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This was coming back into the storage lot where we lived 10 years ago. We had been in MB and didn't know that it rained back home. I always pulled onto the grass to get a good angle to back up. Long story short it didn't back up until the next day haha. Truck didn't have auto hubs needless to say. I went and got another truck from work and made a rope cradle to the rear axle of the trailer with a sheet of plywood under the tongue and drug the TT back far enough to where I could get the second truck hooked up and at least got that out of the way.

SidecarFlip wrote:

garysol wrote:

SidecarFlip wrote:


Used to charge 50 a pull if it wasn't a big rig. If it was a high buck MoHo, the price climbed with the value of the unit. I figured if that of they had the bucks to afford a Tiffin or whatever, they had the bucks to get pulled. Never took a sob story either. No money, there you sat.

You sure sound like a swell guy. Hopefully you never need any help from someone else. What comes around goes around.

I am actually, but Bizness is Bizness. I wasn't out there for my exercise, I was there to make money. $75,000.00 tractor and another 20 in equipment and freebies don't make payments, buy groceries pay the light bill or put diesel in the tractor.

If it was you out there stuck, I'd charge you double for the trouble...:B On second thought with your attitude, I'd have left you mired in the goo. I hear the mosquito's are wicked out there when it's hot and wet....

Been in a pinch before and paid for it. I don't expect anything for free and I don't reciprocate either.

I don't know of any upstanding businesses or decent human beings that adjust their rates depending on the price of the car that you drive. Even though you attacked my "attitude" if I saw you stuck I would still gladly lend a hand.

When it comes to paying to get towed & guess it depends on the circumstances. The pictured case was at a bluegrass festival at an upstate NY ski hill. It was all dry camping around a field. The property owner was there with his tractor & expected problems because of the rain.

We got stuck at the EAA at Oskosh. Again hay field camping & rain turned it into a mudfest in the the CG lanes. They had a couple of huge 8 wheeled John Deeres dragging people out of the muck. We got ourselves out just before the tractor arrived. Better for the promoters of such events to pay for tractors at such events & get people out happy for free than make them pay & risk them not returning to the event another year because of having to pay if the camping area turns into a mud bog.

Got stuck in a PA SP site. Rain again. By using boards I had myself within 6' of solid ground when the park small tractor happened by & a short easy pull later we were on solid ground again.

I don't think 4WD would have helped in either of those cases. A locking diff on the dually might have helped. A manual trans might have helped too. You can feel what is going on at the wheels. Oh well. I like a challenge.

garysol wrote:

SidecarFlip wrote:


Used to charge 50 a pull if it wasn't a big rig. If it was a high buck MoHo, the price climbed with the value of the unit. I figured if that of they had the bucks to afford a Tiffin or whatever, they had the bucks to get pulled. Never took a sob story either. No money, there you sat.

You sure sound like a swell guy. Hopefully you never need any help from someone else. What comes around goes around.

I am actually, but Bizness is Bizness. I wasn't out there for my exercise, I was there to make money. $75,000.00 tractor and another 20 in equipment and freebies don't make payments, buy groceries pay the light bill or put diesel in the tractor.

If it was you out there stuck, I'd charge you double for the trouble...:B On second thought with your attitude, I'd have left you mired in the goo. I hear the mosquito's are wicked out there when it's hot and wet....

Been in a pinch before and paid for it. I don't expect anything for free and I don't reciprocate either.

garysol wrote:

SidecarFlip wrote:


Used to charge 50 a pull if it wasn't a big rig. If it was a high buck MoHo, the price climbed with the value of the unit. I figured if that of they had the bucks to afford a Tiffin or whatever, they had the bucks to get pulled. Never took a sob story either. No money, there you sat.

You sure sound like a swell guy. Hopefully you never need any help from someone else. What comes around goes around.

I've pulled all kinds of vehicles out of mud and snow.
It would never occur to me to take a dime for it nor would I accept a tip.
We're always happy to just pay it forward for what we have received from others.

SidecarFlip wrote:


Used to charge 50 a pull if it wasn't a big rig. If it was a high buck MoHo, the price climbed with the value of the unit. I figured if that of they had the bucks to afford a Tiffin or whatever, they had the bucks to get pulled. Never took a sob story either. No money, there you sat.

You sure sound like a swell guy. Hopefully you never need any help from someone else. What comes around goes around.

Lwiddis wrote:
NMDriver...Hunter Liggett..that brings back memories. We only had 48s!

73-74 Assigned to the tank platoon (M60A1's) of Combat Development and Experimentation Command at Hunter Liggett. This was when they were first trying different camouflage patterns and it seemed we painted the tanks a different set of colors every few weeks.

I was back there again in 78 or 79 as an advisory with the 40th Armor (Reserve Unit) out of Ft Huachucha in M48's.

Bad pay but good times.

We went to a campground in Gettysburg about 2 years ago, forget which one it was. There was a back section that was steep narrow gravel roadway. Started spinning tires in 2wd trying to get up the hill. Had to pop it into 4wd to finish climbing the hill. Steep, windy road through trees... I wasn't backing up.

The last 2 years we went to Florida in February it was snowing as we left. We live at the bottom of the neighborhood. Took 4wd to get all that weight up the hill and out of the neighborhood and out of the cold and snow. I would have paid double to have 4wd to get out of the snow and into Florida those years!

I'm a cop and my wife is a nurse. Until this past year, all of my cruisers have been rear wheel drive. Again, bottom of the hill to get out of my neighborhood made for fun in Crown Vics. I've been glad to have 4wd for myself and my bride. When you consider all the snow emergencies that we have been able to work because we were able to get to work, the 4wd has more than paid for itself!

beemerphile1 wrote:
I've posted this before, the image isn't of my rig but I and nearly 200+ RVs had to be pulled. It was the Bob Evans Farm Festival and we were parked in a pasture for four days of rain. Fortunately on Sunday when everyone was leaving the rain stopped and sun came out.

The front FWA looks like my Kubota when I'm pulling only mine is orange instead blue, but the mud id still brown. I do a load of pressure washing, well, I did. Haven't pulled anyone in 2 years. I'm getting too old to be out there pulling but the money is always good and it's almost always cash.

Used to charge 50 a pull if it wasn't a big rig. If it was a high buck MoHo, the price climbed with the value of the unit. I figured if that of they had the bucks to afford a Tiffin or whatever, they had the bucks to get pulled. Never took a sob story either. No money, there you sat. Call AAA or Good Sam.

I've seen them buried to the point where they could step out of the coach without using the steps. That was usually a winch job with a snatch block and the tractor set sideways. I had a mid mount set up where I could cable through the bottom center of the tractor. Made pulls easy.

Always amazed me that they would actually bury themselves that far. Once the wheels spin, you are done. Anymore spinning just makes it worse, much worse and real fast.

On a good, gooey afternoon, I could make a grand or more in a few hours.

bcbouy wrote:
all of the above,plus onboard air and a puncture repair kit.freshly graded dirt roads are murder on tires.i had 2 tires puncture on me at once a few years back.worse than being stuck.someone will come along to pull you out,but nobody is going to donate a couple tires.

I live on a graded dirt road about 1.5 miles off the pavement. It's amazing what can get graded up and how it destroys tires. My wife has two cans f flat fix in her car, I have a couple too.

Off road flats are always bad. Why my kit has a bottle jack and lug wrench and of course a compressor along with everything else Been there and doe all that.