Thread: Recovery pic

Oh dear - You all have it wrong, and it shows just how little you all know about recovering teetering toyotas. Listen and learn young apprentices:

1) Ensure your safety by wearing gloves. This is to avoid contamination.
2) Attach both hands firmly to forward recovery points, or other suitable solid appendage (of the truck that is...)
3) PUSH.

how youd do it would depend on what you had...

with just the stock gear I tend to carry all the time.

Id anchor the nose of his vehicle up hill as high as I could and tension it up using the highlift then Id hook up and dog the second chain to hold it there freeing up the highlift and the first chain.

Then Id run my tow rope through a snatch block high up the hill to one side and then hook itup to big red and the back corner of his chassis so that pulling it would pivot his vehicle back up onto the track. his vehicle would have the chain used to provide a securing point and the tow rope would be slipper hitched onto the front of big red so that when it all started to go badly a good solid yank on the standing end of the rope would see it loose.


If I had a tirfor on board (if i was four wheeling I would have) then Id 2:1 the tirfor between the vehicle and the tree and hand him the handle while I did the coffee/jaffle thing.

and

Originally Posted by 100I

Just drive it out

Urm its a toyota, not a landy.

A lot of lessons to be learned here:

1. Don't bag the Vehicle ....it could easily have been a Land Rover

2. Don't bag the driver.... it could easily have been you. A moments lack of concentration or bad judgement after a long day and a slippery track.

3. How do we get out..restrain the front to the nearest tree(s) to prevent gravity completing the job and gently hand or power winch back onto the track usually the way it went in...sideways.

I learnt those lessons the hard way once. (Ace, Ron(p38arover), Scouse, Greylandy can attest to that.)

Originally Posted by one_iota

A lot of lessons to be learned here:

1. Don't bag the Vehicle ....it could easily have been a Land Rover

2. Don't bag the driver.... it could easily have been you. A moments lack of concentration or bad judgement after a long day and a slippery track.

3. How do we get out..restrain the front to the nearest tree(s) to prevent gravity completing the job and gently hand or power winch back onto the track usually the way it went in...sideways.

I learnt those lessons the hard way once. (Ace, Ron(p38arover), Scouse, Greylandy can attest to that.)

Here Here,

Regardless of how that man ended up where he ended up, as safe as I am when out 4 wheeling, S#*T happens. if you do it enough it happens to all of us at sometime. Sometimes even the most experienced or cautious get a little rush of blood and get our ambitions mixed up with our abilities ......... sometimes it's not how you get into it, it's how you get out of it that matters ....


Jason

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?

Had to shoot back into Walhalla and get another dude, as I only had 1 snatch block and the winch couldn;t manage the pull, he was severely bellied

I blocked to a tree on the opposite side and the other dude, single line pulled him, from the otherside, he had to drive around, took 25mins

Its the track that shoots up in the middle of Walhalla, behind the shop, the real tight corner

The best one yet, was just out the back of home, me and a mate, Moparrangie, were cruising along to see a heap of cars, us hillbilly's don;'t like this sort of thing in our backyard, at the bottom of a tough ass hill

A bloke the night before just put on his ne Baja claws, on his 75 series and tried this hill, rolled back, front over back as he left the track and nailed a tree behind the B pillar and tray.........with 2 girls in the car, if they didn;t get that tray, in THAT spot, it would have been deaderation, bad hill to screw up on

So we help out with Ron, Mountain top experience, recover this thing, get it down the hill etc, 20 odd people around, I said to old mate, can you move this thing out the way, Why? he ask's............So we can drive up the hill, some pretty unhappy looks going on, and smart remarks about "undriveable" and "not doing another recovery"

So up we go in Pears Rangie, turn around at the top and come back down, the old 2 fingered farmers wave as we go past........just to show them how its done

maybe calling ol mate heeerrrby

On a beach trip over at Robe SA, we came across the local cop bogged to the diffs with the waves lapping at his back tyre. When I pulled up to him the first thing he said was, "G'day, I hope your not the guys I'm out here looking for". (we weren't by the way)
It took a couple of goes with the snatch strap to get him out........on the first attempt he forgot to start his engine.
We found out why he got so bogged........he had little or no 4WD training (we thought that strange for a cop posted to the sand driving capital of the south coast), and his tyres were on 60psi as the Rodeo doubles as the local persuit car.
Anyway, he didn't turn out to be too bad a bloke.

YouTube - Robe Cop Snatch