Post by RedOak on Mar 21, 2004 18:51:57 GMT -5
Years ago when I lived in south Georgia we used to take dune buggies down the Alapaha river in north Florida. In this part of its course part of the river runs underground. So when things get dry the above ground part goes dry and you can drive in the river bed. Now we are in dune buggies, running sand tires with about 10 to 15 psi in them. We would let the air out after towing them down to deal with the sand.
Well on this one particular outing it seems some good ole boys with 4 wheel drives had decided to go down the river. These were your typical mudder type trucks, full size, mudgrips you know the type. This was also back in the '70s also so we are talking heavy American iron here.
At the spot where we came up on them the river made a hard bend. As anyone here knows the channel and the deep part will be to the outside. The water gets trapped in the deep parts at the bends and this one was full. The only path available was right at the bottom of the bank and on about a 45deg slope. Some cracks were made about they couldn't get through and we dang sure couldn't. We eased through on this one path and the good ole boys watched. Not to be out done by a bunch of mere Volkswagens and such they decided to follow.
Well a couple of guys made it through but one ulucky dude slid off into the hole. Dude proceeded to get it down to the frame trying to get it out by himself. Remember this is beach like sand and mudgrips go one way in this stuff, straight down. The various trucks that had made it through so far tried with about a 30 foot chain to pull the unlucky one out. Naturally in deep sand with basically no traction this did zip.
Finally in a blaze of drunken redneck glory one individual states that by God his truck can do it. Well after a couple of attempts snatching a few feet of slack out of the chain with the expected results he backs all the way up to the stuck truck. He nails the gas and off he goes. Well when he reached the end of the chain the truck in the water didn't move. His did though, straight up about 3 feet of the ground right before the bumper came off. At this point wiser and probably soberer heads prevailed and they dug out the tires and used winches to pull the guy out. Seems after this they had enough of the sand and returned to the bridge where you had to put in at.
Well on this one particular outing it seems some good ole boys with 4 wheel drives had decided to go down the river. These were your typical mudder type trucks, full size, mudgrips you know the type. This was also back in the '70s also so we are talking heavy American iron here.
At the spot where we came up on them the river made a hard bend. As anyone here knows the channel and the deep part will be to the outside. The water gets trapped in the deep parts at the bends and this one was full. The only path available was right at the bottom of the bank and on about a 45deg slope. Some cracks were made about they couldn't get through and we dang sure couldn't. We eased through on this one path and the good ole boys watched. Not to be out done by a bunch of mere Volkswagens and such they decided to follow.
Well a couple of guys made it through but one ulucky dude slid off into the hole. Dude proceeded to get it down to the frame trying to get it out by himself. Remember this is beach like sand and mudgrips go one way in this stuff, straight down. The various trucks that had made it through so far tried with about a 30 foot chain to pull the unlucky one out. Naturally in deep sand with basically no traction this did zip.
Finally in a blaze of drunken redneck glory one individual states that by God his truck can do it. Well after a couple of attempts snatching a few feet of slack out of the chain with the expected results he backs all the way up to the stuck truck. He nails the gas and off he goes. Well when he reached the end of the chain the truck in the water didn't move. His did though, straight up about 3 feet of the ground right before the bumper came off. At this point wiser and probably soberer heads prevailed and they dug out the tires and used winches to pull the guy out. Seems after this they had enough of the sand and returned to the bridge where you had to put in at.
