minibreakdown
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Only had the D2 for 2 weeks and today I was dragged to the beach at Vieux-Boucau-Les-Bains South West France where there is a slip way (getting any ideas yet). There I am in 32 degrees reading LRO International listening to my misses, her mother and Aunt, who are holiday talking about woman's things
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When all of a sudden my prays where answered. We had plonked ourselves next to a slipway. Up turns a couple of French blokes driving something like a brand new 6 seat tray back gator 4x4 towing a lovely 3 seater jet ski. The fun started when it took him 10 minutes to reverse 40 metres with numerous amount of shunting back and forth, eventually getting the jet ski off and parking the gator on the deep sand next to the slip way. Off the go.
Only about an hour later they return. Thinking this will be fun I take a chair and park myself nearer to get a good view of the forth coming spectacle. To my distain the rubbish reversing driver manages to get the rig into position in one go.
Me thinks fun over, but no. In the time they have been gone the tide has gone out slightly, the trailer is now in about 2 feet of water in a drop off, the rear wheels of the gator are on wet sand but not in the water so they winch on the jet ski. They try to pull forward and just dig the rear wheels in. Have since found out gator is not 4x4 or with diff locks. Discussion now with the wife if I should do the good thing and offer to pull him out as the D2 is the only 4x4 in the car park. After a sufficient amount of struggle time and embarrassment factor I go over and offer to help.
With the whole beach watch I reverse down the slip way, hook up his stretchy type tow rope (as you can see know all the proper jargon). Diffs locked, high range, second selected on auto box, tickled the accelerator just above tick over and pulled him straight out. I know that I most probably didn't do it right but there are now about 100 people impressed with a land rover and 1 very grateful gator/jet ski owner.
Long live the green oval. Sorry about this thread if you have taken the time to read it and have been disappointed or this is not the sort of thing I should put on but this is the first time I have ever been in a position to help someone in this way and my misses is fed up with me talking about it.
. When all of a sudden my prays where answered. We had plonked ourselves next to a slipway. Up turns a couple of French blokes driving something like a brand new 6 seat tray back gator 4x4 towing a lovely 3 seater jet ski. The fun started when it took him 10 minutes to reverse 40 metres with numerous amount of shunting back and forth, eventually getting the jet ski off and parking the gator on the deep sand next to the slip way. Off the go.
Only about an hour later they return. Thinking this will be fun I take a chair and park myself nearer to get a good view of the forth coming spectacle. To my distain the rubbish reversing driver manages to get the rig into position in one go
. Me thinks fun over, but no. In the time they have been gone the tide has gone out slightly, the trailer is now in about 2 feet of water in a drop off, the rear wheels of the gator are on wet sand but not in the water so they winch on the jet ski. They try to pull forward and just dig the rear wheels in. Have since found out gator is not 4x4 or with diff locks. Discussion now with the wife if I should do the good thing and offer to pull him out as the D2 is the only 4x4 in the car park. After a sufficient amount of struggle time and embarrassment factor I go over and offer to help.
With the whole beach watch I reverse down the slip way, hook up his stretchy type tow rope (as you can see know all the proper jargon). Diffs locked, high range, second selected on auto box, tickled the accelerator just above tick over and pulled him straight out. I know that I most probably didn't do it right but there are now about 100 people impressed with a land rover and 1 very grateful gator/jet ski owner.
Long live the green oval. Sorry about this thread if you have taken the time to read it and have been disappointed or this is not the sort of thing I should put on but this is the first time I have ever been in a position to help someone in this way and my misses is fed up with me talking about it.
