Yank that tour Bus out !

Hi Murray
You have just made a mistake, sorry....

You are never lost, just geographically misplaced.

Cheers

Stephen

No matter where you go.........there you are!

Gday
I'm not lost realy , just finding places no one else has been.
Murray

It looked like it was doing all the work ,,,,lol, notice how it got back out of its own ruts to... Brilliant!




Cheers Axle

Yeah I see there were a few people in the bus

Go easy Peter
They were pensioners, and all so really greatfull

Some had dug, some had gathered sticks and branches, and there were still a few in the Bus.....( let's just call them "directors" )

Hopefully in another 20 years or so I am around and able to go on a ride too.
Cheers
Bucky

The only reason I said it was because back in the late 70's we did the same, towed a full size coach out of a bog in western NSW with our FJ40.
When we showed up the driver was standing beside the bus, which was idling and asked if we could tow him. We hooked up and proceeded to bounce around on the end of the snatch strap. I had just assumed that there were no passengers (young and silly!) and I said to the driver that the coach was too heavy for us to pull which was when I suggested that could he lighten it somehow, hey presto 35 bods alight!
I then suggested he get as many as were physically able to push while we towed, which they did and out it came.
They had been there for 4 hours when we came along and he hadn't thought to get them out and push, maybe I wasn't so silly after all, he was old enough to be my dad.

might be because they were "paying" passengers ...:-)

Hi Joe n Mel
Paying or not paying, there is an old saying...Many hands make Light Work" Bucky did what we all would do I hope, but the extra push would have made all the difference.

I have had 2 situations in past years.

The first time when we helped snatch people out, the moment the strap was off, so were they off and not a word of thanks. I was that cross that if we came across them again I would have left them where they were bogged, but we never saw them again.

The second time on the Birdsville Track, there was a small Toyota Coaster Bogged. They had been there for 3 hours (Group of 15 travelling Christians)
A number a vehicles had passed during that time and not one vehicle stopped to help them out. Seeing a large group of people stuck, we pulled up and with all their help, I had them snatched out and they were ready to go again. If they did not all help out, it would have been a very big ask for my Pajero.

Cheers

Stephen

Quite often passengers are little old ladies with hip replacements. Should they push? Last O/B Spirit group I saw were all aged 60 to 80......W

So true Warrie. I saw a group in Innamincka recently. The plane had buzzed the hotel to come and pick them up but no one heard so the poor things had to trot down to the hotel themselves. They were knackered. Didn't move for hours. Just sat in the A/C staring at each other and nursing a beer.
Lou

and that they seem to be now, all "older" people (used to call em "old farts" but i am gettin old ) and they are reluctant to move when they have paid top dollar for a trip to sit on there bums and let some one else do all the hard work ..... i know what ya mean Stephan, i would help, even if on the trip it would be part of the adventure but that is why we are out in our own cars cause we WANT to get stuck and smell the roses, they dont ..... :-)

All was ok
Easier for me to get on the shovel

Go easy guy's
The bus was ful of pensioners

Those that could do things had already done what they could, when we turned up.

That little Kombi of Doug's did an amazing job.

Orejap, I saw one of the Outback Spirit coaches up at Marree the other week.
They are quite new Mercedes 4 X 4, but I don't know how much recovery gear is in them.
I was told they had 16 of them, so you would think they would know how to equip them for that sort of work.

cheers
Dave

Doug's Combi did the clutch, directly caused by helping...I think it went approx 2 weeks later

I did 5th gear, on the way home...
A totally unrelated incident, so whilst the grarbox was out, I had the clutch replaced.

over 1/2 shot anyway

When will people learn NOT to use a towball to snatch from?

When will people learn to take up slack on snatch straps, and not take a 10 mt run up...
It is that that causes all the damage.....

Bucky