Thread: Use of recovery equipnent in urban areas.

I am not really Urban But I have used my winch in my backyard removing a big tree stump that had been blown down in a storm.
I chopped all the small stuff off it then cut the trunk into 6-10 foot lengths and scull dragged them into a pile to be burnt.

Thanks a lot Aaron for starting this thread, now I'll have to post twice.

As mentioned on a recent thread (standard intro)...

'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.'

And I thought the thread was going to be about 'densely urbanised...', so we may need a committee to review trouts entry?

Got bogged in my parents backyard and had to winch myself out , they are on 5 acres and it was raining and my AT's wouldnt cut it.

We were going to pushbike over a very rugged track into a distant but well known waterfall, closed to vehicles for the duration of the wet season.

Of course we only had road bikes with skinny tires so we took them around Palmerston to see how they performed on the occasional unpaved road. Went better than expected and returned to the house.

Ah, brilliant idea! We'll go back out with the 4x4 along the same route to odometer the distance traveled on the bikes.

Hit a dirt road. Bit of sheet water ahead. No worries we're in town. Through we...lurch sideways...drivers side of vehicle disappears...water in the cabin...wheels spinning...bogged! Among all the house rooves we can see ours in the middle distance.

Plod back home on foot.

Back we come to the vehicle with Trifor hand winch and cable lashed to the push bikes.

Take up the winch tension, ready to pull it out backwards. Better half in the vehicle ready to ease the clutch out to aid winching backward.

The cables flying through the Trifor. Ah, this is easy, this is great.

Wait on. The vehicles making lots of foam at the tyres, but its not coming out of the bog!?

"You got it in 4x4?" - "yep!". "You letting the clutch out fully?" - "yep!". "OK, we'll try a bit more" - "can't you say 'please!'". What tha...

Back to winching. Crack, crack, crack...

Look behind me to the distant anchor tree and its coming over, more and more on each stroke of the Tirfor! Termites have sabotages the surrounding area so it took a while to find a decent anchor to get out and get home, couple of hours later.

As mentioned in a recent thread, I snatched a guy who was bogged in the car park at the Nambour Showground.

When our 3,5 and 6 toner get bogged on site in soft sand, mud or dirt i go out and snatch em out.
Its funny cause on one occasion the 6 toner was bogged in mud with almost 3 tons worth of material on the back and the 2 blokes on site one of which failed to recover my truck with his Hilux started lauging when they saw my defender. My driver helped me set up the snatch strap and then i put my truck into low range, locked the cetre diff and dragged my truck out across the guys lawn. After recovering my truck the bloked asked "whats in that thing mate?".......i responded a "transit engine mate". I wished them a good day and went back to the office with a big grin.

A new twist...victimised by recovery gear in the burbs!

When you're out bush with mates you can circle around and keep a wary eye on each other.

But when you're back in town disbursed to your residences you lose that ability to cover your back.

You know it, when you receive a photo of your Land Rover on the receiving end of a taught recovery strap, supposedly having been towed into your drive way by the Toyota at the pull end of the strap.

If you go out and leave your Land Rover at home, put it in a locked garage (with a couple of Rottweilers) so your friends in white fridges (otherwise very determined) can't fake their superior reliability and towing power.

My BIL had an Origin Energy tree-trimming truck get bogged in the front lawn of his house block near Lismore and dragged it out with his tractor.