urgent help urgent please

[william127]

ill ring you both at about alf 11 when your feeling amiable ;) maybe i could go round keiths tommorow and fit his m/ts and take that, cause its more manovarable? then id change them back to the r/ts (if he wants)? let me know what you come up with,  ill be in ware tommorow at about 5 to pick up barneys jack. thanks. :)

[wrecker]

pm sent back matey :D

[Martin110]

I aim to be back in ware about 10 on sat so if you need another pair of hands give me a buzz

[william127]

will do, thanks, you delivering the boat early then?

[bravo669]

well? is it out yet??

[Jimbo]

Yep, all recovered - in one piece, nothing had ben nicked from it.............just one split front brake hose !

Took four of us, three high-lifts, plus assorted yellowstraps, tree straps, shackles and various ratchet straps, but it's done. I'll put some piccies up later - and I'll try and indentify the lane, as it really is one to avoid, anything wider than a standard 90 will end up down the same bank that Will slipped down !

[william127]

two high lifts jim, plese dont exagerate ;) it isnt worth doing as it is too narrow and in slightly damp conditions its like ice, after five dry days we all drove out with no problems, had i done it today it would have taken about ten minutes :doh: :twisted: good excuse for buying a nice shiny high lift, great bits of kit them.
thanks for coming jim, and thanks for offering help wrecker :)

[bravo669]

top job. well done! :D

[Jimbo]

Here's the lane in question http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=622830&Y=147257&A=Y&Z=120. I'd strongly advise all to steer clear of it, unless you want to end up down the same embankment as Will did !

Although the surface is (currently) dry, the northern end of the lane is very rutted and quite narrow, then about 500yds in it gets really tight - the left side of the lane is bordered by a steep bank up to a field, and quite substantial trees, and the right side just drops away down towards the lower fields.

[beast5680]

[Jimbo]

I've got pics, but I can't get them to upload to my damn gallery.........

I've uploaded pics before, and did some recently - but now all I get is a red cross, and 'we can't find a gallery of that name'

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[Jimbo]

Piccies now in my gallery http://www.mud-club.com/galleries/Jimbo/1235931056/0.......here's a taster !



Poop, it's come out really small  :oops:, I had to resize the originals to get them to upload (even though they were under the 2mb upload limit)

[Landyman]

 :D Well done to all involved. The pics probably don't do it justice but it looks as though a vehicle with winch and some good  well positioned snatch blocks would of got it out.

[Jimbo]

:D Well done to all involved. The pics probably don't do it justice but it looks as though a vehicle with winch and some good  well positioned snatch blocks would of got it out.

Maybe, but the lane is so narrow, we didn't think that you would get the right angle - the front of the Rangie had dropped further down the bank than the rear, so the first thing we did was to pull the front up the bank slightly with one of the highlifts.

Plus - none of us has a working winch  :oops:, and Will didn't think that Wrecker would have got his huge winch-equipped lifted Disco down the lane in the first place

[karlo]

[william127]

you would have needed two winch trucks, 1 for the front and 1 for the rear, then worked it up front back front back like we did with the high lifts, but as jim said acess was the problem, and lack of winches!  it worked fairly well though, high lifts are great bits of kit, anyone got any suggestions for mounting them in a rangie?

[robert francis]

glad you recoverd it, hope nothing had been taken,

well done everyone that helped wish i had been closer  so i could of given you a hand

[robert francis]

cant you get a couple of big clips and clip it to the bottom tail gate, ??