gruntygiggles
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Sooooo, took a mate for an interview in Devizes yesterday and arranged to meet up with a fellow landie owner who was in the area for the day to go off road playing at lunch time. Went up this little track (just off the road) and my inexperienced passenger sh*t himself and screamed at me to stop, so I did. We were completely to right, nowhere near the low tracks to the left of the vehicle, but he's afraid of drop offs and thought we were going to roll, so screamed.
Unfortunately, without the momentum and some very loose dry top soil, as I reversed it out, passenger wheel slid down and went into the rut. The wall of the rut was like concrete and with one wheel now in the air, we weren't going anywhere. Had it in low box diff lock on and nothing. Our mate was behind us, I got the tow rope out the back and he had a phone call that he had an urgent meeting to get back to. It would have taken him less than two minutes to hook the rope on and reverse back to the road, but no.......he got in a panick and left! I suspect his boss didn't know he'd left the office.
So......I walked down the road, soon saw a young lad in an L200 and he kindly came up and gave us a little tow. So frustrating. About 3-4 inches he towed us and I had traction and flew out of there myself.
Anyone else have fun in the sun yesterday???
Sooooo, took a mate for an interview in Devizes yesterday and arranged to meet up with a fellow landie owner who was in the area for the day to go off road playing at lunch time. Went up this little track (just off the road) and my inexperienced passenger sh*t himself and screamed at me to stop, so I did. We were completely to right, nowhere near the low tracks to the left of the vehicle, but he's afraid of drop offs and thought we were going to roll, so screamed.
Unfortunately, without the momentum and some very loose dry top soil, as I reversed it out, passenger wheel slid down and went into the rut. The wall of the rut was like concrete and with one wheel now in the air, we weren't going anywhere. Had it in low box diff lock on and nothing. Our mate was behind us, I got the tow rope out the back and he had a phone call that he had an urgent meeting to get back to. It would have taken him less than two minutes to hook the rope on and reverse back to the road, but no.......he got in a panick and left! I suspect his boss didn't know he'd left the office.
So......I walked down the road, soon saw a young lad in an L200 and he kindly came up and gave us a little tow. So frustrating. About 3-4 inches he towed us and I had traction and flew out of there myself.
Anyone else have fun in the sun yesterday???
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