JEONLYEP
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I was out messing around on the River Trail @ Cimarron today and about laid the XJ on it's side. The trail hasn't had much traffic on it this year, and the weeds are grown up pretty bad. There's a spot that the trail is really close to the edge of the river bed. I wasn't paying as much attention as I should have been. Plus I was driving in the weeds to knock them back from the edge of the trail. Anyway, the passenger side dropped off the edge. It's a very sandy section, and trying to steer back up, going forward or in reverse, only slides me farther down, and farther off camber. So I decide that the only move short of getting somebody else there to put a strap on the top and hold me up is to turn downhill and gas it to out drive the roll. Only thing is the two trees being right where I wanted to go. I decide the I'll be able to clear the trees, maybe, and still get turned downhill before it goes over. I crank the wheel and give it the gas. I was wrong about being able to miss both trees, as the Jeeps leaning to the passenger side I cut all the way right, the second tree hits the door and slides down the passenger side as I turn around it to go down the hill. In a way it may have helped hold it up.
Now don't get all crazy saying why did I risk it. the story makes it sound like a huge downhill. but we're talking about only 4 maybe 5 feet of elevation change, and the trees were more like saplings. And with the sand that I was on, I'd have maybe had to get some more glass for the passenger side, but it wouldn't have done much more than that. Plus it worked out for me.
Daryl
Now don't get all crazy saying why did I risk it. the story makes it sound like a huge downhill. but we're talking about only 4 maybe 5 feet of elevation change, and the trees were more like saplings. And with the sand that I was on, I'd have maybe had to get some more glass for the passenger side, but it wouldn't have done much more than that. Plus it worked out for me.
Daryl
Daryl
