Again, I would not condone this, as I myself would want to see where the recovery rope / strap etc was attached to my vehicle, and also the vehicle I was recovering, as well as checking ground conditions, run off route, hidden obstructions conditions of the rope / strap etc.
No. I have no sense of humor what so ever. None.
I may have put a little bit too much faith in the people whom hooked the snatch strap to my hitch. Well, hell it worked, so maybe I didn't. I wasn't too terribly concerned with their vehicles.
Mind you this was at night and off-roading was not the main purpose of the trip. The main purpose was to get out to the bonfire. This also was all after dark.
Lets paint a picture here. Your out in the flats(I.E. its fairly flat with lots of sand, and goopy ass mud) right beside the bay. To the far left you have a fence. To the right of the fence you have a thin trail, to the right of that you have some thick brush and trees, to the right of that you have the "bottomless mud pit", and to the right of that is the bay. Move forward and right a little you have a series of ditches filled with water and patches of deep mud. The majority of this area was actually submerged under an inch or two of water. The depth and mud content of these ditches varries from extremely shallow and hard packed to a few feet deep and full of bad-ass mud. There is one winding path to get through this area to the trail. You had to be familiar with the area to know where this path was. Image trying to navigate this at night. I was very familiar with this area having been there multiple times when in was completely dry. I still managed to screw up once though.
This is a two year old image of the area when it was "dry". Its changed some since then
I'm sitting at the bonfire about 100-150 yards away on the other side of the trail watching people trying to go through what was described above and waiting for them to call me to get them unstuck. I was the only other truck there for a while.
The guy in the 2wd ford was unfamiliar with the area, went the wrong way, and end up with his rear-end in a ditch. The water was up to his tail lights. They had tied a snatch strap around something underneath the front of the ford by the time I had got there and turned around. They just hooked the loop of the snatch strap around the hitch on my Disco. This was not the most intelligent thing ever, but I wasn't planning on pulling too hard so I let it slide. I was sitting on the relatively firm ground at the start of the trail, it was starting to become slick from the constant splashing of the trucks going through. I pulled the strap tight, and waited for him to get ready. When I got the signal from him I gave it a little gas and it pulled right out. The mud wasn't too terribly bad in that ditch because later that night I accidentally hit the same place he got stuck and was able to get out.
First time with the Dodge went about the same, except I pulled him out backwards.
The second time with the Dodge was a little harder. He had actually buried the front down in the worst place possible like an idiot. The first time I tried to pull him all I did was spin. I stopped, put the CDL on and some how some slack end up in the snatch strap. I ended up jerking him pretty good and he popped out.
@The "Where did I call you a liar" in an above post. You posted an image with the text that read "This thread is unless without pictures". Which suggests that I am lying about what happen in this thread, that is unless I completely misunderstood what you meant by it.
