I'm handicapped. **Many Pictures**

[Lumberjack98]

Originally Posted by Brickboy240

Its a Z-71...aren't all of those 4WD?

Z-71 is just a suspension package, not 4wd. Most trucks with the Z-71 package also happen to be 4wd.

I thought you were a Chevy truck guy?

[[TASF]Maverick]

Originally Posted by Lumberjack98

Z-71 is just a suspension package, not 4wd. Most trucks with the Z-71 package also happen to be 4wd.

I thought you were a Chevy truck guy?

That's incorrect. All Z71s are K-series trucks, which means they are all 4x4s. Chevrolet would not give you an off-road package if you didn't have 4 wheel drive. There are many cases where people put the Z71 sticker on their trucks just to get the look though, so don't assume that a truck with the Z71 tag is actually a Z71.

[DigMe]

Originally Posted by ichy_trigger

Do you guys carry cameras incase you get stuck or what?...lol

Naw, they carry the cameras to take pics of the deer they shoot from the truck. The gettin-stuck pictures are just icing.

brad cook

[[TASF]Maverick]

Originally Posted by Brickboy240

Looks like only your rear tires were spinning. Why didn't you use the 4WD? Its a Z-71...aren't all of those 4WD?

- Brickboy240

PS: its 65 degrees and sunny here in Texas right now. You're in the wrong state!

haha yes it's a 4x4, and all 4 were spinning, the front left was just scraping away at ice, and the front right was digging itself in pretty well.

Originally Posted by ichy_trigger

I did the same thing last year in the middle of nowhere with 2 wheel drive. I ended up putting wood under my tires, letting the air out of my tires, jacked up my truck, and drove it off the jack. Took about an hour to get it out.

I almost tried to increase the footprint by deflating the tires a little, much like the CTIS on a Hummer, and I also have an air compressor on board so I could have just filled them right back up... but I decided against it. There was a solid sheet of ice directly in front of the truck where if I HAD gotten out on my own, the truck would've slid right down into that sign.

Originally Posted by [TASF

Overkill]That's freaky!

The one time my Jeep slid off the road due to ice was at our range at home, and it was the same deal. Feel like you're doing fine, and then you realize your car is going nowhere but says "35mph". Then, backwards you go.

I wasn't going to hit a sign though, I was going to either slide off the edge into the creek or hit the giant steel post that the gate latches onto. Yikes.

Glad it wasn't more serious, but I'm sure that $100 hurts... Ehhem....

What did you take those pics with?

Insurance takes care of it. My roommate's camera.

Originally Posted by blefferd

should have bought a toyota tacoma you could have just drove out in 2wd :P

haha that's a funny one.

Originally Posted by XD_Dan

Those two jackasses in the last pic wouldn't help you out?

They arrived about 10 minutes before the tow truck was set to arrive, so they wished me luck and headed up to the range.

Originally Posted by HokieMS

Hey Maverick, that's a pretty good range, aint it? I never did shoot there though. Everytime I went there were a half a dozen or so people, and strange college students (who were mostly retards, in my experience) with guns always makes me nervous. I guess the key is to go when it's 35 degrees

haha that's exactly the reason why I headed out there right before sunset. I wanted to have the place to myself so I could do the 3 shot sight-in without having to yell "Cold range!" all the damn time and have people look at me like... "What's that mean?" Where do you go instead?

Originally Posted by TheWillis

MAn I love my JEEP!

I think your Jeep (I'm assuming Wrangler) would've probably flipped over in this situation. The tow truck guy told me they had that happen to a Jeep two years ago. It did pretty much exactly what mine did, but flipped and went down the hill.

Originally Posted by ichy_trigger

Do you guys carry cameras incase you get stuck or what?...lol

"Hey Vern, git yur camira out and git some pictures of this,"...lol.
You might be a redneck if you get your truck stuck and care more about taking pictures of it than getting unstuck...lol

Im razzin ya, im as redneck as they come...

haha actually my Marine brother that lives in the area came and spent the morning with me and we drove to my apartment to pick up the camera.

Originally Posted by DigMe

Naw, they carry the cameras to take pics of the deer they shoot from the truck. The gettin-stuck pictures are just icing.

brad cook

Shhhhh don't tell anyone 'bout that!

[XD_Dan]

Originally Posted by "[TASF

They arrived about 10 minutes before the tow truck was set to arrive, so they wished me luck and headed up to the range.

If I had arrived (10 minutes ahead of the tow truck or not) while your truck was incapacitated, I would have tried to pull you out. Perhaps it's just southern hospitality.

I would have much rather seen you offer the tow truck driver a twenty for making the drive out, than paying him $100 for a 2 minute recovery job.

[R/T Performance]

Originally Posted by XD_Dan

If I had arrived (10 minutes ahead of the tow truck or not) while your truck was incapacitated, I would have tried to pull you out. Perhaps it's just southern hospitality.

I would have much rather seen you offer the tow truck driver a twenty for making the drive out, than paying him $100 for a 2 minute recovery job.

Not just a southren thing

[03RangerXLT]

I only have pictures of my incident because the Dutch exchange student (damn she was hot!) had a camera phone with her. Damn, she really was hot : )

[JimLongley]

Originally Posted by ichy_trigger

Do you guys carry cameras incase you get stuck or what?...lol

"Hey Vern, git yur camira out and git some pictures of this,"...lol.
You might be a redneck if you get your truck stuck and care more about taking pictures of it than getting unstuck...lol

Im razzin ya, im as redneck as they come...

I carry a camera almost as much as I carry a gun, simultaneously of course.

[FatMatt1981]

"Hold still while I take your picture....it'll be good for your obituary!"
I've had a similar thing happen to me on ice goin up a hill....
The road is usually closed when it's not safe to drive, but it was open that day. Goin down the road like usual rubberneckin at the scenery....only for there to be a patch of ice some 30-40ft long...all the way across the road...and on the very last hill. I didn't notice it until almost all the way up the hill...and after the back tires broke loose. Sure enough it started to slide sideways like TASF's, but my truck was facin down the hill..and like 10ft drop straight down a gulleyso I stopped and after cussin a minute thought I'd try to power brake it and spin it all the way around and just go back the way I came. It was almost workin when the front tires started to slide. The more I gassed on it the more it slid...I finally gave up and made the 2 HOT chicks (ok not really there was a fat chick in there too but she was doable) get out so they wouldn't get hurt if the truck slid. It took all I had to keep it from goin forwards down the gulley and smashin the front end out of it...E brake and park barely would stop it.
We got lucky and got a ride to the gas station so I could call the Sheriff's dept.....I didn't want some knucklehead to fly down that hill and smash my truck sittin there halfway across the road in the dark. They even sent a deputy to pick me up at the gas station and gave me a ride back to my truck.....I got to sit and b/s with the guy in the nice warm squad car and watch the flashy lights as we waited on a wrecker.
The dude had me out in 10 minutes....after he had to block the tires on the big Ford wrecker...he slid too as he pulled.
The guy wanted only $20 but I was broke at the moment...all I had was a bad check book.
I backed it back down the hill to a turnaround, and left the park.
My girls waited at the top of the hill and stuff for me after the ordeal.....and the park owner that didn't close off the road "Sorry about that"

[R/T Performance]

Originally Posted by JimLongley

I carry a camera almost as much as I carry a gun, simultaneously of course.

I should have taken my camera to lunch yesterday.Some guy in town has about an 89 caviler 4 door with a 6' snow plow on the front