Thread: Seriously bogged!!

Well as my old Dad used to say, " If you are going to do a job do it properly"

10 bogged vehicles - all to rescue a Vitara!!

Reminds me of this book I used to read to my son....



"When little yellow digger gets stuck in the mud, a range of bigger diggers are sent to finish the job..."

There woulnt of benn an issue if an LR did the recovery

Reminds me of this thread - too bad many of JohnE's pix have gone.

Lee Bogs a Falklands Digger

Originally Posted by p38arover

Reminds me of this thread - too bad many of JohnE's pix have gone.

Lee Bogs a Falklands Digger

Thats one bogged excavator,, cant even see the roof,,

Reminds me of one that slid into a dam near home,, they ended up digging through the wall to let the water out,,

Reminds me of the time up in Central West Qld (not very near to Torrens Ck), many years ago. I got a call on the radio from a bloke who lived by himself on a property about thirty miles away from where I was camped with a survey crew. Since he knew I had a Series 1 with a winch, he asked me to come and help him - he had his ute bogged (it had been raining). I picked him up from the homestead, and we drove out along a track about five miles. It then became apparent that he not only had his ute bogged, he also had his truck and his tractor bogged trying to get the ute out. The only one I could get a line onto was the truck, and it soon became apparent that not only was it not going to lift up, but I was soon going to get bogged as well as the winch skidded me along the track.

Not wanting to walk back, we laid sufficient corduroy to turn the Landrover round, and I dropped him off at the homestead. I can't remember how he eventually got the vehicles out. The soil there, once it was wet, looked good until you disturbed it, when it changed to the consistency of half melted icecream. You could take a stick two metres long and stand it up vertically, and bury it full length in a few minutes, just by wiggling it! Somewhere, on a slide, I have a picture of a IH R190 truck bogged to the top of the wheels. I remember how we got it out - with a large bulldozer. At the worst it was impossible to travel on horseback, because the horses got bogged. Vehicles parked gradually sunk down until the axles were resting on the ground. No work got done for six weeks, and it took nearly a month just to get out.

John

Hello All
This one took a fair bit of dragging pushing and digging to extract.


Andrew