The Mud Pit From Hell – Try As They Might, They All Sink To The Bottom!


The Mud Pit From Hell – Try As They Might, They All Sink To The Bottom!

Do you remember the kite-eating tree in the Peanuts comic strip? No matter what Charlie Brown did to avoid fate, his kite wound up getting taken out by the one single, solitary tree that just had it out for him. Every single time, like clockwork. Even Lucy wasn’t that evil with the football…and she was misery dipped in anger. Poor Chuck…fly a kite, tree eats good, cue “Good Grief.”

The Perkins mud bog in Michigan works kind of like that. The closer you get to the bog, the more likely your truck is going to dig in and start heading towards the center of the Earth. Got a big lift? The bog doesn’t care. Got a ton of power? All the better to dig to the bottom with, my dear! And the mud itself is the kind of thick slurry that is just thin enough to not offer any grip but is thick enough to slow down forward progress. Go ahead, give it your best shot. When your axles are under what looks like chocolate cake mix and the truck has returned to it’s original height from ground to door frame, just hop on out and reflect on where you went wrong. This is a perfect storm for anybody who thinks that they can handle any little ol’ mud puddle out there. When the bulldozer has to get pulled out, you know that it’s bad…


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One thought on “The Mud Pit From Hell – Try As They Might, They All Sink To The Bottom!

  1. Matt Cramer

    That’s some pretty difficult mud. I have to wonder if something like that Russian Sherpa or an airboat could get through this, or if it would give those sorts of vehicles trouble too.

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