having lived in the south for a while now, and having a dad who collects army vehicals, I have had to deal with the odd stuck vehical.
Today I was out in the jeep and while on my way back to the house I got it stuck. Damn front wheel got in a rut, and the back tires just sat there and dug themselves into the mud, leaving the rear axel setting on the dirt. It goes unsaid that at that point, it was going nowhere on its own.
My dad came down there and tried to get the winch to work. That did little good as it didn't want to work. So ofcorse being smart and well educated men, what do we do? We hit the winch with a rock ofcorse. After that, it worked a little. So we hit it with a peace of wood. It worked even more then. Later we found a brick and hit it with that. Worked even better then. At that point I theroized that if we wanted it to work correctly we needed to hit it with some super form of technology, such as a computer, or maybe another jeep. Sadly my dad would not have this and just gave up. Something about getting it out with the tractor another day.
I would not have that. Give up? What sort of red blooded american male gives up? But what was there to do? The only there left to do, well the only FREE thing left to do, use a hi-lift jack. For anyone who doesn't know what ones of these are, go to www.hi-lift.com .
I should have known better though, as my dad said good luck, and jokenly said, "let me know when you get it out." So we (we being me and a freind, who I was taking out in the jeep to show him something my dad was making) attached a chain to the jeep, then to the jack. Then another chain from the jack, to a tree. That's when everything got to be a real bitch. It took both me and my freind to move the bar of that jack to pull that jeep out of it's self dig hole. After a lot of work, a few breaks, and few buckets of blood to feed the local mosquitoes we finally had it out. But things got even better. The thing would no longer crank -_-. And it sets there to this very hour.
I'll have pictures and a update tomarrow.
Untill then, enjoy this picture from another little truck me and my dad got stuck.
