Thread: Free Isuzu Landy

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

4x44 gallon drums, an axe, a shovel, plenty or rope and a tirfor....

ID have it out in 12 hours.

Dig it, pontoon it and float it out on the next high tide (currently a full moon) onto a barge. If you can't get a barge, tow the pontooned Landy out with a boat.

Invoice the ADF $80K for the recovery, then buy the wreck at auction for $2K.

I'm guessing the 44s were to pontoon it. I'm just trying to make your recovery a little ($78K) more worth while.

Go on than.

I have been stuck almost as bad and needed a semi trailer tow truck to drag me out.

Cost a bundle and severely put a dint in my ego and wallet.

I'm with Dave. I guarantee I would have got it out within the 12 hrs. It even is winch equipped. The blokes who abandoned it can't have had much knowledge of beach work. I know that clay the article mentions, it is pretty treacherous and have run into it several times in the Gulf/Cape country. It sort of looks stony until you hit it and then when you start going down you know what it really is. What a waste! Nearly makes me cry to see a vehicle like that destroyed. It will take a lot to repair after that dunking. All the wiring,instruments,any steel panels that are not gal (door frames,firewall,tub reinforcing etc not to mention saltwater ingress into all the mechanicals including engine.

RAAF.............. Need I say more?

Bet the RAAFies wished they still owned the Chinooks .....

close, I was going to dig it for a while, pontoon it to lift it on the tide and then tirfor it while it was still trying to float.

that particular area has a nasty top crust with slime underneath.

the top drains and firms up quickly but if you punch through youve had it.

you need to lift as you recover when youve gotten stuck on that stuff or you just wind up turning the vehicle into a digging plow.

my plan

dig out the crust in the direction of recovery and fill in with foliage, dig out in front of the tyres and under the chassis to insert support beams, lash the drums UNDER those outrigger style.

head up tide and set up a honking great pair of ground anchors and setup the tirfor.

cut foliage for use as ground matting

Wait for the tide.

start winching

park the vehicle up on pig stied ground matting.

recovery complete.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Was not Dave Blknight up that way recently?

Not fishing I hope.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

close, I was going to dig it for a while, pontoon it to lift it on the tide and then tirfor it while it was still trying to float.

that particular area has a nasty top crust with slime underneath.

the top drains and firms up quickly but if you punch through youve had it.

you need to lift as you recover when youve gotten stuck on that stuff or you just wind up turning the vehicle into a digging plow.

my plan

dig out the crust in the direction of recovery and fill in with foliage, dig out in front of the tyres and under the chassis to insert support beams, lash the drums UNDER those outrigger style.

head up tide and set up a honking great pair of ground anchors and setup the tirfor.

cut foliage for use as ground matting

Wait for the tide.

start winching

park the vehicle up on pig stied ground matting.

recovery complete.

That would work. Drain the water some clean fuel and it would drive away.

Despite salt damage it would have to be OK for a wile. I'd like the running gear out of it regardless


Tony