Doug
Moderator Emeritus
- Joined
- August 30, 2001
- Messages
- 5,684
- Reaction score
- 11
- City, State
- Sykesville, MD
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2020
BenS and I went wheeling at rockaway on sunday, couple of inches of snow on the ground and fairly easy trails. We're going on this one trail that's pretty easy and we're coming to the end, round a right turn and i start to head down a hill, I didn't realize how steep and slippery it was. I slid down into a tree hitting the door and part of the body. Get down to the bottom and get out and see Ben slid into the same tree head on taking out his bumper, headlight, corner lens and fender. I break out the come a long winch him back from the tree and he slides down and gets his truck up on a rock and takes out his rocker. this is around 12:30 or so, I try to continue down the trail and side into a tree taking out my drivers side mirror and fender. We go and check out the rest of the trail and decide against trying to finish it since it was real steep and slick. Meanwhile i had been in touch with a friend of mine who was with 3 other people on quads and i was supposed to meet up with them. Ben pulls my truck backwards with his and we ended up using the come a long to get my truck back far enough to where i could move. This of course not after i managed to get 2 saplings caught between the tire and the fender and the force of me getting pulled back messed up the fender enough that i cant even open the passenger side door now. around this time my friend and his friends show up on thier quads and give us a hand. we get ben turned around and he makes an attempt on the hill we had come down and he makes it up about half way after a couple of attempts. this is around 3pm i believe after about an hour of winching him up 5ft at a time the come a long breaks! fortunantly i have a 60" highlift and we used that to get ben to the top of the hill. by this time it's starting to get dark and we havent even gotten my truck back up the hill yet. I make an attempt on the hill, slide sideways and wack my bumper on a rock bending it and damaging the head light. I try again and make it up a little bit farther. We start winching my truck up the hill and of course the locker starts making funny noises at one point but eventually went away and my alternator was acting up. It was getting to the point where i could only keep the heat on when i was on the gas while being winched up the hill. we finally get me to the top and with a little struggling make it to the top and out off the trail around 10pm. and of course the pics...
the come a long was a 20 dollar special from walmart and the plastic pulley broke and at the same time the latch that keeps it from reversing fell off. The highlift was a little bit more cumbersome to use but it worked flawlessy and didnt give us any issues.
