So Josh was up on road last night that is surprisingly TRICKY. Up above Georgetown, CO ... I drove past it twice. Definitely in the mountains.
That's a little over an hour from here, and another Volunteer was also on the way. They got there a few minutes before me, and two vehicles with winches were absolutely required:
It was difficult. We tried one method with winches ... and made it worse, I have to admit. Then we changed lines to pull it entirely sideways. Trying to pull the vehicle in the direction it was pointed wasn't working. The Safe-Xtract app said we need to apply more than 13,000 lbs.
We set Double Line rigging from Nicolas's Gladiator, but we couldn't figure out how to rig a Double Line pull from my truck. My line had to go up around some trees, over a large boulder, and then onto a Winch Ring tied to a coupla trees.
Once we got it up onto the road, pulling was easy.
The road is very rough, slippery and with a long drop all along the way.
It was a good day. The drive out, the recovery and the drive back took me only four hours.
And now that I'm home, I have figured out how we could have rigged a Double Line from my Trail Boss. It would have taken another Ring and a coupla Soft Shackles ... but also a lot more climbing around in snow that was waist deep on the uphill side of the road. Without that planning and lacking the double line rigging, my OpenRoad Winch was clearly maxed out. It could not have pulled any harder. And because my Winch Rope went sideways and uphill steeply, it was lifting my TB off the road.
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