Any confessions? (Stuck in the mud)

“The camper was driving there at night.”

So? Pull off, stay the night, resume travel in the daylight. That’s why he has a TC.

Soo easy to be judgmental when we weren't there to witness what happened in person.





This is stuck. You don't want to bury a snowcat miles from nowhere in the middle of the night. :B

Matt might have even struggled recovering this one.

ajriding wrote:


Why post this?

Read the title .
Adamis is seeking camper driver between forum members.
With the comments the topic is getting, slim chance he will come forward even if he is here.
On the video Matt used original Yankum rope, but since then Yankum makes yellow ropes with Matt's sponsoring the name. You can google it for preorder under Matt's recovery rope.
Static 6,000 Ibs Max Static Weight, MBS 25,600 lbs
Enough to stop Jeep in its run for sure.

St George UT area, aka Zion, the dirt is clay, and when wet is slicker than snot and no traction and not enough rock or sand in the mix to get any traction. A heavy rig like that has no chance, and we assume no locking diffs either...

Why post this?

adamis wrote:
So... Any of us have a confession to make?

Stuck in the mud...

I'm impressed they could even make a call from that far out. Have you ever been this stick before and what did you do to get out assuming you didn't call Matt?

I buried a '67 chevy 2wd truck with a brand new 1972 8' truck camper. The camper was a few weeks old. Back then most of my state/COE campgrounds were dirt trails dozed around a area with picnic tables where they wanted people to park.
A sudden squall line built just NW of the COE lake we were fishing on, resulting in a huge amount of rain in 30 mins with 70 mph winds. The boat was in the water so no way we had time to pack up/load the boat on the trailer and make a run for pavement about 3/4 miles away.
Next morning we got'er ready to leave for home. I made 2' before the truck settled on the axles.
Someone got a local rancher with a big green tractor to help with stuck vehicles. He even backed boat trailers down the dirt boat ramp so we could load our boats...and never charged any thing and wouldn't take what we offered.
I've been stuck other times back then but never where I couldn't work/dig myself out.

I subscribe to Matt's you tube. Hell even he gets stuck...but I sure would call him a name.

Only an idiot would have taken that line with that rig.

That camper looks heavy for that truck

Oh yeah, all 14,000 glorious lbs, up to the differential, tie downs and running boards. Many, many miles off the beaten path in the SW desert. We came to a deep muddy puddle that covered the whole dirt road. We saw that others had gone around on slightly higher ground at some point in the past. Well, turns out that was probably the worse of the 2 routes...Nothing but soft muddy ground.

The 4 of us tried to dig out, used our blocks, dead brush under tires. No use, all too slippery. We spent the night and tried again in the a.m. Over many hours we ended up collecting every rock and piece of gravel we could find, in a place that was 95% dirt, dug out some more to make a more shallow escape "ramp" in front of each tire, lined those areas with the rocks for traction. That finally worked.
Learned our lesson on that one, maybe...Feel bad about the torn up terrain though. Thankfully not much vegetation to damage.

what surprised me was how he used the elasticity of the rope and gave it a hard jerk. I was sort of panicked when he started rolling, thinking he was going to snap the rope or pull the hitch point off. Very impressive result though.

No wonder the driver doesn't want to confess