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how not to offroad

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 6:46 am
by kiwizook
So, today the boss decided to do something :hahaha:
it has been very dry, and they had dug new sewerage in in this spot. and then we had about 170 mm of rain on, turning it to soft mud as we found out when we drove on it. I kinda had to take control of it all, and it took a digger and an hour's work to get it out :hahaha: :hahaha:
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Re: how not to offroad

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:52 am
by ScottieJ
:hahaha: that wasn't a very good road repair was it :hahaha:

Looks like it was pretty damn stuck!

Re: how not to offroad

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:19 pm
by Tramp
It's always funny when someone else gets something stuck! A few weeks ago my work friend got the teams ford ranger stuck ha brilliant, but it wasn't so funny when I got the forklift truck stuck!

Re: how not to offroad

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:04 pm
by dan_2k_uk
I have got a lot of company vehicles and plant stuck with my previous employer. Have a deal with my old boss whos my mate that I wont get my current van stuck. Quite a challange round some of our smaller sites. Someone gets stuck pretty much every day.

Had some touch and go moments and had to dig it out with a crowbar and use tactically placed cardboard to get it off a really soft incline the other day.

Trusty Vivaro always gets me out. 6 months next week so only gotta survive tonights callout and shes lasted half a year. :D

Re: how not to offroad

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:04 pm
by turbo-tom
dan_2k_uk wrote:Trusty Vivaro always gets me out. 6 months next week so only gotta survive tonights callout and shes lasted half a year. :D
Shame you cant say that about the copied version of the Renualt traffic :hahaha:

Re: how not to offroad

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:37 pm
by Jordi
Once recovered a 30t foden GS 6x6 wrecker out of a bog up to its doors.

Its ok so long as its not your fault. Had he wagon stuck on sites a few times had to be pushed / pulled out.

Re: how not to offroad

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 6:30 pm
by kiwizook
yea, she was really stuck, sitting on the diff on the hard side of the trench, its the only thing that saved it from rolling. found out those van's have surprising few recovery points available. ended up having to bend the bumper a little to get a strop around the chassis crossmember at the back, and we had to lift and pull at the same time, took 5 of us an hour to get out with the digger :D