4 wheel drive

danrclem wrote:

lawrosa wrote:
coming back from florida to NJ we got off track in WV. GPS was wrong. Well yellow line in road disappeared. Then road narrowed and turned to dirt. had to turn around. But 50 ft of truck and trailer all I found was a sloped small field off the right side of road..

I carefully backed the trailer down the slope and tried to keep in straight line. I had to go down far enough till truck nose cleared fence on other side.

Put in drive and tires started spinning immediately. Chevy has a locker rear. Eased on gas some and locker en-gauged but wheels started digging in.

Trying to get 13000 lbs moving up an incline on grass just wasn't happening.

Looked at my wife, and she looked at me and said "well?"

I reached my hand down by the floor, pulled back on the lever, I gave to truck a little gas. And away we went.

Straightened out, threw it back in 2wd and continued are trip.

Wife says " I wonder what that would of cost to have a tow find us and get us out?"

I said , " which one of us was going to walk the 2 or 3 miles to the one house we saw, or till we got a cell signal? ( Non existent in WV ) And , we are from NJ and I am not sure they would Not take kindly to knocking on their door."

" And which one of us would feel safe enough to stay with the kids?"

Times like that you wish you had a gun. ( I dont own any guns)

As a matter of fact heres the house.. My wife took a pic as we were coming back out.

More confederate flags then you can shake a stick at!!!!!

And an OUTHOUSE!!!!










With that said, Ive always had 4x4 in my trucks. If I need it once it pays for itself...period.

I'd feel safer there than I would in certain spots of quite a few big cities.