Delayed in a Ditch

[jdubbs32584]

Also known as "We're make the beast with two backsing stuck."


So Mother and I decide to go out and have some fun with the guns. I'm super excited cause it'll be the first time I get to play with my shiny new HMR .17. So we head down the mountain a little ways and on to a back road on the side of another mountain.

The road (if you can call it that) narrows into one lane on the side of the hill and is covered in about a foot of snow. We're in his tricked out Jeep so I think nothing of it. Then he decided to slow down cause it was a getting a little treacherous. Bad idea.

As soon as the Jeep lost forward momentum, we slid into the side of the hill and into a ditch about 2 feet deep on the passenger side. So now I'm stuck in the jeep against a wall of snow and Mother's trying to rock us out of the ditch. I start having visions of the tires catching and us flying over the edge on the other side of the road so I climb out via the driver's side. I want no part in rolling down a hill, even if there's a roll cage involved.

About 30 minutes and one clutch later, we got the Jeep out. Talk about an adventure.

Delayed in a Ditch:


The aftermath:


Victory:


Hard to see in this picture but I got mud and dirty snow thrown all over me by the spinning tires.



Welcome to Oregon.   

[NAKID]

Delayed in a Ditch:

Nice finger...

[Mother]

Open dif's blow

[jdubbs32584]

Nice finger...

oops

[Slide Panda]

Moms needs a locking dif and a cable come-along... I know what Jbubble's getttin' him for b-days!

[Mother]

Moms needs a locking dif and a cable come-along... I know what Jbubble's getttin' him for b-days!

What I find rather silly about this is

sitting at my parents pad in the basement are:

Dana 44 Font axle, Double walled w/ 4.88's, a spool, and locking hubs
Dana 44 Rear axle, Double walled w/4.88's, and an ARB
4 1/2" Rubi Exp long-arm kit
4-1 NP 241
Beadlock wheels
Hydraulic steering assist
and
a Warn 8274

All waiting for shop time to install on my TJ

and i keep stuffing it into ditches while I wait

I have a nice new dent too 

[Got Duc]

Air Locker?

[Mother]

Air Locker?

ARB = Air Locker

I need 2 of them

but

Most of the parts and all of the set-up/welding are a gift from my pops so I will get what is given to me and be happy with it

at least until i is rich

[Got Duc]

Ahhhh

did not see the ARB above.

[jdubbs32584]

Open dif's blow

Oh don't get grumpy. You were grinnin ear to ear the whole time.

Well, except maybe when the clutch started smoking.

[River]

Oh don't get grumpy. You were grinnin ear to ear the whole time.

Well, except maybe when the clutch started smoking.

Hi Jess!

[derby]

Hard to see in this picture but I got mud and dirty snow thrown all over me by the spinning tires.

shoulda stayed in the jeep. 

[jdubbs32584]

Hi Jess!

Hi!! I played in the mud and snow today!!!!! 

shoulda stayed in the jeep. 

Shush you. 

[erkishhorde]

Huh.. That's odd... I don't see any tracks going to the jeep... Did you slide straight sideways? I'm not familiar with this white thing called snow.

[Mother]

Huh.. That's odd... I don't see any tracks going to the jeep... Did you slide straight sideways? I'm not familiar with this white thing called snow.

Yep, the pic is deceiving, the road has a pretty significant slant to the pass side

as soon as I let off the throttle, in we went.

and at that point I think i had already backed up a fair distance

but

couldn't get any grip to get out