Stuck...Stuck....STUCK!

 Where I left off, we were unloading and reloading the trailer because it was too heavy and stuck in the mud and snow in the back yard, and we could not get it hooked to the truck.  

There's the drift in front of the trailer from the west end of the alley.

We pulled a lot of things off and rearranged the load.  The problem was that all of the tools, and I mean ALL of the heavy tools were in the nose of the trailer, and we didn't want to take any of that off.  That would have taken several days.  So we went with our minor rearrangements.  After a lot of hunting and screwing around, we finally found the compressor, and got it off the truck, and pumped up the tires.    

That allowed us to actually get the trailer high enough out of the mud to hitch it to the truck.  Bryan hitched up, and the trailer came out of our yard just fine. 

Bryan worked at it only a short time, and I looked out the kitchen window and saw that the trailer was out of the yard!  I thought YAY!  He got it out!

The brown hole where the trailer was in the back yard.

Now the challenge was to get it down the drifted alley to the clear street.  We thought we were home free at this point, because Bryan had driven back and forth several times to tramp down a path.  

 

But no.  

Bryan was ALMOST to the street with the truck pulling the trailer in four-wheel-drive.  But, just as he got to one of the phone poles, the trailer slipped off his tramped down path and wedged itself between the phone pole and its guy wire.  

Really?!?  REALLY?!?

(Remember, we were not sure how this would go.  We have a busted snow blower, plus that was too far really for a snow blower to deal with, plus we could not find our neighbor (who offered to plow it) who's girlfriend had been ill (she's ok now, by the way.)  We considered renting a bobcat to remove the snow, but the rental place is closed on Saturday, the only day Bryan could do it.  He said he would just call a tow truck, if he had to.  It would likely cost the same. Oh, and the city would not plow it out because we didn't have trash service in the alley, so they would have charged us to do it.) 

Bryan as always, is pretty smart about things like this, and knows his limitations.  He called a tow truck right away.  He didn't want to get the trailer any stuck-er, and he didn't want to damage the pole and have to pay for it, and have that hanging over our heads.  

So he called East West Towing out of Kremmling.  One guy with a truck came, and worked on the trailer for almost an hour.

Poor Bryan was a little too distracted to take too many pictures.  I, on the other hand, was going "get the picture for the blog!!!"  Anyway, here's the first tow truck scene, as shown from our alley behind the house, looking to the east end where I was taking pictures.  

Although the tow truck guy pulled and pushed and even lifted his own front wheels off the ground trying to jimmy the trailer out of that hole, it would not budge.  Bryan said his comment was, "Wow, what do you have in that thing?!?!"  Yup.  It was heavy.    

The first tow truck guy called for reinforcements.  Two more guys came with another truck.  They put two winches on it.  Bryan didn't get any pictures because, for safety sake, they did not let Bryan near the action.  

They were able to yank that sucker out of the hole and get it up on the pavement. 

After they winched it out.  

The hole where it was stuck.

Bryan joked with the guy, asking if we were going to end up in a YouTube video over this.  The guy laughed and said no.  

After all was said and done, it cost us around $285.  Actually less than it would have cost to have the city plow it, and probably comparable to what we would have had to pay to rent a bobcat.  There was no visible damage to the pole.  In retrospect, we got away pretty cheap for the whole ordeal.