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    As in Any other stressfull situation when attempting a recovery the Wisest thing to do is to take a few moments and Really THINK about what you are about to do and then Calmly go about your recovery, a few of the Old Timers that I learnt off would sit down and have a cup of tea before they would affect a repair or recovery.
    I wish i had a quid for every time i have seen people running around like headless chooks when they get stuck/bogged doing completely stupid things (sometimes life threatening) without any sort of plan because they haven't sat down and thought about what they are doing because they are in such a tearing hurry.
    Then we have the crews that have ALL the flash gear But NFI how to use it correctly and more importantly Safely.
    IF you are going to be spending time driving off road or even just driving down the beach then it makes a lot of sense to practice your recovery methods (including the use of snatch blocks) because eventually you WILL get stuck/bogged and that practice WILL make your recovery easier, faster and more importantly Safer.
    Snatch blocks are a fantastic bit of kit, Not only do they give you more pulling power they also take a Lot of strain off your winch and the very Last thing you want is a burnt out winch in the middle of a recovery.
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    Gee Should of Read this Thread Earlier

    Hello All,

    My little proving ground - the intermittent creek claimed another victim a couple of days ago. One stock standard Defender 110. The creek used to dry out regularly. However, with my neighbour building two large irrigation dams either side of my property, the creek now regularly carries water. The black peat soil bottom of the creek let me through once. The "that was fun - let's do that again" second run was my undoing. The crust broke, and down went the wheels. Despite the Defender being in four wheel drive, low - there in the creek it stayed. Luckily the engine was out on the high side and stayed nice and dry.

    I do not have any winches fitted to a vehicle. So I decided it was time to buy a Tirfor style hand winch and three snatch blocks. Luckily there was a very handy gum tree close by. It makes for a damn good anchor point! Fortuitously, it was one of the trees we planted just after we bought the place!

    The bogging occurred just on dusk - so that night I watched some YouTube clips. The very first video I watched; unbeknown to me at the time, was the very same clip that Ron posted at the start of this thread! I also watched a clip about using Tirfor style hand winches. It has been decades since I used a proper brand name "Tirfor" winch while working in Arboriculture = tree surgery. Where I used ropes and winches regularly as part of my former trade.

    Everything was hooked up and I had a workout on the winch handle. Slowly and steadily with some gurgling from the creek - out rolled the Defender.

    With the presence of water in the creek becoming more frequent it looks like I have to install a culvert or a couple truck loads of rocks to make a causeway. The creek separates two sides of my block and the other side is where the soil stockpiles are. I would prefer not to have to winch out the Defender again!

    Kind regards
    Lionel

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    I fell out with my French neighbour over this sort of thing. He seems to do what he likes with stones etc in the watercourse but does not give a flying **** about anyone downstream. It always has consequences.

    The fact that it has been pointed out to him he needs Approvals etc from the relevant body before he can bugger.
    ise about with the watercourse seems to escape him.


    Silt buildup in the Dam leads to ("What silt?") The dam will always be below his vineyard & he is still developing this.

    Stupid him places restrictions in the water course, oblivious to the fact that soil will always build up above it so a further problem later on, so in will come the excavators to clear that but no way can they clear the dam of the silt & they will make even more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    I fell out with my French neighbour over this sort of thing. He seems to do what he likes with stones etc in the watercourse but does not give a flying **** about anyone downstream. It always has consequences.

    The fact that it has been pointed out to him he needs Approvals etc from the relevant body before he can bugger.
    ise about with the watercourse seems to escape him.


    Silt buildup in the Dam leads to ("What silt?") The dam will always be below his vineyard & he is still developing this.

    Stupid him places restrictions in the water course, oblivious to the fact that soil will always build up above it so a further problem later on, so in will come the excavators to clear that but no way can they clear the dam of the silt & they will make even more.
    Hello 4bee,

    Yes neighbours - said party decided that the down stream side of creek/watercourse/drain was not deep enough. So excavators appeared right on the boundary and dug the profile down deeper. No attempt was made in building a retaining wall. Since then each time it rains - or water is released from the top dam - I have lost about the size of my Commodore wagon worth of soil as my land erodes away.

    Kind regards
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    HELL!

    I thought I had got through to Napoleon during our last little blue (aka Battle of Waterloo) when he finally laid some straw bales down stream due to my insistence which caught a lot of crap, so in my innocence I thought he would do likewise this time. Oooohhh noooooo, not him & I was a bit tardy about recce-ing the site & then it was too late & if he did think about it he'd be looking at cost.


    I should have realised he was up to no good the way he fell over us when we were Social Distancing recently. He actually called into shops for us.

    Time like this one needs the likes of the Duke of Wellington & 40,000 troops to knock on his Port.

    The irony of this is that he wanted to buy our dam when he bought the attached paddock for vines. & people who know about these things advised us not to sell due to possible demarcation & maintenance disputes in the future.

    Ce'st la vie

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