Have you ever performed a "rescue mission" in your Landy?

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wickford90 said:
Yep last night out laning and a young lady forgot to turn the steering wheel and ended up nose first in a ditch on a quiet country lane and a gallant member pulled her wrecked fiesta out. she did'nt what wtf was going on when five land rover appeared out of the dark
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Yep dragged out that fiesta and also pulled out a couple of ditched Landy's that night.
Also pulled out a few ditched cars in the snow last christmas. Including a RSPCA van and as a thank you they sent me 5 cute andrex puppy dolls. And the missus at the time nicked all of them! :(

Chris
 
When I take my dog's to a local beach, practically 7 times out of ten I've been asked to recover a stuck car. I've refused twice as the plonkers had driven down to the water line ... I couldn't even walk to their car without my feet sinking, ain't no way I was risking the Landy! Weird thing is the people make a bee line for a LR but not other 4x4's that are on the beach:D
 
Many,

Fire engines x2,
Police car,
4 or 5 trucks and trailers 38 Tonners,
many vabns in the snow,
many cars in the snow (one aston martin)

Offroad events alot of.

LZ members from problems:

Ryder, Midnight Santa pod,
Ryder, local lane, midnight
2 guys in an illegal quarry (unimog gave up we got em out)
Disco at fernaux midnight,
Ryder, Ashwell,
Nelly midnight.

Carpy (didn't actually go TBH he joined a 4x4 response team bigging it up and then stacked his RR classic into a ditch few days after no one else involved).

loads more but
 
Pulled a guy out of a hedge whilst on holiday in Ireland - he couldn't read the dangerous bends ahead side and lost control on a corner. I got to block the whole main road as we winched him out - the back end of his car was up in the hedge, whilst the front was jammed into the edge of the road. He even gave me money for doing it....
 
RichM said:
Have you ever used your Landy to perform a "rescue mission"? (Something that couldn't be done with a 2wd car)

E.g.:

- Pulling out a car stuck in snow
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Yes

RichM said:
Transporting stranded people in adverse weather conditions (that couldn't be achieved by a 2wd car)
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Yes

RichM said:
Pulling a car out of the mud
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Yes

RichM said:
Rescuing a gaylander
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What the hell would I want to bother doing that for? I've passed someone the matches before now though...
 
off road loads, on site at work a fair bit, in the snow a good few, on lanes only once that i can remember, although i always get stuck me self
 
When it snowed here last winter, I was in school and they let us leave. Nobody could get anywhere so I phoned my grandma to bring the disco 3. She picked up my dad because she didn't want to drive in the snow alone. In the end we put the 5 back seats down, loaded it with all my mates and my brothers (probably 10 in total) then picked up my mum and her friend from work. It was great fun. :D
 
khaos said:
When it snowed here last winter, I was in school and they let us leave. Nobody could get anywhere so I phoned my grandma to bring the disco 3. She picked up my dad because she didn't want to drive in the snow alone. In the end we put the 5 back seats down, loaded it with all my mates and my brothers (probably 10 in total) then picked up my mum and her friend from work. It was great fun. :D
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That is an interesting mental image...
 
Pulled a van up an icy hill earlier this year during the bad weather. Pulled a bellied out rr classic off a slope at a pay and play event. Both done with a Freelander. :eek: :p :)
 
Pulled a car out of a ditch in the snow last winter in the middle of nowhere , dragged a seat leon through a housing estate ( only an " of snow then .. ) , and took some old biddy to the chemist and shops in the snow as she jnot long had a hip op - was kinda funny seeeing her try and get in the landy tho lol .
 
why bother?

I just drive past them all :D if they want to whinge about 'gas guzzlers' then I aint helping, **** em all!

G
 
Pulled the rozzers transit van out of a garden sideways, sprayed mud all over them by accident and ploughed up the whole garden in the process :D
 
Went to Silverdale today, and lost count of the number of people I pulled unstuck using the winch. It was very slippery, what surprised me was the numbers of people who'd keep trying and ended up getting hopelessly stuck. At the worst spots, there might have been 10-15 cars all stuck or trying to get someone else out, in a small area, all getting in each other's way.
 
paul_c said:
Went to Silverdale today, and lost count of the number of people I pulled unstuck using the winch. It was very slippery, what surprised me was the numbers of people who'd keep trying and ended up getting hopelessly stuck. At the worst spots, there might have been 10-15 cars all stuck or trying to get someone else out, in a small area, all getting in each other's way.
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lack of co-ordination and a case of 'too many cooks' is often the cause of most major ****-ups
 
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