What was he thinking?

**dullbird** · 30th January 2009, 11:02 PM

maybe you should of asked his girlfriend to get in.........would of made him look like a fairy if she said yes

**V8Landy** · 30th January 2009, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by dullbird

maybe you should of asked his girlfriend to get in.........would of made him look like a fairy if she said yes

**Dorko** · 30th January 2009, 11:04 PM

Yep agree.... the pictures dont do it justice.... as me and my mates wanted to do, was he gets in and we gently push and reverse out. But he didnt want to get in the car!

Neither my mates or me were going to get in just incase it did give way and rolled, then we would get blamed.

As this went on and on.... the car was getting worst because the tide was coming in and the sand was breaking away.

Dorko

**Dorko** · 30th January 2009, 11:05 PM

HAHAHHAHA

**dullbird** · 30th January 2009, 11:06 PM

Yeah well it sounds like you could do all you did mate!...I say above that I would of stayed but if he really was being as uncoperative as that then maybe I would of done the same as you.......You can only help people so much but they do also have to be able to help themselves

**Dorko** · 30th January 2009, 11:10 PM

Cant argue with that

Bigmark · 30th January 2009, 11:29 PM

Sounds like an idiot, i have come across something similar and as a precaution we dug down under the left front and rear wheels so it leaned away from the beach, then snatched it out and it kept it from going over as more weight was always to the dune side- we kept digging as required, to keep the angle right.

**Panda** · 31st January 2009, 12:06 PM

I find it hard to believe that with all the people involved in this recovery, as least one person could have come up with a workable solution ???????

**87County** · 31st January 2009, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Bigmark

..........we dug down under the left front and rear wheels so it leaned away from the beach, then snatched it out and it kept it from going over as more weight was always to the dune side- we kept digging as required, to keep the angle right.

... sound like the logical procedure in this type of situation

... oh, and....

.... even helping fools presumably does something for your karma....

**Dorko** · 31st January 2009, 12:42 PM

These were all the solutions we came up with:

1. reverse slowly
2. go forward into the dune, and then reverse back out.
3. snatch (this got crossed out- as it was too dangerous for the cars involved and there was no safe snatch points)
4. use the maxtrax under the front wheel and back right wheel
5.Hack at the side wall, about 1.5m in front of the car, and drive forward down on the beach. (Most he would lose was a front bumper)
6. Leave the car, and go get so proper recovery help ( Attempted that)
7. Dig on the back left and front left wheel to drop the car. (Attempted that, however then the car was sitting on the diff and the rest of the car was flat belly to the sand. (Option no good)
8. Then with option 7. not working. It looked better just to reverse atleast 3 tires where on the sand. (He wouldnt try.)
9. Wait there and hope for the best (Seems to be his favourite option)
10. Offered to drive them back to Joondalup, one the way home and where they lived, to organise help. (Denied)

I'm pretty sure we thought of most things... however he needed to make the choice. It wasnt our car, so its easy for us to say reverse or drive down the 1.5m drop and lose a bumper.

I honesty thought option 7 would work with option 8 involved. But he was a pussy and dug like a girl. Made my mate angry at this point because you could see he didnt want to dig his own car out of trouble and wanted us to do it for him.

Dorko

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