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Fortunately, I didn't get stuck but I was scared that I was going to:



Good ole fashion bad parking put me into the mud. Sank the trailer tires when I fell off the pad in the back. Had to use boards to get pulled back onto.

When the campground staff came around, I asked what I needed to do to make it right. She smiled, said it was fine, and told me that another camper had it worse- he needed something to pull him out.

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 was thinking the same. I have never charged pulling people with my tractors or 4x4 trucks. Never asked but if offered a donation I usually took it.

Ever stuck you ask? Well duh, of course! (Enthusiastically waves hand.)

One camping weekend way back in time when I was new to our longer 29' TT I went to a local CG ahead of DW who came later after work. Found a fantastic site along the waterfront road. Couldn't ask for a better site anywhere on the planet and could watch the sun go down, mere feet from the ocean. Getting into the site was going to be a challenge, but heck, there's never a challenge to great for me, lol. Heavily treed CG and they can't trim trees because it's on native land or it's gov't owned foreshore. To get into the site, I had to back part way in and then unhitch, straighten and realign the truck then get the TT fully into place. Wow, what a site!! Waay, waay cool!!

Had a fantastic weekend. Even had some friends on the site directly behind us who managed to snag it before the rest of the hoards arrived at the CG. Took our campfire in a can down to the water's edge one night - very nice! So after all packed up and ready to pull out and head home, I scope things out and decide, nah, I can pull out and get going without having to unhitch part way out and straighten out. So I as I'm pulling out (slowly) I start to realize thing's are suddenly not looking good. With the DW outside relaying instructions to me over the walkie-talkie, I managed to twitch the steering wheel the wrong way and ended up wedging the TT an inch away from a tree at the front and an inch away from a tree at the rear. I was stucker than stuck. OH S@#T as they say... :(

Fortunately (extremely) the CG had their own backhoe, so the maintenance guy came over and dragged the front of the TT sideways to dislodge us - with at least 1/2 the CG standing around gawking at us. You could hear them muttering things like "how the heck did he get that stuck" and "I guess he wasn't awake yet"... Thanks, pffft.

That was a number of years ago and am now watcha call an EXPERT, so know that if you can't back into a site in one go, you don't pull out in one go. ;)

As a good ol' boy friend of mine says, if you haven't gotten stuck in 4wd, you haven't gone in deep enough...

It is good to read people using 4wd correctly - meaning, 2wd until you are stuck, then 4wd to get you out... but don't keep going in deeper!

Reminds me of the Indy 500 a couple yrs ago. People were getting towed into the campground and then a few days later after the race and daily rains most were getting towed out. Green was your best friend that year because that was all there was to get any traction on. A lot of people being neighborly and helping each other.

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.

It really was fun to watch. In the case of the truck and 5er pictured, they had to keep adding tractors until they were able to get the rig across the field.

I had to get pulled twice. In the morning they pulled us to higher ground but I still got stuck and had to be pulled again in the afternoon.

I don't blame someone charging for their service but at the Farm Festival they already had a fleet of tractors. They pulled us all for free.

Some of the best summer memories as a kid in Bermuda were being taken to the beach on Sundays & watching people get stuck in the sand. No such thing as a designated paved parking area back then. No such thing as 4WD or AWD cars then either. Even an automatic was rare. Lots of people had no clue of how to use a clutch in soft very fine grained sand.

Some good stories come out of misfortune.

When I was young my parents lived near the county fairgrounds. Had some kind of event one weekend where it absolutely poured for three days. Everybody was stuck. Tractors pulled what the could, then they switched to dozers. At least a couple dozen campers were left behind until the following weekend. It took years for them to get the place smooth and covered in grass again.

So I am backing into the last spot available. Kid keeps waving me back but it gets harder to move so I stop n place in 4low. I keep backing then get out to do my unhitching. I walked to passenger side and went WTF!!!

They had just finished graveling this spot that had a bad water leak so the ground under the fresh gravel was MUSH.

I contacted them later the next am since we left early am and they gave my CC a 50% credit. I was NOT happy.

I'm in the pay-it-forward "camp".
I've pulled people, jump-started, given them gas, loaned tires and changed flats. Never accepted a dime for it. I figure it'll all come back to me sometime.

BTW Vee, We go to OSH EVERY year. It pours down rain at least one day/night during EAA. Sleepy Hollow Farm turns into a bog, especially the "back 40".