Pulling someone with a stock Tacoma.

Would it be advisable to pull a small dump truck with a chain using a stock 2006 Tacoma with no attach points added and are there points to attach to the rear?

 

I mean you do you, but I'm not sure you will get many recommendations.

How small is the dump truck? If it's like a 2500 or 3500 I probably would do it and break something on my truck.

I've yoinked a few vehicles out using something on the back of the truck (maybe near the tow hitch) and it seems to have reacted fine.

 

Would you know if there are points on the rear to add an attachment point if in the future I ever wanted to pull a smaller vehicle?

 

Hitch receiver d ring

 

It looked like a 2500 dump truck, he got stuck in the mud trying to rescue a large pickup truck towing a horse trailer that also got stuck in the mud in a grass parking lot at a State Park.

 

OK, REDdawn6 AND
DoorDing I will look into your suggestions, you never know when it will be needed.

 

I had a 1984 Nissan 4X4 with a 4 cylinder 5 speed and I pulled a 4 door Buick out of a swimming pool. I did need a new clutch a few weeks later, however.

 

The ground was so soft with the melting snow, I just pictured also getting stuck in front of the 2500, Thanks for the advice.

 

I quit doing tow strap recoveries for strangers a long time ago, for the simple fact that I don't want my truck strapped to another vehicle with an idiot at the wheel. The experience that settled that in my mind was when I tried to help out a guy who was stuck in snow on a narrow mountain road with at least a 200 foot drop off the road. I gave him explicit instructions on what I wanted him to do, but the minute his truck started moving he stomped the gas, lost control, and almost went over the edge. On that slick surface, I don't know that I would have had enough traction to hold him, and we both could have gone over. I got out, unhooked my strap and left him there.

 

Being a hero is way over rated LOL.

 

Right, I get it. Right off, anyone out driving in bad weather should be wearing good shoes. His level of judgement was pretty evident. I used to feel it was my responsibility to help people that I found like that, but most of the time these jokers are in that predicament because of really bad choices. Maybe if they have to face the consequences of said choices, they will do better next time. Or not. Not my problem. I still occasionally do help out people who are having trouble, but only if my risk is zero, and I feel they are there despite the best planning.

 

thank you for that. that was immensely entertaining.

 

Tried to help a guy stuck in a storm out here once; was looking for a recovery point on his car (don't remember what it was), he was spinning his tires like crazy and I asked him to stop so I could look for a place to hook up my strap. Started to look under the bumper on front and the idiot floored it again, luckily his car still didnt go anywhere and my head/hands weren't next to his wheels. I simply got up, walked to my truck and drove away with him looking at me all puzzled.

 

If you have a hitch and a strap, use the hitch pin to secure the strap inside the hitch. You can use that instead of buying the D ring shackle mount for your receiver.

 

Sometimes even very large vehicles only need the slightest tug to allow them to get themselves out. There are ways to do this safely with a kinetic strap, proper attachment points, and some creativity.

 

On the rare occasion that I help people now, I make two things crystal clear:
1. I am not responsible for damage to their vehicle in the process of getting them extracted.
2. They will do EXACTLY what I tell them to, with NO deviation, or I am walking. Period

They either agree, or find another way out. If I detect any attitude about it, I'm gone. Neither point is debatable, and if they think I'm an ass then that's fine too. All I want to hear is "yes sir". The experience I described came very close to possibly costing me my life. I have had plenty of others that got sketchy. The problem is that capable and prepared people are a lot less likely to need help in the first place. Dumb ass people always have their thumb out.

 

Step one of a recovery is making it clear who's in charge of it, and if I stumble across your ass in need of help it's me.

 

I totally agree with you. morons out there.

 

agree with the actual mechanics of towing being safe. The problem is is the driver.

 

For short distances, with common sense a lot is possible. In 1976 I pulled an empty 18 wheeler out of a shallow ditch he was stuck in with a 1968 IH Scout. Weight was about 30,000 lbs. But like said earlier he only needed a little help to get moving. Two years ago I pulled an F-250 and loaded stock trailer up a hill that he was stranded on with my Tacoma