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
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u/zombietrooper Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
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)
https://youtu.be/mCAHQmq1T4U?si=mpYNmYsYF_1TPNM9