SOS stuck in Croatan NC (recovered)

Im at lejeune

 

Is that a harbor freight winch on that tow truck?!

 

I think one of them was. He had 2 i believe. @chuckers had a closer look

 

that one pic of the tow rig stuck looks like the one in the bed says "badland". Hard to believe someone operating a tow business useed the cheapest winch on the market.

That either means people severely under estimate the winches, or he buys a new one after every recovery, lol. At the rate you probably paid, he could probably afford to.

 

Sure does say badland, lol. Not sure what @chuckers paid though...

 

Lmao it sure was. A badlands 12000, and it didn’t run good at all. I gave him a smittybuilt for his troubles. He burned out the badlands winch, beat his truck up pretty good and knocked his front winch off going through a hole. Least I could do. Oh and his wife was flying around the passenger seat as he mashed it through the mud. Hell of a guy. Not many drivers would do all that

 

those recoveries are usually arm/leg/kidney prices. ain't cheap. Not only is it a big deal to get a tow truck out there, they know they got you and can charge pretty much whatever they want.

It's like what AAA charges to slim jim your car. I locked my keys in once and they charged me like $80 to slim jim it. That's about what my cheapest window to replace would have been if I smashed a window.

More important is that everyone is out and safe. It's only money... lol

 

that's damn good of you.

 

Well it didn’t cost me anything but the winch. He was stoked on it.