Wall of shame

[dodge man]

Here is my truck in a sad state of affairs. The story is as follows: I am a land surveyor and was using my personal truck to finish a job. I had been across the bottom several times before in my old truck. I had traded for this Dodge during the middle of this job, and had my GMC stuck in the exact same spot about 2 month earlier. Its kind of a rough crossing, and as I was driving across it this time, I remembered I had the GPS in the bed of the truck, so I slowed down so as not to damage it. Big mistake. I could move the truck back and forth several feet, which all that did was dig it deeper.

A co worker tried to pull me out with his half ton Chevy which was a fail. He ended up going home and getting his backhoe to pull me out, which snagged me out of this mess without a problem.

Lesson learned, walk next time.

 

[sandman2234]

Nothing to be ashamed about getting stuck their the first time... but the second time I might want to question your sanity for going back...
David from jax


On a job, if you gotta go, you gotta go, so that might have been the case, but I would have come prepared (got the hoe on standby, lol)

 

[beppington]

Wider tires?

 

[dodge man]

What I should have done was taken the GPS out of the bed of the truck and put it in the cab, then I would have hit it harder and not worried about damaging the $20,000 GPS system. Its not uncommon to have to carry about 40 pounds of equipment for surveying, so its always tempting to drive in if possible. I'd been through the same spot several times and only got stuck once before, but we also had some rain since then.

Lets just say it wasn't my best moment!

 

[sandman2234]

And if I said I hadn't "been there, done that... I would be telling you a big fat lie," lol.
Glad you got out without harming the GPS unit, as that is what pays the bills, I am sure.
David from jax

 

[dusty3030]

And if I said I hadn't "been there, done that... I would be telling you a big fat lie," lol.
Glad you got out without harming the GPS unit, as that is what pays the bills, I am sure.
David from jax

I wouldn't, but then again I drive a Chevy:laughing:

 

[crashz]

Happens to us all. Imagine doing that witha an air compressor in tow and trying to back out. My truck has the scars to to prove it.

Big difference in weight between your previous long bed 1/2 ton and this beast though. Had the same issues with my father's cummins vs my 1/2 ton. I could walk through just about anything and his truck would sink like a stone. But the extra heft of the truck was a blessing when towing, pulling stuck vehicles out and plowing snow.

 

[dodge man]

On pavement in the snow, the weight doesn't hurt you so much, in the mud, it hurts you as all it want to do is sink in.

 

[jonyyuma]

Sort of likepulling your Tri-hull boat behind you and seeing the sign??"Fresh oil on road, next 10 miles? This is 20 miles from the lake, that you spent 3 hours driving to??? Result: It took many hours removing the oil and gravel from the hull...The trailer had it bound to tha axle for the rest of its life???

 

[Topkicker]

Don't feel bad. We've all been there. This is me setting helpless in my Jeep while my cusin pulled me out of the same situation. This was on Christmas Day year before last. I showed up late for Christmas dinner. My twin siss wasen't too happy. She told me I needed to grow up....NEVER!!!!!

 

[jonyyuma]

Don't feel bad. We've all been there. This is me setting helpless in my Jeep while my cusin pulled me out of the same situation.

Funny feelings about driving a jeep thru water....I had one fall off into a wash on a gravel road..The Horror of it turning up on side as it slid down??Years ago..

 

[mwb]

What I should have done was taken the GPS out of the bed of the truck and put it in the cab, then I would have hit it harder and not worried about damaging the $20,000 GPS system.

Ya! Put that HEMI to work! :cool2: Please take pictures! At least it's not my truck:laughing:

 

[Topkicker]

Funny feelings about driving a jeep thru water....I had one fall off into a wash on a gravel road..The Horror of it turning up on side as it slid down??Years ago..

Speakin of water.....

 

[jeffsw6]

What I should have done was taken the GPS out of the bed of the truck and put it in the cab, then I would have hit it harder and not worried about damaging the $20,000 GPS system.

I have pretty good cases for a lot of my band equipment. I am not saying it would survive falling out at highway speed, but the expensive stuff I have in cases made from plywood, then 1" or 2" of stiff foam, then another floating plywood case inside the foam.

The disadvantage is cases like that are really heavy but in my mind it is worth it to keep valuable equipment safe.

 

[dodge man]

My truck has the Cummins, not the hemi.

We have cases for the equipment, its just when we are using it, we rarely case it back up. This would have been one of those times we should have.

 

[toddbailey]

My truck has the Cummins, not the hemi.

We have cases for the equipment, its just when we are using it, we rarely case it back up. This would have been one of those times we should have.

Been there done that, no Field person wants to make that call to the office saying that they have dropped the instrument, thrown it out the back of the truck, its gotten ran over, or hit by a train ()!

 

[Diamondpilot]

Happens to us all. Imagine doing that witha an air compressor in tow and trying to back out. My truck has the scars to to prove it.

Big difference in weight between your previous long bed 1/2 ton and this beast though. Had the same issues with my father's cummins vs my 1/2 ton. I could walk through just about anything and his truck would sink like a stone. But the extra heft of the truck was a blessing when towing, pulling stuck vehicles out and plowing snow.

Very good point. My current Titan with lockers and factory 285 tires will go though things I would not evern consider with my F-350 Powerstroke. Titan is about 5,600# and the F-350 is 7,600#.

I would say the same about the 6 F-150's I have owned. They would go though mud and snow my 3/4 ton Dodge, 3/4 Ton Ford, my 2 1 Ton Fords, and my 1 Ton GMC would never. All of which were 4x4 and SRW (single rear wheels).

The new 1/2 tons have basically the same size tires but are lighter with much better weight distribution.

Chris

 

[jeffsw6]

I was out with a band once at my home town's fall festival, setup and ready to headline the local bar's beer garden. A local teen band was opening so I left a helper in charge and went across the creek to get some carnival food. Wasn't gone 10 minutes when a heavy thunderstorm came out of nowhere! I thought, oh, no big deal, I had a 10x10 tent over the electronic stuff, a hired tent over the stage, and a ton of tarps too.

Got back and found out that my helper freaked out and put tarps over the speakers (which are basically rainproof, we let them get rained on dozens of times a year) but he somehow failed to tarp a $3000 digital mixing console and a $800 light controller.

It took hours with a hair dryer to get all the water out. Fortunately for the helper all the stuff still worked and I had backup equipment in the trailer that day. But man, the look on his face when I walked back over and he had to tell me he let thousands of dollars of electronics get poured on, was priceless.

 

[powerstroke444e]

We all have been there I had my old 02 dodge with a cummins so deep I couldn't open the doors more than once. My lesson was don't leave it running when your walking for help it just shakes its self deeper.
Oh and I ussually don't take photo's of my nightmares.

 

[dodge man]

My co-worker shot the photo, not me.