Two Stuck Deuces

[shannondeese]

So I use my truck as my daily driver and in the tree business. We have a field that we park the trucks in along with all the equipment. It's been raining a lot in Ga lately so the field was pretty wet. I needed the dup trailer the other day so I drove across the field to get it. No problem. 2 wheel drive spun some but not much. My buddy in his stock deuce gave it a try and sank. No worries he drops it into low and spins away. I notice and run back hollering lock in the front in. By the time he heard me it was too late. He was sunk. Still no worries. I back up, hook up, turn on the rear ARB, engage the front and give him a pull, nope I sunk to the axles in less than 3 seconds. Now we have a problem. Two stuck deuces. My winch doesn't work right now. He doesn't have a winch. Its raining. After using logs to put the high lift jack on and trying to lift the deuces to put wood chips in the holes failed we called it a night.
The next day we took the Navy street sweeper I have and put it on dry land to snatch his deuce out. 10 minutes and it was out. Got his out of the way and hooked to mine. Mine popped right out then just to be a smart a lek I drove forward through it all again to get to the trailer.

 

[doghead]

And now the maintenance(fun) begins...

 

[porkysplace]

So it took 1 Ford too rescue 2 deuces .

 

[Gunzy]

Yae FORD!

 

[shannondeese]

Yea but its a BA ford. Cat 3208, Alison MT653 auto. Spicer 7014 4 speed brownie box. Tandem Eaton 40 ton axles with high and low with Detroit lockers.

 

[porkysplace]

Yea but its a BA ford. Cat 3208, Alison MT653 auto. Spicer 7014 4 speed brownie box. Tandem Eaton 40 ton axles with high and low with Detroit lockers.

And no weight on the back for traction .

 

[wheelspinner]

I love that Ford!

 

[Carlo]

Me to! That ford would look good in my shop.

 

[RodUSMC1962]

When a deuce is stuck it`s REALY stuck!

 

[shannondeese]

I pulled the axles, drained the diffs, and pulled the brakes apart today. Total damage done was 1 wheel had a little evidence of water in the bearing grease. All the drums had sand in them. So now it has clean 90wt in each axle. New bearing grease in each bearing. And all new seals at each corner. All the seals came from my spares. The 90 wt was left over from a previous project. And the grease is always on hand. Just a lot of work for the day.

 

[doghead]

Good report!

Shows what happens with simple daily use.

 

[ATPTac]

Good thing you had Ford handy, that could have been a disaster.

 

[3dAngus]

You were just having way to much fun.

Next thing you know. they will outlaw fun. Glad you got them all out. You saved a whopper of a towing bill.

 

[shannondeese]

My buddy called a local tow company, explained the situation. They guy said $150 just to try. He wasn't even sure he could get them out. I'm in the wrong business.

 

[Beyond Biodiesel]

This is an object lesson of put it in all-wheel drive before entering the hazard, not after. I did about 2 years of archaeology for Boeing along the US-Mexican boarder. We were all equipped with 4x4s. I was the only one who always put it in 4x4 before getting off road; and I never got stuck. The Boeing engineers got stuck all of the time.

Putting an off-road vehicle in all-wheel drive as soon as leaving the pavement, not only avoids getting stuck, but reduces wear on the tires, because the rears are not spinning in the dust, because the fronts have traction, also it saves the roads, because the ruts in off-road trails are due to 2xs (or 4xs in 2x) getting stuck, or spinning out in soft areas.

 

[RodUSMC1962]

Beyond, I love Sedona,I was out there 20 some years ago, wonderful part of the world.

 

[Beyond Biodiesel]

Thanks, Rod, yes Sedona is beautiful and there are 4 national forests within 50 miles, and within 100 mile radius the elevation changes from 1200feet to 15000 feet. All good places to explore with a deuce.

 

[swampzr2]

Man I hate cleaning the mud off the deuce! Last time I took mine wheeling it took 10 hours to get the bulk mud off and it was over 400# of clay/mud!!!

 

[John S-B]

I pulled the axles, drained the diffs, and pulled the brakes apart today. Total damage done was 1 wheel had a little evidence of water in the bearing grease. All the drums had sand in them. So now it has clean 90wt in each axle. New bearing grease in each bearing. And all new seals at each corner. All the seals came from my spares. The 90 wt was left over from a previous project. And the grease is always on hand. Just a lot of work for the day.

Work smart, not hard.

 

[wdbtchr]

When a deuce is stuck it`s REALY stuck!

Ditto with a 5 ton, buried my M51a2 in a muddy field once. I couldn't budge it with my International Loadstar 2000 6X4 from the road or my back hoe. I finally drove it out 2 months later in June after it dried out.