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Sean150 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:12 pm

Well today me and my friend Scott decided to go back into the woods and have some fun in the snow. as we were driving around we spotted a black ford truck up ahead, then we saw a tan H1 Hummer... that was stuck. They were shocked that a Liberty made it back there and were even more amazed when I managed to tug him out and back to land lol. What happened is he went nose first into a deep mud puddle which took the weight off the front and rear so he had no traction to get out at all. I managed to snap a few photos of the whole ordeal

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:19 pm

OH come on now Sean,
I see a Hummer and then a strap connected to it, but no strap connecting you two together....sure you pulled him out, we all know that Hummers are way better at 4 wheeling than a KJ :lol:

besides that you never invited me to go along :cry:

Good job, what did they say after you pulled them out?

Sean150 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:23 pm

They were rather shocked that I was even to get back there. I think he as a bit suprised I was able to get him out but he had his wife and kid with them so I think he was just happy to not be stuck back there much longer. And I'm gonna take you there whenever you want, its a blast right now, really bumpy and stuff. it maxed out the rear suspension in the jeep and so I kept hearing it thump when it would go all the way down lol.

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:26 pm

Sean150 wrote:

They were rather shocked that I was even to get back there. I think he as a bit suprised I was able to get him out but he had his wife and kid with them so I think he was just happy to not be stuck back there much longer. And I'm gonna take you there whenever you want, its a blast right now, really bumpy and stuff. it maxed out the rear suspension in the jeep and so I kept hearing it thump when it would go all the way down lol.

you can only imagine what his wife was saying to him....

poor guy, bet he will not be telling too many buds about todays trip :lol:

corwyyn · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:37 pm

You should have handed Scott the camera and told him to stand off to the side and take lots of pictures during the extraction! That way you would have the ultimate 'proof' of your Jeep's capabilities

Sean150 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:48 pm

Quote:

You should have handed Scott the camera and told him to stand off to the side and take lots of pictures during the extraction! That way you would have the ultimate 'proof' of your Jeep's capabilities Cool

I should have but I didn't think of it at the moment, I was too excited to try getting the darn thing out lol.

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:58 pm

Pulling out a Hummer would be more exciting than a date with a hot blond :wink:

well maybe not but almost :wink:

ShafferNY · **Joined:** Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:51 pm **Posts:** 88

KJ owners usually know the capabilities and limits of there vechiles. Where as a Hummer owner may go out an buy a Hummer and think they're invinsable.

It looks like the guy went nose down as describes instead of tackling the ditch on a diagonal.

Good job.

InCommando · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:56 pm

Nice!

dieselenthusiast · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:15 pm

Very nice, more points for the KJ!

And I’d say those tires did their job. :shock:

Sean150 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:20 pm

yeah the General Grabbers are amazing tires, they are almost like an All Terrain +. When it comes time to get new tires ill probably get them again or try the Pitbull Growlers if they have them in 31s by then.

callaway · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:27 pm

was the pickup just sitting there watching?

Robbrez · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:27 pm

Sean150 wrote:

yeah the General Grabbers are amazing tires, they are almost like an All Terrain +. When it comes time to get new tires ill probably get them again .

X2

sleeve84028 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:29 pm

Looks like the mud puddle knocked out the right front headlight on the H1. The weight on the front end is probably what got the HMMWV stuck in the mud.

Time to cut a hole in the roof and mount an M2 up there...

Guest · **Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:11 am

tommudd wrote:

Pulling out a Hummer would be more exciting than a date with a hot blond :wink:

So tempted to reword this sentence.

Congrats on the 8,000 lb pig recovery:D

CrossBones · **Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:05 am

Okay, first I need to get this out of the way - some Hummer owner's aren't the only ones who should not be in a 4x4. Just the other day I saw someone in a new yellow Rubi purposely speed up to hit some deep tire rutted snow on a roadway (being in the right lane, going from two lanes down to one) causing them to slide 30 yards stopping just short of head-on with a telephone pole. :roll:

My first thought upon seeing the driver come to a stop - "you should not be driving a Jeep."

As for the topic, man a video camera would have been golden. But for now, I strongly recommend :wink:

you sign-on to the Hummer forums and submit a new post something along the lines of "We're Here To Help - If You Need Us". Then simply post a link to this thread. I think the replies over there would be entertaining, to say the least. :lol:

just remember - you can get a hummer in a Jeep, but you can't get a Jeep in a hummer.

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:10 am

Okay...this should have been in the pics section, not in off topic.

Yeah, what's up with the stock Pickup? No recovery capability? Why was he shocked that you made it that far and a stock pickup was back there?

CrossBones · **Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:13 am

I wondered that too - then I figured the p/u driver most likely didn't have a strap?

2006 KJ · **Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:24 pm

i bet that hummer suspension wasnt very happy when it froze on the way home :shock:

as he was getting pulled out by the liberty he probably looked at his wife in a real serious face and said "this never happened" haha

Sean150 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:34 pm

Well to start with all the pickup had was one of those fancy trailer hitch balls and the h1 had something like a 12ft chain and they were trying to figure out how to wrap it around the ball or something. They didn't seem to know what an industrial rated 30,000lb test strap which is what I used. My camera does video and I should have had scott record it but neither of us thought about it at the time. Most people are totally suprised by what the liberty can do which is sad cause it got its original bad rap from having street tires and being viewed as a grocery getter.

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