Member - Ivan (ACT) replied:

Good on you Dave (and boys)

Having been on the receiving end of a post midnight recovery, I can tell you it means sh1tloads to see your mates come to the rescue when you're stuck high and dry - I didn't get home until 10am the next day, and my mates all missed a days work.

I tried the 'thanks mate', and 'let me pay for fuel', and 'I'll shout you tea'

All I could get from them was "Toohey's New - What Mates Do"

Pretty special

bware replied:

Borgy, That's a good story.

I too have been the 'rescuer' and 'the rescued' during the early hours. Good on you. It's s h i t at the time but we all remember it :-)))

PeterInSA replied:

Kerley and his mate were luckly their vehicles did not go under water on high tide.

Dave it looks like you beat the tide.

Peter

vuduguru replied:

Good on ' ya for being a mate. Some say they are but it's times like those...
Remind hm he's owned!

Member - Duncs replied:

Then SWMBO says "What were you doing all night???? I thought you were going to mow the lawn today!!!"

"You can go all the way out there in the middle of the night for that no good %&^% but you can't (insert any menial task you can think of here) for me!!!!!"

It's what mates do but the girls will never understand. Actually I'm not sure I understand but I do it simply 'cause its what you do for a mate.

Reminds me of a Banjo Paterson poem called the Mylora Elopement. Too long to put in here but it is a story about blokes and what we do.

Love hearing that stuff, thanks Dave.

Duncs

Bonz (Vic) replied:

Been there done that and had the same feelings of worth and thankfulness. Life is full of opportunities to help

Gr8 story Borgy

Member - Gaz@Gove (NT) replied:

While a friend will drive a hundred miles to bail you out of jail in the middle of the night.
Your best mate will be sitting beside you in the cell saying "That was bloody great, let's do it again"

Hairy (NT) replied:

I think Borgy deserves the all round good guy group hug award...so altogether splithshiiiiit!!!

Member - Brian (Gold Coast) replied:

Good on you for helping your mates out!!!!!
Reminds me of an incident a couple of years ago.....Got a knock on the door one Friday at 5 ish.... mate Pete is standing there saying his Mav is down to the left headlight in a bog not far from my place...... now Pete's truck has 8" coils.... so that's a serious bog he is in! We go down there and about 15 minutes later he is out of the mire on the end of my snatch strap. We drive to the end of the track..... which is the end nearest my house and furthest from his, he thanks us and then heads back down the track to go home..... a few minutes later, he calls us on the radio,..... "errr... I'm stuck again!" we drive back in to find him back in the swamp! We spent 2 hours trying all sorts of recoveries involving our Patrol and his wife's Four Runner..... but the Mav wasn't going' anywhere...... Eventually we gave up and rang another mate who has a winch on the front of his Mav..... he heads over, on the way some clown in a new Falcon sedan side swiped him, tearing up the side of the Falcon but not doing any damage to the Mav, He arrives and assesses the situation, runs out the winch cable and 10 minutes later Pete is back on the track again. This time we insisted he take the long way round and not head back through the bog!!!...... by now it was after 8:30.... 3 1/2 hours after Pete got stuck... THE FIRST TIME!!!! we gave Pete stick about that for ages!!!!!!

That boggy track is now a road that I drive on a few times a week, and it brings back the memory of that Friday night every time I drive down it!!!!

Member - Littleborgy (SA) replied:

I still think of that night pretty often, and know that if i were stuck & called Kerley, he'd help me out, its what mates do (plus, we gotta have bragging rights LOL).

Forgot to mention in there dad, that when we got the Patrol out & Kerley came back down from the dunes, he got stuck again, but this time it was just a snatch job & he came out easily (mighty GQ to the rescue again)

Also, when the Patrol was coming down, he decided to take the same track that Kerley did & he also got stuck... Kerley, wanting to make it an even score (2 recoveries to the GQ, 2 to the Droopy), hooked up the snatch & pulled him out...

Cheers, Brad

P.S. I've got a photo of the Patrol's wheel full of mud & crap on my phone... If i can work out how to put it on here, i'll put it in my rig pics

Member - Luke (SA) replied:

Was wondering when that recovery was going to be put on here, would've been good to help out but my phone was playing up and the phone didn't ring.

Well written

Cheers Luke