i still can't see why the ball joints broke

 

I think you are mistaking the axle position for the broken ball joints. I dont see any broken as both wheels are still attached to the axle.

 

are you serious? 4000+ pounds of force in shear just ripped over that axle.

everything broke.

 

ya, it just seems like they broke away from the pressure. anywho, it sucks no matter what

i looked at the fuzzy video, called how not to pull a stuck truck, and assumed i saw it hooked in a dumb place.

 

Wow... that is fairly ugly....

The two idiots trying to hang on at the beginning.. The guy in green is lucky he didn't get buried in that crap by a tire coming down on his chest.

Obviously that was attached to the bumper... Someone should have explained to the driver of the Cherokee to steer into the '******'.

 

Thats ugly however you look at it. we all have our different thoughts on thge best way to recover a stuck vehicle, but we can all agree THATS NOT THE WAY!!!!!!!!!

 

Heres the "full" full video on youtube

 

Yeah, I saw this on another forum, and I still can't believe they didn't think to pull from the back once it started lurching over to the passenger side....DOH!!! I also like the "camara man" waving them on!! Go faster....it's not my rig....serious DA!!!


I think we as a forum can learn of "what not to do" from this vid!!

 

i just watched that on another forum.

 

the biggest prob. I see is that they tried to pull it out at a right angle and if the driver of the ford knew any thing about trucks he would have had the straps attach to the front and pulled in reverse that heavy ars motor would have given him better traction when they were pulling on the rear of the jeep. just my opinion of course.

 

I've had some bad pulls, but could they have gotten at a worse angle? May as well have tried pulling it sideways.....

Anyone know how they finally got it out and what they did with it? I would have tried to leave it there and bury it and hope no one noticed .

Just kidding, but the thing is wasted!

 

Yea first off, they should have been on the same side of the creek bed(or whatever that is) where it is closer to the jeep, and should have been pulling back out the way he went in, not deeper into the sludge where the front axle was obviously buried and not going to go anywhere pleasantly!

Second I agree the diesel should have been pulling with his front end and in reverse, plus then he could see what the hell he was doing and not have to have his door open all the time!

Third, that jeep is ****ed up, the front axle and wheels being stuck in that kinda mud, not only means your pulling against dead weight that is being multiplied by the force and direction of the pull, but the mud itself is going to act like a vacuum and pull back against the tug of the truck creating even more stress on the poor 1/4 ton vehicle! Also it would help if he actually had a nice set of M/T's that would self clean instead of those A/T's that looked 70% bald!

Lastly, the retard in the green that was hanging on the back should have never been there, hes lucky he didn't get knocked out by the spinning wheel tire combo to the face(similar to a Walker Texas Ranger round house kick to the face) when he fell off and then had the nearly 4000lbs vehicle drop on him and crush him out of exhistance!

Just my Op! Thanks!

 

They didn't the axle ripped from the body on the one side that was buried and it started to spin underneath. The wheel looks tweaked because the axle is sitting on an angle.

Apparently destroying your vehicle is better than having to find shovels and spending some hours doing manual labor.

 

Maybe the guy wanted to do an axle swap and figured this was the easy way. I think I would have spent a few hours with a shovel instead of ****ing my truck though. "WHAT NOT TO DO"

 

And to top it all off the use a regular chain