- Location
- Sandy, Ut
Thank you, thank you, thank you to all those that showed up. We cleaned house!
Sadly the truck had already rolled down the hillside. I don't know if it was helped, I would suspect so given the amount of trees it worked through. Now the funny part.. there was another rig (Bronco) stuck about 30 feet away in the same manner. The Bronco owner had already called a wrecker service ($125/hr from the time they leave their shop
), so we concentrated on the Mazda.
With the rangers permission, we used an old mine road to access the truck from the bottom. Using Meat's winch at the top and Craig and Chad's winches on bottom, we were able to safely drag it the rest of the way down the slope. From there I dragged it to Tibble Fork, with Anthony driving and Corbin behind that in his Tacoma to serve as brakes
Half way down the mountain Anthony decides to "pop" start the truck (battery flew out in the roll and the ignition had been jacked). The thing fired right to life and the brakes mysteriously started working. So we unhitched it and Anthony crept it back to Tibble Fork where the owner is coming to get it this afternoon.
Thanks again everyone! The FS was impressed!! I thought we pulled it off very professionally, safely and fast given the location of the truck and the access to it (Badcop broke a shaft getting to the truck from the bottom). Hope everyone makes it home safely!
Sadly the truck had already rolled down the hillside. I don't know if it was helped, I would suspect so given the amount of trees it worked through. Now the funny part.. there was another rig (Bronco) stuck about 30 feet away in the same manner. The Bronco owner had already called a wrecker service ($125/hr from the time they leave their shop
), so we concentrated on the Mazda. With the rangers permission, we used an old mine road to access the truck from the bottom. Using Meat's winch at the top and Craig and Chad's winches on bottom, we were able to safely drag it the rest of the way down the slope. From there I dragged it to Tibble Fork, with Anthony driving and Corbin behind that in his Tacoma to serve as brakes
Half way down the mountain Anthony decides to "pop" start the truck (battery flew out in the roll and the ignition had been jacked). The thing fired right to life and the brakes mysteriously started working. So we unhitched it and Anthony crept it back to Tibble Fork where the owner is coming to get it this afternoon.
Thanks again everyone! The FS was impressed!! I thought we pulled it off very professionally, safely and fast given the location of the truck and the access to it (Badcop broke a shaft getting to the truck from the bottom). Hope everyone makes it home safely!
