2004 6.0 NV4500 Tahoe

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Beat the piss out of this thing yesterday evening pulling an Amazon van out of the sandy road by my house. Lucky for him there was a thin strip of grass running down the fence line parallel to the road he was stuck on, I was able to back down that strip, hook up my bubba rope and ****** him half a dozen times before he finally came free. It was one of the very large ford vans which to my surprise was RWD and had a monster 3/4ton rear axle. Another surprise is that a supervisor of some sort was there and he told the driver to wrap my rope directly around the bumper step. I made it very clear that I was going to ****** the ever-loving shit out of that bumper and he assured me it was built for that....... To my surprise, it held up perfectly fine! I couldn't believe it because when I was snatching it would sling the rear of the Tahoe over about two feet every time.

Anyway, I was successful and it only made me love this truck even more and very glad that I did the 9.5sf swap and kept a locker because the G80 in this thing has proven to be a tough mofo.
You should get prime free for a year:anitoof:
 

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A year or two ago I got a $25 credit to my account, this time the manager said ill get something as well so maybe I'll get lucky and get all the stuff in my cart ordered for free :p
You saved another Amazon drivers a** before? Hero status second time around. Roads suck around there huh?
 
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You saved another Amazon drivers a** before? Hero status second time around. Roads suck around there huh?

I've pulled so many people out of this same spot it's just ridiculous!

So I will try to explain how stupid it is with this map. The blue lines are roads that are either paved or well-maintained hard-packed clay, the red is pure bottomless white sugar sand. The yellow ends are dead ends showing that there is just one way in and one way out of the neighborhood which essentially is a loop with one little branch going to the west. So for some reason, the GPS for delivery drivers, not just amazon but USPS, UPS, FEDEX, Uber all sorts of people tells them to go down the red road even though there is not a single residence addressed on that road and its out of the way in most cases, people are so stupid they don't look at the obvious deep ruts and just dive right in! The West side of the road is about 1,320 feet long and the right side is 660 or so. Usually, the cars or vans make it to the dead middle, where no wrecker can reach with their winch and their only hope is to dig and flog their POS foot by foot, pay for an off-road recovery which is not cheap, or have a good neighbor stop by and pull them with a 4x4 and rope. The 4x4 and rope method is not always easy because even a diesel truck will struggle to pull a car out of pure sand just due to weight and lack of substance beneath them.

Here is a picture to show how sandy it is.
 

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I triple-checked by referencing a picture I took before I snipped it off. I will be pulling it all back off this weekend to quadruple check tho. I love that the new connector came with all three identical grey colored wires.

That's what happens when whippersnappers design things for old people.
 

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I've pulled so many people out of this same spot it's just ridiculous!

So I will try to explain how stupid it is with this map. The blue lines are roads that are either paved or well-maintained hard-packed clay, the red is pure bottomless white sugar sand. The yellow ends are dead ends showing that there is just one way in and one way out of the neighborhood which essentially is a loop with one little branch going to the west. So for some reason, the GPS for delivery drivers, not just amazon but USPS, UPS, FEDEX, Uber all sorts of people tells them to go down the red road even though there is not a single residence addressed on that road and its out of the way in most cases, people are so stupid they don't look at the obvious deep ruts and just dive right in! The West side of the road is about 1,320 feet long and the right side is 660 or so. Usually, the cars or vans make it to the dead middle, where no wrecker can reach with their winch and their only hope is to dig and flog their POS foot by foot, pay for an off-road recovery which is not cheap, or have a good neighbor stop by and pull them with a 4x4 and rope. The 4x4 and rope method is not always easy because even a diesel truck will struggle to pull a car out of pure sand just due to weight and lack of substance beneath them.

Here is a picture to show how sandy it is.

Your phallíc watermarks have become your signature Rick Roll or maybe even Circle Game. If we ever cross paths, I'm due a lot of arm punches.
 

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I've pulled so many people out of this same spot it's just ridiculous!

So I will try to explain how stupid it is with this map. The blue lines are roads that are either paved or well-maintained hard-packed clay, the red is pure bottomless white sugar sand. The yellow ends are dead ends showing that there is just one way in and one way out of the neighborhood which essentially is a loop with one little branch going to the west. So for some reason, the GPS for delivery drivers, not just amazon but USPS, UPS, FEDEX, Uber all sorts of people tells them to go down the red road even though there is not a single residence addressed on that road and its out of the way in most cases, people are so stupid they don't look at the obvious deep ruts and just dive right in! The West side of the road is about 1,320 feet long and the right side is 660 or so. Usually, the cars or vans make it to the dead middle, where no wrecker can reach with their winch and their only hope is to dig and flog their POS foot by foot, pay for an off-road recovery which is not cheap, or have a good neighbor stop by and pull them with a 4x4 and rope. The 4x4 and rope method is not always easy because even a diesel truck will struggle to pull a car out of pure sand just due to weight and lack of substance beneath them.

Here is a picture to show how sandy it is.
Aha. And a p e n i s points East in your part of the country. Very interesting.
 
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