Well I'm very much hoping it is a reliable thing. I haven't heard too many horror stories about them breaking down.
It comes with a 3 year, 300,000Km warranty with full roadside assist. For sure, the 3 years will come up before the 300,000Kms comes up!
New trucks are not anything like the old ones I remember. There are a lot more electricals these days. This is the dashboard:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...013/10/288.jpg
Even the steering wheel has about 10 buttons on it!
This might be a dumb question ... but if you manage to bog something that big ..........How on earth are you going to recover it! You'd need bulldozer to get the traction/pulling power to move it :wasntme:
^ I'd also like to see where that truck with triple diff locks will get stuck... Trying to cross a lake?
great project and very envious. :cool:
No it's definitely not a dumb question, and something I have pondered.
If I get the Central Tyre Inflation System, that will help, but if it gets seriously bogged I think you are stuffed. Am considering a 20,000 lb winch on the rear to pull out backwards.
You can also buy 50 tonne snatch straps specially for trucks, but you'd need another truck to do the snatching.
It does happen!
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...013/10/265.jpg
Worse if you bog a tank:
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You will still need someone big to pull you out once you get stuck. Though if it does happen. I would prefer to have one of these rather than a snatch strap. The rope has a lot more kinetic energy stored.
I do a few mud buggy recovery events each year and use a rope similar to this. It makes recoveries a whole lot easier.
Extreme Bubba - The Ultimate Kinetic Energy Recovery Rope : Breaking Strength: 131,500 lbs. : Bubba Rope
You also mentioned having a tow car for it. Though with such a big unit on the back. Why not just get a small car and drive it straight up into there.
There is another link floating around the web with a modified Mini inside a motor home.
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...18873570_o.jpg
Thanks for that link PTC. Not sure I need 131,500 lbs, but maybe their 74,000lbs one. The truck will weigh in at around 8.5 to 9 tonnes when built, so that is close enough to 20,000 lbs. Maybe double that to take account of mud suction, and add in a 50% safety margin, and you get to around 60,000 lbs. So, I'd have thought a 74,000 lbs one would do the job. Do you think otherwise?Quote:
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Cheers
David
Edit to say: I think we'll get by happily without complicating things with another vehicle. I am thinking 2 mountain bikes or something similar would be the go. For places you can't take a truck, park it up and cycle the final bit.
I snatched a lightly bogged but fully loaded spreader truck out of one of my paddocks with my D2 on a fire-break using a long 20T strap but more recently 2 FWA tractors were needed to extract the same truck bogged to the diffs further out in a paddock.Quote:
Originally Posted by spudboy
Coal mine I used to work at used to require double the load of the towed vehicle. D11 pulling 43 tonne Kenworth needed 100 tonne sling. No shackles, pins through tow points only. Happened often and man the paper work.