WARNING: if this tale sounds a bit redneck... that's because it is ;)
“Go on, dig that monster in and let’s see what she can do!”
This was the challenge posed by Diesel Doug, to see how BIG Blue would handle a 4x4 dilemma, before we take her down to the unpredictable,
unforgiving and at times, deadly Baja coastline!
After finding a suitable sand pile, we drove at it in 2-wheel
drive, obviously getting stuck. Before I could get it in 4L, the instructions
came… “That’s to easy for her, GO ON, bury her!” “OK” I replied, and slammed on
the gas.
She began bucking side to side as her two wheels spun hard, but to no
avail. “Alright, that looks pretty dog gone good!” Doug said, “Now drop that
monster into four low and let’s see what she’s got!”
With the clutch engaged, I pulled back on the manual 4x4
transfer case, setting BIG Blue into 4L. Then, with a quick exhale I gave her
some gas. She growled at the sand trap, which was doing its best to hold her
back! No sir, she would not be stopped, and with a couple of tries she roared
out of the sandy mess we got her in!!!
Doug was so excited with BIG Blue’s performance that we loaded
up the trucks and blazed off in search of other valiant opponents to test our
muscle!
A couple of hills later, Doug buried his overhauled F-250 into
a real good mess. “Yep, I’m stuck” Doug admitted, “and I knew I should of
brought that dang chain.” Well as luck would have it, the owner of the sand
pits, Mr. Willoughby, happened to be driving up at that very moment and had a
20ft tow chain that we could use! So after backing BIG Blue into position and
chaining the vehicles together, we dropped her into 4L and hit it!
YES SIR’EE! BIG Blue yanked that beefy F-250 right on out of
there! YEEHAW!
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