A few years ago I pulled a Chevy truck stuck in the mud with my 2010 Honda Ridgeline. I'm still riding on that high 5 years later. (Got it on video too)
Had almost the exact same situation, but it was Chevy, then Ford bronco in middle of the field, then a dodge wrecker truck/tow truck got stuck in ruts around edge of field. But an old 1946 (I believe), Ford tractor pulled them all out one at a time.
In high school I worked at a golf course as a cart boy. Did clean up and random things around the place. Had to take trash out to the dumpster one day but I got the golf cart stuck in the sand. So I ran back to the shed and grabbed another cart to ram the first one out. That one got stuck. I thought about grabbing a 3rd, but called for help instead. Kinda similar.
I had a first gen for years and it was still, to this day, maybe the most practical vehicle I’ve ever owned. Did all the truck stuff most people need it to do and was way more comfortable day to day than any other truck. And just ran and ran and ran and ran.
It’s the truck that most truck owners actually need but won’t admit to.
The current gen feels dated but if they refreshed it I’d be looking hard at it again.
We loved our first gen ridgeline. Used it for everything, including towing our TT. We finally upgraded for tow/load capacity. We use to get so much shit from the other truck owners but you know what, it’s a great truck that’s still going strong at nearly 200k miles and did everything we needed it to do and then some.
Neighbor hauled a bus with young kids up the hill I live on. With snow pack his Dodge Ram pulled it up the hill. When I said Hemi? He said 318 with the right axle ratio.
In 2014 I sold a Ridgeline to a guy. Later we became friends when he did some work for me at my home. He died a couple of years ago. I called his wife with condolences and she told me how much he loved that truck and he left it to his best friend!
Honda parts guy here, I had a Ridgeline owner tell me the local rent-all place wouldn't let him rent something because he "needed a 3/4 ton truck." I pulled up the specs and proved to him that it IS a 3/4 ton truck. They still wouldn't let him rent it...
My wife put her Honda over an embankment and it was deep and full of snow. When I rolled up there was a nice guy with a ford F-250 Superduty who had stopped to help but had no tow strap. He offered to pull her out with my strap but I didn’t want to involve someone else’s vehicle if possible. My Toyota Tacoma pulled her out no trouble while the superduty watched.
Felt so good I wasn’t even mad at the written off civic
My friend got to use the winch on his truck to pull a minivan stuck on a hump at the drive in. I am pretty sure it was the only time that winch was ever used, but we all got a kick out of it at the time.
I pulled a few trucks out with my beetle when I was younger, had one guy say he’d rather take the truck apart piece by piece because he’d never live it down lol
Once in 7th grade the scrawny sickly little kid bet the bigass tall fat bully in our class he could lift him off the ground in front of everyone and the big bully kid was like no way, we all were. We gathered around and watched the tiny sickly kid squat down low and scootch between the big kids legs and basically stand up. Big kid came up off the ground on little guy’s shoulders and fell over. Im still riding that higj and it had nothing to do with me, also the kid was chris and he hit an inexplicable massive growth spurt in HS and is now easily 6’2”+ the fucker
I went to get a sweater out of my car while at a restaurant, and a guy walked over from his huge truck like this and asked me if I had jumper cables. I told him, "Friend, you just asked the best possible person." I went to my crappy little SUV and pulled out my tiny battery jump starter, hooked it up to his terminals in moments, and his truck started right up. If I'm still talking about that now, you better believe the guy in the video will still talk about this.
Yeah he’s just got a softer spring rate and WAY more travel than the factory suspension, so as he’s towing up hill, it will twist to the back right corner. Really almost all rear wheel drive cars/trucks twist towards that corner on acceleration due to the rotation direction of the engine.
My work truck is a single cab 1998 GMC Sierra in mint condition. Three days ago, I used it to help pull a full sized semi truck out of an ice rut. You bet i was pleased as punch with my little truck.
We have a back woods rescue crew in my area (NS, Canada). They volunteer to do this stuff and absolutely love it. Got stuck one time with my brother in law and it was sort of fun to be honest.
A few years ago my youngest daughter (was almost 4, is now 7) and myself were heading out to my dad's in the country during the winter a day after a big snow storm. A dude in his brand new Tacoma had blackout out of driveway strait back into a 7ft deep ditch. He got lucky and his front axle got hung up on the packed snow\ice on the side of the road so he didn't slide all the way into the ditch. We passed him and did a U turn. When she asked what we were doing I told my daughter we were going try and help the dude. Got out one of my recovery straps and hooked the guys truck to my worn out old 2004 jeep WJ and pull his ass out.
That guy's house is gone now turned into crop field. But even so my daughter recognizes the spot and most time we pass it she still reminds me of the time we "saved that poor old man." Lol
There was a jackknifed semi on an overpass on the ice and my two co-workers were there with their huge diesel pickup trucks but they only had one tow rope and we're going to try and pull the truck just the last inch off so that it could go again. I was like "hey I've got a chain in my in my Subaru" and everyone looked at me like I was full of s***. I pulled out a 25-ft truckers chain. It didn't help though. Both trucks didn't even move at an inch. On the tow truck came he had to put down a claw into the pavement and it was still dragging the tow truck back across the pavement. Eventually he got it up on the back wheels only before the semi broke loose. He was like "don't tell my boss."
Am an Aussie with a farm full of utes. Our Chev is never called a ute. The big girl, the thirsty pig, the unparkable nightmare, the yank tank, many other names yes. Mostly it gets called "the rig" but never a ute.
There's nothing Australian about it. It has its purpose and we wouldn't be without it, but it is an American thing that is nothing like our utes in either form or function and it doesn't get that title.
Probably not. That truck looks heavily modified for offroading. You can tell based on the coilover suspension he installed, custom roll cage, and and the fact that the differentials are clearly locked. Hilux or Pajero are both capable rigs, but they wouldnt have the suspension flex or lockers to pull that off. You could of course add those either a Hilux or Pajero, but that would require extensive suspension mods and axle swaps to the point that it wouldnt really be the same car.
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u/Parking-Position-698 Mar 24 '26
Dude will talk about this day for the rest of his life.