Thread: Recovery pic

Originally Posted by Tank

Rovercare: Poor fella, was he looking for Geoooorge or was it Buuuuurt, Regards Frank.

Hehe, haven't heard that one before

I wish i had pics but about 6 years ago i went out on an LROCV day trip, i was late so i met up with the group just out of Gladysdale near Powelltown. All was going well, i was 2nd last in a convoy of about 10-11 vehicles of which was a mixture of disco's/ deffy's/ county's and 2 RRC's ( my 81 and a mates 86). After lunch some time we started exploring a few tracks and then in the arvo some we decided to explore a track that went downhill towards a largish creek, first few vehicles went down then the rest followed behind. Then we get a radio call that the track has a lot of fallen timber over it and advised to turn around and head backup .
This is where the fun started, my mates RRC with muds (which i now have on my disco ) managed to turn around and just made it back up the top of the track, it was very slippery even with deflated muds. By now it was starting to get dark and very windy and we could hear trees fallling down due to the strong wind.
I turned around after making a clearing with the bullbar and proceeded to head up slipping and sliding as i went untill 3/4 of the way up where better traction was found. The others had no hope of getting up so we decided that since i was near the top and had muds on we would try to snatch/tow the other vehicles up - 1 problem, they were about 500m down the hill. So after joining 7 snatch straps together i managed to pull the other 9 cars up by about 11.45 pm. As we were heading out the wind was that strong that we were literally dodging falling trees and we were driving along. Got to launching place at 12.30ish am and layed the straps out in the safeway carpark, from one end to the other. A fun but long and tiring day.

Originally Posted by Tank

Rovercare: Poor fella, was he looking for Geoooorge or was it Buuuuurt, Regards Frank.

or everyone's favourite friend Raaaalph.

If it's not a stupid question, how did you recover him?

Being inexperienced with recoveries, I couldn't figure out how to do it. Pull back down the road towards where the front wheels are steering? If the Toyota went right over could it pull someone with it?

Originally Posted by JamesH

If it's not a stupid question, how did you recover him?

Being inexperienced with recoveries, I couldn't figure out how to do it. Pull back down the road towards where the front wheels are steering? If the Toyota went right over could it pull someone with it?

I'll probably be shot down in flames here but I'd try this :

1. look for a nice strong tree up that hill, as close as possible to line of vehicle. ( from the look of the forestation in the photo it seems there would be a suitable tree ). Use winch extension straps if necessary.
2. Get out hand winch and set up a double line pull with a snatch block and winch him out of there.
3. winch the vehicle up the hill a bit of possible, steering wheel full left lock and slowly back him down onto road.

Originally Posted by waynep

I'll probably be shot down in flames here but I'd try this :

1. look for a nice strong tree up that hill, as close as possible to line of vehicle. ( from the look of the forestation in the photo it seems there would be a suitable tree ). Use winch extension straps if necessary.
2. Get out hand winch and set up a double line pull with a snatch block and winch him out of there.
3. winch the vehicle up the hill a bit of possible, steering wheel full left lock and slowly back him down onto road.

We did exactly this once. Although the stuck vehicle was a Sierra.

The driver of the Toyo would be on the winch handle of course
I'm no expert in electric winching, but they could conceivably use a V pull via a snatch block on tree up the hill, with the winching vehicle down on the road.
Getting it out with snatch straps only - I wouldn't know a real safe way to do it.
I wonder what Rovercare did to recover it ?

Originally Posted by waynep

The driver of the Toyo would be on the winch handle of course
I'm no expert in electric winching, but they could conceivably use a V pull via a snatch block on tree up the hill, with the winching vehicle down on the road.
Getting it out with snatch straps only - I wouldn't know a real safe way to do it.
I wonder what Rovercare did to recover it ?

If you could get another vehicle on the other side (looks to be enough room), I would hitch up to the back and with a vehicle on this side (photo) attach to the front and take the weight while the vehicle hitched to the back dragged the rearend back up onto the road, in any situation I would attach a safety strap to the front of the vehicle in case of equipment failure, Regards Frank.