Well today started nice. Went to home depot to get a box of 1/4" nuts and bolts, and a few tiny size for my radios.
We had a tree section was in front of a bridge going to a back trail so I decided to move it. No problem moving it, it was what came next that turned into two hours and several chains.
http://youtu.be/pnl3ZscrKF8
Going through the ditch and the ground gave out and the truck bottomed out. Ended up doing the chains around the duals trick again after several attempts of putting boards down and just snapping them like twigs.
First attempt tow strap snapped and flew back towards the truck, luckily the chain weighed it down and it landed under the truck. The tow strap was being used as a tree saver. You'll notice the truck wanting to die out, I was running on empty, forgot to switch the tank over to the full one. Trying to drain the tanks so I can clean them out, 50 gallons to go
http://youtu.be/UIXiXXZa4u4
Got about 50' feet of chain and rapped it around the tree and pulled myself out. Wife didn't record it, would have been a good video as the last one I was knee deep in muddy water.
Good thing I haven't started the seal job yet, although it wasn't mud or water, just compacted dirt.
I did notice a class 2 leak that I need to investigate. Was forming on the transmission crossmember.
You can see me carrying the high lift jack back to the truck in one of the pics. Note to mv owners, high lift doesn't like lifting the front end of a 818. Neighbor got his 3 ton jack and gave it a shot, once I noticed it was 3 tons I stopped him as I didn't want to break his jack. We tried to get my 20 ton under the bumper but it was a no go.
Forgot to say this. I am really amazed at the little community in my neighborhood. Wife went and asked the neighbor for help and wouldn't you know it a bunch of people showed up and offered help. When we got it out I offered compensation and nobody wanted anything.
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Got home, cooled down, took a shower and then put my other antenna on the truck and bolted the plgr antenna on. Still waiting on the rear support for it but I wanted to see what they looked like. It looks nice IMHO, but I'm a ham so porcupines looks sexy to me, lol
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