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

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Come to think of it, four times. Pulled a Transit out of a ditch with the Freelander - OK that's boring but it was on the Black Sea coast in Turkey...
Also did an almost rescue on Dartmoor, also in the Freelander 1. Got a message one of my girl cadets was unconscious, phoned the police to alert Dartmoor rescue, but they had never heard of them (they are/were based in Okehampton Police Station!) and said they'd send the air ambulance. I said I didn't know if I needed it, but they insisted, and I spent a while trying to tell them how to find her: they didn't understand a grid ref and "which road is it on?" and "which town is it near" don't really work on Dartmoor. Anyway I got to her before the chopper did, and she was OK but they took her to hospital anyway. I bent two sills and broke the under-engine plate, but the insurance paid (to my surprise). Also pulled a military Landrover out of a bog - didn't want to embarrass him by just driving it out - and used my Disco TDi to pull out another Disco who'd parked in a ditch and found he couldn't get out again. That's not many over 20 years though...
 
British gas van up the hill in the snow.

massive motorhome thing at a very muddy motorcross

tried to pull a 17.5ton lorry with back axle in 2inches of ****......wouldnt have it so stopped trying incase i ended up walking home:D
 
Loads.

Pulled loads of stuff in the snow, winter tyres on the Landy, unbeatable.
38 tonne truck on the A6, lowered a BOC lorry loaded with gas bottles down a hill. loads of cars, mainly BMW & Mercs.
AA Van in the snow too.
Loads of motors at pay & plays and laning.
Ryder, too many times to count.:D
 
Did a few minor rescues in the snow, certainly nothing compared to those who pulled artics and the like.

Have also been rescued more than once.
 
bout 10 yrs ago i went to a local garage to get the zenith carb reset on me old s3 and asked the mechanic where evryone else that worked there was he replied trying to get the caravans out of the water round the back
out of interest i went round to find 3 blokes with one transit bogged down in a completely flooded field trying to stop peoples caravans floating away in the 4 foot deep floodwater i couldnt resist i dragged the tranny out then 12 caravans an towed them all round the front of the garage for the owners to collect in return for a full service new carb and a full valet me landy looked like brand new when they had done not a bad days work
the garage apprentace who was ordered to hitch the caravans to me landy in the wet seemed to enjoy it aswell saying its not evryday yer get paid to wade abbout in the field and ride on the roof of a landy is it
 
once went out on the somerset levels to check some cattle.. in a series 3 lwb ex leccy board with a winch on the front passed a rspca van and a digger parked up beside the drove.... coming back an hour or so later they were still there so stopped to have a nose, rspca bod was trying to get a sling arround one of a couple of cows whish were on top of each other in a waterfilled rhine with just their heads sticking out. aparantly a dog walker had phoned the rspca who had been pratting about in the water for a couple of hours. basically told them they were being xxxxxxx stupid , tied a rope round the neck of the top one , tied the other end to the front bucket on the digger and reversed up the road... cow came out like a cork out of a bottle..we coud have winched it but the digger was a lot quicker , the cow collapsed in a heap in the road, rspca bod started twittering reckoned it was a goner, told him to stop arsing arround get back in the water and tie the rope on the second one that had been underneath for probably most of the night.... dragged the second one out.... first one was half a mile away going up the road like its tail was on fire. silly bugger had probaly never handled anything bigger than a dog before and didnt have clue how strong a cows neck actually is.

another time i came accross a fiesta at the end of the tarmac with a couple of midwives wondering how they were going to get the last mile down the peat drove to a hippy calving in a bender, i heard of natural births but that was a bit silly no way would they have got an ambulance down there if things had gone wrong.
 
Helped several people stranded in that adverse weather we had on Haldon hill.
There was many people who got stuck on the back lanes from Chudley.
And if we have a similar situation this year I will be there asap to help out more stranded people.:D
 
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