most intresting Oh **** moment off road?

[rpenner54]

Hey all who has had intresting moments off-road? What was your most crap your own pants moment? Mine was when Rick, Matt and I were pre-running Moab and I was in a waterhole thingy and Dan Mick was coming at me one way and I was going the other. I came up and out of it crooked and I could feel the dang vehicle wanting to go over but I just kept on it and got out as quick as possible avoiding the roll-over. I know Rick and or Matt has some pics but I don't so whoever has a good story with pics post it! If you don't have pics write it! They are always intresting to read thats for sure!

 

[mattadams]

Ryan, here's the image of you...

Your right though, it isn't the best picture...
my worst one was on the same trip, and you heard my terror on the CB but no one got to see it. I was the last in line, forget what trail we were on but I know I took the wrong line around something, went to far to the right and was pretty off-camber. I didn't realize just how off-camber until I felt the right side lift up in the air (it was probably about a half-inch but it felt like about 6"), and it stood there for a few seconds before falling back down. I was shaking pretty bad. Either that or doing poughkeepsie on ccr2000 at the one obstacle, I decided to take my own line and ended up getting way off-camber, once again felt the whole left side lift up in the air, I turned hard to the left and floored it, I still don't know if I would've tipped if I hadn't done that...

The main rule: Always follow the appropriate line, and listen to your spotter, LOL

 

[rpenner54]

Stear into the roll!

Dang I had no idea my tire lifted off the ground there. All I know is I was holding on for dear life wondering how the heck they would pull me out of that hole!

 

[Rick]

A recap of my most intense moments off-road

I need to thank Tom Davis, and Brian Kennedy and the others who helped extricate the "Great Pumpkin" from it's nearly fatal predicament!!

I was taking Collin's friend Winter for a ride letting him check out the Pumpkin's performance when I decided to follow Brian Kennedy up a cool looking hill. I should have known by the look on Brian's face that this was no ordinary trail. Brian was on the top of the ridge cambered down hill and there were lots of little rocks tumbling down the slope from under his tires. He commented on the narrowness of the trail and I thought I would try it, but stay farther to the right than he did when I got to the top. So I climb the hill with my lockers on, the hill has a sharp left turn at the top so I bear to the right a little as I give it some throttle. Suddenly the front right tire starts to climb the outside edge of the trail and the rear left tire starts to slide down the slope. I disengaged the locker, turned a little to the left to try and level the truck out and slowly let the clutch out one more time. Once again the rear end slides, this time slightly off the trail. The front end didn't steer down off the edge like I had hoped and now we were even more off camber.

Well that was it. We were stuck. Winter, was like "this is bad, we're in a bad spot" I knew he was right, but I just didn't talk about it. I called for Tom Davis to assist us with a winch. First Tom took his truck up the other side of the trail, and realized that he couldn't do much good from there. So he backed down and ran his winch line up the hill perpindicular to our truck. It was about then that I heard someone say they needed a tow strap, I just happened to have mine right behind the drivers seat so I reached back grabbed it and fed it out to Brian Kennedy. Brian, being a California Highway Patrol Officer knew just what to do to keep Winter and I calm and to kep our spirits up he said "Don't worry guys, I'm an EMT, I've got all my gear down in the truck, and if you guys roll I can get an Air Evac team out here in no time" I'm like THANKS Brian, just what we wanted to hear as we are precariously perched in the Explorer which is groaning and creaking just sitting still. I knew Brian was just using sarcastic humor, but it wasn't helping while we were stuck in the truck!!

The cable and tow strap were finally preparred after what seemed like forever and they attached it to the nerf bar. Tom tightened the cable enough to secure the truck and we started to drive forward as he pulled from the side. This worked great and after a couple pulls we were back to a level spot on top of the hill!

Everyone said, I was really quiet while this was all going on, I had a bunch of stuff going through my mind and was preparing for the worst. While I was stuck up there I kept the engine running and the transmission in gear, which of course meant I had to be mashing the brake and clutch pedal the whole time. The brake was easy to hold since my knee was bent, but my leg on the clutch started shaking since it was stretched practically straight out and the Center Force Dual Friction clutch takes more pressure to disengage, so I was literally getting "weak in the knee". My plan was that if the truck suddenly broke loose I would attempt to steer the front end down hill while giving it some gas to straighten it out. I had hoped if I was able to do this I would have been able to stop the truck mid-hill, before we crashed to the bottom, you see there was a long steep, loose slope leading to a verticle fall of about 30 feet!

Thanks again to everyone who helped out your team work payed off BIG TIME. And thanks to Brian Kennedy for trying to keep it light, but next time wait until the strap is ON the truck before you start in with the morbid humor

 

[95ExplorerLtd]

MY biggest Oh Sh*t Moment in the Explorer was when I backed it into the shop door without knowing it was down so low. Wasnt paying attention and forgot the door wasnt up all the way until I hear a thud and scraping sound. Pull forward, get out, door is bent at a horrible angle sticking out. Theres a metal crossbar at the bottom of the door, and luckily the air deflector on the back is what caught on it instead of the hatch or the roof rack. I took the bolts out of the door bar and bent it back straight, and started running and throwing my self on the outside of the door and beating it repeatedly with objects such as boat oars, shovels, etc Bolted the bar back on and looked at the air deflector. A few minor scratches in it, nothing majorly noticeable. Now I make sure the door is always up...

Biggest OSM in another vehicle was a day when me and my dad got the crazy idea to check out how the fishing was in a nearby fishing hole that nobody but us uses. Well it had been pouring rain all day, and theres red clay mixed into the mud out there. And we had to go through the mine to get back there too, so theres ALOT of dirt, mud, clay, etc. We had been struggling along in 4wheel drive trying to get back there and we were running along a trail around the edge of the highwall and all the sudden the truck slid over toward the edge. Dad cranked the wheel and floored it and we went back over toward the center again. We went back later when it wasnt raining and was more dry and we saw how close to the edge we had come, about 2.5 more feet and we would have gone about 150-200 feet onto some rocks and then into a huge mud puddle, pretty scary. Now that trail isnt in the same place anymore, so its alot safer.

 

[Diff Whack Daddy]

HARD TO SAY!

I am not sure which is the worst OSM. Heartattack Hill or the wash roll. On Heartattack, I had time to say it, do it, and wipe my a$$. In the wash roll over, I only had time to say it. I think that if I had to choose one it would be Hearattack since looking down that long hill while standing on the firewall of the truck can really make you suck up seat cushion.

 

[Brian1]

I have not really had one. Closest I have come to a OSM is when I was steering out of a muddy rut when all of a sudden the wheel finally pops out of the rut and steers right towards a huge rock. I was going about 10mph. I bet my brush guard came within a few inches of that big rock before I straightened the Explorer out avoiding the rock.

 

[mdrut]

6 years ago, going up an icey gravel hill, 3/4 ton 2wd gmc, came to a curve and truck went straight, let off the gas, when I got back on it, the truck started sliding backwards, over the side thru some small trees, and into a barb wire fence, 30 ft down the bank...three oh sh*ttiers in a matter of minutes...

 

[Anime]

sure

The Bottoms, Memphis, TN on a Saturday night....
I was hanging out on Summer ave and had taken the Explorer instead of my Rice Rocket, and got bored sitting around, so I decided to cruise for a bit. I ended up near "the bottoms" as we called it..basically just mud pits under a bridge and some trails through the woods around it. Anyway I was just goin to take the flat easy side road to get under the bridge but decided to try my luck on the pits..where the big boys with the 35-44s make the ruts. I think its pretty soft and looks alright, so I just start through the mud and ruts nice and easy..then BAM..only a few feet into it the front end goes right in a huge mud pit, the front diff gets high centered between ruts, I can hear everything getting scraped on the skid plates, and I have no winch and noone around...(Oh $#!t) I was able to do some twistin and bogging and with the help of 4wd low just kept going forward and back until I got the truck facing around to the bridge...then just crawled slow and made it up a big slope out of the pit I was in. (I was IMPRESSED..this was stock!) I took the side road out.
Went back up to Summer Ave to hang out..truck caked with mud, everyone stares.."where'd you go?"