Friend Stuck in Eagle Mountain: Anyone want to help with a vehicle recovery?

[sixstringsteve]

Good luck guys.

 

[DaveB]

Where are they located? I'm in Midvale with my pickup for the next little while.

They are in Holiday if I'm not too late answering back.

 

[Maverick]

I think Brian is rounding up some pallets. Thanks though. I'm gonna head down around 6 if I can get out of here. Heading to NV tomorrow and have deadlines on Friday so there's a lot to finish today.

 

[Maverick]

Here's a couple of pics of the adventure. Brian and Andrew can fill in the details, I've gotta get to bed.

 

[sixstringsteve]

wow, what a job. Thanks for taking pics and for helping my friend out. you guys rock. I'm excited to hear the story tomorrow.

 

[Kevin B.]

Me too. That looks like it was cold out there.

 

[clfrnacwby]

It was 18° last night, which actually worked out since we had to slide the truck on a "skate" and drive our trucks out in the normally soft dirt. It's obvious Brett is an Engineer - he had a great plan from the start. The truck already had a used tire and the base of a road construction cone under the rotor to act as a "skate." That saved us a lot of time.

The truck was stuck right on the road and we had to figure out how to turn it around and get it on the trailer. Again, Mr. Engineer jumped into action and quickly had the perfect plan in place. Using my Tundra, we would pull the front of the truck, allowing the "skate" to work and slide the truck into a perpendicular position to the road. This would allow the trailer to back up nicely to the slightly elevate road and then we would simply pull the truck onto the trailer. After about 30 minutes of careful tugging in different directions, the truck was nicely lined up and ready to be loaded.



We intentionally jack-knifed the Excursion to give me easy access to pull the truck onto the trailer.



After getting the truck loaded on the trailer, we headed back to pavement. Now, this is where the pictures stop as we swore to never speak of the "incident." All you need to know is that the truck arrived safely to its destination...with a little excitement on the way. Nobody was allowed to take pictures for fear of severe razzing on RME

A huge shout-out and thanks to Brett for all his efforts - what a guy! We especially appreciated his Santa hat and all his profound wisdom!

 

[sixstringsteve]

Great report! You Won't see any razzing from me, you took tine out of your busy day to help a complete stranger. You guys rock. I'm surprised brian didn't just pick it up and bench press it on to the trailer.

 

[Kevin B.]

So which one of you can we pay to hear the story of the "incident"?

 

[Bart]

Wow, nice job guys. Wish I would have seen this yesterday. Looks like a fun rescue.

 

[jeeper]

So which one of you can we pay to hear the story of the "incident"?

Put my dollars in the pot.. I'm dyin' for the story also!

 

[mbryson]

It was 18° last night, which actually worked out since we had to slide the truck on a "skate" and drive our trucks out in the normally soft dirt. It's obvious Brett is an Engineer - he had a great plan from the start. The truck already had a used tire and the base of a road construction cone under the rotor to act as a "skate." That saved us a lot of time.

The truck was stuck right on the road and we had to figure out how to turn it around and get it on the trailer. Again, Mr. Engineer jumped into action and quickly had the perfect plan in place. Using my Tundra, we would pull the front of the truck, allowing the "skate" to work and slide the truck into a perpendicular position to the road. This would allow the trailer to back up nicely to the slightly elevate road and then we would simply pull the truck onto the trailer. After about 30 minutes of careful tugging in different directions, the truck was nicely lined up and ready to be loaded.

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We intentionally jack-knifed the Excursion to give me easy access to pull the truck onto the trailer.

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After getting the truck loaded on the trailer, we headed back to pavement. Now, this is where the pictures stop as we swore to never speak of the "incident." All you need to know is that the truck arrived safely to its destination...with a little excitement on the way. Nobody was allowed to take pictures for fear of severe razzing on RME

A huge shout-out and thanks to Brett for all his efforts - what a guy! We especially appreciated his Santa hat and all his profound wisdom!

He should have used chains

 

[Sawtooth]

It's nice to have a guy like Brett around,always one of the first to offer his time and equipment.Nice work dudes

 

[clfrnacwby]

So which one of you can we pay to hear the story of the "incident"?

Let's just say you and I had a VERY similar experience hauling your '86 up Soldier Summit...

 

[sixstringsteve]

It's nice to have a guy like Brett around,always one of the first to offer his time and equipment.

x2. He's a good guy!

 

[Kevin B.]

Let's just say you and I had a VERY similar experience hauling your '86 up Soldier Summit...

 

[Maverick]

Thanks for the kind words, it was a pretty fun evening, glad to help out.