SUMMER OF 08 WHEELING!!

First trip out with my pal in the Toyota, it ran like crap due to the 60 pin not doing its job.

Then my Swampers failed me = stuck.

One day after work I found some dirt piles and played around abit.

Then, a full day trip that lead to BROKEN parts and my Bronco left in the woods for 4 days.  It had to be retrieved by a tractor.

The begining.

Take note of this ^ ditch, I broke on the way out.

When you lead, you find the swamps.

The begining of the trouble,  Can you spot the problem in the picture below?

Healthy rad arm on the right, not healthy on the left.

We tryed abuch of stuff, like holding the axle with the winch and cables and a jack, but it broke 40 ft later.

The plan was to remove the radius arm, bring it home, rebuild it, go back out, reinstall and drive home.

We met up with my Dad, and we then decided we should try and trailer it home. 

Then the retrieval effort started.

The log was not enough on it's own.  So we threw the wheel back on to get onto the trailer. 
HERE IS WHERE WE MADE A MISTAKE, lol.  We should have just towed me home with the log AND the tire on.  But we didn't know any better.  So be it.

After abunch of trying to winch the GM and the trailer throught mudholes, (larger than the one pictured) we killed the alternator on the winching Toyota.  At midnight.  We undid the trailer and left it.  The toyota was able to yank the GM out of it's own hole.

DAY 2

A friend from work came out to try and help, we welded a hitch reciever onto his bumper so as he could use my winch.  (eat your heart out permantly mounted winch guys, lol)  He hooked on the trailer and gave it his best go.  He made it more than half way throught the 100 ft mud hole.  We were double snatch blocking.  (3X winch power)

35"s

After the winch was hot enough to cook on we wrapped it up and I yanked with my DD Dakota.  We ended up pullin his bumper apart on one side.  He wasn't that upset, so I was happy.

Then we brought out the heavy artillery.

110 HP Front wheel assist. Locking diffs, why dont I wheel this thing?  lol

The Kabota hooked up to the trailer and walked out as if there was no trailer.  It was a non-issue.  Back on the road home.

I then proceded to Beef my junk with a 1/2" plate gusset.

That is the end of that trip.