[Guest]

Not really, but I did pull one of a snow bank today! I went to watch an SCCA road rally and coming home I was on some backroads and this Fourwheeler of the Year Lexus was stuck nose first in a snowbank. I think he thought I was joking when I offered to pull him out, but I hooked the strap up and gave him a good yank. One pull and it was out. Woo-Hoo I pulled out a Lexus!
Snowingly,
Jeff

 

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Today I pulled out a Mercury Sable wagon and a 2wd 1/2 ton Ford. The Ford backed into me though! Usually people stop once they're out of the deep snow, but I guess 2" was deep enough to back into me. I didn't even have time to give'r forward again..

 

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I pulled out a Cadillac limo Wed. night. The guy started sliding, thought he was going to hit a telephone pole, then steered strait into the woods.

After the guy got the OK from his boss (since it was a company car), it took me about 2 minutes to get the recovery kit out, and get the tow rope hooked up. Once hooked up, it only took a few good tugs before he was out.

One of the cops on the scene askes "looks like you've done this before..."

I replied "more often then I would care to admit!"

(I'm usually on the other end, check out my avitar)

 

[2781]

This one is funnier than my last "rescue".

Last night I was on my way home and I saw a Ford Expedition sticking out of a snow bank on the side of a farm field, with the rear driver's side tire about 2 feet from the ground.

I asked her if she was OK, then asked if she had tried to back out yet. She said that she had, but the tires just spun. Since the front tires were firmly in the snow, I asked her to try again. Since the front tires didn't move at all, I asked if she put the truck in 4x4 yet. She looked confused, then said "no".

I advised her to put the truck into four wheel, shift into reverse, then lightly touch the gas. The truck started to move, but then she gunned it and spun the tires again.

Since she managed to firmly stick herself once again, I told her that I could drive into the field, then tug her out.

Once she was free, and on a flat surface, I unhooked the tow strap and told her to drive back on to the road. I told her not to stop in the deep snow, but to continue her momentum until she was back on the road.

I watched her attempt this, but saw the brake lights light up as soon as she hit the snow drifts. I got her out of the deep snow again, then told her to try again without stopping. She tried again, but just couldn't keep her foot off the brake.

Frustrated and cold, I told her to get into the passenger side. I hopped into the drivers seat, and first shot she was back on the road.

---You can put a soccer mom in a truck, but you can't force her to learn how to drive---

 

[RRich]

We don't have to deal with snow here -
My road to my ranch is fairly sandy, if you don't turn into my gate it gets really sandy. At least once a week someone gets stuck out there, then I hear them at my gate hollering for help.
Several times now, 4x4 SUV's have been stuck. When I asked them if they put it in 4 wheel drive I get that dumb stare - "what's that?" I can't believe these people buy 4x4's and don't even know what it's for.

I used to help - until a guy pulled a big knife on me and DEMAMDED I pull him out. I told him "I'll pull into position," but instead I just drove away, back to my house - and called the cops. Turns out he'd been running from them - they lost him when he came down my road.

Too many people get belligerent or become real jerks, so I've quit helping. I've put up "Private Property", "No Trespassing" and "Deep Sand" warning signs. Doesn't do much good, I guess they can't read.
I have done one thing to help though, I put a sign up with the local tow company's number - right where they get stuck.

 

[Scott_CJ8]

Some people think they got it all figured out. Our Parking lot at work is ice-glazed and then with the sun, a small layer of water. Slick as snot on a doorknob. Not even 4 Wheel drive works - I know, I got out of my X, with it in drive, and stood there watching all the wheels spin with no foreward movement. Anyway, this girl gets off the edge, over the curb, sitting on the frame on the curb with one tire in the air over the ditch. I watched as 3 guys try to pull her with a 2wd van. Finally, I run out there with my come-along and tow strap and suggest we winch it from a nearby telephone pole. They help with the hook-up. I double check it. The hook on the car was just over a metal tab, and they tried to tie (yes, in a knot) my strap to the pole. The guys assured me, "He is a truck driver, and has done this before". Yeah... so I re-work the setup and we get her out, no problem. Then they just all drive off. No "thanks" or anything.
Sometimes it's hard to be one of the "Good Guys".

 

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I pulled out an idiot in a Lexus about 2 months ago. He was trying to get to an exit he missed by charging through a flower bed. Needless to say, he was burried so deep he couldn't open the doors. He was wearing a nice suit and on his way to work; I was just messing around and in grubby street clothes. I made him hook up tow towstrap to his car.

 

[CTBrent]

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This says it all.

After this past storm I was driving downtown in my Samurai and saw a Dodge with it's rear stuck in a parking lot snow bank. The were trying to tug it out using those cheesy braided ropes with the metal hooks on both ends. I turned around and went back to the lot and offered to pull him out with the winch. They chuckled it up a bit and said no thanks we got it. I said okay have a nice day and left knowing they had a BIG job ahead of them by being stubborn.

It's still stuck in the bank.

 

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"Snow" is that COLD white stuff right???

 

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"Snow" is that COLD white stuff right???

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My dad used to say it's "that white stuff that can be awful pretty and pretty awful at the same time".

 

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Snow" is that COLD white stuff right???

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May the sand flees and sketters get you and a Gatter bite your BUTT!!!!!!!!!!