s10 recovery and wheelin! pics and vid

Donahue · 07-26-2007, 07:11 PM

so, it has taken me a few weeks to get the video and pics together, but a few weeks ago, my family and i, along with some close friends went on a camping trip we usually go on every year. and when we camp, it is to wheel as well. well, anyways, the first night we get down there i realize that we had all forgot ice when we are just a few miles out of town up this gravel road on our way to the camp which is about 30 miles up the road. so i decide to head back into town to get ice while every body else goes to set up camp. its about 9 pm at this point. well, going down the road, im probably doing 30-40mph and coming around a sharp corner, my brakes lock up not realizing that the fact that i have no rear brakes means that when my fronts lock up, i have to steering too. well, that recipe launched me 130ft down a steep embankment. remember, that i am alone at this point, with everybody else driving farther and farther away from me. luckly i was not hurt, but a foot either way and i probably would have died. i was able to scramble back up the hill, and was found by a passing car. that guy ended up taking me to the rest of my party. we decided to wait till the next day to try and recover my s10. when we got there the next day, and after we had got the s10 back up the hill, we noticed that a lot of things had been stolen from my s10. a camcorder and chain saw and a lot of other tools. that sucks, but i am alive. to took two full size trucks with winches, doublers, locked front and rear to pull me back up the hill. the winches were basically worthless for pulling power, but double low and two trucks was almost dangerously fast at pulling it up that hill.

anyways, after we got it back up, it started and ran down the road, so i preceded to try and break it again. i wheeled the piss out of this thing, and it still drove me the 350 miles home! these things just dont want to stop. now the good stuff.

this is the video of the recovery.
winch line repel
s10 recovery
s10 recovered

here are some pics and vids of the river crossing:

river crossing

then, right after that river was a fairly good rocky hill climb
hill climb
hill climb 2

Donahue · 07-26-2007, 07:12 PM

some more pics:

Donahue · 07-26-2007, 07:12 PM

Big91RustyBucket · 07-26-2007, 07:13 PM

R on ck5 .... lol .....

Donahue · 07-26-2007, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big91RustyBucket

R on ck5 .... lol .....

?

Big91RustyBucket · 07-26-2007, 07:34 PM

I was just saying it as a joke. As in you posted it on ck5 earlier. Look's like fun tho.

Donahue · 07-27-2007, 01:45 PM

Redder · 07-27-2007, 02:08 PM

who the hell crosses a river and post pics of doing so these days... this would be frowned upon in my homeland lol...

Donahue · 07-27-2007, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Redder

who the hell crosses a river and post pics of doing so these days... this would be frowned upon in my homeland lol...

its a stock fawking blazer. and there was a lot more than a river.

btw, got pics of your s10?

Hanr3 · 08-05-2007, 08:18 AM

Nice flogging of that S10.

07-26-2007, 07:11 PM	#1
Donahue Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Member # 68512 Location: Springfield, OR Posts: 1,154	s10 recovery and wheelin! pics and vid so, it has taken me a few weeks to get the video and pics together, but a few weeks ago, my family and i, along with some close friends went on a camping trip we usually go on every year. and when we camp, it is to wheel as well. well, anyways, the first night we get down there i realize that we had all forgot ice when we are just a few miles out of town up this gravel road on our way to the camp which is about 30 miles up the road. so i decide to head back into town to get ice while every body else goes to set up camp. its about 9 pm at this point. well, going down the road, im probably doing 30-40mph and coming around a sharp corner, my brakes lock up not realizing that the fact that i have no rear brakes means that when my fronts lock up, i have to steering too. well, that recipe launched me 130ft down a steep embankment. remember, that i am alone at this point, with everybody else driving farther and farther away from me. luckly i was not hurt, but a foot either way and i probably would have died. i was able to scramble back up the hill, and was found by a passing car. that guy ended up taking me to the rest of my party. we decided to wait till the next day to try and recover my s10. when we got there the next day, and after we had got the s10 back up the hill, we noticed that a lot of things had been stolen from my s10. a camcorder and chain saw and a lot of other tools. that sucks, but i am alive. to took two full size trucks with winches, doublers, locked front and rear to pull me back up the hill. the winches were basically worthless for pulling power, but double low and two trucks was almost dangerously fast at pulling it up that hill. anyways, after we got it back up, it started and ran down the road, so i preceded to try and break it again. i wheeled the piss out of this thing, and it still drove me the 350 miles home! these things just dont want to stop. now the good stuff. this is the video of the recovery. winch line repel s10 recovery s10 recovered here are some pics and vids of the river crossing: river crossing then, right after that river was a fairly good rocky hill climb hill climb hill climb 2 __________________ 89 s10, flogged regularly 94 burb, tow rig

07-26-2007, 07:12 PM	#2
Donahue Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Member # 68512 Location: Springfield, OR Posts: 1,154	some more pics: __________________ 89 s10, flogged regularly 94 burb, tow rig

07-26-2007, 07:12 PM	#3
Donahue Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Member # 68512 Location: Springfield, OR Posts: 1,154	__________________ 89 s10, flogged regularly 94 burb, tow rig

07-27-2007, 01:45 PM	#7
Donahue Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Member # 68512 Location: Springfield, OR Posts: 1,154	__________________ 89 s10, flogged regularly 94 burb, tow rig

07-27-2007, 02:08 PM	#8
Redder Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Member # 83765 Posts: 286	who the hell crosses a river and post pics of doing so these days... this would be frowned upon in my homeland lol... __________________ Agent Orange: http://monkeycage.island4x4.com/showthread.php?t=31277 Proud owner of a 203/Lomax205

08-05-2007, 08:18 AM	#10
Hanr3 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Member # 33482 Location: Central Illinois Posts: 639	Nice flogging of that S10. __________________ blah blah blah......

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