Stuck in the mud

Larry · August 20, 2002

Got into a light stuck situation in the wet adobe at the reservoir this weekend on a fishing trip. The adobe of the southwest is like getting stuck in tar. It is sticky even when it looks dry. My buddy and I were trying to 4-wheel our way up and over a mesa and down to an isolated island to set up camp to fish for the night. As I tried to maneuver my way around a few big boulders I fell through the top crust of this soft spot. I backed halfway out of the mess but Swampers stopped and started digging to China. After my buddy’s Jeep J20 with a Warn M8274 winch yanked me out spot with ease and we made it to where we where headed. Didn’t catch any fish but we still had a good time.

I give up...I don't know why this forum only likes this one picture. I have edited the pictures over and over and moved them all around but the forum still will only accept this one picture.

**edit**

Larry, I just uploaded the pics to my site since they weren't working.

-Jon

chevy4x4trucks · August 20, 2002

Dang, you are nice and stuck. Sweet pic

Larry · August 20, 2002

Anybody have any ideas why the other two pictures will not shop up?? All I see are little red X's on the first and last picture. I edited them to no avail.

MarkD · August 21, 2002

Cool Pic! Truck looks real good!

Larry · August 21, 2002

The quality if forums these days is much to be desire. The link below has the compete pictures.

Hopefully this will work..........

http://groups.msn.com/LarrysGMTruckToyBox/stuck.msnw

HillHound · August 21, 2002

Well that's a great photo! One of the best member offroad pics I've seen here! :;):

Dihappy · August 21, 2002

That musta really been some crazy mud, cuz you dont look very deep there.

Did your pumpkin hit the ground?

chevy4x4trucks · August 21, 2002

well this pic definetly shows it better:

Lemme take a crack at posting the rest of them:

Very cool pics in there

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Looks like it keeps adding < br > in the picture URL for some reason, weird. I uploaded them all to my site for you and edited your post, hope you don't mind.

antig24 · August 21, 2002

nice pics

GreenRado · August 21, 2002

Good pics Larry.

Yep, I know that western mud. The volcanic derived mud (bentonite) is the worst!!! Basically impossible to even drive theu when it's wet and more than 6" deep.

Larry · August 22, 2002

Thank you Jon for editing my pictures. I still cannot figure out mine didn’t work. Must be that dang MSN community up to no good again.

Dihappy,

It was deeper and thicker than it looks especially on the driver’s side. I am confident that I could have beat the snott out of the truck to drive it out of this mess if I would have been alone and desperate, but it wasn't worth the gamble to spend my Sunday replacing U-Joints or a flimsy Dana 44 front axle shaft just to have the pride of possibly freeing myself without the help of a winch that was within easy reach. Might have missed out on a trout or two if I broke something.

GreenRado,

You taught me something….bentonite. Never heard of it. I thought I saw every episode of TLC and Discovery Channel but I have never heard of Bentonite. I flunked Algebra..I mean chemistry or was it geology? LOL From Southern Colorado on down to Mexico we just call this dirt Adobe. Adobe is what the Pueblo Indians built their houses out of for hundreds of years. Either way, this crap had the same reaction on the SuperSwampers as my colon had on 18 Louisiana oysters and 12 crayfish last time I visited Mulata’s in New Orleans. Not good.

GreenRado · August 22, 2002

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GreenRado,

You taught me something….bentonite. Never heard of it. I thought I saw every episode of TLC and Discovery Channel but I have never heard of Bentonite. I flunked Algebra..I mean chemistry or was it geology? LOL From Southern Colorado on down to Mexico we just call this dirt Adobe. Adobe is what the Pueblo Indians built their houses out of for hundreds of years. Either way, this crap had the same reaction on the SuperSwampers as my colon had on 18 Louisiana oysters and 12 crayfish last time I visited Mulata’s in New Orleans. Not good.

LMAO HA HA!! I know exactly what you mean!!! Can't say what you got into was bentonite, but kinda sounds like it. If you have seen the petrified forest pinks and gray/browns, some of this stuff is bentonite or montmorillonite (can't spell for $hit anymore) - both swelling clays - a little moisture, and they swell and turn into liquid ball-bearings (sorry Pennzoil! ).

A friend once said it's kinda like driving thru a 50/50 mix of duck $hit and milk of magnesia (don't want to know where he came up with that! )

I went to school in Flagstaff in the early 80's and miss the Colorado Plateau.