My first recovery

[cardiff_gareth]

I feel part of the gang now, even if the lady I recovered gave me a fright.

Close to my home is an area called Dinas Powys that has a road that connects Dinas to Barry, it gets a lot of traffic through it, especially at rush hour. Well I was in this queue of traffic as i'd suddenly come to a stop and further up it became apparant that there was a Freelander with the hazzards on facing me, broken down.
Drove past it, no one in it, gets the the road about and I see this lady with her 2 kids, hiking it back home. Asks if its hers, she says yes, clutch has gone so I offer to tow her home. Does a U'y on he roadabout and back in the jam the other way  :roll:
As luck would have it she has broken down next to a farmers field enterance so with me and a van driver we had her facing the right way.
Asks her where she lives hoping it would be on the flat and she replies, up that big hill - darn
Gets her kids in the back of mine so its just her in the Freelander, they thought it was great, all Maddys toys in the back, they were having a whale of a time  :lol:  :lol:
Starts towing her and i'm sure her Freelander is still in gear as it was hell of a struggle to get going. Over the hill fine, coming back down the other side she panics as she got a bit closer to me and shoves  the brakes on. I'm like 'this is great' all of a sudden major snaking left to right and slowing down very quickly, looks in the rear view, she's there - thumbs up  :lol:  :lol:
Got her home and she says its the dreaded 1.8 petrol model and this is the second time it has happened to her, she'd also had the head done as well recently.

Luckily I stopped otherwise she was gonna leave it there til her husband got back home blocking a carrage way.

There we go, thats my story  

[redhand]

I pulled a LWB hitop Transit off a roundabout In Portmadog couple of months ago. He'd run out of fuel.  There were 2 of em from Port Rock services. The numpty ran over me 4tonne webbing strap 3 times and on the last occasion snapped it completly. Luckily We were in the filling station by then when I got out to recover my shackles I noticed a bit of rope hanging down from his towing eye. seems his mate had been towing him and he'd gone the same thing to him.

[wrecker]

congrats mate :D  :D

i pulled a swb sprinter with my zook yesterday after he ran out of fuel for 3 miles :lol:

did it ok too 8)  :D

mark

[Lincs niva]

Well done mate good feeling helping somebody in need :D

Cheers Gav

[Range Rover Blues]

I've stopped offering to help people as it's getting expensive in tow ropes and you have to know the person you are towing knows what they are doing.

Might have to invest in a solid tow pole for the occasions I feel like being so galant.

But as I've said before I always think twice these days, having had my offers of help thrown back in my face.  Apparently I'm a sexist pig for offering to help.  No, I'm a graduate in mechanical engineering with a towrope :roll:

[mobi]

when i had my series 3 i towed a 110 full of spare doors, going up hills at 10mph. just because they didn't have a fiver for some derv.

theres only one person i can cope with on a tow rope, and thats matt (meader on this forum)

i used his omega 2.5 to tow a sj410 on a bar (he was driving the sj) lets just say thats the fastest sj i've seen, and the most scared i seen him.  :lol:

[Mighty_zuke]

I got one of those solid tow bars to tow my zuke home. It's the best £20 I spent yet. The some theiving scum nicked the pin out of the towball on the Nissan and now I have no way to connect it till I get a new one!

I did tow a disco home when he "broke down" at the local pay and play too. He was well chuffed and was gonna get  a bar the next day!