Ford Truck Sinks Into Dry Lake Bed!

so we got a call for a truck that is stuck in the severe lake up near Delta we've got the world's largest off-road record on the trailer my dad and I picked up some hitchhikers on the way we're hitchhikers it's a nice day today the weather is pretty good it is warm calm Sunny yeah whatever I imagine the weather would be like in like Hawaii that's what it is it's Hawaii weather so Tom and I just happen to be in the neighborhood we were driving a 1970 C60 Spud truck from Idaho back to Hurricane and here we are it's kind of slow going so we've been in this neighborhood for a while now and we have all pretty much all day most of the day so Jamie's like hey I'm going on a recovery do you guys want to come and I'm like boy do we ever yeah air conditioning and terrifying speeds of Beyond 60 miles an hour yeah we're up to 80 here this is crazy and I made it through the Maverick parking lot to fuel up without hitting anything that's my accomplishment today big shout out to Jamie because she got this all loaded and ready to go by herself I was not around yeah now we're here she came and found us I knew she'd do fine you knew she'd do fine all right since Jamie took this job this is her job she's gonna be driving the truck off so we just noticed there's only two seats in the record and there's four of us so we unhooked blue steel and now we've got a support vehicle following us down so Tom is the captain of that ship all right and Jamie's gonna pilot this vehicle let's do this it's really weird because it always looks like we're really close and then we just go up another little Hill and we're just no closer the closer we get to it the further it seems [Music] it's in a hot camp on the lake bed don't drive on it this is a treacherous Lake I don't even know if we're gonna use the winches we'll probably just hook up some and pull on them hello hello what's up the worst I've seen here oh I've been out here before and it's never been this wet out I've never we've had a crazy wet winter and spring yeah you're right about everything's [Music] um right here in the back seat on the ground [Music] [Music] it just went are the keys in it yes Jamie will you you're so familiar [Music] I'm gonna get in [Music] yeah this is this into it but it's not what yeah this is wet right now but when it's just dry that can be under it just gets thicker and thicker so you can drive out there it's like a water bed but if you park on it and do something silly you break through it you're done right we're going to use our toe Point here pop it in real quick These are nice they got this big nice radius hole there that can be used with the steel clevis bow shackle whatever you want to call it or you can use it with a soft check like this [Music] and then we put this pin in for safety [Music] [Music] it's still pretty slimy right here we got to make sure it's still pretty slimy let's [Applause] saw your wheels [Music] I forgot to turn my air compressor on so I didn't have any diff locks so you're spending a little to add some drama I didn't turn the air compressor on well that did it thank you guys yeah really appreciate it how long you guys been out here it's been a whole night since yesterday yeah since yesterday yeah yeah we got out here yesterday are you guys planning on camping or yeah yeah so we had everything but we weren't yeah we were planning on camping right there that way I'm stuck again you can get a bigger one yeah thank you so much and then what size do you want well this is gonna make this trip so much funner now that we got these too it'll always be definitely something funny to laugh about around the campfire or whatever for the rest of our lives you guys have a good seriously we're just gonna follow you guys out thank you yep appreciate everything all right on the way out of here Jamie's gonna practice her rear steer I think we missed all the turns though I got wanted that's okay you can just make some so this toggle switch right here whichever way you move it that's the way the front of the tire is gonna go this switch right here if you pull that switch in then it the tires will stay wherever you leave them when you let go of that switch they'll go back to straight so they're self-centering this switch right here if I flip that switch then you know that it takes that button out of the equation and they just stay wherever you put them so think of it as the way you want the back end of the truck to go she's getting us all kinds of crossed up that was pretty crazy I pulled the truck back to where I thought it could drive and it just couldn't it wouldn't the mud was so self so yeah just spinning it yeah I didn't turn my air lockers on but it did it anyway so that was awesome still need fenders yeah flings mud everywhere well that was awesome it's kind of a kind of a desolate but beautiful place I've never been on this side the other side is not as pretty as this all right we're gonna get back on our trip we're gonna send Jamie home and we're gonna jump back in the world's slowest Spud truck and continue our drive I'm probably not gonna wait for him either I'm just gonna hope they make it home so we got a call for an FJ Cruiser that is stuck in the sand out here the Green Springs area by elephant Arch we're gonna head out here and see if we can get it out kind of nice to recover something out here that isn't a Dodge that's all we've ever got from here I was just gonna say it's not a Dodge surprise it's over there somewhere what do you got for the weather it's about 80 degrees Just Before Sunset we're gonna have to hurry so we can still have some light we came in a little less extreme this time yeah I was prepared for this one are you prepared let's see your firmware [Music] they never do you somehow have a past for being unprepared not me though and peanut me and peanut are unprepared we're gonna hear about it you grab me at the worst moments and don't give me any time to prepare is there water here last time nope remember is this way hey man let's get out come on pop out [Music] I thought we'd see them by now there it is right there that wouldn't be a bad way to get out of here [Music] oh no problem okay so oh you're a two-wheel drive yes um I tried to I came down from that way and then I went to go turn up that way and I got stuck and then I came back and I tried to go back up that way and I got stuck so then I tried to go that way and I got stuck and then I ended up here and I couldn't move anymore so I'm wondering if we should just drive it up the way we came in these ways are all really long to get out lots of uphill this way it's all downhill till that spot right there you mind if I get in there for just a second let me go see how it acts [Music] [Music] okay I'm trying to think you can get in front of me that way so you can just keep going and then make your first left back and you can get in with her or with me in with her okay I trust you okay I'm just gonna ease it out here if if you don't see me pop out the other side then come get me [Music] [Music] [Music] all right we got out of that mess now we've got to cross this big wash I think we can do it this is just a two-wheel drive but it does have a diff lock and it does have traction control you can take the traction control off so it's doing pretty good all right [Music] I think we're gonna make it we were able to drive this vehicle out but it's not nothing to be ashamed of we're driving in really tricky conditions with a vehicle that's limited to two-wheel drive but also I'm very familiar with this area so I knew an exit strategy that would make this work I guess because I've not experienced like you are well it helps to know the area it helps to know that this way was a way out and I don't think it would have gone out any of those other ways oh really yeah I know I try on its own it's not on its own yeah we've drugged a lot of cars back out that way but where this one has a little more ground clearance and can handle right this stuff I'm like well I'll do this way so there's a pretty good road that goes up there to a Trailhead elephant Arch and for some reason GPS thinks that this whole area down here is really good place to drive and it'll send people down there endlessly [Music] nice [Laughter] I appreciate it thank you thank you so much for your help okay thank you thank you thank you peanut so like I said that one was pretty simple we were able to drive it out and got them sent on their way it was a two-wheel drive and it was pretty Sandy in a lot of spots so her being an experience she was not going to drive it out on her own thanks for watching

Channel: Matt's Off Road Recovery

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Length: 12min 55sec (775 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 21 2023