Monday, Apr 07, 2014 at 14:33
Hi Crusier
Actually that was an interesting rescue and we had to think about it a bit, in the white car I knew instantly that it was going down and stopped very early but still the passenger side rear axle was on the sand with that rear wheel just over the edge.
No where to winch from really either , maybe we could have found a small bush over the
hill to the right but it would have been a hard pull in the very soft sand, but we decided otherwise(
Well also the kids were very anxious to rescue Dad even if he could have got out himself).
So over came the
grey patrol with its huge 37's but it soon also began to sink and as you can see, slid towards the white car.
Eventually we positioned the
grey car to pull the white car from the driver rear at a 45 degree angle to the track , mainly because it had little traction also, and could just give little tugs.
The white car was also very close to the edge at the front as
well , so close that if pulled straight back its front may have gone over the edge.
So we actually turned the steering to full left lock. At first this would seem wrong as with left lock the rear of the car would have gone over the edge.
However by using left lock combined with the backwards/rightside tugs the car came back and its front moved to the right, so the combined forces pulled both ends away from the track edge at the same time.
It only had to move a meter and all would be ok.
I figured if we had kicked in the front locker then the resistance to the car rolling backwards caused by 2 locked wheels may not have brought the front of the car back to track centre.
Surprisingly the sand was so soft I couldn't even drive back up that
hill from standing start after the rescue , but the car with 37's did just, on its second go, and only after backing up 1 extra car length.
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