In the mud
 

I'm working two Mi-Grid installations just before Christmas. Both are high end homes, but huge mud holes. Texas dirt down here is all very fine clay. When it does absorb water, it turns to mush.

My New 2017 F250 4x4 sunk 18 inches into that stuff. Had to have a AAA extraction!

Yeah, nasty stuff our "dirt" around here, and it's certainly soggy right now. At least it wasn't 40° while you were waiting and trying to get it out, but I have to say, this 70° and 80° stuff like we had today was warmer than I want right now. I'm pining for the days of 50° in the morning and 65° in the afternoon.

I don't have a ton of experience with trucks and being stuck, but I've heart about letting air out of your tires for driving on sand, does that help on mud too? Obviously, if you have to reduce your pressure to 5 or 10 psi, but you don't have a tank or compressor, that's not an option, but was just curious.

The issue was it was so soft, I sunk to the bottom of the truck on the right side. I'm kinda of irritated the home owner doesn't have the drive way covered in caliche. She had about 50 feet of 1500 done.

Get a 4X4. That way, you can get farther from help before you get stuck...

It IS a 4X4!

The AA guys did say, "I'm not getting any closer!"

The winch cable barely made it. I also had to drive it in 4x4 low while he pulled.

You're not really stuck good until you have to have a dozer come pull you out...

Your not stuck, till your Unimog stuck! Had to pull my buddy out with my truck when he could not find the bottom of a deep hole! Remember the tires on a mog are 43" tall!

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My son is in the Marine Reserves. He drives the CO in an uparmored Humvee.

Last year during training the MTVR's couldn't get through so they decided to turn around. As he was turning around his CO had him back right into a mudhole where he was thoroughly stuck. Two of the MTVR's got stuck as well.

Everyone was covered in mud for the rest of the weekend.

It was interesting to me that their humvees don't have central tire inflation - I thought that was standard on the military humvess.

I tried rescuing a young kid and his family camping and buried my F350 4x4 up to about midway on the drivers door. Had to get towed out as well.

They are so heavy they just aren’t good in the mud...

damn..it's the cleaning afterward that really will cheer you up.

the poor coin operated car wash owner..he is gonna hate you. i hate mud.

Long ago when I was 15 and learning to drive I learned off road in a home made VW "dune buggy" or mud buggy that my brother and I made. We had a set of dual rear tires on it and it was light. We could drive across the top of mud and not sink in. The front tires were large as well and we could let all the air out of the tires and the tires never really went flat.

We were playing in a mud hole area that was once a prison back in the 50s. A National Guard private was taking a Deuce and a half back to the armory and figured he cold come play in the mud. That thing just sank like a rock. It was buried deep. We drove right up to his stuck ass and he hopped on the back of our buggy and we took him to a phone booth. I bet he was on KP for a long time. They had to use a huge wrecker to get him out. We drove around on top of the mud having fun as a lot of men worked to get that thing out.

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LOL, about a million years ago I was on a job in El Centro.

We had a Sunday off and cruised up to Glamis 'cause there was nothing better to do. It was El Centro for Pete's sake.
One of our competitors tagged along in his new service truck, complete with service bed full of tools (2 wheel drive dually). Heavy tools.
Kinda like an older version of this:
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We sat there on the end of the pavement and watched everyone else having fun with their sand toys and our competitor could barely stand it.

One of my co-workers got that evil look and said, " hey you know you can go out there just like they can. you have 6 wheels and a big truck, there's no reason you can't tear it up like they are".
I just snickered.

With a little more prodding, they guy jumped in his new truck and floored it into the sand, only to sink up to the door in seconds.
I have no idea how he got that 8000+ lb. truck out, I had other places to be ;)

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I sung a case 380 excavator in a hidden foundation on our farm while laying a pipe for a pond overflow. Could lift it with the boom but not push it back enough to get out. Little help from a big wrecker and all was good. Not proud


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30 minutes with a power washer on the driveway. SmileWavy

I got stuck once. Sunk to the frame. Neibour came to pull me out with his tractor. Sunk it. He went and got his 4 wheel drive tractor and sunk it. He walked home and made a phone call. 20 minutes later this showed up and pulled all 3 of us out at once.

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No pictures!?

Sunk a hemtt... Headache

Vintage stuck picture... A buddy of mine with a Suburban on 42s back in ~1993:

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...or a wrecker :). Purchased a new Jeep CJ5 with my hard earned bucks back in hs....immediately joined in on the fun going on at the local "mud bogs"...what a hoot it was!