Thread: Use of recovery equipnent in urban areas.

Wow Mitch, that picture brought back some memories. There is an old YouTube clip from a Puma Defender training video which shows how the anti-stall and traction control work together. The Defender is shown towing a 12 ton truck on gravel. The kicker is that there is no-one in the vehicle on the third run. The instructor reaches across, starts the Defender while it is in gear and lets it do its thing. When I first saw that I thought it was quite impressive. The other video I remember was similar but the Defender was in sand. See both below. Lovely bit of kit the Defender!

Land Rover Defender Towing a 12 Tonne Truck. - YouTube

Defender stuck in sand. and drives itself without driver - YouTube

In Kuala Lumpur, a narrow barely two lane, two way, underpass. A taxi was stalled inside at beginning of peak hour and had caused a traffic jam I couldn't escape. Eventually It was my turn to play chicken with oncoming traffic and use the other side of the road to get around the taxi. Reversed up to him, attached a strap and towed him off the road to clear the jam for thousands of others behind me.

Originally Posted by cripesamighty

Wow Mitch, that picture brought back some memories. There is an old YouTube clip from a Puma Defender training video which shows how the anti-stall and traction control work together. The Defender is shown towing a 12 ton truck on gravel. The kicker is that there is no-one in the vehicle on the third run. The instructor reaches across, starts the Defender while it is in gear and lets it do its thing. When I first saw that I thought it was quite impressive. The other video I remember was similar but the Defender was in sand. See both below. Lovely bit of kit the Defender!

Land Rover Defender Towing a 12 Tonne Truck. - YouTube

Defender stuck in sand. and drives itself without driver - YouTube

I suppose if the Discovery Sport can tow a train then the Defender can tow a truck.

Land Rover Discovery Sport Tows Train in Switzerland (W/Video)

I had 4 tree stumps to remove last week, hitched the tirfor with snatch block between 2 of them to see which would give up first, moved the anchor to a live tree to get the others out. Used the rear winch on the 130 to pull the biggest stump up onto the trailer. The rear winch is super handy for this sort of thing, I've loaded and unloaded trailers with it, used it with a snatch block on a high-ish branch a while ago to unload railway sleepers into a stack.
Idiots bogged in the middle of the freeway are safest left there.

Last year my panel lift garage door had one of the springs break, so I was using the high lift jack to raise it to about waist height and then pressing the opener button and that way I could help the motor open it all the way. I did this until my preferred repairer returned from a few weeks holiday. I had to put it between the legs of an A-frame ladder with a tether to stop it falling over as the base is so small, and I couldn't steady it and open the door at the same time.

The only times I used the winch on my RRC was to pull old abandoned Hillmans from their resting places and onto my car trailer to take them the Hillman Owners Club storage shed (an old vacated poultry farm shed).

Hi,
Used the Defender winch to pull a pine tree out of the ground and up into a mate's trailer.
So easy!
Cheers