pulled out a hummer

[sinkinson1]

i was over at a friends house friday night & got a call from a friend who had gone off a trail & was about to flip upside down into a creek. my buddy drives a stock zr2 so there was no chance he was pulling out a 12000lb? H1 hummer. as we head out at 11:30 pm & 30 degrees outside we get to where they are & i wish i had a camera. i was the first there so i get my snatch strap out & hook up to the rear eye bolts but have to run the strap in a loop through the two eyelets to shorten it a littlebit. i put it in 4lo and take a good tug. moved it back but only to dig the right rear into the cliff & relize that if i back up to get another tug he is going belly up. shortly another truck shows up. an f150 , he hooks a fire hose up to the eylets on the hood & i am able to back up & change my angle. so with the ferd keeping tension on the front i procede to yank him repeadadly until he is finaly out. so now it is about 1 AM & below freezing & time to head home. first goes the ferd then the hummer & me. so as i am riding the high side & center of a big rut i take the big plunge into the last place my truck would move to till 5 pm the next day. we get the hummer to back up the trail & hook up to a hook on the front of my truck only not to budge it an inch. after tugging on it a couple times we relize that the two eyelets in the back are about to be pulled out of the bumper. so he pulls out of the way for another truck that had just showed up. none other than a duramax with 35" bf mud terrains. it was brand new so he took it a little easy on it but still managed to break the fire hose & a homemade tripple strap that was 6" thick on all three straps. by this time its 3 am & 25 degrees out & my truck is about frozen in place so we call it a night. at 11am we are at it again with a chain cumalong only to break the chain without moving it an inch. so i take the plunge of calling the local offroad shop for recovery. he shows up in a f250 with 38" muds & a 15000lb winch. he hooks up only to get no traction. so we hook the zr2 up to the back of his truck & still was pulling himself & the zr2 towards me & still have not moved an inch. by this time im thinking its time to take a match to it & collect insurance money (ha-ha, i love this truck) adam from southern off road gives another guy a call. he has a wrecker service with a 4x4 recovery truck. so about 4:30 pm he shows up in a late 70's dually with a pto winch & boon on the back & after expaining the situation to him he tells me he's the one who gets the people who are stuck----- unstuck, so off we went. we get down there, he turns it around, gives me the line to hook up, chocked the rear wheels !!!!! & boooooya, i'm finally moving. so needless to say he made a quick $250 dollars & i was off to the car wash. so what did i learn. dont go get stuck when there is almost nothing out there that can pull me out. the guy with the hummer is paying for my recovery & said he's making a sticker that says H1 recovery team. all the guys that were out there when i was pulling him out were all loving the sound of the turbo & the shere power that pulled that hummer from a sure swim upside down in the creek. i took pictures before it got a bath, if interested i will try to post.