Got Stuck While Out Bear Hunting... :(

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I took my 3 year old son out bear hunting/fishing/camping for 6 days last week near Princeton Monday afternoon we had a little mishap and ended up getting stuck in the muddiest hole I have found in about 25 years we were appr 12 klms from the main road.

After an hour of digging the rear of the truck out and getting the quad/trailer off I gave up and loaded my guy onto the quad and headed out to the main road where we knocked on the door of a house and were able to call a tow truck.

45 minutes later they arrived and followed us up to the truck 1/2 hour & $150.00 later we were loaded up and heading out of the bush again.

Kicker was I almost didn't drive up this short road but I thought too myself check this last one out then we get out of the area.

Before... :)

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After... :(

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I don't think a portable winch would help much there. No trees to hook on to, and that camper look pretty heavy...Lucky you didn't roll it...

$150 ain't bad. Around here they charge you $100 before they even hook on, and that's on pavement...
 
Last time I got stuck bad offroad no tow truck would come help, so I phoned a road maintenance company nearby and rented a grader for 1 hour, cost me 75 bucks and he fixed the wrecked stretch of trail at the same time.

But a winch is the best thing to have, even a 2000lb come-along works. You can pick up or make a land anchor for when there are no trees, "Pull Pal" makes some nice ones.
 
Yes a winch would have been useful but it has been over 25 years since I have gotten myself stuck to a point where I needed one so it is definitely not cost effective.
 
Remember the days when you could give someone a 2-4 and they'd help you out of a situation? Ah well - hopefully you both will look on the time as an adventure, and even getting stuck should be remembered as part of the excitement.

I like the portable winch idea - if you add a couple 6 or 8-foot pickets and a maul, you can drive them into hard-standing ground as far as you can, a couple yards apart, angled away from your truck. Wrapping the cable around the near, then on to the far, you'll maybe be able to recover yourself. (winch should help you pull the pickets out when done, too...)
 
Logan_Lamothe said:
You can pick up or make a land anchor for when there are no trees, "Pull Pal" makes some nice ones.
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I have a pull-pal, they are great, but very heavy and take up a ton of precious cargo space. I carry a shovel now. If things are really bad and there are no trees around, I dig a hole and burry my spare tire as an anchor.


Nice stuck Camp Cook :) , you got easy at $150...lucky you had the quad too, that would have been a ####ty walk for sure.

-CZ
 
Having many times over a lot of years, winched four wheel drive trucks out of mud holes and other places that stopped up the vehicle's normal means of travel, I can assure you one thing about the situation shown.
No kind of portable anchor that you could make would hold to pull that outfit out of that mud hole. Attempting to do so would just be an excercise of frustration. Even with the cable on a solid tree, the 8,000 pound electric winches you commonly see on truck bumpers, would be very hard pressed to get that outfit out. It would take judicious use of wheels turning and cable singing to do it.
 
High lift jack - jack truck as high as it will go (4 feet), push truck off jack on direction that has better traction. Repeat as necessary.

It's not pretty and will often cause some body damage to the truck but if your are stuck miles from the road it is a good piece of kit to have around. You can also use it as a come a long if you have cables or chains.

I've used it in the past and you can move a full size truck sideways 10 feet in an hour or so.
 
Personally, I drive in in 2x and only engage the front axle if I'm getting stuck. Don't think that would have helped here, but it's a good habit to get into. 4x4 is for saving a long walk rather than just bulling through a mucky trail.
 
Camp Cook, I love that pic! Reminds me of me!! :D

I put a 12,000lb Warn on my truck this year because of the time I buried my Ford 4x4 2 years ago. Hope I nver have to use it. :p
 
Around here, forestry operations cease in early winter until the ground freezes, then they start up again. Spring rolls around...and so on. The roads they use during winter look fine come summer, but they will eat vehicles whole.
 
LOL Camp!

I cringe looking at it!

There's stuck and then there's fully loaded truck with a camper stuck!
$150.00 well spent! :D
 
You were lucky. I got stuck in a blown road (damn beavers) at my hunting camp, 75 km in the deep woods from the closest village... the truck was sucked in the mud (sort of quicksand) and didn't want to move.. GF was not able to even move the truck with her Vitara, even when swinging up the "slingshot" (dynamic sling)... needed something heavy to move it and I've been lucky enough to hook someone on CB who had a satellite phone... ended up costing 450.00 $ for a tow truck ... wich took about two hours and a half to reach me.. well, not so bad I guess..
 
Edward Teach said:
http://www.lewiswinch.com/
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Damn CGN is going to make me broke. That is the slickest thing I've seen in a while.

If it makes you feel any better CC - I got stuck bear hunting Tuesday night too. Went into an area, and stupidly decided to take a different route out - that had not been explored yet. At the bottom of a giant downhill goatpath, at night - came to a locked steel gate. Rather than billygoat back up the hill, I slept in the truck overnight, let it rain a bit to make things really fun, left at 4:45 AM when there was enough light to see - and put the truck in 4 low and crawled back up the hill - and out.

Sh!t happens. You had a way out with the quad. You weren't stuck, you were delayed. It's the call to the wife that really hurts: "honey, I won't be home tonight because...."

LH
 
That Lewis Winch needs a remote. I don't like the idea of standing beside a winch. I've seen steel winch cables break loose and they spring back towards the winch almost as fast as you can blink an eye.
 
I worked forestry, I got stuck a few times, mostly was able to find someting to hook to but I carried extra cable and snatchblocks for when I was really stuck. 150 feet on the drum and an extra 100 feet of cable + 2 lenghts of 25 foot logging chain, and then some rope. I used it all 2 times to get unstuck, once from the middle of a 'road' in a big swamp, the other time was inthe middle of the road again in an old cutblock that got burnt the year prior, really sucks when you have nothing to hook on to.

but yes the best way is not to get stuck in the first place.
 
I can't believe that is in Princeton! Wow, that looks like the great Northern Gumbo. I think you made out just great, considering you had little to no damage to the vehicle. Glad to hear everyone was safe and just a little muddy. I don't know if a winch would have helped you unless you had a few hundred feet or cable, but even then that stuff looks like it has sucked the vehicle in tight. I think you did it right, hindsight is always 20/20 . . I just can't believe that this is in the hills above Princeton!
 
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