4.5T pull

[Terranger]

My mate was out on a hire and ended up calling me @ 0045 in a panic, adding he couldn't get hold of the boss.
He'd thought he was ok to reverse his Mercedes 33 seater bus onto what he thought was firm(ish) grass..., WRONG!
I phoned the boss who met me at the yard, and we headed out in my Defender, with his large towing strop.

On reaching the scene, and very many apologies from the driver.., we saw the back end had dug-in, and the front wheels couldn't climb from the grass to the tarmac.

We stropped up and I engaged low-range, reverse.
After a couple of rocks to and fro, we recovered 4.5Tonne of Midi-Coach.

The power of this vehicle never ceases to amaze me..., WHAT A VEHICLE!!
Could you imagine a new Defender mated to the Range Rover's TDV8??? What I could do with a lottery win  HMMM :-k

[crazymac]

Could you imagine a new Defender mated to the Range Rover's TDV8??? What I could do with a lottery win  HMMM :-k

Now THAT I would like to drive!! I've driven one of the RRSports with this engine and the only words to describe it is AWESOME!!  Boot down, pinned back in the seat and hold on!!

[clbarclay]

I think it was Jake on here that posted some pictures of a Discovery recovering an articulated lorry in a grass field. I think its was at one of the LR shows that got more rain that expected.

I would expect adding ballast in the Defender to increase its recovery capacity more than increasing engine power. If you haven't got the weight to generate enough grip then you will struggle to transmit the power to the ground in a slow speed recovery. You would certainly have no trouble doing burn outs in a defender if it had a TDV8 fitted :twisted: as long as the transmission doesn't die first.

[dxmedia]

4 1/2 tonne isn't much either.  45 tonne on an icy road, that's been done a number of times with various 4x4s. A mini bus on some grass, really nothing special.  Sorry.

[T30CDB]

I think it was Jake on here that posted some pictures of a Discovery recovering an articulated lorry in a grass field. I think its was at one of the LR shows that got more rain that expected.

Would be more embarrassing if he had pictures of the four D4x4 muppets trying to recover the artic that belongs to Devon 4x4 at billing three years ago. Top off roading / winch comp team, couldn't even work out that you cant pull a stuck vehicle sideways !

[Saffy]

I think it was Jake on here that posted some pictures of a Discovery recovering an articulated lorry in a grass field. I think its was at one of the LR shows that got more rain that expected.

Would be more embarrassing if he had pictures of the four D4x4 muppets trying to recover the artic that belongs to Devon 4x4 at billing three years ago. Top off roading / winch comp team, couldn't even work out that you cant pull a stuck vehicle sideways !

jake works for devon4x4 so maybe they are.

[clbarclay]

Shows how good my memory is, turns out it was a video linked by boss, but it was D4x4

http://www.mud-club.com/forum/index.php?topic=70504.msg589235

[dxmedia]

Doesn't that fall into the catagory of how not to use a kerr? The transfer of force from the front of the truck to the cross member of that landy must have been HUGE.

[lurch_917]

naa thats nothing last winter i was pulling fully freighted artics out of the yard on snow and ice i had to pull 2 of  them from the side as there wasnt enough room to get them from the front

[T30CDB]

Shows how good my memory is, turns out it was a video linked by boss, but it was D4x4

http://www.mud-club.com/forum/index.php?topic=70504.msg589235

Thats not the one. This had four of there vehicles all trying to pull at once and not one driver had the brains to pull the truck forward instead of sideways and to get on hard standing first instead of chewed up grass

[barmiebrumie]

Pulled a single decker bus uphill in snow with my old Dicovery 200tdi was well chuffed & got a round of applause form all the passengers who had been standing on the side of the road freezing waiting for the recovery truck (that was stuck in snow somewhere else)



John