another this may be a better pic.
im not too good at posting/ scaning
oh yea btw this was before my lift this is stock with only 31s

'95 jeep yj with a 3" rough country,, 31's, and miss. small mods.

 

Mine was actually pretty stupid....
I was at Pismo without a lift and bigger meats, and I go the bright idea to help pull a suburban that got highcentered.

I just spun the tires like an idiot and got the Jeep laying on its belly pan. It didnt take much to get it out, but if you guys have been to pismo you know there are a lot of cheapie local guys that make a living helping other people get unstuck, and there are a lot of helpful people that do it for free..
It was just a matter of waiting for a kind person, who didnt mind spending 6 minutes helping me get unstuck..


=-Ben
94 ZJ - Grocery Getter, Work Commuter.
89 FSJ - Work in progress.
87 YJ - 5' of lift, Xterrains 33's. ARB Snorkel.
48 CJ2A - Lawn Sculpture.

 

In my YJ in a farm field during the spring thaw. It took 24 hours to get me out. It required a lowboy and an 8 wheeled Steiger tractor to get me out and the two other rigs that we also stuck. Don't forget the part where my buddy got pulled over by the state patrol--the tow rig had not been licensed in the past 10 years and half of the lights did not work on the truck. Rick

'98 TJ Sport-becoming more modified & heavier all the time.

 

one more
the top one is right before i went up the other side
and the bottem i took a later day the part circled in red is what i was on and the arrow points the dirrection i was going off


'95 jeep yj with a 3" rough country,, 31's, and miss. small mods.

 

snake, how are you scanning these images in?
They seem real blocky.. I can make it out, but my perception is getting tricked.. It looks as if you we're going to slide down the hill? or off the hill while going up it?
-Thanks!

=-Ben
94 ZJ - Grocery Getter, Work Commuter.
89 FSJ - Work in progress.
87 YJ - 5' of lift, Xterrains 33's. ARB Snorkel.
48 CJ2A - Lawn Sculpture.

 

Snake,
Pictures never it do it justice, it looks like you coulda aired down and drove right out of that situation with lockers. I know it must have been worse than that, but thats what pictures do, you cant see the steepness in a pic.
My worst was on winch hill 3 on Fordyce Trail, when I got wedged into the V rock. I busted both rear axle shafts, the rear drive shaft, snapped the driver side main leaf spring, bent the passenger side main leaf on a 90 degree angle, and got wedged in so tight, that it took 4 rigs with winches and snatch blocks and a high lift jack and 45 minutes of tugging, jacking, and prying just to get me onto flat ground, to begin the 4 hours of repairs to begin the 4 hour limp to the pavement, in front wheel drive. It was like someone tossed a grenade under the rear of the jeep, it was a mess.

Jeff
89 YJ
Adversity is imminent, versatility is mandatory, misery is optional.

 

i was sliding down and off at the same time, i was trying to go up the hill. i could have easly got out if i had lockers or would have had a way to get some one infront of me but there is a huge rut on the drivers side of me just out side the pic. (im talking 4 foot deep and 6 foot wide for about 100 feet long with strait walls all around.)

btw im useing a flat bed scaner and scaning into photo house then posting the pic off my drive.

'95 jeep yj with a 3" rough country,, 31's, and miss. small mods.

 

I sat in the river bottoms for 24 hrs. Sunk 6 other trucks, including a 1 ton wrecker, then the bobcat, finally a 2 ton wrecker sitting at the top of the levy with about 200' of chains/straps and a massive winch got it out. In the last pic on the bottom right you can see the ruts it made pulling me out backwards, they were about 16" deep and 13" wide for at least 150'. This spawned my immediate craving for a winch.
http://www.bigjeeptj.com/kaw_river.htm

BIGJEEPTJ
A man's got to believe in something, I believe I'll have another/wwwthreads_images/icons/crazy.gif

 

Well it wasn't my jeep that was stuck, but I guess when a buddies stuck, you're all stuck right? He took his stock TJ across a very nasty pit, made it across on the shoulder, picked another line to come back after he realized he was in too deep, and sank in mud, pancaked between 2 85 degree departure angles, to make a long story short, there were cement blocks (not cinder) wedged up under it, hitting the pumpkin, and axle, preventing it from moving, so we dug the front end out, excavated the blocks, wedged boards under the tires, and tow strapped him out with my jeep. Including trips to get boards an shovels, it took us well into a good part of the morning before we got unstuck.

 

Before my Jeep days, I got an IH pickup buried so deep I had to have a backhoe come and dig it out. Seriously.

 

With my first CJ5 about 15 years ago , went wheelin alone . Got stuck up this Mtn. in over the axle deep CLAY . Had to walk down 1 1/2 miles in the middle of the night . Pitch dark , no flashlight , nothing . Man you sure hear some wild noises in this scenario . Got home finally ,after the neverending walk and next day took 2 buddies in thier trucks with winches to suck me out of that soup . I learned a lot of lessons that day .

Jeff /wwwthreads_images/icons/cool.gif

 

I've gotton stuck while wheeling alone twice. Guess I didn't learn the first time /wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif
I almost always have someone else with me now.
First time was 2 weeks after I got my zuk, still had the dealer tag on it. Went down one of the dirt roads near the interstate that they use for billboard maintenace. Went all the way to the end, through a lot of mud with no problems. When I went to go back out, I took a different path in one of the muddy spots and hit an invisible pit that would have swallowed a Jeep with 40" tires (I'm in a zuk with 27" tires/wwwthreads_images/icons/laugh.gif). I went in the muck up at about a 30 degree angle with the mud halfway up the drivers door. I didn't even have a tow strap.
Climbed out the passenger side and started walking hoping to find another 4x4 to pull me out. Lucky for me, they were working on the signs that day in a big Dodge 4x4.
He was on dry ground pulling with decent AT tires in a huge truck, and he was still spunning tires pulling on my little 2500lb truck /wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif, but the mud finally let go and I got out.
The second time wasn't near as bad, there were other trucks around and I was out within 10 minutes.

-Derek Schwab
'97 Sidekick Sport
'83 CJ-7

 

Many years ago, probably 1986, we were wheeling alone on the Empire Cienega Ranch in SE AZ, were many miles from anywhere and went to drive across Cienega Creek. Got about halfway and sank up to the frame in quicksand. There were no trees on the opposite bank to hook onto, so I had to spin the Jeep in the quicksand by hooking onto a tree behind the Jeep at an angle, took about 2 hrs. to spin in, I had to keep digging the mud and sand out from the tires. Finally got it spun around and pulled back out. This one made me put a pair of old hightop Converse in the Jeep, they are now my mud winch shoes, they're hightops so they can't get sucked off my feet by mud.

Brad
ORC Land Use Editor

and
http://rockgarden.rockcrawler.com

 

haha..
Yeah My mud shoes are a pair of old Doc Martins that go up about 3 inches past my ankle. They USED to be nice shoes, but they are great cause you can tie those sucks to your feet; aint nuttin taking them off.


=-Ben
94 ZJ - Grocery Getter, Work Commuter.
89 FSJ - Work in progress.
87 YJ - 5' of lift, Xterrains 33's. ARB Snorkel.
48 CJ2A - Lawn Sculpture.

 

My worst stuck wasn't in a jeep...Was driving a tandem axle snowplow plowing a 2 laner country road. I was used to driving farm tractors or motor graders with plows, and not trucks. Anyhow, the road had 2 passes down the center, and I was winging back the snow using the wing on the side of the truck. I was going about 20mph, and I hit a patch ice on the road. The wing pushing against the side of the truck pushed me straight across the road and into the ditch on the far side...with a full load of salt on...right through the windrow I had made 20 minutes earlier plowing the other way, and into a relatively steep ditch. Of course, the ice on the road greatly complicated extrication...and the truck was high-centered on the frame for the wing plow...in several feet of snow in the sloped ditch weighing in at just under 30 tons... Ouch.

I Jeep, therefore I am.

 

We dont really have any good mud in Colo, so my worst stuck was in the snow. 2 ft of fresh snow, 50 mph winds, 20 degrees. Tried to bash through a drift about 300 yds long, got 30 ft from the end and slid off the road into 3 ft of snow. No winch, no other vehicles, had to dig for 45 min, then back up, dig, back up, dig, went on for about an hour, finally got back into my ruts.

cjcrawler
"The Beast"

http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~simmonst/Jeep.htm

 

ive had 4 good ones.
1. 1989 me and my girlfriend were out driving on snow covered trails in wisconsin when i hit a natural spring and sank through 3 feet of snow into 2 feet of mud. we walked about a mile in a mid-january night before some snowmobiles picked us up. i married that girl 2 years later
2. 1994 was out wheeling in the local muddy trails of the lowlands in Beaufort, SC when i tried to turn around in the raised trail. I got too close to the edge while backing and sild backwards 12 feet down. I couldnt go up, so i put it in reverse.. and realized i was pinned against a tree in the rar, and the front 2 tires were off the ground because the slope i slid down was THAT steep. my winch was wedged in the bank with all the jeep on it. the tree behind was huge. I did some damage getting that one out.
3. 1995 slid down a sugar sand bank into the beaufort river during low tide. my friends got there and pulled it out just as the tide was reaching the headlights...
4. 1999 Havelock, NC... wheeling with top truck challenger Alex Christianson in the Coatan National forest. he's driving a dually with 6 44" swapmers on it... imagine the hight of this thing.. anyway, he buries it till the tailights are gone.. no exageration.needless to say, my 35" boggers werent cutting it either. it took a d-9 cat to get the dually out.
....then there was the time me and high5 got really drunk behind the shop and tried to climb the huge stack of logs...i was keeping up with him till i broke the ball joints out of one side and tore the tire completely off and sent it through the newly painted fiberglass fender....
the best i ever saw was a guy blow his front d-60 ring and pinion, hammer it anyway and break BOTH rear axleshafts (d-60). it took about 5 doubles winches to pull him out of lower 2 in tellico

~~Elusive~~
everything good in life is round, breasts, halos, and headlights
http://www.jeepgod.net

 

Lost my clutch and starter. Both got replaced under warranty.

2001 TJ, Warn HS9500i, tera 3st and ome shocks, 33X12.50 MTR/s, 4.56 gears, arbs front and rear

 

Didn't own my jeep at the time, I was driving on a steep mtn road on Okemo Mt in Vermont. I was in my hand me down ford explorer, and it had just snowed a foot the night before (this was new year's day of this year). And coming the other way on this road was a car in the middle, realizing their side of the road had a 100' drop off I decide to slide a little to my side. BAD MOVE! what looked like just the side of the road was a 1 1/2 foot drainge ditch. I immediatly tipped it sideways and took a nose dive. Other driver didn't even stop.
My girlfriend was in the passenger seat, and coudln't see out the front windshield, so I had to pull us out the drivers door.
There I sat looked at my exploder tipped at over about a 45 degree angle, wondering how much I have no broken (there is nothing on this, it's stock)
Finialy a lifted F350 shows up and asks "You stuck?"
He handed me a shovel, and I dug out my front, and he pulled me out. Silly car was bouncing about a foot untill I got it out.
Turns out I never broke a thing, not a single light came on. I drive it to this day, will sell it thou once the jeep is ready.
Thanks to that guy, who just smiled and took off.

that's my worste case, wish a had a picture.

88'/4.2L/30's/

 

I have been instructed by my parents to not go into the ditch unless it's going to be a 60KPH+ head on..

If you go into the ditch and the guy drives off, there goes your insurance coverage, and you get stuck with no-help till the next guy.
If you go into the other car, you get insurance covered, (even if it's your fault) and you get someone right there to help you.
Also passer by-s are more likely to help over a ditch incident.
I still don't know if I'd have the guts to go headlong into someone's car though...

 

My worst stuck happened a year ago, for some reason i found joy in climbing snow banks with my dad's xj (yj was totaled and tj wasn't in the picture yet). So we would go to parking lots and see how far the xj would go, got stuck a couple times but it was really minor, just pulled out the floor mats or dug the xj out. So my friends and i are playing in a park district parking lot and there's this huge pile of snow, i decide i'll go up a little ways and back down, well i gas it too hard and burry the complete under carriage of the xj, it's majorly high centered, the doors wouldn't open, the back tires wern't touching the ground so i hoped out and saw how stuck i was, tried calling a couple people and no one would come out then i called my scoutmaster to bring some more shovels and see if his s10 blazer could do the job. He shows up 1/2 hour later w/ his son's 2wd amigo and another scout master shows up. I was thinking the blazer might be able to pull me out but the lot was coverd in ice and he wasn't going to try w/ the amigo. We dug for probably an hour and i finally got it out, this of course was the night of a scout meeting so the 2 scoutmasters spred the story around the meeting but till this day my parents havn't found out. I was also lucky that a cop didn't stop by and see why there was a jeep up a snow bank. I have learned my lesson and won't play in snow banks, especially not in my dad's xj.

BarrelRoll

97 TJ

Wheel it or drive a minny van

 

This wasn't me but a friend in the rubicon July 99

Trailhed.com

 

Dang RLO, thats not pretty at all.. I'd cry, lucky you didn't end up fully in there

 

about 15 years ago I was with a buddy of mine (early high school). About 2 AM, trying to impress some girls with his new 460 and 36's on his Ford. We took a wrong turn in the river bottoms and hammered it right into the ponds edge...READ..BOG. 12 hours later, a stuck 5 ton tow truck that we "borrowed" and we were finally out when the tow truck owner brought out his BIG one to get the other tow truck and our pick-up out. He was NOT happy to say the least. 36's up to the floor in gumbo pond **** is not good... An older and more educated me doesn't wheel alone!