July 16th 2022 Slaughterhouse Gulch Humvee

Saturday the 16th a team from Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery went down to Slaughterhouse Gulch to pull a H1 Humvee out of the forest that suffered a catastrophic drive train failure climbing the south loop of the trail.
Reports indicated that the rear differential failed while climbing the hill, essentially "grenading" the ring gear. Upon trying to limp the vehicle out in what is now front wheel drive, the transfer case chain also snapped. This left the vehicle with absolutely no power to the wheels.
Once on scene they winched that vehicle back onto the trail so it was pointed downhill, and since it ran with power steering and brakes, the owner just coasted it down to the bottom of the hill so a dead tow could be rigged.
From there the team proceeded back to the north to climb the hill without a lot of flexing washout obstacles, and made it down to the parking lot without incident.
We thank the trail users yesterday for understanding we had to temporarily block downhill access for a few minutes as we made our way through the trail. That daisy chain of vehicles would have been impossible to make room for vehicles to pass by, not to mention regaining that uphill momentum from a dead stop.
Thank you to The Edge Automotive for being our title sponsor on this mission! Check them out at www.theedgeautomotive.com/ for all your vehicle modification and repair needs.
Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery
We Recover the Rockies

[@chadhuston3001]

This is Chad Hudson from Perkins Oklahoma today's video that you released about the chain and straps and all in the hitches I'm glad you did I wish I would have had that for a friend of mine back in December 14th 2000 he hooked a j hook to a strap and we tried to pull a one-ton Ford out with a 3/4 ton Chevy and the j hook somehow came through came unhooked and went through the back hit the tailgate toolbox shut the top of the cab in and hit me in the face I got my right eye totally ripped out and damaged to the hearing and my jaw from it I wish I had that earlier where I would know better than than what he did thank you very much for that video today I didn't see a word to comment on it

[@MZ-bl6wg]

Don’t know why I’ve never thought to put my hood up for a snapped line protection but Thankyou!!!

[@JoshSpring3746]

You guys are awesome for going out and helping people in bad situations

[@JGWPSS67]

Slaughterhouse is my local trail. Pretty fun trail and not super difficult. I’ve taken my 96 obs ford around plenty of times! The hill where you winched him up gets difficult in the snow. Almost didn’t make it out one night!