- First Name
- Stoge
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- Aug 30, 2022
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- Florida, USA
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- 2022 Bronco Sport
I got to perform a recovery of my friends Kia Sorento while we are on vacation in North Georgia.
Our two cars were supposed to take half our group to a zip-lining adventure and when I left I got the call over our GMRS radios that he got stuck and couldn't get out. Turned out he tried to do a U-Turn to get out of the driveway and started sliding down the hill our AirB&B was on. We tried a quick recovery with a shovel and traction boards but the tires just were not biting so we chocked the wheels and piled all 6 in the bronco sport and decided to properly recovery it later.
After the zip-lining and lunch with the rest of our group three of us returned to the house to unstick the Sorento. I had decided that if the Kia had steel or iron A-arms we would recover it with kinetic rope otherwise we were going to use hand winch attached to a tree and wrapped around one of his rims to recover it.
Luckily the A-arms were steel or iron so I gave him the instructions of "no brakes, no gas till after you feel the bump and don't run over the rope after we start moving"
I had a hitch mount D-ring soft shackled to my kinetic rope and soft shackled around his passenger A-arm (all recovery gear I have stored in my roof boxes) pulled the line out to extension, reversed a small amount, have the signal and jumped on the gas, bumped at just over 6mph and pulled him clear up to traction on the first pull.
Nothing particularly dangerous, but stuck enough that traction boards and shovels were not doing the trick so I got to feel less like a prepper today carrying around that gear.
Didn't think to take pictures before but here is a snap from when it was back on traction.
Our two cars were supposed to take half our group to a zip-lining adventure and when I left I got the call over our GMRS radios that he got stuck and couldn't get out. Turned out he tried to do a U-Turn to get out of the driveway and started sliding down the hill our AirB&B was on. We tried a quick recovery with a shovel and traction boards but the tires just were not biting so we chocked the wheels and piled all 6 in the bronco sport and decided to properly recovery it later.
After the zip-lining and lunch with the rest of our group three of us returned to the house to unstick the Sorento. I had decided that if the Kia had steel or iron A-arms we would recover it with kinetic rope otherwise we were going to use hand winch attached to a tree and wrapped around one of his rims to recover it.
Luckily the A-arms were steel or iron so I gave him the instructions of "no brakes, no gas till after you feel the bump and don't run over the rope after we start moving"
I had a hitch mount D-ring soft shackled to my kinetic rope and soft shackled around his passenger A-arm (all recovery gear I have stored in my roof boxes) pulled the line out to extension, reversed a small amount, have the signal and jumped on the gas, bumped at just over 6mph and pulled him clear up to traction on the first pull.
Nothing particularly dangerous, but stuck enough that traction boards and shovels were not doing the trick so I got to feel less like a prepper today carrying around that gear.
Didn't think to take pictures before but here is a snap from when it was back on traction.
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