I have been lucky enough to not get either of my trucks stuck yet, but I know with a 2wd Dodge Diesel I am just asking for it!

Anyway, if you want share your story here and how you got out.

 

OK, I got two fer yee. It was with the truck I had before the Ram. It was an 88 Chevy 3/4 ton 4X4 Suburban. My brother and I were towing my smaller enclosed 16' utility trailer with our 2 motorcycles in it down to Daytona for bike week.

We were just going to park the truck and trailer somewhere and sleep in the trailer. We came in about 1 or 2 am and along the beach we found an empty lot but with other cars parked in it. So pulled in thinking there'd be room somewhere for me with the trailer. At the water side end of the lot was a turnaround. It was a horseshoe that was wore down into the sand from traffic.

I knew I'd have trouble because of my trailer and put the thing in 4WD before I got into it. I swung the truck wide and the trailer still was running way up on the "shoulder" of the sand on the left. Eventually the sand got too deep from my truck on the outside and trailer on the inside (about 3/4 of the way around). My truck came to a stop.

I decided not to "dig in" and we'd go ahead and sleep in the trailer and deal with it in the morning. Sleeping wasn't easy on that angle.

So I didn't make a big spectacle ... and because it was free, I called road service (covered by my cell phone plan). I also didn't want to unhook the trailer because it would've been impossible to hook up to without getting the truck in the same predicament it was already in. He came and winched onto my truck. I idled it out in 'D' and it came right out. No problem.

Next time same truck, same trailer. Race bike in the trailer and was at Gateway Int'l Raceway. Came in about 2 am. Didn't know if I was at the correct entrance gate (closed) or not and wanted to get on into the track. I decided to do a U turn and try another gate. It had been raining cats & dogs and the grass I turned out onto was just seeded (I didn't know until later).

The RH side tires started digging in but I thought no problem. Got out and locked the hubs so the front tires would continue to turn left and not just plow. Also the right side tires were beginning to go off a drop-off (a slope away from the road). The mud when locking up the hubs about sucked my shoes off. When I tried to go, 4X4 did no good. It just plowed. The slope and the trailer and the mud were just too much. The RH front tire was buried the whole height of the tire.

Called a tow truck again (because it was free again) and was winched out again ... no problem. Man did I make a big friggin muddy mess on that road! And tore the crap out of their fresh seeded grass.

 

well it was in my friends 81 toyota 4x4. We went 4x4'ing up a trail right off Lake Whatcom, and got about 3/4 the way up which was prolly 3 miles i'd say, not sure. And ended up getting high centered on a ledge at about dusk with the rear half of the truck in DEEP mud not going anywhere. So.... we had to walk down the whole thing in the dark, while it was raining and go knocking on doors so we could call for a ride. We ended up knocking on my friends dentist door, and he gave us a ride to go get another rig to tow it out... All in all, a wet muddy adventure...

 

Well, my truck was six months old and I was this bad edit dude with the 4x4.

Winter was pretty cold so far and we were running out of firewood. I checked the ground on the North side of the house where I'd have to drive to get to the wood pile and it was frozen solid. So I loaded up my oldest daughter and off we went to a haul-your-own place for a cord of mixed hardwoods. Got back to the house and ran it straight up the hill to the wood pile, no trouble.

Looking in my rearview mirror, I got the bright idea to back down to the rear deck on the West side of the house and unload some there to spare me the trouble of taking some down later. Everything was frozen after all, right? As soon as I got within 15 feet of the deck, the crust of ice started breaking and the truck sank into slushy mud. I rocked back and forth in my big bad 4x4 and got it stuck all the way up to the chassis -within 5 feet of my back porch!

I unloaded the truck using a wheelbarrow to move the wood up the hill to the woodpile then started digging to try to clear a path. A few hours later, I had to admit it wasn't going anywhere and called a tow truck. The guy was nice enough not to laugh, but wouldn't go anywhere near my backyard. We ended up stringing a bunch of tow straps and chains about 100 feet from my neighbor's driveway to the tow hitch and backed it out.

The wood was a good buy, but the cost of the tow truck tripled the price. It took me all of the following summer into fall to get it all filled in and grass growing again.

All in all, a very humbling experience.

 

Hmmm, being at home and all, if it were possible I think I would've let it freeze up over night ... or possibly dry up for a few days and try again. At least you were at home. I lived in MI for 5 years. So I have a little experience with the cold/snow. Even at that, I'm not sure the freezing would've helped, but seems like it might've. Now I'm curious. What do you think?

My M-I-L got a 2WD Ranger stuck on their property. F-I-L got a tractor stuck trying to get the Ranger out. They just left them there for about 2 weeks (they have access to other vehicles) then went back and the both just drove right out. South GA bye the way.

 

Here ya go. I was going out to my land with all of my atv toys on a gooseneck (w/ my current truck). The dirt road is private and therefore one main lane. As I pulled on to the road and drove about a 1/4 miles up I see a Key truck (semi with a tanker) barreling around the corner coming my way. Well there was no way he could back up, and no way I could back up, and there were no driveways, so the only thing I could do was pull to the side and hope I don't sink...as I pulled to the side I immediately sunk terribly. The left side of the gooseneck sank enough to sit on the axles. My truck was sitting on the bumper on that side and I couldn't even open the door. 4wd wouldv'e definitly made it worse. Well, the tanker made it by (didn't even bother to help, edit) And I was stuck for an hour til my bud could come get me out. When he got there, there was no way he could pull both the truck and trailer out (he had a GMC Sierra Z-71 on 35's), so I had to unhook the trailer in spot. He finally got me out after ALOT of tuggin and me laying the smoke out. Now the problem was the trailer. We had to stick whatever we could in the ruts, and I had to back up to it at an angle (PITA with a lop-sided trailer) and re-hook. I was able to immediatly get the trailer out and go about my business. The situation scratched my left rear brand new rim pretty bad, but oh well, it happens.

 

Not me but this was a good stuck story.


https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...ighlight=stuck

 

Those guys where stuck and edit at the same time

 

One of my roomates drives an '01 CTD and we have a running competition of getting stuck. The competition started during an ice storm when he took a dump truck with a full load of sand off of the road and we struggled to get him out with a chained up loader. Then I tried to go down a driveway with my truck and never even made it onto the driveway. I started trying to turn probably 300' before the driveway but ended up in the field nonetheless so I drove across the field until I had to cross a stream by way of a bridge. Since there was a crown to the road, I couldn't get up on it and kept sliding off. I eventually settled for driving with two wheels on the road and two in the stream. I made it through the stream but promptly ended up with one tire way up in the air and stuck. We almost couldn't get from the truck to the chained up tractor to get the truck out. I guess we should really have used the chains that I carry in the truck but we though it would be more fun not to.

Needless to say, we get stuff stuck all the time. We don't have equipment as big as some of the stuff that you see stuck in the pictures but we have still buried tractors, loaders, dump trucks, pickup trucks and many other things. It is nice to always have something to talk about at the end of the day.

 

In college
199? Ford Tauras
Far from Civilization
No Cells
Midnight
Big Ditch and lots of snow
Only form of gettin out was an old ice cream bucket, carpeted floor mats, logs used as levers. We got out.

 

Or the time we had all three trucks buried in the river(at 2 am) during finals week. Walked to get help, had to replace carb and install bench seat in truck with winch to get us out.

 

most my got stuck stories are well left in the past. just one i will tell this was 1980 or so buddies all had jacked up rigs with 36 inch gumbo mudders on them . well my folks wanted to go so we jump in dads stock 78 chev 4x4 and off we go well all is fine until we come to a spot in the road where it is all rutted up and i mean these guys were dragging pumkin if you know what i mean. well i am up in the low rider and i go flying thru and make it 3/4 of the way before i get high centered and the boys pull me out. coarse they were ribbing me and i see a side road with some really deep cuts that would lay a rig on its side and i tell them what i think of them if they don't at least try it. well no one would and no point in me even thinking about it. if you go four wheelin take more than one rig and you better get stuck or you are just driven around might as well be down town.

 

Here Is a tip if your loaded with 17, 1500 pound hay bales and you get stuck you unload the hay. The frame on a Dodge Ram truck is not strong enough If you hook a 200 hp tractor on the front,and when the frame rips their is a high risk of your bumper getting torn off.
I was by myself loading hay in a field and after loading I spun out in 4 wheel drive so I put my Dodge in Neutral and was just going to tow it off. That was the wrong thing to do I had no tow hooks so I hooked the chain hook in a hole on the frame ripped right threw it and the hook of the chain hooked the bumper ripping it and the push bar clean off

 

All of my best stuck stories seem to involve my dad or my brother ,(or both)

My dad,also known as "Mr. who needs a 4 wheel drive?" asks if I want to go along for the first roadtrip in his newly purchased 94 3/4T,x-tracab, longbed, 2WD,diesel. I say what the heck,but, something tells me to bring a shovel.
As we are tooling along toward Wickenburg, he decides to head down the dirt road to the Hassayampa.Well, I know that this road ends by a ranch on the edge of the dry sand of the river bed. You can turn around on the gravel and head back or cross the river sand at this point but its bottomless sand that requires 4WD,flotation and some speed to make the 200 yard dash across.

I tell him that this is the end of the road, and to turn around to the right,bada-bing.Right?...Wrong.
He turns left to make an attempt to do a three point turn by driving all the way in to the soft sand till we come to a stop
He proceeds to finish off with a reverse hammer-down to lay the axle tubes lovingly on the sand.
Out comes the shovel for 30 minutes of digging and cutting brush to get us the 5 feet to "shore"

 

Well it all started out by someone egging someone else on about seeing what his truck can do. This is at a gravel pit north of Terre Haute Indiana. The water level rises with the river level and this time was in the summer so the water level was way down. So my buddy goes driving around on the lakebed. No big deal, it is solid in most places. My brother was riding with him and I know he had something to do with it. They ended up trying to go through a little mud puddle. Now the truck is around a 78 GM 3/4 ton with 36" super swampers and about 6" of lift. They got about half way through a 100' mud puddle. The truck ended up being high centered in the mud. We tried to pull it out with two other trucks but it did not work. It was already dark and the grandson of the owner of the gravel who lives on the property was not around so we left the truck. Call the guy who lives on the gravel pit and asked him when a good times was to come up and use a wheel loader to get the truck unstuck. The wheel loader is around a 6 cubic yard bucket and it has a QSK 19 cummins in it. The truck sat there for two days before we could get back to it. The loader pulled it out at an idle. We broke the first chain trying to pull it out. Now keep in mind that during the spring the water level is higher than the dirt mound next to the loader.



There is the guy in the loader, he lives here. The guy in the shorts, he owns the truck. The other guy talking on the cell phone is my brother.



The water was inside the cab. The front right headlights were under water. It didn't look that deep. The guy in the loader proceeded to play around in the mud hole with the loader and almost got it stuck. He had to push himself out with the bucket.