Thread: Recovery tracks - do you own them and do you use them?

I get a chuckle up when I see scenes like today in the city with a parked Prado with all the tough gear, including an absolutely unmarked set of 4 orange Maxtracks tied prominently to the side of the roof rack. They appeared never to have been used. He also had a pristine high lift jack. Maybe he was expecting to get bogged in the car park.
My gear lives in the shed.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I get a chuckle up when I see scenes like today in the city with a parked Prado with all the tough gear, including an absolutely unmarked set of 4 orange Maxtracks tied prominently to the side of the roof rack. They appeared never to have been used. He also had a pristine high lift jack. Maybe he was expecting to get bogged in the car park.
My gear lives in the shed.

I used to regularly see a white Disco 4 like this around the South Perth area when I was working down in the city. Every bolt-on accessory you could think of, and I'd bet it had never been off the bitumen. Even had "G4" stickers on the side of it and a blacked out bonnet. But if I happened to pull up alongside him at the lights in my comparatively plain white D4, do you think he would wave or even acknowledge the fact that we both drove a Land Rover. Not likely. To be honest, I ended up feeling embarrassed whenever I was in close to this thing with such obvious **** factor.

Reminds me many moons ago, pulling up for an eary morning surf and see someone sitting on the bonnet watching the waves, get suited up, wax the board, they still sitting on the bonnet watching.
Have a look up at their board and relise that its bolted to the roof rack, we had a few like that at the local beachs
cheers
blaze
ps could I surf, na kept going **** up

Never know when you might need recovery gear in the big city.

I was about to drive home for the day when I heard a grinding noise not far away, in the same parking area. Lady in a Camry had managed to suspend the front of her vehicle on a large concrete sewerage man hole that sat about 300mm proud of the dirt - not going anywhere. From out of the D1 came shackles and tow rope. The Camry came off with no apparent damage. All the workers across the road came out to watch.

I did snatch someone who got bogged in the parking area at the Nambour Showground on a rainy day a couple of years ago.

I once had to winch a car in the carpark at work. I work at a major city hospital.

Aaron.

I suspect there is scope for a whole new thread on using recovery gear in heavily urbanised areas.

Just to show how anal I am , the correct debogging device is a SPADE with a long handle fitted which is what I made up .
A shovel has a much greater angle than a spade and may not be able to be slid under the car to clear sand from diffs etc , or may damage something if carelessly used.

Also a spade IMHO is more useful for digging holes for sanitary purposes particularly if sharpened with a wheel.
My kit is a snatch strap, jack base made from 2 squares of 5 ply glued together about 25x25CM, 6,000 lb Warn portable electric winch with a lead to the back as well as a harness between 2 tow points on the front, and an axe/log splitter, I guess I could also use the mats . In addition I have a Mitch Hitch on the camper which enables it to be unhitched even if there is tension of the coupling , unlike a Treg.
Oh, and also the Maxtrax.
Whoops I almost forgot the bull bag , which I have used once on a club trip where everyone broke through the crust of "vomit country" . Even 12,000 Lb winches could not stop the cars sailing along on their bellies , until I placed the bull bag under the front bumpers and it lifted enough to debog them, and one time when a Nissan flattened a rear tire on a steep slope where a jack just fell over but the bull bag lifted enough to take off the flat and dig a hole under to fit a tyre. Of course the driver had aftermarket rims and his wheel brace would not fit!

Regards Philip A