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Hey everyone,
Was thinking of just stopping at the beach for dinner, but decided to stay the night since it was only $10. Wanted to get the FJ and trailer out of the high tide water line and got stuck. Anyone around or nearby? Any pointers? Send an IM, I'm all ears...

Are you stuck still? Do you need help out? I can get there with the 4x4 Expedition on 33" MTR's, but ill definitely need help with gas.

Well, I dug the tires and the other lower parts of the trailer, but can't try to pull it until the morning. The girls are all asleep so I don't want to risk waking them up and hear crying throughout the night. I'll post status in the morning. I'll PM my number also.

miketino wrote:Hey everyone,
Was thinking of just stopping at the beach for dinner, but decided to stay the night since it was only $10. Wanted to get the FJ and trailer out of the high tide water line and got stuck. Anyone around or nearby? Any pointers? Send an IM, I'm all ears...

If you haven't done so already, take all your tires including the trailer down to 10-12 lbs. You can get air in town and some of the entrepreneurial kids sell air on the way out.


Are both the trailer and the FJ stuck?

If it's just the FJ then separate it from the trailer.
Dig out the the front side of all four tires and if you have the rubber floor mats place them under the tires for traction.
Make sure the mats are making contact with the tires. Yeah you will probably mess them up but...

If you have a hi lift then try this: Support the base with wood and or a rubber mat and carefully, jack one side of the FJ up and fill in the areas under the tires and repeat on the other side. You will have to get the FJ really high for this to be effective so be careful.

Make sure you are in 4 low and locked. If you can get the FJ free then use a tow strap on the trailer.

If all else fails call AAA, there is a monster 4x4 tow truck available they use, I think the minimum is like $250.00

Hopefully a good Samaritan already got you out by the time you read this.

Good luck.

Well, the girls are up and eating breakfast at the moment... gonna check the sand around the tires and will try pulling the trailer out in a few mins.

Any updates?

Problem resolved, or are you spending another night in beautiful Pismo Beach?

gon2srf wrote:Problem resolved, or are you spending another night in beautiful Pismo Beach?

Yeah, are you sure you are really stuck, or is that what you are telling the war department and posting to show her you are *trying* to get help?

We need an update!

Yay....free at last, free at last, free at last...


It only took about an hour or two of digging, inching forward, digging, inching backward, digging, and more digging... then someone offered to assist me with guiding and digging, guiding, digging and more digging... and then not sure how much longer for another person with a Ford F-950 or one of the higher F models to come along and say want me to pull you out? uhhh....after much thinking about it, like 1000th of a mili-sec, I accepted the offer. I don't think he even stepped on the gas, didn't sound like his engine struggled at all, must have just idled us out, but probably used more gas firing up the rig.

Well a great thanks to those that offered to come out, words of wisdom, and support...it really helped. I'm afraid to say that with all the stressing about getting unstuck we didn't remember to take any pictures, and by the time we unhitched on harder packed sand to roll around the dunes the wind picked up and we didn't want to take the girls out in the sand storm to take a picture. I did go back to the spot where we were stuck, but with the sand blowing that hard it didn't even look like we were there at all...all the divots from digging out the tires were all smoothed over in just a few minutes.

Back to driving...thanks all again...

miketino wrote:Yay....free at last, free at last, free at last...


It only took about an hour or two of digging, inching forward, digging, inching backward, digging, and more digging... then someone offered to assist me with guiding and digging, guiding, digging and more digging... and then not sure how much longer for another person with a Ford F-950 or one of the higher F models to come along and say want me to pull you out? uhhh....after much thinking about it, like 1000th of a mili-sec, I accepted the offer. I don't think he even stepped on the gas, didn't sound like his engine struggled at all, must have just idled us out, but probably used more gas firing up the rig.

Well a great thanks to those that offered to come out, words of wisdom, and support...it really helped. I'm afraid to say that with all the stressing about getting unstuck we didn't remember to take any pictures, and by the time we unhitched on harder packed sand to roll around the dunes the wind picked up and we didn't want to take the girls out in the sand storm to take a picture. I did go back to the spot where we were stuck, but with the sand blowing that hard it didn't even look like we were there at all...all the divots from digging out the tires were all smoothed over in just a few minutes.

Back to driving...thanks all again...

Glad you are all fine and still had a good time to boot. It sounds like a life experience was had that will soon be shared around the campfire. I hope you offered the good Samaritans a cold one and gave them a big thanks. When people talk about the good old days and how people just don't care about each other these days, I can tell them otherwise, especially with our off road brethren.