I think having one would be a great idea, with the MORR crew it will inevitably lead to a bunch of videos where Tom is saying "our land anchor would be really helpful right now, too bad we took it out for (blank) and never put it back" 😂
Usually they bring extra vehicles to hook to, so they just go with weight of steel. The system breaks down a bit when the wrecker gets stuck though since it's so much heavier than everything else they have that can go off road.
A few people mentioned the use of a land anchor. We used danforth anchors as an expedient pull point in soft material. Easy to carry around, doesn't take much space, and really useful.
Matt should invent a land anchor that has multiple purposes. Such as an anchor and a traction pad to put under wheels. Design it so a 3 or 4 bolts to assemble it.
@@j_rainsgoat3929 lower tire pressure would be first before duals, looks like the tires were at the usual 12psi, they could triple the ground contact pack dropping to 4psi
This works. When I was in high school, a long time ago, I worked part time for Sanders Brine Shrimp Company of Ogden. We collected brine shrimp eggs all around the south and west sides of Great Salt Lake. We traveled in a Jeep with duals all over that gumbo that was pretty dry on top but grabbed you and pulled you down in an instant if you made a mistake or bad guess on your speed or where you went. We had to self-extricate, there was no Matt's Offroad Recovery to save us. For an anchor to winch from we carried a railroad tie. We would walk out in front of the Jeep just about the length of the winch cable, and with two strong guys using good pointy garden shovels we would dig a two foot deep pit the length of the tie, perpendicular to the winch cable, our line of travel, put the cable around the railroad tie and sink it and cover it in the pit. We also carried Marston mats, the ones Army engineers used in WWII to make temporary landing strips. They are about 10' long and 15" wide., weighing about 65 lbs. We dug trenches in front of the front tires that were slanted from pretty much the bottom of the tires up to ground level. Then somebody drove and the other one or two pushed. We got ourselves out every time. Be prepared. Great episode, was yelling at you and for you. LOL
My sister uses traction mats. 2/3rds as solid as boards. In MN snow, ice she has gotten herself, few others unstuck in snow/ice with Front wheel drive, no locker, or limited slip. I was thinking a land anchor. Never used one myself. But have seen them used. When going so far, so many. Why not load a side by side? To break trail
Sometimes you need two strips of chain link fence, two land anchors and enough rope to set the anchors in more solid ground to keep the traction fence mat from slipping and a third anchor for the winch. A block on the lift hook for the snow plow comes in handy for pulling deeply buried anchors though you will likely need to reinforce the lift frame which I had to do. In questionable areas though you often need a pair of high boots and a stick to walk ahead and test the ground before driving on it which is the best option. Always carried mud hooks for all 4 wheels too along with a few folding shovels. In the winter I'd toss a small snow thrower in the bed along with the spare jugs of gas which came in handy on numerous occasions especially when dealing with others who had gotten stuck and completely blocked the road. You learn that in these situations the fastest route is very often the slow and cautious route. Best!
This is probably one of the only times I have seen anyone self recover with logs alone. I have done with with a bunch of digging too, but never just stuff logs down there.
I had a friend give me a thick rear floor mat out of a chevy SUV. I have it in the back of my 4-runner that comes in handy for laying down when working on vehicles out in the wild and a mini patio at the beach that I can drive on and camp out in the Bolivar peninsula.
@@MattsOffRoadRecovery your not selling MATTMAN floor Matt's off road recovery car Matt's combination "We'll gettem out" traction bars, 8pm special edition new release coming next Friday
Honestly you could have done a Timelapse of someone washing the wrecker and I would have spent another 5 minutes watching that. Awesome video, love that you include your entire family. Cheers from Salt Lake City!
That someone doing the washing, woulda or shoulda been Matt. If he only coulda done the right thing, Like Jamie did. Build Jamie a "worlds largest Pink Wrecker", so she can keep saving you, in your old age Matt...... lol.
Matt should give himself a shirt for that episode. He got himself stuck twice and got himself out. Great family adventure! Hope y’all had a merry Christmas!
I remember a video where Matt said if you can get out using traction boards, you aren't really stuck. I guess using traction logs means he wasn't really stuck. 😁
Right? I have a FWD suv that people call a mountain goat...I live in an area with a lot of dirt roads, sands, etc... western Mojave...so not unlike what Matt sees. I don't need 4wd very often, of ever... but I've been in. Couple of spots where simple traction boards did the trick. Of course, I'm not a recreational off-roader in this car... this is ordinary day to day life/work. It's way cheaper than driving a 4x4 daily.
In this scenario, the wrecker probably would have just sucked regular traction boards under. It wouldn't have gotten out with just the logs and no winch use either.
Not mentioned here and I’ve never heard Matt mention this: Always turn your wipers on just before hitting a mud hole. If you get a big splash and your wipers are not on you will be in the middle of the hole, with no visibility, fighting to turn them on, and slowing down to control the situation. Growing up in the south, this was the number 1 way people got stuck in mud.
Mud and snow/ice are the great equalizers. As a licensing examiner, trainer, and tow truck/recovery operator (primarily for Hummers (HMMWVs) and 5-ton trucks) in the Marine Corps, I had to be on my A-game when it came to driving. Mud & snow have both humbled me a time or two. Great job to all of the MORR team! Keep up the good work.
Love how Jaymie yells "Stupid!" immediately when Matt sinks second time 😅 And I think Rhett's slowly becoming the star of the show. He's witty, he's funny and he seems to be very comfortable in front of camera. Hope we'll see more of him in the future.
Me being from Texas, I woulda never guessed that mud was lurking underneath all that stuff. The wrecker is an absolute UNIT. Super impressive in my opinion.
I’ve watched enough recovery videos from Salt Lake to know that stuff is nasty. It may look solid, but is more of an issue than I thought quick sand would be growing up.
You must not be in the eastern part of Texas lol. Vegetation on the ground and a about a foot underneath its soupy clay. Matt definitely needs a 12lbs long handle ford wrench and some metal fence stakes to be driven into the ground for when there are no trees or rocks around for such soupy situations. Then he can pull them out with the boom. No matter what you drive we have all been stuck before. Lol
@@327JohnnySS The t-pole idea is actually smart for stuff like this (assuming thats what you mean by metal fence stakes), so like you said if theres nothing to winch off of, pound a couple those in the ground and have a recovery point.
@@327JohnnySS - stout pegs (whatever brand of temporary fencepost one uses in their area (we call them "star posts" / pickets in Australia, Y shape- there is even a tool to extract them after use - if a boom isn't handy) , combined with a sledge and winching base plate - very useful for that one ( :-) ) time...
when I see you guys stuck like this in mud, sand or snow it reminds me that there are snow anchors (basically a shovel head with a rope attached to it, made for rescuing people out of crevasses ) you can just stick it in the snow and they are incredibly strong for how simple they are because they transfer the force to a large surface area. I think it could work in mud or sand too. just something to maybe experiment with when you don´t have anything to winch off of. Love the channel!
Using the largest of those logs at the end of a winch cable would have the same effect if you can bury it into the ground (horizontally) with the rope in the center. T style.
Hey man, the algorithm recently suggested Florida Off Road Recovery for me and I saw you in the comments! It's basically the MORR Florida Man edition. Good stuff, ain't it?
I've used a Danforth anchor ( used by boaters) as a clay/sand anchor when off roading. Up here we have a lot of Leda clay and in a few places glacial sand. The Danforth anchors work on both the powerwagon with a Holmes 440 bed and the on road tow trucks
In the early 90's we managed to sink a 90 tonne mobile crane up to it's door sills in a public park. Fortunately the local town was home to a tank battalion and they came out with this thing they use to tow tanks out of the sh*t with. Basically a big tracked vehicle with what amounts to a full width ground anchor in the middle of it. Was damned effective.
Danforths were designed for winching landing craft back of the beach after they had landed the soldiers..The Danforth was dropped just off the beach andthe winch cable payed out keeping the boat square onto the beach and ready to drop the ramp..
This is where a Hi -lift jack comes in handy. As soon as you know your stuck,jack up the vehicle until you have space under the tires and put the wood under the tires. Let it down and drive out. Old school before lockers,winches, and super large tires weren't as popular as they are now.
I came too see who beat me too this comment 😂, I’ve seen off road races in Europe I believe that had these stacked one man would stick into ground hook winch too too pull trucks up a ditch
Well done Matt and team! 4 of us spent the night trying to get out of a similar type of environment and ended up calling a heavy wrecker with a extra long cable to winch us out from the road. Expensive lesson!
This was a legendary family Sunday afternoon. You guys will be telling this story of how you got the heavy offroad wrecker stuck in the mud for years to come. Best part is we got to come along for the ride.
"If traction boards get you out, you weren't really stuck." - Matt Wetzel On the plus side, the property owner now has 'bout a quarter acre ready for planting.
Do what the arabs do in the desert, fill a canvas kit bag with sand, tie the top up tight, dig a hole about 4' deep, loop your tow strap around the centre of bag, chuck it in the hole and fill it back in, winch yourself out.
For self recovery in sloppy shiite like this and worse, a farmers trick used in my family since at least the " 40's to my knowledge, and probably.much further back than that is to either - chain/tie a post lengthwise on the outside edge of your tyre so that you have 6 to 12 inches of post sticking out beyond tyre either one side or both sides on 2 or.more drive wheels(on the farm we would have 3 to four feet of post extending out) this extra drag/traction makes a huge difference to self recovery. Or chain / tie/ ratchet strap one or more smaller 2 to 3 inch wide timber traction bars about 6 to 12 inches wider than your tyres depending on body clearance, effectively widthways across tyre which acts as a large paddle/float which you drive up over. (on the farm we would use a full post chained to the wheel and driven over.) In both cases, as traction bars are physically attached to the wheel, there is no slippage, it always works. A few straps and a few traction bars in the tool kit take little space but are immensely valuable at the "wrong" time.... Posts take a little more space, and will probably only be carried when a problem is likely.
I love that there is sausage and cheese party platter sitting in your lap and there is no extra comment for that. It’s just that routine for you guys. Absolutely hilarious. 0:53
What a lesson. If you get stuck with a tiny car, branches and sticks are "always" the way to try. If you get stuck in a giant wrecker, just use big brances or even logs.😃
It was so awesome getting to meet you guys yesterday in my little hometown in New Mexico. Thank you guys for being so kind and letting me standby and watch. Sorry if I interrupted. Can’t wait to see the video. ❤
Worked in the goddamn oilfields of texas for 31 years, I don't miss that dadgum mud. It gets everywhere and sticks to everything, even the depths of your subconscious. Happily retired in Maine now. Stay blessed. 👍
That looked remarkably similar to when I self recover. Frantically jamming whatever I can find under the tires and spinning them, digging myself in deeper in the process. I can definitely relate to the whole getting free and driving right back into the same situation. Matt trying to winch off the tiny bush was hilarious.
Fun to watch a professionals make mistakes. Shows that we all can learn and no one is perfect. The save was miraculous to say the least. Didn’t think you would get outta that one. Good job.
@@theuglytruth8162 that's the problem when someone gets hurt it won't be matt it will be one of his lost puppy crew that follow him blindlessly and he will just shove someone else in there slot like everyone else that's gone through there payrolls and out the otherside
You don't see couples able to cooperate very often in situations like that. Hats off to the team work! I used to work on a small cruise boat that Moored next to two busy public boat launches and oh the boat launch drama was good! Lol
Matt, you need to make a land anchor incase you get in a situation like that again. One that digs itself into the ground as you winch. Then as you pull it out the opposite way it comes right out. I made 2 of them. One for my truck. And one for my 4 wheeler. The one for my truck is about 3 foot wide and the one for my fourwheeler is approximately a foot and a half wide. They work amazing. Gotten me off private property more than one on a school night 😂 great videos man
Damn a land anchor down here in these florida swamps where I'm from the traction boards will save Dat a$$ a lot of work. Especially on the sandy beaches anyone that does recovery should have them in their inventory....
Helped get a Unimog unstuck once! It was buried to the TOP of the tires in black mud. We were in a wooded swamp so we left the wheels turning in a super low gear and chucked firewood size logs under the tire until it walked out. It took hours.
sometimes you gotta use what u have in hand, i used snow to get out of snow drift in the middle of the field (in a quite low car).. there should be saying your not stuck untill your brain cant work out any solutions.
lol I can’t believe the wrecker drove out of the second time being stuck. That thing is a BEAST. You looked pretty close to being high centered, but I’m glad it worked out for y’all!
Matt! Driving right back into the peanut butter after barely escaping.... was.... GREAT CONTENT ! Always love the vids... H8rz will always hate. Rock on MORR !!! (or Mud on!)
This was great viewing. I love how every failure... erm, I mean 'mistake' becomes another story it and of itself. "We learned something..." There's so much to be said about this as a philosophy... Great going, guys! P.S. I wanna know who does get vehicle cleaning duties... that wrecker is at least 4 inches taller than normal, now.
Years ago a mate bogged a car to the floor in a quagmire on a forest trail. It was also the middle of the night and raining. We bogged 2 more vehicles before we got everything out. Everybody and all the vehicles were identifiable due to the sticky layer of mud coating every surface and it seemed to be 3 inchs thick.
Matt got the wrecker unstuck, and then immediately drove back into the same mess lol. Things like that have me convinced that they do that stuff on purpose to make things dramatic haha 🤔😆
Us southern guys love the slop.we usually keep a couple bottles of extra displacement on tap for those real sticky situations though. It takes A LOT of horsepower to get the wheelspeed up to clean a heavy tire.
E usado para sacar del barro 2 postes plantados 60 cm ,uno para cada rueda ,y el tractor artículado salió al primer intento ,sugiero que hagan algo así, como una pala de hollar pero 5 veces mas grande ( desarmable) y otra igual pero 2 veces mas grande ,clavan la primera y en contra la tierra enganchan el cable ( del malacate) y de arriba ( seria el cabo) prenden una cadenita ( capacidad 300k y 3 metro largo ) a la pala mas pequeña (prenden , también en contra la tierra),esta ultima cuida que la grande no se gire y largue , en el barro ,este sistema con un apoyo de 50 x 70 cm ( estas serian las medidas de la planchuela de la pala grande) creo podría sacar un vehículo como este camión todo terreno ,enterrado como el vídeo o mas clavado , . para usarlo en seco, con tener una pala y hacer el hueco donde irían clavadas las anclas/palas) ,también lo pueden usar y no necesitan encontrar un arbol ( \ | \ | ) quedaría así como estas barras inclinadas ,la primera es el cable ,la segunda es la pala grande ,la tercera es la cadena y la cuarta es la pala chica ( el cabo de la pala grande debe ser bastante fuerte para que no se doble)
Not mentioned here and I’ve never heard Matt mention this: Always turn your wipers on just before hitting a mud hole. If you get a big splash and your wipers are not on you will be in the middle of the hole, with no visibility, fighting to turn them on, and slowing down to control the situation. Growing up in the south, this was the number 1 way people got stuck in mud.
That's not my experience in this area. Sure if it' a big wet puddle, turn them on. But in this kind of mud, your wipers would just turn a small glob of it into a big streak of it, and actually make things worse. Lol.
@@sorrenpeak4870That’s true. If it’s “splashy/watery” mud, at all, do not forget the wipers. The mud in this video could go either way. If it’s a fine/smooth/powdery grain size or organic then the wipers will clean it without smearing. If it’s a large/rough/gritty grain or has a high clay content then it will smear easier. A low flat Utah valley will have a thick layer of dirt with a light clay content, almost no organics, and a lot of sand. Below that will be a really solid clay layer Maybe some larger decayed rock too but it’ll be at the bottom of the sand layer.
For those of us who live in the South, that was not that bad of a mud spot... I've seen places where it would easily go over the top of even the tires that you have on your vehicle... Having a hydraulic instead of an electric winch so that you can winch all day long and not have to worry about duty cycle is a definite advantage in those situations...
Lmao I could definitely tell he's not used to deep mud.... All I was thinking after the he got it out the first time was not enough momentum and not enough wheel speed 😂 momentum to keep you up on top and wheel speed to clear the treads for more bite on the wheels
@@mediocreman2 we have a very similar type of clay in middle and south Georgia (north and west of the "fall line" that was an ancient coastline) and if you dig down a bit we have another type of clay known as kaolin that is a pure white clay with very similar properties to bentonite clay.... Both are very fine silty clays that are VERY sticky and as slick as ice... I've been playing in it since I started driving and I've been buried up to the axles more times than I care to admit... Deep treaded tires, wheel speed, and momentum that's the only way to attack a pit like this with any hope of making it across. From what I could tell Matt was in the wrong gear, a higher gear and I bit more momentum and I feel like he would have been just fine... Coming back is a different issue 🤣
I’m from Florida so we live in the mud. You did great. Only thing is if you have slick mud, once you commit to it do not stop. Always have some speed and do not let off until you are out. If you stop usually trying to go again is how you get stuck.
Matt, YOU are the LUCKIEST man alive! To have Jamie (sitting in the middle) with a cheese board for all you knuckleheads is absolutely Classy. Jamie YOU ROCK
Hello. To get out of that mud, you can tie a protruding log to the side of the wheels: when the wheels turn, the log digs into the ground, creating a lever for dragging.
Commented over and over again they have very loose sand en this extreme mud but they refuse to take a sand anchor even on the wrecker which is as big as a boat. Have lots of winches and the first i hear Matt say is if only we had something to attach to.
That only works so much in slick mud! It creates more drag at a certain point! He built the wrecker for sand and rocks as 95 percent of his recoveries are in that! Had he built it for mud he would have a bit narrower wheel and tire package! I was working for a man as a farm hand and he had those skinny knobby tires like a military vehicle on every 4 wheel drive and even a coupe two wheel drive trucks , told me that a narrower tire cuts through were a wide tire plows! There are certain types of mud and compact snow that a wider and aired down tire is preferred for flotation but in thick sticky mud or wet loose snow that narrower profile and adequate wheel speed is preferred! Look at mud trucks and tractor tires they run, compared to size of the truck those are skinny tires!
@@kenwillis8487 Try pulling a stuck trailer with high tyre pressures in soft ground, it digs in, reduce the pressure and the tyre will roll over the ground, not dig in, it makes the tyre 'cup' the sand. It's creating a little caterpillar track on each wheel.
@@kenwillis8487 narrow tires, or "pizza cutters" as we call them in Australia are great in mud, IF there is a bottom you can hit before your axles rest on the mud. I'd suggest that this mud isn't that sort of mud. Wider floatation tired is the way to go here, along with a MUCH more aggressive tire pattern. Think tractor V pattern tires. Honestly, with sufficient horse power and lots of patience, you can often get out of that sort of mud just by moving back and forth. You just need to minimise digging down and work on digging forward and backwards so you can build up momentum to the point where you can climb out.
Jamie you rock this recovery,nice drive and technical Attitude,,,,, thanks Matt and crew, vary nice 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 thank merry happy new year 24 p.s. In the Desert over here in California the same thing when it rains,,, I have learned to walk the path before I drive off into a trick dry looking area, over here A desert has no bottom you drive off into it your vehicle log think through the windshield,,,, I have learned that lesson just like that the hard way lol thanks BigAl California
This was exactly what you should do if you get stuck like this. Pause and start looking for solutions and thinking of different options to get you out. Move slowly with purpose. Matt never disappoints
Love your UA-cam Channel, love the builds and the Recoveries!!! Any word if you invited HellBoy off Murphy's Diesel to the Wrecker Games. Alot of views asked them if they are going to the games. But they said, no one has reach out to them yet? It would be nice to see another Diesel Truck competing against Merlin's Diesel Truck.... I have no favorites. I lovel all the Tow Truck's that competed. Its awesome to see other Tow Trucks UA-camr's competing. Last years was the Bomb!!! I watched your channel before or after work . Way down South, From the South Pacific.... American Samoa!!!
Cheap and simple ground anchor: a length of angle iron with a loop on one end and half a dozen holes drilled through it. Lie it on the ground and bash a few steel pins through it into the ground. Hook up, winch out.
4:58 Jaymie yells "Stupid" never a truer word spoken! Right on Jaymie!
Please note: no “stupid,” no UA-cam.
stupid made good youtube video.
Yes, can't agree morr. Stupid is the theme of this channel. It's refined and polished.
Add ignorant and arrogant
But she’s the stupid one with the wrong shoes on
Still think you guys should make a land anchor for when you don’t have trees or other rigs to hook onto amazing video so far
Told them that last year!
The amount of times I've thought of typing that lol
Like TrailMater, it could simply hang on the boom
I think having one would be a great idea, with the MORR crew it will inevitably lead to a bunch of videos where Tom is saying "our land anchor would be really helpful right now, too bad we took it out for (blank) and never put it back" 😂
Usually they bring extra vehicles to hook to, so they just go with weight of steel. The system breaks down a bit when the wrecker gets stuck though since it's so much heavier than everything else they have that can go off road.
A few people mentioned the use of a land anchor. We used danforth anchors as an expedient pull point in soft material. Easy to carry around, doesn't take much space, and really useful.
A duley set up for the rear tires on wrecker would make it unstoppable on mud and snow. Or wider tires all together
Matt should invent a land anchor that has multiple purposes. Such as an anchor and a traction pad to put under wheels. Design it so a 3 or 4 bolts to assemble it.
There was another video several months ago where a land anchor would have been extremely useful.
@@j_rainsgoat3929 lower tire pressure would be first before duals, looks like the tires were at the usual 12psi, they could triple the ground contact pack dropping to 4psi
Rory has used his land anchor to save himself.
This works. When I was in high school, a long time ago, I worked part time for Sanders Brine Shrimp Company of Ogden. We collected brine shrimp eggs all around the south and west sides of Great Salt Lake. We traveled in a Jeep with duals all over that gumbo that was pretty dry on top but grabbed you and pulled you down in an instant if you made a mistake or bad guess on your speed or where you went.
We had to self-extricate, there was no Matt's Offroad Recovery to save us. For an anchor to winch from we carried a railroad tie. We would walk out in front of the Jeep just about the length of the winch cable, and with two strong guys using good pointy garden shovels we would dig a two foot deep pit the length of the tie, perpendicular to the winch cable, our line of travel, put the cable around the railroad tie and sink it and cover it in the pit.
We also carried Marston mats, the ones Army engineers used in WWII to make temporary landing strips. They are about 10' long and 15" wide., weighing about 65 lbs. We dug trenches in front of the front tires that were slanted from pretty much the bottom of the tires up to ground level. Then somebody drove and the other one or two pushed. We got ourselves out every time. Be prepared.
Great episode, was yelling at you and for you. LOL
Thanks for recollecting those days, sir.
Instantly my favorite part of this video became Jamie yelling “stupid!”😂😂😂
stupid was taking that crapbox out there on street tires to start.
That was really stupid. Why would he immediately drive right back into it?
Had to get content somehow. Maybe they should stick to dry recovery.
That was exciting to see the wrecker get in that deep! When you drove back into it the second time apparently you didn't hear me yelling "NO!"😂
The only thing missing from the wrecker recovery was a few floor mats for traction. Knowing Matt’s position on their use.
Those are 54 inch tires... I'm not sure they'd notice a floor mat.
@@nerfo2 Although it sounds funny, sometimes a little extra traction is really needed to get out.
I've used mats. Does absolutely no good but I was desperate. Branches, twigs, a whole bush, etc......
My sister uses traction mats. 2/3rds as solid as boards. In MN snow, ice she has gotten herself, few others unstuck in snow/ice with Front wheel drive, no locker, or limited slip. I was thinking a land anchor. Never used one myself. But have seen them used. When going so far, so many. Why not load a side by side? To break trail
Sometimes you need two strips of chain link fence, two land anchors and enough rope to set the anchors in more solid ground to keep the traction fence mat from slipping and a third anchor for the winch. A block on the lift hook for the snow plow comes in handy for pulling deeply buried anchors though you will likely need to reinforce the lift frame which I had to do. In questionable areas though you often need a pair of high boots and a stick to walk ahead and test the ground before driving on it which is the best option. Always carried mud hooks for all 4 wheels too along with a few folding shovels. In the winter I'd toss a small snow thrower in the bed along with the spare jugs of gas which came in handy on numerous occasions especially when dealing with others who had gotten stuck and completely blocked the road.
You learn that in these situations the fastest route is very often the slow and cautious route.
Best!
As soon as the logs came out I was totally expecting Matt to go full tourist and shove the floor mats in there too. 😂🤣
If I would’ve had them….
This is probably one of the only times I have seen anyone self recover with logs alone. I have done with with a bunch of digging too, but never just stuff logs down there.
@@dozerboyd8784 You can't dig that kind of mud. It just sticks to your shovel and rolls back into the hole.
I had a friend give me a thick rear floor mat out of a chevy SUV. I have it in the back of my 4-runner that comes in handy for laying down when working on vehicles out in the wild and a mini patio at the beach that I can drive on and camp out in the Bolivar peninsula.
@@MattsOffRoadRecovery your not selling MATTMAN floor Matt's off road recovery car Matt's combination
"We'll gettem out" traction bars,
8pm special edition new release coming next Friday
Honestly you could have done a Timelapse of someone washing the wrecker and I would have spent another 5 minutes watching that. Awesome video, love that you include your entire family. Cheers from Salt Lake City!
Yes! The washing part is missing badly.
That someone doing the washing, woulda or shoulda been Matt. If he only coulda done the right thing, Like Jamie did. Build Jamie a "worlds largest Pink Wrecker", so she can keep saving you, in your old age Matt...... lol.
Matt should give himself a shirt for that episode. He got himself stuck twice and got himself out. Great family adventure! Hope y’all had a merry Christmas!
I love how well the silence echoed right after you got stuck the second time, Matt climbed out of that truck with his best "I know" face on.
It was an impressively rash move :-)
The best part was his wife yelling "STUPID!"
Three or four humans trying to pull the wrecker out of the mud....???
I remember a video where Matt said if you can get out using traction boards, you aren't really stuck. I guess using traction logs means he wasn't really stuck. 😁
Right? I have a FWD suv that people call a mountain goat...I live in an area with a lot of dirt roads, sands, etc... western Mojave...so not unlike what Matt sees. I don't need 4wd very often, of ever... but I've been in. Couple of spots where simple traction boards did the trick. Of course, I'm not a recreational off-roader in this car... this is ordinary day to day life/work. It's way cheaper than driving a 4x4 daily.
People tend to eat their own words sooner or later
In this scenario, the wrecker probably would have just sucked regular traction boards under. It wouldn't have gotten out with just the logs and no winch use either.
@@bshinn4884better than eating mud
@@JohnFLExactly, traction boards would have done nothing. A giant log is a bit bigger than a traction board. Lol
Matt just broke all his own off road wheeling rules 🤣
He's used to sand and rocks, not dealing with mud or bogs
all the more reason to be careful. @@KNR90
That's not unusual. lol
Not mentioned here and I’ve never heard Matt mention this: Always turn your wipers on just before hitting a mud hole. If you get a big splash and your wipers are not on you will be in the middle of the hole, with no visibility, fighting to turn them on, and slowing down to control the situation. Growing up in the south, this was the number 1 way people got stuck in mud.
@@KNR90 Anyone north of the canyon is familiar with snot-mud. I think he was just a teeny but overconfident with his giant tires
What an awesome customer helping out and being so grateful. Gotta love that.
Mud and snow/ice are the great equalizers. As a licensing examiner, trainer, and tow truck/recovery operator (primarily for Hummers (HMMWVs) and 5-ton trucks) in the Marine Corps, I had to be on my A-game when it came to driving. Mud & snow have both humbled me a time or two.
Great job to all of the MORR team! Keep up the good work.
Love how Jaymie yells "Stupid!" immediately when Matt sinks second time 😅
And I think Rhett's slowly becoming the star of the show. He's witty, he's funny and he seems to be very comfortable in front of camera. Hope we'll see more of him in the future.
Rhett is an operational thinker, it's kinda like "if Rhett is there, it's handled. Impressive from a grownup, but more impressive from a kid.
Jaymie owes me a Coke. I yelled it at the same time. Glad to know even Matt makes stupid mistakes.
Rhett is a star, for sure
Shes right, was incredibly stupid
Your wife is a damn legend being surrounded by all you boys haha. Cheers to your family hope y'all have a great new year.
Team Jamie!!
Me being from Texas, I woulda never guessed that mud was lurking underneath all that stuff. The wrecker is an absolute UNIT. Super impressive in my opinion.
I’ve watched enough recovery videos from Salt Lake to know that stuff is nasty. It may look solid, but is more of an issue than I thought quick sand would be growing up.
You must not be in the eastern part of Texas lol. Vegetation on the ground and a about a foot underneath its soupy clay. Matt definitely needs a 12lbs long handle ford wrench and some metal fence stakes to be driven into the ground for when there are no trees or rocks around for such soupy situations. Then he can pull them out with the boom. No matter what you drive we have all been stuck before. Lol
@@327JohnnySS The t-pole idea is actually smart for stuff like this (assuming thats what you mean by metal fence stakes), so like you said if theres nothing to winch off of, pound a couple those in the ground and have a recovery point.
@@Shinka666 , Plus after he is free he can use the boom winch to pull them out. Happy New Year ☮️
@@327JohnnySS - stout pegs (whatever brand of temporary fencepost one uses in their area (we call them "star posts" / pickets in Australia, Y shape- there is even a tool to extract them after use - if a boom isn't handy) , combined with a sledge and winching base plate - very useful for that one ( :-) ) time...
The mud flying and that 8.1 vortec roaring was fantastic!! Made my evening. Thanks MORR :)
Kinda surprised you didnt scout a path to begin with considering there is another vehicle stuck in the same area
when I see you guys stuck like this in mud, sand or snow it reminds me that there are snow anchors (basically a shovel head with a rope attached to it, made for rescuing people out of crevasses ) you can just stick it in the snow and they are incredibly strong for how simple they are because they transfer the force to a large surface area. I think it could work in mud or sand too. just something to maybe experiment with when you don´t have anything to winch off of. Love the channel!
Using the largest of those logs at the end of a winch cable would have the same effect if you can bury it into the ground (horizontally) with the rope in the center. T style.
Rhetts sleeping on mom's shoulder soo swee. The camera mans doing a great job dodging mud---Rhets narration is very good.
Gonna have to build a bigger wrecker to get this one out if you ever get it _too_ stuck.😅
Hey man, the algorithm recently suggested Florida Off Road Recovery for me and I saw you in the comments! It's basically the MORR Florida Man edition. Good stuff, ain't it?
or drive where the plant roots are making a mat 🙂
That's what HeavyD Sparks HET wrecker is for. lol
Bigger seems to be the trend on this channel
@@joshuahill1246 which was just stuck in snow like a day ago. Needed piston bully to get it out.😊
I've used a Danforth anchor ( used by boaters) as a clay/sand anchor when off roading. Up here we have a lot of Leda clay and in a few places glacial sand. The Danforth anchors work on both the powerwagon with a Holmes 440 bed and the on road tow trucks
they sell a recovery tool very similar.
In the early 90's we managed to sink a 90 tonne mobile crane up to it's door sills in a public park. Fortunately the local town was home to a tank battalion and they came out with this thing they use to tow tanks out of the sh*t with. Basically a big tracked vehicle with what amounts to a full width ground anchor in the middle of it. Was damned effective.
Danforths were designed for winching landing craft back of the beach after they had landed the soldiers..The Danforth was dropped just off the beach andthe winch cable payed out keeping the boat square onto the beach and ready to drop the ramp..
@@tyrantworm7392,M88 recovery vehicle.
This is where a Hi -lift jack comes in handy. As soon as you know your stuck,jack up the vehicle until you have space under the tires and put the wood under the tires. Let it down and drive out. Old school before lockers,winches, and super large tires weren't as popular as they are now.
Yep - done it many times
Those logs look ALOT like big traction boards that Matt’s always roasting
Exactly what I was thinking haha
Guess that means we wasn't "truly" stuck as he loves to say.
Coulda fooled me though 🤣🤣
In his defense, the wrecker probably wouldn't have gotten out with just the logs.
Exactly
I came too see who beat me too this comment 😂, I’ve seen off road races in Europe I believe that had these stacked one man would stick into ground hook winch too too pull trucks up a ditch
Its so rare to get to hear the Wrecker's engine going full out like it did in the mud.
I was waiting for something to break again🤣🤣🤣🤣😂
It was a glorious sound, wasn't it?
Yeah that thing barely ever actually works lol
@@everettstormy it's made of butter and hopes and dreams put some effort into it and it all ways breaks
It’s needs more power. It don’t even have enough to clear the tread of mud.
Well done Matt and team! 4 of us spent the night trying to get out of a similar type of environment and ended up calling a heavy wrecker with a extra long cable to winch us out from the road. Expensive lesson!
Matt just broke all his own off road wheeling rules
This was a legendary family Sunday afternoon. You guys will be telling this story of how you got the heavy offroad wrecker stuck in the mud for years to come. Best part is we got to come along for the ride.
"If traction boards get you out, you weren't really stuck." - Matt Wetzel
On the plus side, the property owner now has 'bout a quarter acre ready for planting.
And harvest time he can call Matt to get his combine unstuck?
GO Jaymie. You guys run a good business and raise a great family. Thanks for the best content of 2023
Someone needs to invest in a portable land anchor. Pull Pal makes some good ones. :)
You need to carry a boat anchor in your kit for anchoring the winch in places with nothing to tie too!
That not how ya do it einstein
Do what the arabs do in the desert, fill a canvas kit bag with sand, tie the top up tight, dig a hole about 4' deep, loop your tow strap around the centre of bag, chuck it in the hole and fill it back in, winch yourself out.
A dirt anchor/plow like Trailmater
Or just get /make a land anchor
giant Pull Pal
For self recovery in sloppy shiite like this and worse, a farmers trick used in my family since at least the " 40's to my knowledge, and probably.much further back than that is to either - chain/tie a post lengthwise on the outside edge of your tyre so that you have 6 to 12 inches of post sticking out beyond tyre either one side or both sides on 2 or.more drive wheels(on the farm we would have 3 to four feet of post extending out) this extra drag/traction makes a huge difference to self recovery.
Or chain / tie/ ratchet strap one or more smaller 2 to 3 inch wide timber traction bars about 6 to 12 inches wider than your tyres depending on body clearance, effectively widthways across tyre which acts as a large paddle/float which you drive up over. (on the farm we would use a full post chained to the wheel and driven over.)
In both cases, as traction bars are physically attached to the wheel, there is no slippage, it always works.
A few straps and a few traction bars in the tool kit take little space but are immensely valuable at the "wrong" time....
Posts take a little more space, and will probably only be carried when a problem is likely.
Jaymie is the hero in this recovery, perfect throttle control. well driven!! 👍
I love that there is sausage and cheese party platter sitting in your lap and there is no extra comment for that. It’s just that routine for you guys. Absolutely hilarious. 0:53
Lunch
I love your wife. She is so involved and understanding about what you do. She is awesome!!
What a lesson. If you get stuck with a tiny car, branches and sticks are "always" the way to try. If you get stuck in a giant wrecker, just use big brances or even logs.😃
smaller vehicles..
It was so awesome getting to meet you guys yesterday in my little hometown in New Mexico. Thank you guys for being so kind and letting me standby and watch. Sorry if I interrupted. Can’t wait to see the video. ❤
Excuse me, are you that customer lady in the video? They seem to be a lively couple.
Worked in the goddamn oilfields of texas for 31 years, I don't miss that dadgum mud. It gets everywhere and sticks to everything, even the depths of your subconscious. Happily retired in Maine now. Stay blessed. 👍
That looked remarkably similar to when I self recover. Frantically jamming whatever I can find under the tires and spinning them, digging myself in deeper in the process. I can definitely relate to the whole getting free and driving right back into the same situation. Matt trying to winch off the tiny bush was hilarious.
Man, that mud is to be respected and feared! Great job getting it out!
Fun to watch a professionals make mistakes. Shows that we all can learn and no one is perfect. The save was miraculous to say the least. Didn’t think you would get outta that one. Good job.
Its also fun to watch a professional overcome his mistakes!
I must have missed the part with the professional.
Professional wing it and scarper u mean
That's funny 😂😅 too bad Matt keeps making the SAME mistakes over and over..........
Until he hurts someone. 😢
@@theuglytruth8162 that's the problem when someone gets hurt it won't be matt it will be one of his lost puppy crew that follow him blindlessly and he will just shove someone else in there slot like everyone else that's gone through there payrolls and out the otherside
You don't see couples able to cooperate very often in situations like that. Hats off to the team work! I used to work on a small cruise boat that Moored next to two busy public boat launches and oh the boat launch drama was good! Lol
Matt, you need to make a land anchor incase you get in a situation like that again. One that digs itself into the ground as you winch. Then as you pull it out the opposite way it comes right out. I made 2 of them. One for my truck. And one for my 4 wheeler. The one for my truck is about 3 foot wide and the one for my fourwheeler is approximately a foot and a half wide. They work amazing. Gotten me off private property more than one on a school night 😂 great videos man
Damn a land anchor down here in these florida swamps where I'm from the traction boards will save Dat a$$ a lot of work. Especially on the sandy beaches anyone that does recovery should have them in their inventory....
Helped get a Unimog unstuck once! It was buried to the TOP of the tires in black mud. We were in a wooded swamp so we left the wheels turning in a super low gear and chucked firewood size logs under the tire until it walked out. It took hours.
I guess that's the one disadvantage to portals, you have to get stuck deeper to be up to the axles lol.
Matt's turning into a customer showing sticks under his tires😂
Stupid Auto-Correct!
This was absolutely hilarious, and will be a big clean up job. Happy New Year to Matt's Off Road Recovery .
A good ground anchor is your spare wheel but you should take a spade to dig it in. Great video, Matt
I feel bad for the landowner. Those ruts are going to be there for years.
We all now know that Jamie can drive just as good as Mat!!!! Great team. Always a great time. Thank you for entertaining me.
Better
Highly suggest keeping a folding land anchor on the wrecker just for situations like this. Love watching you guys, Merry Christmas and happy new year
Time to carry a winch anchor like Rory does!
I wonder if those steel planking Marston runway mats would be handy in that gumbo mud, it is almost as bad as muskeg in Alaska
The samurai would tippy toed his way in any of that soft stuff 😊😊😊 happy new year guys
Nice to see the whole family out doing MORR things.
love that they used everything to get out that they make fun of people use trying to get out.
sometimes you gotta use what u have in hand, i used snow to get out of snow drift in the middle of the field (in a quite low car).. there should be saying your not stuck untill your brain cant work out any solutions.
Nothing wrong with Matt using the logs but he might consider backing off the criticism of others doing similar things.
For me, these are a lot more fun to watch than your shop days.
amen bruddah.
Not sure how long u been watching but his videos from about 2 years plus back are treasure
I tend not to watch the build videos unless they have a guest star.
that truck is a beast. 👍
lol I can’t believe the wrecker drove out of the second time being stuck. That thing is a BEAST. You looked pretty close to being high centered, but I’m glad it worked out for y’all!
Matt! Driving right back into the peanut butter after barely escaping.... was.... GREAT CONTENT ! Always love the vids... H8rz will always hate. Rock on MORR !!! (or Mud on!)
It takes a big man to bear humiliation. Perseverance pays off. Thanks for bringing us along.
This was great viewing. I love how every failure... erm, I mean 'mistake' becomes another story it and of itself. "We learned something..." There's so much to be said about this as a philosophy... Great going, guys!
P.S. I wanna know who does get vehicle cleaning duties... that wrecker is at least 4 inches taller than normal, now.
Years ago a mate bogged a car to the floor in a quagmire on a forest trail. It was also the middle of the night and raining. We bogged 2 more vehicles before we got everything out. Everybody and all the vehicles were identifiable due to the sticky layer of mud coating every surface and it seemed to be 3 inchs thick.
I dig and love the patience you all have with each other. That is by far the best part about your channel. 💯
What was Matt thinking? Got out of the mud and immediately drove right back into it???? Wonder about that boy sometimes.......
And bringing 5 people but only one vehicle to a mud recovery? One of them could have driven a backup vehicle to anchor off of.
He might fold under questioning
As a former smoker I love this guy's commitment to that cigarette.😂
He was pretty ripped too, which isn't exactly common for smokers.
Matt got the wrecker unstuck, and then immediately drove back into the same mess lol. Things like that have me convinced that they do that stuff on purpose to make things dramatic haha 🤔😆
Us southern guys love the slop.we usually keep a couple bottles of extra displacement on tap for those real sticky situations though. It takes A LOT of horsepower to get the wheelspeed up to clean a heavy tire.
E usado para sacar del barro 2 postes plantados 60 cm ,uno para cada rueda ,y el tractor artículado salió al primer intento ,sugiero que hagan algo así, como una pala de hollar pero 5 veces mas grande ( desarmable) y otra igual pero 2 veces mas grande ,clavan la primera y en contra la tierra enganchan el cable ( del malacate) y de arriba ( seria el cabo) prenden una cadenita ( capacidad 300k y 3 metro largo ) a la pala mas pequeña (prenden , también en contra la tierra),esta ultima cuida que la grande no se gire y largue , en el barro ,este sistema con un apoyo de 50 x 70 cm ( estas serian las medidas de la planchuela de la pala grande) creo podría sacar un vehículo como este camión todo terreno ,enterrado como el vídeo o mas clavado ,
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para usarlo en seco, con tener una pala y hacer el hueco donde irían clavadas las anclas/palas) ,también lo pueden usar y no necesitan encontrar un arbol ( \ | \ | ) quedaría así como estas barras inclinadas ,la primera es el cable ,la segunda es la pala grande ,la tercera es la cadena y la cuarta es la pala chica ( el cabo de la pala grande debe ser bastante fuerte para que no se doble)
Not mentioned here and I’ve never heard Matt mention this: Always turn your wipers on just before hitting a mud hole. If you get a big splash and your wipers are not on you will be in the middle of the hole, with no visibility, fighting to turn them on, and slowing down to control the situation. Growing up in the south, this was the number 1 way people got stuck in mud.
IIRC, the wrecker doesn't even have wipers...
@@AndrewAMartinpretty sure they’re on a shelf in the garage.
That's not my experience in this area. Sure if it' a big wet puddle, turn them on. But in this kind of mud, your wipers would just turn a small glob of it into a big streak of it, and actually make things worse. Lol.
@@sorrenpeak4870That’s true. If it’s “splashy/watery” mud, at all, do not forget the wipers. The mud in this video could go either way. If it’s a fine/smooth/powdery grain size or organic then the wipers will clean it without smearing. If it’s a large/rough/gritty grain or has a high clay content then it will smear easier. A low flat Utah valley will have a thick layer of dirt with a light clay content, almost no organics, and a lot of sand. Below that will be a really solid clay layer Maybe some larger decayed rock too but it’ll be at the bottom of the sand layer.
Looks like Jamie saved Matt’s behind. Guessing it wasn’t the first time or last.
For those of us who live in the South, that was not that bad of a mud spot... I've seen places where it would easily go over the top of even the tires that you have on your vehicle... Having a hydraulic instead of an electric winch so that you can winch all day long and not have to worry about duty cycle is a definite advantage in those situations...
Lmao I could definitely tell he's not used to deep mud.... All I was thinking after the he got it out the first time was not enough momentum and not enough wheel speed 😂 momentum to keep you up on top and wheel speed to clear the treads for more bite on the wheels
The type of material makes a big difference though. That looks like nasty clay. Doesn't take much of that.
@@mediocreman2 we have a very similar type of clay in middle and south Georgia (north and west of the "fall line" that was an ancient coastline) and if you dig down a bit we have another type of clay known as kaolin that is a pure white clay with very similar properties to bentonite clay.... Both are very fine silty clays that are VERY sticky and as slick as ice... I've been playing in it since I started driving and I've been buried up to the axles more times than I care to admit... Deep treaded tires, wheel speed, and momentum that's the only way to attack a pit like this with any hope of making it across. From what I could tell Matt was in the wrong gear, a higher gear and I bit more momentum and I feel like he would have been just fine... Coming back is a different issue 🤣
Lol yep. Our Georgia red clay is like ice & quicksand combined
@@HubcapPointOutdoors they literally live in a desert😂
I’m from Florida so we live in the mud. You did great. Only thing is if you have slick mud, once you commit to it do not stop. Always have some speed and do not let off until you are out. If you stop usually trying to go again is how you get stuck.
Amazing to see you calm in this scenario. Good work team 👏🏻
And, the power washing job goes to…. I vote Matt! Y’all are amazing! That looked terrible and you managed to pull it out anyway. Jamie gets a raise!
The wrecker is a freaking beast i thought you'd have to bring in the rest of the crew lol great video guys
Road snacks have really gotten fancy - - that is one helluva stand mixer
Matt, YOU are the LUCKIEST man alive! To have Jamie (sitting in the middle) with a cheese board for all you knuckleheads is absolutely Classy. Jamie YOU ROCK
Great way to raise a family
And this here folks is why a land anchor is always a good thing to have on hand.
Good morning everybody and thumbs UP to Matt and crew! 👍
@@JanelleVocate-Ames
I have been curious what would happen when that accidentally got buried in mud. It took one heck of a team not to freak out and work together.
Add some dang seats to the back of that thing! face them outwards. They could be racing seats so no side by side action.
Hello. To get out of that mud, you can tie a protruding log to the side of the wheels: when the wheels turn, the log digs into the ground, creating a lever for dragging.
Commented over and over again they have very loose sand en this extreme mud but they refuse to take a sand anchor even on the wrecker which is as big as a boat. Have lots of winches and the first i hear Matt say is if only we had something to attach to.
I'm pretty surprised you didn't lower the tyre pressures down more, it would have helped your ground pressure.
IIRC I think he runs them at like 4 or 5 psi
That only works so much in slick mud! It creates more drag at a certain point! He built the wrecker for sand and rocks as 95 percent of his recoveries are in that! Had he built it for mud he would have a bit narrower wheel and tire package! I was working for a man as a farm hand and he had those skinny knobby tires like a military vehicle on every 4 wheel drive and even a coupe two wheel drive trucks , told me that a narrower tire cuts through were a wide tire plows! There are certain types of mud and compact snow that a wider and aired down tire is preferred for flotation but in thick sticky mud or wet loose snow that narrower profile and adequate wheel speed is preferred! Look at mud trucks and tractor tires they run, compared to size of the truck those are skinny tires!
@@kenwillis8487 Try pulling a stuck trailer with high tyre pressures in soft ground, it digs in, reduce the pressure and the tyre will roll over the ground, not dig in, it makes the tyre 'cup' the sand. It's creating a little caterpillar track on each wheel.
@@kenwillis8487 narrow tires, or "pizza cutters" as we call them in Australia are great in mud, IF there is a bottom you can hit before your axles rest on the mud.
I'd suggest that this mud isn't that sort of mud.
Wider floatation tired is the way to go here, along with a MUCH more aggressive tire pattern.
Think tractor V pattern tires.
Honestly, with sufficient horse power and lots of patience, you can often get out of that sort of mud just by moving back and forth.
You just need to minimise digging down and work on digging forward and backwards so you can build up momentum to the point where you can climb out.
@@35manning , That stuff looks like our Pilbara saltmarsh mud, deceptively firm on top, bottomless below the crust but without the blue-grey colour.
It's nice to see Matt in his favorite environment of mud.
Jamie you rock this recovery,nice drive and technical Attitude,,,,, thanks Matt and crew, vary nice 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 thank merry happy new year 24 p.s. In the Desert over here in California the same thing when it rains,,, I have learned to walk the path before I drive off into a trick dry looking area, over here A desert has no bottom you drive off into it your vehicle log think through the windshield,,,, I have learned that lesson just like that the hard way lol thanks BigAl California
Just call Rory. A couple of danforth anchors may be in order. Matt, I cannot believe you got out of one hole and drove into another.
Would be a great test of the Bombi on soft terrain.
Thanks for all of the good times everyone! Happy New Year!
This was exactly what you should do if you get stuck like this. Pause and start looking for solutions and thinking of different options to get you out. Move slowly with purpose. Matt never disappoints
What a great recovery 🎉 good job guys
Love your UA-cam Channel, love the builds and the Recoveries!!! Any word if you invited HellBoy off Murphy's Diesel to the Wrecker Games. Alot of views asked them if they are going to the games. But they said, no one has reach out to them yet? It would be nice to see another Diesel Truck competing against Merlin's Diesel Truck.... I have no favorites. I lovel all the Tow Truck's that competed. Its awesome to see other Tow Trucks UA-camr's competing. Last years was the Bomb!!! I watched your channel before or after work . Way down South, From the South Pacific.... American Samoa!!!
Thank you for saving my mom and her boyfriend! So grateful for you guys
That was actually my mom and her bf. Don't lie.
@@Shredderof_POWDAsounds like your mother is dating two different guys.
@@Patco11 It's actually called divorce, but cool joke 😒
Anyone else notice a trend of Mat getting things stuck and Jamie getting things unstuck for him ❓ 😂
Time to get out the traction boards 😂
Time to anchor on the backup vehicle that one of the 4 people you brought with you was driving. Oh, wait.
Cheap and simple ground anchor: a length of angle iron with a loop on one end and half a dozen holes drilled through it. Lie it on the ground and bash a few steel pins through it into the ground. Hook up, winch out.
Wow! Love the MORR Family Team-building on Sunday afternoon ... 👍