Getting truck stuck in mudd out

A bit too much of a run, on the other hand...

 

Looks like another Swift driver got his truck stuck in the mud lol

 

good idea, but the problem I forsee is the steers droping down. eventually they would come up but it would take a bunch of jacking. although not sure really on how far the steers would drop down while jacking though. i'll probably give this a try anyways. i know if i juck my pick up truck up for instance the steer tires would drop down quit a bit verses jacking right at the axle that is.

 

Havn't tried anything else as of date. it's rained quite a bit this last week so waiting for it to dry up.

 

right, t

right, this is is one of my top 3 choices so far. ill have to get some heavy duty rope with the snatch and come along and the rope would have to be at least 120 feet long im thinking since the nearest tree is around 100 feet away.

 

is there a farm nearby? A good medium/heavy agricultural tractor would do the trick. Farmers are usually pretty reasonable, rate wise. most won't take anything to help someone out.

 

that's exactly what i was thinking. digging a trench 12" wide 8 or more inches deep with a shovel so that you could get a 2x12x8 piece of wood in it it drive up onto, i'm tuff and somewhat young but dang as you said that would be a bunch of labor intensive work, one of those deals I would rather shell out the money to get someone else to do it to save my back lol. it's funny about a week ago I got a company truck stuck and had to get a tow truck to winch me out and it took around 10 minutes to get it done. i said well how much do i owe you he said $350 bucks, i said you're kidding you just hooked up a winch and pulled a little handle down and it only took 10 freaking minutes. i've had trucks towed 70 miles for $450 before which took way more time and effort.. he said well how much do you want to pay, I said how bout $250 and he called someone himhaud around and said ok will take that.. it came out of the company's pocket but i figure whenever i get the chance i should take advantage of it and work on my "negotiating skills" lol and help out my company. people will take advantage of you if you let them a lot of the times. but anyways the point of that story is im somewhat aware of how much they'll charge you to winch it out. so i have somewhat of an accurate figure to figure the cost to benefit ration of doing it myself.

 

you think 18 inches would be long enough. I was wondering how long to cutt them, sounds about right to me. thanks.

 

i used 18 inches as a example 2x6 so you would have 3boards going one way 3 going the other to make your mat so 18 inches square. although Finnish cut lumber would be more like 16.5 but you could make them as big as you want but too big you might have trouble with the tires getting in the way or having your jack off center on the mat pushing on one side more than the other

 

Yeah im sure your right. sometimes it's just not a good idea to try and save a penny. I haven't quite figured out when those circumstances are good circumstances to use that but like you said this is probably one of those scenarios. and i probably would pay a tow truck to do it but as i stated in a previous reply i don't think a tow truck would drive down my drive right now as there's some mud holes on it. there pretty etchy about where they'll take those rigs..