I would hope by now that his truck is back home with him.
@chancecaddel, is it home? What method did you use and how did it work? Inquiring minds want to know.
Have it towed into a self service carwash.
Yup. Call a towtruck with a tilt-bed, have them drag it up onto the bed and haul it home, and thaw the wheels etc. out using a 115VAC heater.
Interesting idea. Iād want to use flexible aluminum ducting like that used for cloths dryers.
But Iāll bet that by the time the exhaust gets from the tailpipe to the front wheel itāll have lost too much heat to help.
You need something that provides a lot of heat without an external power source.
I donāt know of an ice fisherman that doesnāt have one of these in their ice house.
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@Tester How do they use that for heat with that type of burnerā unless I am seeing it wrong that lookes like what we use around here for weed burners .I would think it would be to much flame for a small space.
Simple!
You donāt hold the flame in one place so you start burning stuff up.
But instead, move the flame around just to melt the ice.
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@Tester Thank you I have talked to people that do the ice fishing & when they said they had heat I thought they used something like the little buddy propane heaters like I use in my camper. I have been asked to go with them a few times but declined I just could not see my southern butt sitting on a frozen lake or river.
Exhaust and a big hose connected to another exhaust type of pipe would work and itās cheap.
unfortunatly i have not been able to yet because the temprture dropped further below earlier than expected today and made it where my truck wouldnt move because the ice refreezed. i tried hot water with a salt ratio. have tried antifreeze while hot and still didnt work. my next options will have to be a blow torch and use it safely or de icer.
Hot water? Are building an ice castle? I think taking a bucket of water to the mountains will only result in more ice.
Walmart sells 3 ounce cans of lock de-icer for $6 but they they may not have enough cans to remove a hundred pounds of ice from your wheels.
Propane heat will melt that ice (and possibly blow up your tires if you apply too much heat).
If you use salt, or other pelletized deicer, donāt mix with water, just put the pellets/crystals directly where you want the ice to melt. You havenāt tried the blanket method? Even a tarp might do.
Theyāre also used for weed burners. 
Iāve never had to deal with the OPās issue, but Iād be concerned that theyād melt the ice in spots and it would flow into cavities and freeze there making the problem worse. Iād be inclined to want something that would melt larger areas, like perhaps the space heaters sheetrockers use to dry the joint compound on large jobs, or even a 115VAC home space heater with a fan. Others here have posted photos of some that look like theyād do the job.
Iād even bet that you can rent the space heaters shown by Nevada, seeing as how theyāre so commonly used in the ātradesā.
But, again, Iāve never had the OPās problem, so Iām speaking only from my own thoughts and not from experience.
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The OP stated that the truck got stuck while OFFROADING. Which means itās probably stuck out in the boonies whereās thereās no power source.
So to use anything that requires electrical power means the OP is going to need a generator.
Sometimes when we run our snowmobiles to the ice/fish house. The temperature rises during the day where the ice begins to melt. Then refreezes when the sun goes down. So you go out and find that the skis and the track of the snowmobile are frozen to the ice.
Guess what we use to free the snowmobiles from the ice?
YEP! A big propane torch.
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True. Thatās why I suggested he have it towed to his home.
Thatās not what the OP asked!
Theyāre asking how to unfreeze the vehicle so that they can drive it home!
Simple question.
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Yup. And IMHO the best way to unfreeze it is to have it towed home on a tilt-bed towtruck and unfreeze it there using a space heater.
He asked a simple question, I gave him a simple answer. Inherent in the answer is the suggestion that trying to unfreeze it in the wild to drive it home is impractical, unnecessary, and probably a whole lot more difficult and uncomfortable that doing it at home.
Your concern about my reading comprehension skills is appreciated. But unnecessary.
Then you have to ask?
If the OP was offroading, can a rollback tow truck even get to where the vehicle is even located?
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Without reading all the other responses, what people used to do was get a good pan of charcoal coals going and carefully put it under the area to thaw. Tarps would help contain the heat, but you can do this in the middle of nowhere at little cost. Naturally towing toa warm garage is the best.
Good question. Hopefully the answer is yes, but thereās no way to know from here. I assumed that one could since he got pulled out of the ice. 
Interesting topic. Did you ever get it unfroze? Looking at your weather not going to be much above freezing until about a month. Hot water should free up the lug nuts.