Recovery - don’t follow my example

[W&KO]

Sooooo, we on our 18month lap and thought prior, I’d be surprised if I need to use the winch.

3 weeks in and I am recovering myself……….

1st mistake, completely install your winch prior to leaving…….It’s not as though I haven’t had time as I mounted the PTO winch and PTO drive 4 years ago but never got around to installing a means to engage the dog clutch on the PTO drive one the t-case. Yep that means crawling under the defer to engage winch. Installing a method to engage was on the pre-trip list of things to do.

2nd mistake, identify tue exit of said obstacle……we approached the dry River bed of Palmer River, it very wide, very sandy, very soft and could not see the exit. I know know better to walk the couple of hundred meters for a looksee, this would have also prompted me to address 3rd mistake

3rd mistake, consider tyres pressures before start said obstacle, I had already aired tyres down to 20/24psi Hot (NP recommended 30 on the fact sheet for Boggy Hole Proper) and figuring I’d just crossed most of the Simpson on those pressures surely crossing this creek would be no different.

4th, while not a mistake I broke my own rule, for the trip, ‘double line pulls if there is the option’. Why, well if sheer pin sheers 1. I don’t have a sheer pin and 2. Would be a pain to change mid recovery. There was an option for double line.

Anyways, pictures speak 1000 words…….

2nd Low foot to the floor got me just short of the top, I reversed back to the bottom, maybe lower pressures would have got me to the top, I wasn’t keen on a second attempt.
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Wet patch is water from the tank inside the car
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I get question about my rear step and if it’s affect departure angle…….it sorts itself out although ideally I’d stop and lift it up.
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Thanks to Member RANGA For the pre-departure gift of new recovery gear to replace the old.
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[trout1105]

That step you added at the back was most likely the cause of you getting stuck, it would make a fantastic anchor at that departure angle.

Getting stuck happens from time to time and it is just part of the adventure and you are obviously enjoying it, Lucky bugger [thumbsupbig][[bigrolf]

[W&KO]

That step you added at the back was most likely the cause of you getting stuck, it would make a fantastic anchor at that departure angle.

Step is hinged but I don’t think it was the sole reason I got stuck, those prior had all sorts of trouble given they were faced with a near vertical exit. At least two tracks where others had aborted the exit and when back there other way.

Ideally I would have folded it up and lowered tyre pressures prior to starting the crossing, I still don’t think I would have got up the exit if I had done these considering I had to slow right up at the bottom, it was super soft at the crest..

Anyways…….always learning, and happy to share.

[trout1105]

With exits like that you need to keep the righthand welly down and don't back off untill you are out of it [thumbsupbig]

[W&KO]

With exits like that you need to keep the righthand welly down and don't back off untill you are out of it [thumbsupbig]

I think you had to be there…. [emoji848]

I mentioned 2nd foot to the floor, and I come to a stop with wheels spinning and if I didn’t back off I would have dug a hole to China……

Think I mentioned I had to reverse down…….

[trout1105]

I think you had to be there…. [emoji848]

I mentioned 2nd foot to the floor, and I come to a stop with wheels spinning and if I didn’t back off I would have dug a hole to China……

Think I mentioned I had to reverse down…….

All is good, at least you have something to talk about over the campfire tonight[thumbsupbig]

[W&KO]

All is good, at least you have something to talk about over the campfire tonight[thumbsupbig]

That was 2 nights ago………plus no campfire [emoji91] tonight.

It’ll be a distant memory in a weeks time.

[Saitch]

That was 2 nights ago………plus no campfire [emoji91] tonight.

It’ll be a distant memory in a weeks time.

I'd bet my lefty, K, that there's folk on this forum that won't let you forget![bigsmile]

[BradC]

'tinternet never forgets.

[OldGuy]

I have been through the boggy hole track a few times with no real dramas but tracks like that change all the time. My opinion only, tyre pressures play a bigger role than we think, l have been down to 8psi with low range 1st gear key start to get me out of a sand big. Was ridiculously easy at the time, IMHO if you had gone down to say 12 psi it may have saved a lesson or two, however you did gain a lot of experience and a memory..

[trout1105]

I'd bet my lefty, K, that there's folk on this forum that won't let you forget![bigsmile]

Everyone gets stuck from time to time, It's of no consequence as long as you learn from it and after all it is all part of the fun of going off road anyway[thumbsupbig]

[JDNSW]

Tyre pressure!

[Xtreme]

Was there an alternative (easier) exit that I see in the 5th photo?

[W&KO]

Was there an alternative (easier) exit that I see in the 5th photo?

Yes, that’s the way your supposed to go, we’ll the advertised way on the northern entrance.

A change of plans and limited planning….

I’d go that way again….

[shack]

I have an as yet "un-disproved" theory,

If you go on a trip and nothing breaks, you don't get stuck, don't get bad weather or some other problem, the trip ends up going in the "nothing memorable" column.

That's only my theory though.

And fortunately for us, we've never had "nothing memorable" trip to date.

Cheers
James