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You ever pull anyone out of snowy ditches?

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Old 12-05-2008 | 09:13 PM
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Stories or vids?

For some reason, it intrigues me lol
Old 12-05-2008 | 09:15 PM
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i love doing this and sometimes drive around just looking for people to tow out haha. pay it forward kinda lol
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I do it, but only if they hook it to their vehicle (where I tell them looks like a strong point) to avoid liability.

also, I'll only use tow straps. no chains, no hooks.

but, I pulled an S10 out with my buddy's jeep. he was off the road into a frozen marsh, half-sunk. lockers help alot. popped him out in a hurry.
Old 12-05-2008 | 09:39 PM
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I had to pull my buddy in a brand new Lexus out of a ditch last year at around 4a.m. He called for AAA and they said they were going to be over an hour due to the weather, so he called me. I showed up and a cop was there, and I told him I was there to pull him out of the ditch. The cop said cool and got a radio call asking about the situation, and he said...
"Cancel the tow truck, he's got a friend here to pull him out. He's got a Jeep". That was my black '98 XJ. The rest is history.

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Old 12-05-2008 | 09:45 PM
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i pulled some girl out of a ditch, she gave me her #
Old 12-05-2008 | 10:37 PM
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Pulled many cars out of ditches and snow banks.

Couple winters back came home to find my father in law had done this with the old yard plow truck





Thing hadn't had brakes for years, and using reverse to stop finally killed the transmission so the tires wouldn't even spin. Front tires were sunk in feet of snow, belly was high centerred on the transmission

Wasn't easy with the ice on the driveway but managed to yank it out with the WJ and a comealong. Have video too, but it's of the WAY wrong way to recover a vehicle. Multiple safety rules were ignored
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i have, but only for money and them hooking up.
Old 12-05-2008 | 10:43 PM
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Yes... my wife... just did it Monday...
Old 12-05-2008 | 10:46 PM
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My wife pulled me out of a couple snow banks last year. The plow on my CJ stopped gonig up and down during a realy nasty wet storm. I was really trying to push the snow as far back as I could, so every half dozen or so pushes into the bank I'd need her to pull me out of it.
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i pulled a 2wd rav4 up and over a mountain last winter.
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