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On super bowl Sunday I went for a trip to lake Sardis with my roommate before the game for Sunday funday. We had our fun doing some wheeling and met with some friends who were shooting guns. I got to shoot my buddies S&W 500 which was awesome. It started getting dark and my alternator doesn't charge right (gotta get on that) so my roommate and I agreed it'd be best to head back before it got too dark. On our track back out of the lake bed about an eighth mile from the entrance there was an F-150 stuck out about 200 yards away from the shore. *know that right now the lake is drained and the shoreline goes out about 400+ yds*
I figured I'd go over and give him a quick tug and be on my way. I slipped the truck in low range and engaged the front axle, as I started tracking out towards the lake victim I started to get worried about the ground I was driving on. I stopped about 75 yds away to asses the situation further and after further inspection I decided against my better judgement to attempt to pull him "I just got this thing, I shouldn't but I really wanna pull him with it." Stupid!
I jumped back back in the truck and pulled up and around to back in for the pull. As soon as I stopped backing up I felt the front end sink about a foot. I put it in first and tried to ease up out of it and she just went deeper. That's where she sat. The whole surface now looked like a trampoline and when you broke through it was soupy, sandy, clay underneath. I attempted extraction multiple times between classes over the next couple of days, but couldn't get it by myself. I didn't know many people up here as I'm living here in Oxford while I'm going to school so I had to make plans for Saturday with friends and their friends to get the right equipment for the job and get it done.
Finally after a long rainy week Saturday came and I found myself at the lake with a party of 10 that turned into 50+ people by the time it was said and done. Awesome! We started getting our rigging together and deciding who was going to have what job. I had dug out the front axle while waiting on people first thing so that was taken care of. Eventually here's what we put together
a Tahoe (w/ 14k lb winch and snatch block) and 2 Jeeps (w/ 10000 lb winches) as winch vehicles and 2 F-250s and a Silverado as a deadman anchor to each winch truck. We lost the Tahoe's winch halfway through the pull, so we repositioned the two jeeps and started pulling again. Shortly after the two anchr truck on the jeeps started pulling also and she popped right out. A successful day. Enjoy the pics!
I figured I'd go over and give him a quick tug and be on my way. I slipped the truck in low range and engaged the front axle, as I started tracking out towards the lake victim I started to get worried about the ground I was driving on. I stopped about 75 yds away to asses the situation further and after further inspection I decided against my better judgement to attempt to pull him "I just got this thing, I shouldn't but I really wanna pull him with it." Stupid!
I jumped back back in the truck and pulled up and around to back in for the pull. As soon as I stopped backing up I felt the front end sink about a foot. I put it in first and tried to ease up out of it and she just went deeper. That's where she sat. The whole surface now looked like a trampoline and when you broke through it was soupy, sandy, clay underneath. I attempted extraction multiple times between classes over the next couple of days, but couldn't get it by myself. I didn't know many people up here as I'm living here in Oxford while I'm going to school so I had to make plans for Saturday with friends and their friends to get the right equipment for the job and get it done.
Finally after a long rainy week Saturday came and I found myself at the lake with a party of 10 that turned into 50+ people by the time it was said and done. Awesome! We started getting our rigging together and deciding who was going to have what job. I had dug out the front axle while waiting on people first thing so that was taken care of. Eventually here's what we put together
a Tahoe (w/ 14k lb winch and snatch block) and 2 Jeeps (w/ 10000 lb winches) as winch vehicles and 2 F-250s and a Silverado as a deadman anchor to each winch truck. We lost the Tahoe's winch halfway through the pull, so we repositioned the two jeeps and started pulling again. Shortly after the two anchr truck on the jeeps started pulling also and she popped right out. A successful day. Enjoy the pics!
