Careful when snatching

[Capstan]

Oh Bugger!

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2007/10/465.jpg

[mcrover]

I'd be thinking that the truck had issues before the tow......

that is bazar....

[Disco Steve]

Try exeplaining that one:wasntme:

[mns488]

i don't see anything wrong with it.

They are just moving it one piece at a time:D

[Lotz-A-Landies]

i don't see anything wrong with it.

They are just moving it one piece at a time:D
I think you are right. The snatch strap was not strong enough to pull the whole truck so it just pulled a bit.

D :D:D

[googe]

the new kenworth frontendoffloader :o

[ak]

I wonder if they were towing and not snatching. Truck does not look to be bogged, just broken down maybe.

Regardless it's stuffed now.:eek:

[Capstan]

The tow vehicle was a Discovery 200tdi auto.

[Cameron_Def]

The tow vehicle was a Discovery 200tdi auto.

Funny looking Disco ...

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2007/10/465.jpg

Unless you have a drilling rig on the back of yours !

[Bigbjorn]

Well, the chassis rails have broken off at the front spring rear hangers. This takes quite a bit of effort as these vehicles use a high tensile heat treated alloy steel ( chrome molybdenum manganese) of 760000 kpa yield strength.

[Outback 1]

imagine having to call the boss.err i have a slight mechanical problem!:D

[Blknight.aus]

yeah but have you seen the cracks that they develop when they run loaded across corragations or they get launched and landed over unseen dips and grids?

[barryj]

The tow vehicle was a Discovery 200tdi auto.

Go the Disco :twisted:!

[Dunnie]

Warranty?

[camel_landy]

Duck tape & cable ties should sort that out... :angel:

M

[loanrangie]

Duck tape & cable ties should sort that out... :angel:

M

Down here we use fencing wire.

[Quiggers]

...in the days when John Chapman/OME ran the offroad version of rallycross at Catalina, I recall a similar issue with a certain and very famous jeep and its then equally infamous pilot...

broke in half.... and after so many mods to make it better...:twisted::twisted::twisted:

i seem to recall that 'pinched' fencing wire did the job, camel;););)

[Pedro_The_Swift]

chook tape is even better :D:D

this I gotta ask about----

[Bigbjorn]

yeah but have you seen the cracks that they develop when they run loaded across corragations or they get launched and landed over unseen dips and grids?

Only where the maintenance has been neglected or the manufacturers work has been stuffed around with by owners or modifiers. This class of North American truck uses high tensile bolts in reamed holes and live damn well in road train service in this country. I owned four White Road Bosses altogether and never had a chassis crack in one of them. The key to this is to check bolts for tightness and if found loose, check that that the holes have not fretted oversize or elongated, or developed cracks from being operated in that condition. Repair work on this materiel needs knowledge and skill. It requires a specific welding procedure with low hydrogen electrodes, and drilling is difficult as it is a work hardening steel. Rigidity is the enemy of road train chassis as they pound to pieces if rigid, but flexing allows everything to jiggle around without the hammer and anvil effect of rigidity.