95.5-2004 Tacomas & 96-2002 4Runners 4th gen pickups and 3rd gen 4Runners

What's the Biggest you've pulled out?

Old Aug 8, 2007 | 05:17 PM
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Paragon ORVP about 6 months ago I went wheeling with a few 3rd Runners, a 2nd gen Runner, 91 pickup and my T100. We went back for lunch and a guy in a fullsize, 6" lifted 79 or early 80's bronco went with us.

He got stuck int he mud 4 or 5 times and everytime I pulled him out, was actually pretty easy except at one point I hit the gas so hard I spun the rear to the side in the mudpit. My truck is and still is 100% stock besides some AT the PO had on it.

YotaFun also pulled him out once too.

I liked better when it snowed really bad here in NJ with like a foot of snow. Afterwards they plowed and it kept snowing steadily, musta had 8" and people keep driving in it with cars and 2wd trucks. I put it into 4 hi and passed them right buy with ease!
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Old Aug 8, 2007 | 09:13 PM
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When I had my 86 22R 4x4 I pulled out my buddies jeep stuck in the middle of a water tank.







And then in my new truck I pulled out my buddies 1500 which was high centerd on the frame then when he was on the brakes and I didnt know it I was still pulling him along with ease



A few more tows but those are the biggest with each of my trucks.
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Old Aug 8, 2007 | 09:19 PM
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A T-100 , Ford Ranger, and a jeep wrangler all in the same night. With my old 95 4runner, with just mud terrains on it and a 2 inch lift. Plus i was pullin them out of a muddy creek.
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Old Aug 8, 2007 | 09:32 PM
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Like CJM said.
The biggest was this old lift 79' Bronco.

The hardest though was when another 3rd gen in our group got himself stuck up to the bottom of the door in mud.

I tired to pull him from the front first but was just spinning my tires.
Then I tried pulling him from the rear and I got him out but after several tugs and having Tess either slid to the left or right.
I must admit it was fun, turn the wheel one way you start sliding to the right, turn the wheel the other way and you wen to the left lol!
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Old Aug 9, 2007 | 05:58 AM
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2 stories here:

First and easiest, I pulled my girlfriends mom's GMC Envoy XUV back up onto the road. Its a dirt bank pulloff that she parks on, it rained a lot, and when she tried to pull out the next day, she slid about 6 feet over the fill slope. Looked like it was about to roll over but hooked her up and out she came back up over the bank.

Second, I didnt have my 4runner. I was working with the US forest service and we got a call that one of the soil science guys was stuck on a forest service road. Turned out it was 2 more interns in a durango on a road that had been resoiled and seeded and had all the culverts removed. It was a road they were letting grow back in. We had a 1/2 ton chevy truck with about 1200 lbs of survey equipment in the back. It was just a thick sloppy mud under the little bit of grass that was growing. About a 1/2 mile out the trail we found the durango burried up to the grill. All we had were shovels and a cumalong. finally got him unhooked, he started to drive out, and we got stuck as we were trying to turn around, then we got unstuck, and the durango got stuck in a huge ditch where they pulled a culvert out, and we just kept leap frogging the whole way out... that was the best day of work EVER!

That road was supposed to be closed off to any traffic too so it could regrow... it was a torn up muddy mess after we got out. I think they ended up having to regrade it and start all over just cause a couple of guys were too lazy to walk in.

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Old Aug 12, 2007 | 06:29 AM
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I hired a tow truck to bring home an engineless truck home once. After it was loaded, The tow truck driver backed into a deep set of ruts and got hi centered. It took about 10 running yanks with my '89 bone stock toy to get them out. He said it'd never work. I got a free tow and offered a job!!
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Old Aug 12, 2007 | 06:43 AM
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i got my 95 gmc stuck to the frame in mud and had to come back to the house to get the yota i got back and a tow truck driver said that i can not get the gmc out with a little toyota well he learned something new that day. sorry i have no pics of it
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Old Aug 12, 2007 | 09:58 AM
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Buddy was havind a big cat bulldoze his yard. Got bogged out and threw a track. Used the winch on the cruiser to pull the track back onto the wheel
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Old Aug 12, 2007 | 12:30 PM
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we were wheeling outside of boise on a rainy sunday afternoon when we came across a 1 1/2 ton four door forest service truck that had slid off into the bar pit. the thing about the mud in boise is that it never rains enough to get any more than the top inch or so wet...so it's sort of like trying to drive on an inch of fresh snot. anyhow, we hooked him up to a strap and pulled him backwards up the hill to a spot where he could get turned around. real nice guys, they offered to give us a full set of laminated forest service maps for helping them out, but they couldnt find their second set. too bad for us. anyway, makes for a fun story.
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