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Recoverable Truck ? or not ?

hjdca

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Here is a white truck that seems unrecoverable. It has been there about 6 months now, and I do not see anyone trying to get at it. He must of tried to make his own trail along the ridge line and lost it. What do yo guys think ? is it recoverable ? Does not look like it. These are the best pictures I could get. It looks like a 4 door truck with a sunroof.

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Is it recoverable? Absolutely. Is it worth the effort and expense to recover it? Not likely.
 

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On the surface, it looks doable for a recovery but like previously mentioned, at what cost? Perspective of the ridge line top down to the vehicle does not look bad but that maybe the photography not showing the pitch angle to get to it.

What would be the property rights to it though? Would it fall under some type of abandoned salvage claim?
 
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It looks like it is a minimum of 200+ feet from the truck to the ridge line just to the left. A long ways...
 

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That's a tough one. Someone prolly stole it and did some joy riding.
 

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Cost vs value. Heavy lift Helo might be the most cost effective method depending on how much the vehicle is worth. Rigging it for a extraction would not be that hard if you know the details on the vehicle. Weight and center of balance on vehicle ( front weight vs rear - weight left / right) must be that I still remember sling counts for sling loading Hummer's, M35 aka 2 1/2 ton truck, cargo trailers and like equipment.;) damn that was 31 years ago.
 

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Roll it the rest of the way down the gully, part it out on the beach from a Jon Boat.
 

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that is a lot of rope to rig up to make the pulling easier. Youd be best served taking a field trip down to it and see how badly banged up it is and get some identification, someone may be looking for it.
 

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Anything happen with this? The pic makes it look not too bad to hike down to, but looks can be deceiving when it comes to slopes in photos as @ACAD_Cowboy mentioned. I’d be curious if anyone is in it. 😟
 

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Is that Castaic?
 

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That’s interesting. If I were you, I would have had to went down to check it out. This is almost a year of now, so I wonder what happened to it....
 

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Too bad it is not a Jeep, you could drive it out.:):):)
 

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We need to solve this if it is a jeep. How do we know it's not a jeep? Where is it? Who took the picture? Why so far away? C'mon, man.
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