RE: DML:Well another truck is hit! (the D2K's dilema!)

From: Tom Fawcett (fawcett_tom@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 22:42:34 EST


Hehehe... Been there, done that! :-) Glad you got her hauled out. Sucks
at the time but there is some sense of satisfaction when she *finally* rolls
out! Hmmmmm... Midnight run huh? Couldn't sleep?
Tom

PS 20psi is a bit steep for sand, no? :-)

>From: "Natedak2k" <natedak2k@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
>Subject: RE: DML:Well another truck is hit! (the D2K's dilema!)
>Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:29:53 -0800
>
>
>Does sand count as wildlife? The curse hit me this weekend when I finally
>found the "D2K's limits"!! I hope this is the extent to which the curse
>hits me! I was out 4 wheelin' around and found some sand. The D2K was
>doing GREAT on the stock good-for-a-years (aired down to about 20psi) so I
>decided to get a little more into it. along I trudged when suddenly I feel
>the truck sink! Oh NO I think. I start to rock her and steer from side to
>side, doing everything I know possible to get "unstuck", when finally she
>doesn't even budge anymore! When the clutch comes out I don't even feel a
>lurch! Why I ask as I get out of the truck?? Ahh, I see! She's resting
>on
>her axle and the skid plates. The weight of the truck ain't even on the
>wheels! Well, since IGNORANT ME had no shovel guess what I spent the next
>three hours doing. Digging out under each jacking point by hand and
>SLOWELY
>but surely lifting her out of her shallow grave onto some boards I had to
>hike a half a mile to find! Finally got her out though and some lessons
>we're learned the HARD way (Silly me already new all this but just ignored
>it!)! First lesson - The stock tires SUCK in the sand! Second - ALWAYS
>have a shovel when you go wheeling. Third - Don't go wheeling at midnight
>by yourself in the middle of nowhere. The list goes on and on but I'll
>stop
>there! (My arms are sore as hell right now from digging all that sand, one
>handfull at a time! thank God it was sand!)
>
>--------------------------------
>Nate, Ogden UT
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