Thread: Nearly came to grief

Glad things worked out all right for you. It certainly wakes you up when things like this happen

Im lucky that I have done alot of trailer pulling,my second sense just said go hard which was the only way out.
If any of you pull a heavy trailer for the first time and it starts to "boss you around",the only way to get it back under control is to pull it out of the situation.If you back off the trailer weight makes matters worse by pushing.
Just wish I had one of those reverse cameras recording,2 full 90deg slides and 2 45deg slides before normality resumed.
Didnt even loose a block of wood
Andrew

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Im lucky that I have done alot of trailer pulling,my second sense just said go hard which was the only way out.
If any of you pull a heavy trailer for the first time and it starts to "boss you around",the only way to get it back under control is to pull it out of the situation.If you back off the trailer weight makes matters worse by pushing.
Just wish I had one of those reverse cameras recording,2 full 90deg slides and 2 45deg slides before normality resumed.
Didnt even loose a block of wood
Andrew

thats good news mate.........

saves going back to pick it up

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

The first thing that came to mind was FLOOR IT.

It's really hard to get the mind around the idea that flooring it is the best thing you can do in most situations with an all wheel drive vehicle.

like the concept of turning into the spin. Last thing you want to do when out oc control is try and steer towards what you think your going to hit. Glad it worked out well.

some good news at last.....

that theory works just about every time......



"WHEN IN DOUBT.....POWER OUT...."

Its a freaky feeling, glad to hear you got out safely.

Last year when i went to pic up the two series vehicles i bought on ebay from orange we had to drive in through the guys farm and as we went in they had had heaps of rain and the road had a slight camber half way along the car trailer just pushed us down the hill, dad and i were just passengers until the trailer swung around and jack knifed stopping us dead. It wasnt all bad because dad was saying we were stuffed. I said no we arent we are in a land rover watch this. Low range 2nd centre diff lock in i floored it pointing up a hill with red clay all over it and with a ton of car trailer we pulled up and back onto the road. I then looked at dad with a smug look and off we went.

Landy Andy Rally driving with Betty????
Hope you didnt hurt the little black girl.
Would have looked good on video.