The trucker's worst nightmare

Sergey Dolya says: Ice — or, as the Yakuts also say, taryn — is a dangerous section of the winter road on the river, where the water comes to the surface. Then it freezes, the lower layer of strong ice sinks closer to the bottom, and it turns out a dangerous trap that you can get into by car. If it's still powdered with snow from above, write it's gone. Failure is inevitable.

What should I do if this happens? The rescue technology is elementary, but extremely time-consuming and can take from three days to three months. If it was not possible to get the car right away, it freezes into the ice and the driver is guaranteed a painful hemorrhoid to extract the truck from the river captivity.

To begin with, the ice is hollowed out in small blocks. Under the place where the voids formed, the ice freezes from below with another layer. This allows you to slowly descend lower and lower, all the way to the wheels. Then the car is pulled by a winch. In case the water starts to rise again, the ice is hammered in chunks so that only one "bath" is filled.

This truck froze recently and shallowly. The men put up a tent, covered the cabin with an awning and began a rescue operation.

It can be seen that the car has sunk by "half a wheel".

The men with shovels outlined the "baths" to be hollowed out.

Work has already begun on the other side of the truck.

They hammer with a crowbar, then remove the ice with shovels.

There is a stove in the tent. There is boiling water for tea, you can relax and warm up.

And in this case, thirty thousand and three days will not get off. Here the car sat down specifically, now there is a question at all about saving it.

If you don't pull out now, during the frosts, in the spring, huge chunks of ice under two meters high will simply grind the truck "into flour".

A sad picture.

They have been fighting for this car for two months.

Also a difficult case. To be honest, I can't believe that it will be raised at all.

In this case, all rescue work is carried out by the truck driver personally.

I felt very sorry for the uncle. Surely this car is his only way to make money…

In general, if you get stuck somewhere on the highway in the middle lane, start to freeze and suffer from self-pity, remember these Yakut men.