no good deed......

[shelby987]

goes unpunished. I got home from work about 4pm on sat.....sit down, start having a beer to push the thought of work on a sat. out of my mind....when there is a banging on my door......I live on a dirt road, in the middle of NO WHERE.....so this is truely a surprise to me.....I open to door to see this guy covered in mud and bleeding asking for help....I thought he was hurt....turns out he just slightly cut himself trying to get his van out of the mud. While looking at some property up the road, he and his wife ventured a little too far off of the gravel driveway, and ditched thier brand new ford minivan about a foot deep into mud.....I said I would try to help....got the roap and some rachet straps.....(didn't have a tow strap handy)....well, broke both of those.....had to go buy a tow strap....get back and give it another try....I tried staying on the gravel for traction....but everyone had decided that pulling inline with the van, and not at an angle was the only way it was gonna work.....well....inline was a mud puddle.....after some serious hard throttle pulls, I had buried my truck up to the axle housings....and had become entangled in such a way that if I tried to go in reverse...i would hit the van....to my right was a tree that my truck was actually resting against....and with near bald tires I wasn't able to go anymore forward in the mud.....to speed it up a bit, we drive the couple home and everyone agrees that to save them some $$$ we will set it up to have a tow truck driver come with a winch to pull the van and my truck out on monday....they were very appologetic, and offered to pay for the truck tow, and some money for my troubles, I told them not to worry about the money, I was just sorry we couldn't get them out.....well, yesterday I go to check on my truck.....they showed up sometime in the night/early morning, got their van pulled out, left me there without so much as a note or phone call.
Fortunately now that I could go in reverse, a couple of hard throttle runs in reverse and 4lo got me out after 5-10 mins of trying.......
well, it made for an interesting day....and I must say, 3 on the tree shifters are AWESOME for playing in the mud! This has also convinced me that it is time to invest in a lift, some tires....and possibly a winch of my own....on the up side...I got to keep the tow strap!