Recovering Ed's LJ20 Stuck 40 Years In The Sierra Nevada Mountains

so it is the next morning and it's raining and i just remembered that all my sleeping gear clothes everything's in the bed of my truck i don't understand tents back at base camp so who am i cuddling with tonight ed where did the towel go huh the towel they're on your passenger seat oh grab that towel tom and let's that's for you you won yeah i was never there for that exactly that's how you won so i'll be the first one to drive it in 47 years if i end up with hana virus coming back what about the spiders they're little you're big when's the last time you were mugged by a spider yeah this can't be healthy can we at least take this window off i want a new hat oh you'll get a new house this is going to be contaminated i'm going to roll this window down for you though grab rat one too i can't hear you the window's up i feel stuff growing on me already did you make this door red we didn't bring any breaks we need something this fits lizzy there it is you wouldn't want to be rolling this down on the freeway put your head out the window this is not right if you start to run away i'm just going to floor it we want to keep oh that would be awesome you realize i got no seat belts right yeah as long as you never hit me you'll you won't need them be right when i need them put it in gear and let the clutch out the motor's seized up it should throw you through the front window let's go this is not a cozy place to sit and talk [Music] milestar patagonia [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's gonna feel more ridiculous in a minute i know that's why i want out now i know where i'm headed like i feel very vulnerable like i can tip over at any time holy crud you should see all the rat stuff that's falling on me i have not moved that steering wheel that is you moving forward that's straight oh man i'm going to put you in here in a minute say this say i can't ride this this is a little girl's bike this is a bike for a little girl that's a jonathan winters quote oh this is one i'm gonna need some assistance back on this side can we just pick the back up slide it over and solve a problem yeah i got a good idea i can lighten the load by getting out okay everybody get over here let's move the phone over oh that was easy promising one more lifting yeah they did it without me okay problem solved you could have done that by yourself do you want to be twenty or fifteen twenty's good good we're doing twenty you're gonna crawl through here i can get back in with me i think you're more valuable helping me move this thing around than you are said [Music] rock sliders yeah we got them [Music] [Music] no brakes very little steering flat tire you're right i can't see right now we're just gonna shoot the gap and see what happens now you're good [Music] we're going to drop off this rock and then climb this i think we're gonna good real hard here for a second yep [Music] [Music] no we're all right it's gonna come we might want to hook shorter here all right there's a shoulder imprint why is it so soft [Music] sort of fish [Music] [Music] watch your foot [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah are we going left are we going right down the middle i think we're gonna i think we're gonna snatch walk off that tree there's some big rocks right there i can't see any there doesn't mean they're not there but there's some big ones you want to go left with a pointy one two rocks after that those are gonna drop off okay let's do this we're about to take the gold nugget swimming [Music] oh that's deeper than us go float this thing down the river [Music] we'll see if it floats between the right rocks go between those two rocks and then matt's gonna get on that bank over yonder ways and we'll pull it right down through there because this section would be rough with it [Music] where are you away you go oh that jeep's really running out the line on you now it's getting away from you that's not the drag realized we're just giving him a little line one two three well i caught my leg oh that's all i had didn't even catch my leg this time how's the practice run he just wanted to get me wet blue lines right here can we go straight to the blue line or just dig that one out no okay we will in a minute back up we're hooked on pull it tight winch how big you figure these holes are [Music] like 12 foot no i don't know hey can we get a seat belt on the steering i don't know where the other side is though yeah because that's going to act as a rudder [Applause] we're going to use fairy angles to get them over oh could you barrier you're the ferryman oh now you're a farrier oh wow dog okay okay stop stop go stop go stop oh what's going submarine stuff floating knew was gonna float i don't know if anything the titanic it's gone it's all the way under it's just completely under [Music] golden nugget silence on i'm just glad all the rat stuff it's out of there if it's not out of there it's less dangerous less lethal now the tires are what's catching on all right he's going to go go in the middle there and grab the rope there's another oh that's sketch so that well i do not approve you can't push off of it very hard oh my gosh that is so cool you want me to go do something oh yeah go do that rope put that rope over the top of this rock it's actually not bad get used to it this is the second time you made me get in the water sorry what am i doing up on top of the rock clear up over you might as well try jumping from rock to rock down see if you could have done it yeah you can use that oh you got to stay there because we got to flip it back to the other side we need to come off of a rock right here somewhere with that snatch block [Music] that'll do [Applause] okay lizzy i think we want that rope on that side of it ready yep one two three let me get let me get right here okay liz are you going to catch this camera you're not a good spot oh there's more bucks this thing's full of bucks it's deep uh that cast metal this is plastic oh we're gonna have to find that hey i did say float it down the river though that was my idea i'm taking care of that so lizzy was super brave and got completely wet but we're a little bit worried about her body temperature so we're gonna hurry and take her back to camp where she can get into some dry clothes yep [Music] [Music] [Music] oh away from it okay we need to deal with this yeah we got to get this rock over against here hey are you warm yeah is that a good idea yeah paul's heater is a fantastic idea well that rocks in the way now i'll move it it needs to be like right there so when you hit it it pushes you away from that i don't think i didn't have much of a problem here did i right there wherever your mirror doesn't hit yep you're good turning away from us making it worse turn [Music] oh [Music] can't back up [Music] [Music] there you go straight [Music] we're at the road we did it i am relieved to be out of there it was fun but holy smokes i'm glad to be out of there we're gonna take it up to this upper staging area because we're loaded on the trailer there trevor's riding with me but hang on i'm hooked up you break the engine free yet we're working on it best parallel park job i could do under circumstances well done they tricked me they said i either had to ride onto tucker's lap or in the back you look comfy back there very comfortable this reminds me of one we got picked up by the guy in the funeral yeah i was just thinking loading up like this is a very high school thing to do [Music] so the last little bit of trail we built we're like man if we pull that through there we're going to do some damage to this because it was pretty gnarly so we thought you better get in this picture we thought for three of us that it would be better to put it in the river and just pull it down it went down and got caught behind a rock and we had to to change some poles so we've also got some work to do there we can fix that did you crash it or was it the owner before you for me that's why i got it for like 200 bucks 200 bucks i'll give you 210. well this is the end of the first phase of operation golden nugget this was amazing everybody did amazing and thank you guys [Music] you got it dude nobody got snake bit or bear be it and i didn't fall down so i did everybody but only minor injuries we're going to be passing this off to fab rats they're going to take it to their shop and see if they can get it running now that it's drowned it's going to take something i hope you guys enjoyed it as much as we all did but anyway thanks for watching we got it out

Channel: Matt's Off Road Recovery

Views: 3,176,506

Keywords: Off road recovery, Rescue, Matts off road recovery, Sand Trap, road recovery, Recovery, Difficult rescue, Winder Towing, Towing, Sand dunes, dunes, Jeep, Sand Hollow, utah, off road recovery fails, off road recovery truck, Rescuing, matts off road recovery, morrvair, banana, off road recovery, jeep recovery, off road towing, off road fails, broken down, sand trap, jeep fails, off road sand dunes, operation golden nugget, 40 year rescue, ed's lj20, sierra nevada mountains

Id: 3TRl4edM_74

Length: 22min 45sec (1365 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 24 2021

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[u/XboxGuyHere]

I cant wait to see what they can do with this to get it going again. The look on Eds face will be priceless!!

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