 3:30AM... but, he should have had his mind right.. when he saw 3 machines leaving the trail telling him NOT to try it... he probably should have listened. The moral of the story is.... "buy a jeep, just because"
edited by: Snitty, Feb 18, 2003 - 08:34 AM[addsig]
haha
