[jeepejeep]

Now I know why they have those big hooks on the front of Hummers!! So Jeeps can pull them out! LOL!

[MidniteSquirrel]

Originally Posted by nickjeeperzj

that was my moron friends idea and all we had at the time. it came with the hummer's "emergency off road kit" still wasnt that intimidating though, as it took the chain, a 9000 pound winch, my zj, my friends cj5, and a silverado to pull it out. Those hummers are relatively heavy and sink in soft surfaces quite easilly.

You touched on a good point... one of the biggest drawbacks to the hummers isn't really that they're crap... it's that they're heavy as hell. It makes it real difficult to get out of some situations when you need two vehicles to even equal the weight of just one. Which means it doesn't go over things... it tries to go through it, or it sinks.

[tacjeep99]

I have a similar story, only involving a guy driving a brand new H3. Last week of June some buddies and I had our Jeeps in Colorado on Taylor Pass. The pass was snowed in on top so we turned around and started back down. There is a part of the trail where the stream runs down the trail for several hundred yards. I was leading the way and had gotten to the final stretch when I saw a H3 coming toward us on the trail. I got out of my Jeep, flagged the guy and his teenage sons down, and told them there were 2 more Jeeps behind me. We had been in axle deep water and dropped in some hole going up and coming back. All of our Jeeps had 3" of lift, 33s, winches, etc.

I told him that he wasn't built for the next stretch of trail and shouldn't go up. I got one of those "Oh you Jeep guys looks" as he told me he would wait until we got by. We went by, I saw a couple of guys on ATVs out flyfishing as we headed on down the trail.

We got to the trail head were taking pictures and BSng when the guys on the ATVs rode up. They asked if we had seen the guy in the H3, we told them yeah. They told us he was high centered in front and rear in the creek. They said they thought they could pull him loose with their ATVs. They told us the H3 driver threw a tow strap out and when they asked the driver if he or his teenage boys were going to hook the tow strap to the tow hooks, they told him they didn't want to get wet. That was when the ATV driver's left.

As it turns out all of the guys in my group told the H3 guy to not go up, he wasn't built for it, and they all got the same attitude from him. The ATV guys told us they saw the H3 driver at the trail head and told him not to go up.

We all said screw him, and left. We did our civic duty and notified a park ranger. At 10 pm that night the H3 was not back in the motel at Gunnison. Never did see that H3 the rest of the time we were out there.

Mindset was the factor here, he had an H3, we just had Jeeps and didn't know what were talking about.

[MidniteSquirrel]

Great story



but as you said, it was more mindset than vehicle. If those that are built more than you are tell you to go back... there's usually a reason for it. Not that you might not get through, but you'll have a high likely-hood of getting yourself into a troubling situation.

But I think most of us here, if we DID get ourselves into trouble... would be humble enough to get out of the vehicle to put forth the effort to get ourselves unstuck, even if it was in water.

[blumeeny]

At some point or another we all get the " I can handle" it attitude about something or other. Some are just smart enough not to give in to it on the trail.

What is the most indicative of Hummertude are the teenage boys not wanting to get in the water to help. Just as bad , the guy askeed them! When my son gets their age I 'm not asking him to do anything.He will be doing it.

[10achik]

We all like to push our grands to test it's limits, getting stuck is not a bad thing, you just figure out what you can and can't do for next time.

Confidence comes from experience, Over-confidence comes from the lack there of

[Woody]

Getting stuck is sometimes part of the fun.





I got the YJ stuck on a few occasions, but that's because the carb was crap and the vacuum disconnect axle liked to disconnect at the worst times.

[PumaZJ]

Originally Posted by wjRyan

That chain you were using to pull him out of the mud pit looks SCARRY!

X2! bad idea.

[Airborne Lee]

Not trying to be funny but I had never heard from anyone that H2/H3's were supposed to be any good off road. AND H1 drivers wont go off road.

The only other vehicle that should be off road besides a jeep - is the one from Mutual of Omaha/Wild Kingdom, that Marlin P. made his assistant Jim sit strapped into a chair on the hood to lasso the rino at 40 miles an hour. Now THAT is an off road vehicle.

[Woody]

I beg to differ. Properly equiped, the H2's and H3's do fine offroad. I've seen a few in action, with a lift and tires, they don't do all that bad. There's an H3 at work that's been out a few times stock and he's had no problems. If we can he's going to join myself and a few others this weekend and we're going to see him in action.

It's all in the driver's head. Unfortunetly, many drivers think that because they are in a Jeep or Hummer that they can go anywhere.

I can't tell you how many stupid TJ owners I've met that think just because they have a Wrangler, they can go anywhere. Same with Rubicon owners. With lockers and 31's they feel invincible with only 2" of ground clearance over their non-Rubicon counterparts. Yet they still get hi-centered quickly and break their Jeeps trying to get over the obstacles.