REAL MAN TRUCKWORKS & SURVIVAL
GENERAL TOPICS => Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant => Topic started by: stewie on March 14, 2017, 09:20:50 AM
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My wife is my best friend and often a compass for me when i wander aimlessly.
We had to remove a large pile of sand/dirt that was left over from construction here many years ago to make way for my mother in laws place that's going in.
Sure, fine. Let's do it. I need a workout.
I decided to dump the dirt back where i have some hay bails and want a berm. We loaded my 5x8 trailer up, hauled it out back towards the area. The ground is wet, but the granola burner gets through.
Second load was a bit heavier. Granola burner makes it to the dump site, but did have traction issues.
After we load trailer up for 3rd time, my wife suggests we NOT go back out there. I scoffed.
Granola burner gets bogged down in mud. I've always prided myself with that car in NEVER getting stuck, but that trailer was the ball and chain this time.
I had to drop the trailer in order to get free.
So now i have a trailer full of dirt sunk into the pasture that i need to get out.
No, the car isn't going back out there so i will have to do it all by hand later today.
Needless to say i was embarrassed, I apologized for not listening to her and now know the Granola Burner is not invincible... with a trailer attached to it.
Stewie, why didn't u use the 2500 suburban for this!? you got those fancy cooper atp's on it!!!!
Short answer - the truck would have sunken into the field and tore the crap out of it getting out.
So, lesson learned. Stewie 0.
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A word is coming...wait, I can see it forming
Yes, I see it
Track-Tor...Yes that's it
What's a tracktor? ;-)
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A word is coming...wait, I can see it forming
Yes, I see it
Track-Tor...Yes that's it
What's a tracktor? ;-)
tracktor is on stewie's list in about a year. i gotta work with what i have right now.
tractor would have gone PLOOOOOP front first into a small mud filled ravine that the granola burner got past.
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When my 6wd dually got stuck by the pond in wet grass hooked to a trailer, it was the track-tor that made short work of the recovery. Of course the dually had factory Michelin atx on it then which were worthless.
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A warn M8000 winch on that suburban would have been cheap insurance. And for those who scoff at an 8k winch whatever I've seen first hand what they are capable of doing.....
Just a thought anyhow Stewie......
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A warn M8000 winch on that suburban would have been cheap insurance. And for those who scoff at an 8k winch whatever I've seen first hand what they are capable of doing.....
Just a thought anyhow Stewie......
well, the winch is coming soon, but i need at least tow straps. i had too much weight on the trailer and i slowed down instead of keeping the rpm's up, too. shame on me.
i mozied on out to the field on my lunch break and emptied the trailer off and pushed it out of the ruts. am going to retrieve it last on this afternoon.
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Tate has a special going on a jerk em strap, I even purchased one it was such a good deal I couldn't resist.....
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Tate has a special going on a jerk em strap, I even purchased one it was such a good deal I couldn't resist.....
jerk em strap? please explain or my adolescent humor is about to kick in.
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Read here captain spanky...... :popcorn:
http://real-man-truckworks-and-survival.com/index.php?topic=2730.new#new
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Hmm, that name could have a few meanings,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Pics or it didn't happen....? ;)
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Pics or it didn't happen....? ;)
these were not the day of, but the following. water subsided a bit, but you can see where the problem(s) started. Trailer is empty and moved off to side in the pics. the day before it was about 8" into that mud.
clearing that was one hell of a workout.
(http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj411/fohshizzle/buroaks/C2500268-FFED-403F-8B17-FB5DFEF5E030_zpszutijaqb.jpg) (http://s554.photobucket.com/user/fohshizzle/media/buroaks/C2500268-FFED-403F-8B17-FB5DFEF5E030_zpszutijaqb.jpg.html)
(http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj411/fohshizzle/buroaks/4843DEF1-68D2-4C2C-ADDE-A465F231446C_zpsmuiifigr.jpg) (http://s554.photobucket.com/user/fohshizzle/media/buroaks/4843DEF1-68D2-4C2C-ADDE-A465F231446C_zpsmuiifigr.jpg.html)
(http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj411/fohshizzle/buroaks/23B784CF-7447-48A9-B165-B0B6EDB96DCC_zpstze7miqu.jpg) (http://s554.photobucket.com/user/fohshizzle/media/buroaks/23B784CF-7447-48A9-B165-B0B6EDB96DCC_zpstze7miqu.jpg.html)
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Ah yes, the greasy wet grass slip and slide.
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Looks like fun.
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Wow, the ricer got stuck with an empty trailer? bahahahaha
:pokestewie
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Ken, if you go back I think it got stuck with a loaded trailer. The empty trailer picture was after the fact......... :knucklehead:
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In Ken's defense, I think he was teasin' but then again the heat could have gone to his Hillary lovin' head.
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In regards to Ken he is official DOT & as such there is no Defense of such individuals. Don can confirm....... :popcorn:
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I concede my original position.
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ill give stewie credit, he at least is giving the granola burner a good run for its money with a trailer hitch............. :popcorn:
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Absolutely! I mean if this was Don he wouldn't have made it out of the high rent district he lives in & would be telling us about his mulch bed that he got stuck in..... :popcorn:
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Thanks Tate. I figured it would take someone intelligent to point out to the hippie that I was just razzing him.
... and I probably would have just left the trailer there, fully loaded. This guy's back screams at the sight of a shovel!
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Wow, the ricer got stuck with an empty trailer? bahahahaha
:pokestewie
trailer was loaded down with dirt. If my "ricer" got stuck with an empty trailer, i would just disappear into the darkness and I NEVER would have posted this thread.
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ill give stewie credit, he at least is giving the granola burner a good run for its money with a trailer hitch............. :popcorn:
the granola burner has a can-do attitude.
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ill give stewie credit, he at least is giving the granola burner a good run for its money with a trailer hitch............. :popcorn:
the granola burner has a can-do attitude.
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