Yesterday, I went over to my parent's house to help unload a truck that my dad had coming in for his business. As the 28' tractor-trailer was backing up to the shop, it got stuck in a snowbank. We struggled for an hour and a half to try to get it out (sand, shovels, more sand). The way that we finally got it out was a bit unorthodox, but it worked. The driver jacked the trailer off of the tractor, and I used a chain to pull on the tractor with my truck. (Click here for picture of the type of tractor, a former American Freightways International rig). Once the tractor was free, he took an almost jack-knife approach to reattach the trailer, so that he wouldn't have to drive the tractor back into the snowbank as he tried to pull the trailer out.
It's not every day you see a pickup yanking a semi out of the ditch! Love that low-end torque!
