What's Going On, Snow Recoveries In June?!

Then we got a call asking for a truck. I think it's a Ford Ranger that's stuck in a

snow

drift on top of a mountain above Paragona. Let's go there and see if we can get them out. We have a full truck. taxi,

what

's the weather like? It's like 75 degrees. It's nice out there. We have Greg there. He will be moving a camera. Yeah, you know, since I've been in recovery, so I'm happy to be here today. We have Colby. I always go. Somewhere I've never been before, so it's always exciting and Jake, hey, we've got the kids and Jamie, we're all rolling, we're

going

to go to the

snow

.

I heard there's snow there, it's May, yeah, so you'll have guessed we are. completely out of fuel so we're

going

here to load up on blue steel and I don't know where we are on the drive so we're going to put some in that too, you gotta keep it cool so I have no idea how much. The fuel that burned out the last time I filled it up was before I took it to the chats to work on it, so I'm glad it has a 60 gallon tank. She is thirsty. Jake and I have different standards in our drinking habits.

Greg called that. a sample, that's

what

you might call it, so Jamie, I'm a little worried that your weather report won't be accurate for the top of the mountain, it probably won't be, it'll probably be a little colder up there. Oh, it looks like it will rain, maybe too. I didn't even look forward, but at least you're dressed appropriately for the occasion. No comment. Okay, we just got off the highway towards the city of Pereguna. Greg is our expert in the area. Greg knows this area. None. Of the rest of us have been there, he says the overall trail is pretty good, but with the winter being extremely wet and the end of spring coming, who knows, my plan, as always, is to just wing it.

I just took a short nap and we got up late to graduate. last night and I'm old, I needed a nap. I think we'll stop right here, there's plenty of room and we're only about 10 11 12 miles from the customer, so we'll just motor it up. there in the comfy jeeps, well, Jamie says she liked the deal we made last time, where she can drive the way there and I can drive the way back, so that's what we'll do, sounds good . I've never been here, thank you. Well, this is one of the ways we get jobs. The roads are closed.

So I have the boys on the banana. We're following Matt Jamie and the wrecker we're on. Where is that? Where are we at Greg Peregrino Reservoir, Red Creek Reservoir? Yes, we had never been here before. We saw a nice little cup holder there, practical and affordable, so we're following Matt and Jamie. Up here, we're probably two miles short of the 12 miles we have. Come on, it's pretty dusty so we're going to be a little late, we're getting a mouthful and a nose full of dust, but it's okay, let's go up and get them out, at least it tastes good, taste the mountains.

It's the second time I've driven the banana. Is incredible. I've never been here. It's a beautiful, beautiful day. I can't wait to be in the passenger seat on the way back so I can look around a little more. We're headed there, people. I'll say map Why are you wearing your seat belt? Jamie has his own in the answer. I just wear a lot of belt. Lo and behold, there was four inches of white stripe of mud on the road. She drove right down the middle. I'm sorry. That was so much better This is one of the best recovery places I've ever been to The weather is cool We're at the Alamo on a Friday Well, that didn't work, did it?

I hit this thing at about 30 miles an hour and it just slid so I was done going up to camp yeah well that's the good side of the truck this is the fast side down here oh man so on a job like this, there are a lot of different ways we can approach this, I don't know. If any of them are particularly better than the others, we'll explore a little here and see which one is the best in our opinion. The best thing that could happen now is that about 12 people in the comments who are commenting today could call.

Look at me right now and tell me how to do it right, how not to do it wrong. I have an idea, okay, we'll hear you right there. What would happen if you parked the puck right here, parallel to the rig, and used the side winch for the wheel? I slide it while the bananas on the rear bumper pull it this way. Okay, that's something. I forgot about the side winches. I don't think we've ever used the side wedges. No, we have nice hooks on the front, so I like it. That would definitely take care of the back end of this.

I'm also worried about the front end and we definitely don't want to get it, we don't want to drag it through any of those trees, we want to get it. blocking places that's what doesn't seem very safe up there that's what worries me is that I don't think any of these trees are planted yet. It's amazing how poorly planted they are when they're alive, yeah, and now You're half burned, yeah, so there's another option similar to yours and it would be to pull up here and hook it in the front and then possibly get down there somewhere where let's not be in the body and then just drag it to the side with the banana winch pulling it back that way neither end of this is sure they both want to go off the edge yeah and just by protecting the paint we could get it out of here I think We could get it out of here with a pole but would the paint be affected?

How far do you think I can get a banana or another director? Let's see if you can get it up to this little mound over there easily. We will try. I don't even know. I don't know what this is going to do in that snow. We'll know a lot in a minute. I think that will be enough. You think that's enough. Then, Jake pulls the winch out of the banana. Well, there it is. We're just going to the ball hitch, that's it, it's a freedom winch line, just use the soft cover of what's on you, yeah, okay, I just put a little pressure on it.

I know, listen if you don't feel that way. what I'm doing is safe so you definitely shouldn't do it it's even better yes I don't even need this unfortunately when trying to hit the driver's seat you have to climb yes it's pretty thin ok Jamie I'm going to put you on that winch Jake I need you up here in this truck jump in the driver's seat truck City ahead Lincoln let's not get muddy there like a ninja we need snow chains for the record surprisingly yes, that wasn't very full well, snow and very wet, it's wet and frozen, but this is interesting because it's the end of May and there's so much snow it reminds me of that Prince song.

Sometimes it snows in April. Is it in tune? Well, not bad. I'm trying. recruit people to sing our little Jeep song I'm in the triangle of death, a couple of them, yes, there Greg likes to live dangerously, luckily, let's pull so gently, here's your standards, this is the that I What I'm most worried about is putting pressure on the bottom, okay, I actually want you to start it. She drives. Can you turn the wheels to the driver's side and put it in reverse? But hold the brake and just release the brake, okay? I no longer need this striker, so I'm going to unhook it.

It's like the Swiss Army knife of off-road recovery. I know we're going to see if we can beat the record without dying. Yes, the Boom is a little low. Yeah, I can move that, though yeah, I did, we might as well bring you a lazy guy here, yeah, I'm going to move all that real fast, put it in neutral and totally control your speed, Jamie, bring that in, okay, let that come back a bit, Jake. a little more, yeah, keep coming back, Jamie, okay, stop there, let's get this over with, we don't need this anymore, okay, Jamie, keep coming back, Greg or Jake, if you all have the same name, it would be easier for Me, make it hard, uh, hard.

Driver and put it in reverse and go back we're talking I want you to go back two inches Jamie nothing's still coming right now we're in trouble right? Okay, now turn the other way gently back up, okay, straighten up your wheels are coming off a little bit, okay, keep coming, you're okay, go back another 10 feet. Precision driving. I must say it's okay. I try to drive over here and the same thing we saw with the disk is sort of around here, okay, we use this inappropriately. We used it as a guide or even a starting block maybe because it helped change the direction.

We're just further reinforcing the idea that we did the right thing wrong once again and got away with it, oh not quite. away, look what we did, oh my god, oh yeah, who's a good dog, it's you, you're the good dog, what's his name Levi Levi, I really want to leave, I know they're high maintenance, they're designed to be trained, yeah, it goes blank, okay, I'll drive to the top and see if there's a good spot, okay, let's try this, yeah, it's still slippery out there, we might have to crab walk to get back across, In reality, I was literally just playing.

I didn't need to do that, this was one of those

recoveries

where crab walking may have helped a lot, the thing is, I didn't need to go up there to turn around, so I added some drama for your visual pleasure style points, but I learned something about this kind of snow on this kind of angle on this kind of platform I have to keep my drink cool we just have to drive here to a good place to give him a t-shirt and then on to the next job okay who's left with the shirt, gentleman, right here, well, I'm really glad we can help, we'll let them go, I don't know if a banana will find one right here, yeah, go ahead, stop, back up, just a little, sorry. banana, that's all, it wasn't that bad once we put the puck in the right place, plugged it in and got it out of there, they turned around and went on their way, beautiful area, absolutely beautiful, the weather is much better that below. there in Huracán Omg thanks for watching my cover came out of the chat and now my road juice is going everywhere and it looks like I peed my pants sounds like a personal problem to me please help thanks do you want to tell me' You're throwing it away the window and now it will stain my pants.