Here's some of the damage we suffered as a result of our foolishness. I got off the lightest. I was winching my way up a hillside and found a tree with my right front fender. Kevin, winching up the hill pictured in that last post, snapped his right rear Ashcroft axle, and possibly did some damage to his rear ARB locker (which actually belongs to Justin Monnin, who challenged him to break it).
We couldn't get the splines of the axle out of the diff, so we decided to cut the outside end of an extra stock axle that I had with the intent of bolting it in place to keep the hub bearing together while we limped it back to the campsite. The Sawzall made it a little over a third of the way through the axle before quitting, and I smacked it with a big rock a few times to break it the rest of the way. Brian from Outback Garage in Long Island was with us, and was performing the repairs. His damage for the day was two cut sidewalls. He rode back to camp on my spare tire.
