NJ B.S. Thread

Just to recap quickly for those who were wondering how today went:

Lloyd - winched himself out probably 5x
Pat - winched himself out once (twice?)
Jim - got pulled out a few times
Jeremy - subject of "the downhill recovery"
Sebastian - got pulled out (I think?)
Dan - ? - made it under a tree he didn't think he could
Me - got winched out by Dan

Easily spent twice as much time recovering as moving but still an awesome, hilarious, memory-making day

 

Fixed.



Trimmed to fit. Aerodynamic. Should last long enough for me to find a nice piece of plywood in my scrap wood stash.

 

Broken, bashed, gouged, shattered, or dented:

Taillight
Driveshaft
Bedsides
Side mirror
Rear quarter glass of Leer cap
Bedsides
Rear qtr
Fender

 

bumper? who damaged a bumper
don't forget the jeeb fender

 

@Roody ’s bumper got “pushed” in

 

And I'm pretty sure that at some point every single one of us stepped somewhere we thought was solid ground only to have our foot/feet fall through the snow into what felt like it could be straight into the underworld

 

I think we logged 6 total miles in 10 hours.

Always a great day when everyone has a blast helping everyone recover and when everyone makes it home without missing any limbs or other body parts.

 

Did it? I didn't think it did, at least...which bumper? I pushed my left rear quarter panel in a bit but otherwise no body damage

 

Sideways pull.
Against gravity.
Against snow.
Against fall line.

Attachment point is slider via soft shackle
Tree is natural truck chock



Prior to this, to get to the above point, we winched Jeremy off-angle using a snatch block to get him off a tree on his drivers side.

 

I thought you said bumper. I guess it was rear qtr

 

Tree on passenger side is what killed my side view mirror.

Truck is literally squeezed between the two trees.

Winching was to prevent the truck from squirreling sideways.

Note the foot deep powder/snow masking the terrain in front of the truck. We were dealing with this shit all day.

What a blast!!!!



Another (different) pair of trees

 

Spent more time on this quarter mile stretch than we did on like 4 of the 6 miles we ran haha

Meanwhile Pat managed the world's most complicated u-turn with the highest number of points ever witnessed

 

Do you have a synthetic line on that winch?

 

Yup

 

Nope. Not pulled out.... 3rd gen kicked ass!

Busted a tail light and dented a bed side...

 

Path under tree was 40-ish degrees off camber, with solid smooth rock underneath snow/ice. Lots of room to go wide, but the off-camber rock face kept trying to slide us into the tree.

Cleared the tree with half inch to spare.

 

Show off

 

That’s a nice pic. Truck looks good without even trying.

 

Sounds like a rough day. But hey, it's just more recovery practice I suppose.

 

Floyd loves to quote himself....
It makes his excessive posting even harder to scroll through