| Author | Message | ||
     EricV (Bender2033) Member Username: Bender2033 Post Number: 124 Registered: 08-2002 |
Here are some pictures of yesterday's antics! I had to pull the Z71 out 3 times!  | ||
| EricV (Bender2033) Member Username: Bender2033 Post Number: 125 Registered: 08-2002 |
Z71 Pull Number 1: ================== Me: Are you in 4-Lo? Z71: Uhhhh ... *click* I am now. Me: Doh!  | ||
| EricV (Bender2033) Member Username: Bender2033 Post Number: 126 Registered: 08-2002 |
Z71 Pull Number 2: ================== Z71: This just isn't my day Me: Try to stay in the center, away from the soft curb This was a bit more difficult since the trucks were perpendicular to one another.  I didn't get any pictures of the third recovery ... I pulled him all the way out too solid ground. My brother-in-law arrived at about this time in his Impreza OBS and decided to go where the Z71 had gone. The Scooby only got stuck once. Good driving goes along way (and a lighter vehicle).  | ||
| Tom V (Cozmo) Member Username: Cozmo Post Number: 108 Registered: 09-2002 |
Note to self, If person with camera stops to offer help him you're okay, don't need help, thanks anyway. | ||
| EricV (Bender2033) Member Username: Bender2033 Post Number: 127 Registered: 08-2002 |
Note to Tom: Having a picture taken is a lot cheaper than paying for a tow truck.  | ||
| John Kruger (Johnnyk) Member Username: Johnnyk Post Number: 163 Registered: 02-2002 |
I pulled an Expedition out of the snow last weekend, but no pictures to go along with it. Always help the motorist in need. John | ||
| Kevin Howell (Kevinhowell) New Member Username: Kevinhowell Post Number: 3 Registered: 02-2003 |
where were these pictures taken? it's beautiful. i'm in bfe, texas, so i'm slightly taken aback by the lack of tumbleweeds. | ||
| EricV (Bender2033) Member Username: Bender2033 Post Number: 128 Registered: 08-2002 |
Kevin, they were taken at a new housing development in central Virginia. | ||
| Tom V (Cozmo) Member Username: Cozmo Post Number: 111 Registered: 09-2002 |
Eric you can't put a price on male pride | ||
| EricV (Bender2033) Member Username: Bender2033 Post Number: 131 Registered: 08-2002 |
Tom, I was discreet. Notice no faces and no license plates. | ||
| Kevin Howell (Kevinhowell) New Member Username: Kevinhowell Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2003 |
o.k., one more stupid question from me, since snow is a rarity here. it appears as though you may have chains on your tires. what is on the tires of the vehicles you recovered, some sort of tan skin for better snow traction, which doesn't seem to work so well? | ||
| Chris Marcel (Gumarcel) Member Username: Gumarcel Post Number: 90 Registered: 11-2002 |
the tan skin i would bet is mud... | ||
| EricV (Bender2033) Member Username: Bender2033 Post Number: 134 Registered: 08-2002 |
Kevin, The tan skin is mud. The tires on the truck have a road tread that just fills with mud and becomes completely slick and useless. I don't have chains, just much more aggressive tires that clear the mud out. It also helps that I didn't get to the muddy part. | ||
| Kevin Howell (Kevinhowell) New Member Username: Kevinhowell Post Number: 5 Registered: 02-2003 |
mud, huh? doh! there seemed a perfect symetrical line where it went from black to brown, so i assumed some type of snowskin for the tire. once again, we don't get it much here, so you could've fed me most any line of b.s. and i would have believed it. additionally, our mud is more of a turd brown here as opposed to the creme de la muave you seem to have there, hahahaha. well, back to my dust, rocks, and tumbleweeds. |
