Ever have an "Idiot" day? Here's mine...

[knave]

I thought, "hey I'll go for a lap around the vinyard..."

Oh, I'm stuck, time for 4-low, and time to get some wood under there... 

I'll try winching...oops breaking the vinyard post.   

More wood under there...no good. (sigh time to get the jack and dig) 

I have to jack it up and put something unter the tires that will grip in the clay peanut butter. 

Yesterday was my "idiot day" Major PITA!!!

Was kinda fun though... 

[HaRuMaN]

<points and laughs>

[lanman31337]

If you had a CJ you wouldn't have had that problem

[protokatie]

This reminds me of the time I went off roading in my Crown Vic POPO.. Except I didnt get stuck

[HaRuMaN]

This reminds me of the time I went off roading in my Crown Vic POPO.. Except I didnt get stuck

POPO?  Police cruiser?

[knave]

If you had a CJ you wouldn't have had that problem

Ha!

http://www.leechvideo.com/video/view2715947.html

I'm pretty happy with my TJ But I have nothing bad to say about my CJ older brothers.  All (real) Jeeps are cool! 

Mud doesn't play favorites, neither does stupidity.

[protokatie]

POPO?  Police cruiser?

Yep! That car had more nut than a luny bin and was one of the best cars I ever had. (Bought it for 750 buck too, which makes it the most expensive car I have ever bought)

[Jdurg]

Oh yeah.  I've had those days.  Like this past weekend when I decided to remove the paint off of the coin door I bought and get rid of the rust.  Silly me decided that eye protection was important, but who needs gloves?

Well, lesson #1 is that the paint stripper hurts like hell when it is on your hands.  It starts out feeling really cold, then when the cold goes away an intense burning sensation sets in.  It takes a while though so if you just get it on you you're able to run to the sink and wash it off.

Lesson #2:  Even though the coin doors are old, the corners and edges are still pretty damned sharp.  As I was cleaning off the door, I rubbed my thumb against an edge and had a nice sharp cut into the end of my thumb.  One of those slow oozers where blood slowly leaches out of the wound.

Lesson #3:  CLR into a fresh cut hurts like hell and it hurts immediately.  I was using CLR to remove rust from around the edges when I got it into my cut.  Unlike the paint stripper, the CLR started to give an IMMENSE burn as soon as it touched the cut.  I shot up and screamed like a little girl when the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- got into the wound and THEN decided to put gloves on.

Lesson #4:  Put gloves on BEFORE starting work.   

[lanman31337]

That was my CJ5 - 9 inches of lift, and that's with 33 inch tires.



That was my very first Jeep - 77 CJ7.  Unfortunately I don't have any pics of my 72 CJ5.

[Ed_McCarron]

Yesterday was my "idiot day" Major PITA!!!

Yeah, once you're sitting on the diffs, forget it.

Lockers?  I loved the air locker on my 90 YJ.  Flip a switch, and BANG!  Instant solid diff on the front.  The rear had a regular 'click when you turn corners' locking diff when I got it.

I still got stuck.

High-Lift jacks and 2x2 sheets of plywood are your friends.

I miss that Jeep.   

[ChadTower]

That is something that just doesn't happen here much.  Even in muddy places it isn't very far down before you hit rock or sand.  Of course, we do get stuck on ice.

[knave]

This particular place got me by surprise as I was driving "just fine" on a crust of dry dirt.  But when I broke through every rut filled with water and turned to soup. I figure that with two different inclines meeting there it has more runoff.   The change in elevation was a factor too (mostly I just should have stayed inside and read the paper.)

High-Lift jacks and 2x2 sheets of plywood are your friends.

For me it was the high-lift and 2x6's. With a few left over fence posts thrown in.