Badger Mountain Truck Recovery Plan
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:49 pm
This is for discussion as to HOW to get that truck out. . .no whether or not we should do it. So. . .what does everyone think of this as a starting point? If you would like to be a guest at our meeting Wednesday to hear the rest of the discussion, let us know.
Dave, Lee, and I went up to Badger along with James Ewing (bobracing) and Danielle (Peanut) to work with the county and the FoBM on a recovery plan.
The truck is backwards. . .meaning facing up hill. It is stuck pretty solid. There is no way to drag it out the bottom of the gully. There are huge rocks and narrow gaps that just won't allow it.
I recommend that we wait until January when the ground is frozen. The county already has plans to burn the weeds out of the bottom of the gully this winter. We'll need 2 rigs with BIG Tires and winches, some people to run cable, and some people to run fire control/safety and a couple to monitor/drive the truck. Truck owner will be on hand to DIG. We'll need a really long extended cable or a few that we can daisy chain, all the rigging stuff, a snatch block, and Scumby's pull pal. A CO2 bottle, air tools, etc. as well as a bunch of tarps/blankets for the winch lines.
1. Get truck unstuck and running. Hi-Lift jacks and shovels will be the call. The truck's owner will do most of the digging under our direction. It may have a flat tire but that can be fixed after #2. The truck should run but the windows are all broken out. The owner will need to clean it up prior.
2. There is a small plateau on the hillside that will work to station one recovery vehicle. The winch pull is long. . .probably in the neighborhood of 250 feet. Use pullpal to anchor the back of the rig. I'd like to use a heavy rig with big tires like Tim's Bronco if he'll do it.
3. Reposition the recovery rig on the same plateau for a snatch pull. This one won't be nearly as long and will position the truck to face roughly UP a shallow side gully.
4. Winch the truck up to the plateau with its motor idling only over the trail and through the side gully. This brings the truck sideways OUT of the gully. . .it will be facing South/South East.
5. Reposition the recovery vehicle on the south ridge of the gully with the second recovery vehicle providing anchorage on the southern downhill side and winch the truck up to the top. Coordinate the two recovery vehicles moving backward to the South until the truck has crested the ridge.
6. Drive it out from there. It is an easy slope down to a powerline road.
7. Come to my house for a beer.
Dave, Lee, and I went up to Badger along with James Ewing (bobracing) and Danielle (Peanut) to work with the county and the FoBM on a recovery plan.
The truck is backwards. . .meaning facing up hill. It is stuck pretty solid. There is no way to drag it out the bottom of the gully. There are huge rocks and narrow gaps that just won't allow it.
I recommend that we wait until January when the ground is frozen. The county already has plans to burn the weeds out of the bottom of the gully this winter. We'll need 2 rigs with BIG Tires and winches, some people to run cable, and some people to run fire control/safety and a couple to monitor/drive the truck. Truck owner will be on hand to DIG. We'll need a really long extended cable or a few that we can daisy chain, all the rigging stuff, a snatch block, and Scumby's pull pal. A CO2 bottle, air tools, etc. as well as a bunch of tarps/blankets for the winch lines.
1. Get truck unstuck and running. Hi-Lift jacks and shovels will be the call. The truck's owner will do most of the digging under our direction. It may have a flat tire but that can be fixed after #2. The truck should run but the windows are all broken out. The owner will need to clean it up prior.
2. There is a small plateau on the hillside that will work to station one recovery vehicle. The winch pull is long. . .probably in the neighborhood of 250 feet. Use pullpal to anchor the back of the rig. I'd like to use a heavy rig with big tires like Tim's Bronco if he'll do it.
3. Reposition the recovery rig on the same plateau for a snatch pull. This one won't be nearly as long and will position the truck to face roughly UP a shallow side gully.
4. Winch the truck up to the plateau with its motor idling only over the trail and through the side gully. This brings the truck sideways OUT of the gully. . .it will be facing South/South East.
5. Reposition the recovery vehicle on the south ridge of the gully with the second recovery vehicle providing anchorage on the southern downhill side and winch the truck up to the top. Coordinate the two recovery vehicles moving backward to the South until the truck has crested the ridge.
6. Drive it out from there. It is an easy slope down to a powerline road.
7. Come to my house for a beer.
