Seat belts and off road

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Do you ware your belt off road?

  • My landy has a what belt???

    Votes: 5 16.7%

  • Yes, i dont have a roll cage but it makes sence.

    Votes: 17 56.7%

  • Yes, the government man told me to.

    Votes: 2 6.7%

  • Yes, my roll cage wouldent count for **** otherwise.

    Votes: 2 6.7%

  • Hell no, if there a problem im getting out!

    Votes: 2 6.7%

  • Does it matter? Im screwed eather way.

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • Total voters
    30
Good Video.

I wasn't too bothered about seat belts when I came back from working abroad. After doing what ever you want with no rules or enforcable laws its hard to get into conforming to laws and regulations. Nowdays I use my belt mainly because everyone else does and it shows my sisters Kids to do so, but there was a time when I believed it was just another bullsh** thing the government wanted you to do. Its down to luck some you win some you don't Jai

P.s. I remember following a espace about 3am down a country road roof off no belts ect. The espace seemed to dissapear then I found a really tight bend I was going quite well for my tyres 900x16 danubia ****e grip. I ended up going around the bank and somehow overtook the Espace he almost crashed into a ditch on the bend but somehow managed to stop facing the wrong way all because of a diesel spill. When he got out he was so confused and he had marks where his car hit the kerb and the seatbelt dug into him. I changed his flat tyre made sure he wasnt too shook up and sent him on his way.

Jai
 
I've got 4 point inertia reel harnesses in the front of HL with Cobra seats, the harnesses are mounted on top of the bulkhead and do come forward at an angle, cos I'm a shortarse!:D
Always wear my harness on road or off (whether it's fastened is another matter though! ;) )

During my work as a mortuary tech, I did see a lot of people who would have survived their RTA if they had been wearing a seatbelt Vs a few whose seatbelt actually contributed/caused their deaths!
 
Yea but spending a year in a another country when your getting rocket attacks every night and shot at daily a seatbelt is the least of your worries. That was my first year of driving I spent a whole 4 days driving in the UK legally in my landy (technically off road from the age of 12 but that doesn't count) Then I went abroad. Just myself, a trusty hylux, a weapon and mabe on the odd ocasion a Trained Gurkha and Interpreter. No rules, No real Law, just common sense, alot of luck and a big lerning curve! You cannot afford to breakdown or crash or disable your vehicle. 8 hour drive offroad that will destroy your shocks after the first couple of hours and have you poitching and diving all over the place. A puncture in the wrong place could set off an incident. Vehicles possibly hostile vehicles driving at you, squeezing past at silly speeds, suicidal taxi drivers, 200Ft mountain passes with sheer drops. 12Ft snow drifts and people with RPGs walking past you on the mountain. Good guys or bad guys? Who knows. You learn quickly I can asure you. You don't feck up. You cannot afford to.



Me arriving on camp, MP5 and all.

Jai
 
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jai_landrover said:
Yea but spending a year in a another country when your getting rocket attacks every night and shot at daily a seatbelt is the least of your worries. That was my first year of driving I spent a whole 4 days driving in the UK legally in my landy (technically off road from the age of 12 but that doesn't count) Then I went abroad. Just myself, a trusty hylux, a weapon and mabe on the odd ocasion a Trained Gurkha and Interpreter. No rules, No real Law, just common sense, alot of luck and a big lerning curve! You cannot afford to breakdown or crash or disable your vehicle. 8 hour drive offroad that will destroy your shocks after the first couple of hours and have you poitching and diving all over the place. A puncture in the wrong place could set off an incident. Vehicles possibly hostile vehicles driving at you, squeezing past at silly speeds, suicidal taxi drivers, 200Ft mountain passes with sheer drops. 12Ft snow drifts and people with RPGs walking past you on the mountain. Good guys or bad guys? Who knows. You learn quickly I can asure you. You don't feck up. You cannot afford to.



Me arriving on camp, MP5 and all.

Jai
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Where have you been, sounds like the Middle East. MOD tour?

Edit: just realised your picture was titled Afghanistan so that awnsers that one.:rolleyes:

Rich.
 
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I wasn't in the army. I was PMC so no support just dumped in and told to get on with it. I have every admiration for ex service men and women. I cannot understand how they adjust to get back into "normal" society. I only did a year and come home and found it hard working for so called managers/university/Idiots. I didn't work for a year and a half. Now im keeping my head down mouth closed taking the crap and getting on with it, but I couldn't do that when I got back. Jai
 
The company I worked for was mainly security, but branched out and built camps for Afghan Police Program for the state department. Good old US of A.
 
Are you a US national? Are you living in the US at the monment, dident think there were many Defenders out there. :rolleyes: I ask because you dont tend too see privite hire security recruting in the UK for foreghn work, unless there after ex mod folk (of which there a fiewcompared to the US), most brits wouldent know wich end of the rifle to use.
 
Nope, ive got some new bearings, but the bottom line is i cant fit them. My local landy guy has offered me an axel for £60, if he can find it. Hopefully i will know whats going on by the end of tmorrow, ive been stuck without the landy, even more stuck than i can get with it. :D
 
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