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Great Pictures @Count Laszlo That would be a code brown situation for me. Not knowing what's going on under the water is the biggest variable. Steering down the slope there could mean getting your nose scratched up or getting wedged. Who knows. Reversing out in Lo with all the diffs locked would be my first idea I reckon unless I could wade into the puddle myself to check it out. A stick to poke and prod.
Puddles are cold around here so getting into them is less than pleasant.
I always love seeing the angled shots of vehicles in gnarly positions with wheels off the ground. Things can tip so easily though with shifting momentum. A change in angle can be rapid and precipitous. How things feel to the driver versus how safe they are largely depends on experience and ones abilities. I lack both.
I've not approached anything as angled as that and would likely have waved the white flag and sought rescue. Live to fight another day.
I knew from prior trip what lay at the bottom of this hole. all 4 wheels firmly planted but the only angled shot I have.
I did the same thing the two of you did in a massive (and deeper) mud pit than I expected. I also went in at a weird oblique angle. I quickly tried to reverse but the front end just pivoted in the mud so I turned hard to help with the traction and it popped right out. I wish I had someone taking pics like the two of you, but I was way too focused on primitive instincts like survival.
In case you're wondering what to do if you find yourself in this situation... "If you're on a side slope and the vehicle begins to slide sideways out of control, or heaven forbid, tip, the escape clause is to immediately turn downhill." Link
The only challenge is whether you want your car to float or roll in some of these examples. I'd probably choose float.
Great Pictures @Count Laszlo That would be a code brown situation for me. Not knowing what's going on under the water is the biggest variable. Steering down the slope there could mean getting your nose scratched up or getting wedged. Who knows. Reversing out in Lo with all the diffs locked would be my first idea I reckon unless I could wade into the puddle myself to check it out. A stick to poke and prod.
Puddles are cold around here so getting into them is less than pleasant.
I always love seeing the angled shots of vehicles in gnarly positions with wheels off the ground. Things can tip so easily though with shifting momentum. A change in angle can be rapid and precipitous. How things feel to the driver versus how safe they are largely depends on experience and ones abilities. I lack both.
I've not approached anything as angled as that and would likely have waved the white flag and sought rescue. Live to fight another day.
I knew from prior trip what lay at the bottom of this hole. all 4 wheels firmly planted but the only angled shot I have.
No side angle issues here, but I used to search out dirt roads/trails anywhere I could find them when I first got my Jeep about 8 years ago. I found this private land with no house or anything on it on my commute home one day, and that commute was only 15 minutes on suburban surface streets. The land was leftover in the midst of subdivisions and shopping centers all around, and had been sold and developed within a year of my finding it. But I had gone on the quarter-mile worth of trails back there three or four times without incident. Then I started home one afternoon after it had rained that day. Along I went with little thought to the puddle that had appeared. What could possibly go wrong???
Fortunately, since I had dress shoes and Khakis on, I was able to step from the bank to the bumper, grab my winch lead, and walk around the puddle on dry land to hook to a tree up ahead. All ended well.
Another time I was going through some woods with a wide powerline cut that Jeepers used from time to time. Halfway along it I saw an alternate trail leave the powerlines and disappear into the woods. Hell yeah! When I got to this little bog, hardly any longer than my Jeep, I figured it couldn't be very bad, right? I could have probably even kept two wheels on firmer land, but where's the fun in that? Buried it in quicksand. I got out (I was in weekend clothes this time) and found a branch to test the depth. It got deeper ahead of the Jeep and I was reluctant to pull forward. Fortunately, I had my portable 4k winch on a winch tray that hooks into a hitch receiver. Hooked that up and pulled backwards. Everything was fine. But those two incidents gave me a healthy aversion to "here, hold my beer" sorts of frolics in ponds, pools, and mudholes I can't see the bottom of!
Notice the left exhaust tip in the last picture.
Last edited by NoGaBiker; Jan 10, 2022 at 03:57 PM.
No side angle issues here, but I used to search out dirt roads/trails anywhere I could find them when I first got my Jeep about 8 years ago. I found this private land with no house or anything on it on my commute home one day, and that commute was only 15 minutes on suburban surface streets. The land was leftover in the midst of subdivisions and shopping centers all around, and had been sold and developed within a year of my finding it. But I had gone on the quarter-mile worth of trails back there three or four times without incident. Then I started home one afternoon after it had rained that day. Along I went with little thought to the puddle that had appeared. What could possibly go wrong???
Fortunately, since I had dress shoes and Khakis on, I was able to step from the bank to the bumper, grab my winch lead, and walk around the puddle on dry land to hook to a tree up ahead. All ended well.
Another time I was going through some woods with a wide powerline cut that Jeepers used from time to time. Halfway along it I saw an alternate trail leave the powerlines and disappear into the woods. Hell yeah! When I got to this little bog, hardly any longer than my Jeep, I figured it couldn't be very bad, right? I could have probably even kept two wheels on firmer land, but where's the fun in that? Buried it in quicksand. I got out (I was in weekend clothes this time) and found a branch to test the depth. It got deeper ahead of the Jeep and I was reluctant to pull forward. Fortunately, I had my portable 4k winch on a winch tray that hooks into a hitch receiver. Hooked that up and pulled backwards. Everything was fine. But those two incidents gave me a healthy aversion to "here, hold my beer" sorts of frolics in ponds, pools, and mudholes I can't see the bottom of!
