You think digging out an Apex is bad............

[Mogul Molester]

I don't get it either, I could almost see it in the spring if someone was trying to get thru a patch of snow to get closer to the real snow. So they didn't have to drive the sleds on the dirt so far.

but in the early winter its only gonna get deeper!

that and now the road is all rutted up for everyone to bounce in and out of with their sleds


cool truck though, can't imagine trashing it 'just because'

We do the same thing up north, Drive as far as we can in the truck pushing snow to save 10 k on the sled. It reealy makes you wonder how stupid we are as it takes an extra hour in the truck and would be 15 min on the sled. but every year we keep doing it. 50k road ride to the mountains seems a little much but 40 seems better. I can justify it in the spring when we sneak to the mountains for a week cause when we get back to the truck there is no snow around.

 

[F/A]

Awesome truck!! I want one. Just to bad cheaped out on the winch. It doesn't look abused just used. Just cuz most just pose in town with units like this you trash the one who use it.

 

[AKtoad]

I need to see some pictures of that truck please that thing is sweet. Oh why would anyone put a turbo, good suspension, new track, motor work, and hours of labor into a sled to just roll it down a hill? Because it's fun, thats the same reason that truck looks the way it does. I buy my toys to ride them not look at them in the garage and say how sweet it looks. So what he got stuck it has happened to everyone in some way or another.

 

[H2SNOW]

I don't get it either, I could almost see it in the spring if someone was trying to get thru a patch of snow to get closer to the real snow. So they didn't have to drive the sleds on the dirt so far.

but in the early winter its only gonna get deeper!

that and now the road is all rutted up for everyone to bounce in and out of with their sleds


cool truck though, can't imagine trashing it 'just because'

nothing personal alls I thought when I saw the truck rooting around in 3 feet of snow on a trail angered me because if you have ever spent time grooming a trailand to come back the next day to find that some puke decided to see how far up the trail they could get their pickup because they were bored meant that all lot of work needed to be done to get the trail back in shape for sledders ..and when it freezes in all those ruts are real nice to hit at 50 or 60 in the dark on the way back down from the mountains .....

there now you might have a better idea as to why some people frowned on the situation

 

[DValentine]

The Bearcat pulled me out. Granted it wasn't stuck as bad.

 

[Dogmeat]

Lol buddy knows how to drive...., he races for Porsche. Road conditions were fawked. Yup hydraulic slides on the box, also a rack on the roof for a third sled.

Guess you gotta pay to play, hahaha

 

[H2SNOW]

Apparently not, because if he did then he'd have known it was a dumb idea to try driving a truck with big wide mud tires in snow that deep in the first place, and especially dumb without tire chains

I am guilty of getting stuck too, but I'm just saying ... good drivers don't get into situations in which there is a high potential of getting stuck like that

hmmmm words to live by ...H2SNOW pulls super Bs up and Down the Alaska Highway full time and never chained up in 2008 !!!!!!!!!!!!! suck it baby

 

[H2SNOW]

too slow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dogmeat got yer ...post in latex

 

[Dogmeat]

hmmmm words to live by ...H2SNOW pulls super Bs up and Down the Alaska Highway full time and never chained up in 2008 !!!!!!!!!!!!! suck it baby

I chained up once last year, but it was in a Ford Explorer I was driving for a work truck up and down the side of a canyon on a non-paved dirt road, so I kinda had to

Haha

 

[Dogmeat]

too slow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dogmeat got yer ...post in latex

Yeah I didn't wanna seem like a dick

It just seems to me like the majority of trucks I see stuck as **** in the winter time are always guys with lifted 4WD's that think they can drive their truck up the snowmobile trail for some pointless reason or another .... There are always one or two that wind up staying there the whole winter too

 

[H2SNOW]

Yeah I didn't wanna seem like a dick

It just seems to me like the majority of trucks I see stuck as **** in the winter time are always guys with lifted 4WD's that think they can drive their truck up the snowmobile trail for some pointless reason or another .... There are always one or two that wind up staying there the whole winter too

I don't wanna play the dick card either but when I sh1t like that I tend to speak my mind ....you owe me a beer for helping you through your issue LOL

PS still waiting for scooter to reply ............................................................

 

[m_beeson]

Wow, what did you learn from that?

 

[sled-fiend]

nothing personal alls I thought when I saw the truck rooting around in 3 feet of snow on a trail angered me because if you have ever spent time grooming a trailand to come back the next day to find that some puke decided to see how far up the trail they could get their pickup because they were bored meant that all lot of work needed to be done to get the trail back in shape for sledders ..and when it freezes in all those ruts are real nice to hit at 50 or 60 in the dark on the way back down from the mountains .....

there now you might have a better idea as to why some people frowned on the situation

That was not a sled trail, it's an active logging road that rarely has snow on it. Our usual unload spot is another 10km up and then up another road. Bet by this time tomorrow that road will either be plowed or melted. I would never take a truck up a groomed trail!

 

[H2SNOW]

and that my friends is the rest of the story ..........ride on .....

 

[soul!]

a few answers to the questions

as the owner of the truck i just logged on to the thread and was quite amused by the responses
thanks

the truck is a crewcab extended cab with three rows of seating or i take third seat out and put all the gear there

the box is trick electric actuators and storage for 4 full size bins as well
it took two guys 6 weeks to build
the roof is reinforced for a third sled or atv

the box widens to 8 feet 6 inches and fits to atv or sleds easily and gives you the benefit of a lifted truck without the steep ramp angles haveing a deck on top

then when your done you tuck in the sides and it looks stock


the road and why we went in there

we go there all the time but this is the vancouver island and we had a temp inversion that day and it was +8 and the snow turned into a slush layer right before our eyes

if it was powder it would have been a non issue

in fact at the end of the ordeal the snow was so screwed that i was winching down hill to get out of this wet cement

the ditch
the truck was not in the ditch it was close and i decided to winch just to be careful

the problem was the winch cable snapped ( due to bearing problem in the fairlead) and the recoil caused the truck to slide in

we borrowed a fellas 9500 pound warn and had no problem getting out, the road was so screwed that he got stuck doing nothing

re thrashing,, not a scratch, but really who gives a @#$%, if you do get an escalade

that truck was built for one thing and that was to take my sleds and my family and friends to the mountains

buddy who was also stuck in another ditch and we dragged that sucker 20 yards and also not a scratch!


we are in a rare area and to access our mountains, thrashing is required !---- unfortunately there is no groomed trail to the top like many of the popular spots

yes that days sledding was screwed but the workout i got shovelling allowed me to skip going to the gym for several days


take care

 

[VTMTcowboy]

Dang, that blows.

 

[Monty]

I've been stuck in snow like that before, not pretty.

I like the idea of the extendable bed sides, any pics with it loaded?

 

[Transporter]

Well lets see more pics of this truck and how it all works.

 

[H2SNOW]

as the owner of the truck i just logged on to the thread and was quite amused by the responses
thanks

the truck is a crewcab extended cab with three rows of seating or i take third seat out and put all the gear there

the box is trick electric actuators and storage for 4 full size bins as well
it took two guys 6 weeks to build
the roof is reinforced for a third sled or atv

the box widens to 8 feet 6 inches and fits to atv or sleds easily and gives you the benefit of a lifted truck without the steep ramp angles haveing a deck on top

then when your done you tuck in the sides and it looks stock


the road and why we went in there

we go there all the time but this is the vancouver island and we had a temp inversion that day and it was +8 and the snow turned into a slush layer right before our eyes

if it was powder it would have been a non issue

in fact at the end of the ordeal the snow was so screwed that i was winching down hill to get out of this wet cement

the ditch
the truck was not in the ditch it was close and i decided to winch just to be careful

the problem was the winch cable snapped ( due to bearing problem in the fairlead) and the recoil caused the truck to slide in

we borrowed a fellas 9500 pound warn and had no problem getting out, the road was so screwed that he got stuck doing nothing

re thrashing,, not a scratch, but really who gives a @#$%, if you do get an escalade

that truck was built for one thing and that was to take my sleds and my family and friends to the mountains

buddy who was also stuck in another ditch and we dragged that sucker 20 yards and also not a scratch!


we are in a rare area and to access our mountains, thrashing is required !---- unfortunately there is no groomed trail to the top like many of the popular spots

yes that days sledding was screwed but the workout i got shovelling allowed me to skip going to the gym for several days


take care

.....welcome to the forums .......and ..

atta a boy git r done

 

[Bryguy]

More pics

I would love to see more pics.. It's got my brain thinking about a truck build this summer.