While we are by and large muscle car enthusiasts, anything with a big engine doing something out of the norm is just fine by us. We even have a special place in our hearts for mudders, those big monster trucks mostly found down south who make a habit of turning a patch of dry soil into a muddy bog. These big boy machines often come with big-block engines, done on the cheap, though you wouldn’t know it watching them work.

Of course when you work on a cheeseburger budget, parts are going to break. In this case it’s a transmission input shaft, which leaves one big-block Chevy mudder stranded mid-river. It takes a train of his mudder buddies to yank him out.

This ‘96 Chevy Silverado pickup has been fitted with massive, 54-inch mud bogging tires. In order to fit that kind of tread, the truck was jacked up 22 inches in total; 12 inches were gained from a leaf spring swap, the other ten by using height-increasing blocks on the suspension. At the end of the day, you’re left with a truck that you have to literally haul yourself up into.

Whichever method they used to get into the truck, our intrepid driver wasted no time in churning up the river into muddy tidal waves. Multiple camera views help us enjoy his exploits up until the moment his input shaft gives out, leaving him stranded in the middle of the river. A good mudder knows to never go alone and his buddies end up forming a train of lifted trucks to pull him from the river. After all, what are friends for?