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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: blackbeltbob on September 05, 2006, 12:37:46
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on my way home from work yesterday I was stopped by the police to see if I could pull a VW Golf out of the hedge it had tried to clear. naturally jumped at this and pulled him out. All his car had suffered was a puncture and a broken bumper.
Felt good. :D :D :D :D
anyone else do a good deed yesterday?
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Not yesterday but I've recovered a 7.5 tonner that fell off a neighbors driveway, a 4x4 building site forklift that put a wheel into the peat on the edge of the site and a loaded Transit that slid on ice and nearly went over over a cliff.
I also failed to recover a second 4x4 forklift from a site in the village, they ended up getting a huge tractor to do it in the end as my winch was pulling me towards the forklift and snatch recovery didn't work either. :roll:
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you win in the towing out of trouble stakes :( :( :) :D
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Spotted a Disco II on hard shoulder of M69 the other week and pulled over to offer assistance... He looked at me like I was an alien....! :roll:
He had the AA on the way so left him to it.
Do I get the brownie points anyway?
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Ooooohhhh!
Just remembered!
Last play day, marshalling... had to pull out the 110 Crew cab (Home made, with a nice 3.9 in it!) belonging to my local garage mechanic & parts man!
Bug ger the brownie points.... looking forward to the discount!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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your are now first equal =D>
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I towed a 4.5 tonne American truck up a mountain in Iceland. He could idle (so had brakes and steering, thank god) but couldn't actually rev the thing. So I towed him up to the top of the mountain, gave it a kick and he coasted down to the village on the other side.
Given the Disco was fully loaded with 7 people and a roof rack stacked with gear at the time, we were probably around 7.5 tonnes all-in. Hence I needed low box. The guy in the truck was pretty impressed though.
I said "Flash your lights if you want me to brake". He said "Er, I'll do the braking for both of us!"
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this all makes mine sound mince :oops: :oops: :oops:
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this all makes mine sound mince :oops: :oops: :oops:
It's not the winning it's the taking part - I bet the golf owner & police didn't feel you were 'mince' :wink:
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I once towed a full dust cart out of the way, as it had broken down in front of where i wanted to get too, dunno how heavy they are but i guess it would fall into the category of " would not like that on my toe" so i reckon i done my self a good deed ??? :)