It's a tragedy that the young fellow was killed in that recovery 'accident', ignorance of safe recovery procedures is very common and I partly blame the tossers in the 'how not to unbog your Landcruiser video'. These two, lets call them T1 and T2 put themselves up as the macho sleeves ripped out off road road experts. Nothing could be further from the truth, but unfortunately people watch their videos and reckon they know what they're doing.
This is the second T1 & T2 video I've seen. In the first these two idiots were traveling down a bush track with a large quad bike mounted across the tray and were quite surprised when they managed to trash the quads guards and lights on overhanging trees. Their solution, T1 gets the chainsaw out and starts to demolish the bush to get the vehicle and quad combo driven by T2 through, environmentally conscious these two tossers are not. A more sensible solution would have been to unload the quad and driven it out or to have mounted it 'north-south' in the first place. I particularly liked the video of chainsaw expert T1 walking down the track chainsaw over shoulder and holding it by the uncovered bar and chain. :o This was soon followed by bogging the heavily loaded vehicle in soft sand, pity they didn't let the tyres down before venturing onto the soft sand or prior to their winch recovery even though the commentary states they did so prior to recovery. I guess they forgot [wink11] but added it at the editing stage.
The second video speaks for itself, you didn't need to be a Rhodes Scholar to know it was all about to go pear shaped as (T1 or T2) cleverly goes right hand down just before he can get better purchase on the tussocks. Hopefully he wasn't injured.
Idiots like these two who portray themselves as competent off road travelers set a very bad example to to the viewing audience who may try to emulate their antics thinking it is the right thing to do. Irresponsibly stupid IMO.
Deano.
