Posts Tagged ‘mud’

Fail Hard: Stuck in the mud

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

This story takes place in the same area as the Stuck in the Snow story. This time it was summer, and I wasn’t in a truck, I was on a 3-wheeler that I bought for $250. Now 3-wheelers were banned for a reason, they are unsafe…blah, blah, blah. But this time, it was my own stupidity that caused this fail. It was Sunday and while still in my church clothes I decided to take the 3-wheeler out for a quick spin. Nobody would service these things so it had it’s problems, but the biggest problem was no tire tread. The tires were all bald, but it made it easy to do burnouts on. It also made it impossible to traverse mud with it.

Knowing fully about my tire situation, I decide to tackle some mud. Turns out it’s the kind of mud that sucks you down as soon as you get in it. This 3-wheeler was now up to it’s axles in mud. Me, I’ve got my nice church clothes on and no cell phone on me. Time to jump in the mud and start pulling. It took roughly 30 minutes of tugging and pulling and getting nowhere before someone happened to drive by and pulled it out with their 4-wheeler. On the way down, the caked on mud was flung every which way until I was completely covered. Church clothes ruined, and no lesson learned as I tried again later to go through mud, but faster this time! It was mostly successful except for the thing tipping over upon exit.

-Trent

Fail Hard: Stuck in the Snow

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

This one is great because I wasn’t the only one who failed here. I prefer to fail in groups. Anyway, it was a snowy day several years back and being bored, I decided to go off-roading in a nearby canyon. The truck I was in was completely stock and was not known for off-road prowess, but I was determined! Determination + stupid idea always = fail. This was no exception.

After tackling a couple small hills that had snow maybe 2-ft. deep and almost getting stuck a few times, I thought about heading back home. Instead, I pressed on going further up a hill into deeper snow. Yup, got stuck. No big deal because I had a shovel handy. After digging for a long, long time and getting nowhere, I called my step-brother. The same one from the belt fail story. He had a truck that was smaller than the truck I was in, but it had the factory off-road package, a lift, better tires, etc. He had no problem getting to me. He strapped a chain to the tow hook on my truck and to the tow hook on his and gave it a gentle tug. Nothing. The spinning of his tires started making it icy and he could get traction in that spot anymore. So he got some slack in the chain and tried yanking the truck out, nothing. I knew this was a bad idea, but I wanted this truck out and it was freezing. So he gets up to my bumper and floors it in reverse. SNAP! The tow hook rips off my truck and the chain ricochets back towards my step-brother’s truck and cracks the windshield, dents the fenders, hood, bumper, and…got the truck loose. Hooray, I was free! My step-brother…pissed! Did I learn my lesson, yes…bring more friends to help dig next time.

-Trent