Saturday, Apr 25, 2015 at 21:16
Sorry Kitbags, read your thread wrong.
There are a quite a few different tricks that we have used out here, and they have worked.
Flat battery:- When the battery went too flat to kick the vehicle over, about 5 years back, we made a fire, and burnt it down to coals, then buried the coals in the sand, only about 2" down. We put the battery, with normal water (didn't have distiller water), then put the battery on the sand above the hot coals. It took about 45 minutes, but there was sufficient charge in the battery to start the motor...it actually works.
Bogged in mud, no winch:- Tried it once and as successful. We could not snatch the trayback out, so we came back to the community, got an old rim and some fencing wire, and went back. We secured the towball of one car to a good tree with one lot of wire, then after removing the right steerer, put the spare rim on the car, where we had taken the wheel off, secured the wire to the rim, feeding it through the valve hole to stop slipping, slowly engaged reverse in low 4x4. Again it worked, but it as hard holding that steering, even with power steering. Luckily we only needed to move a very short distance to get the bogged vehicle out.
Finally, but not the last "trick". We frequently use any beds to get people out of bogs. We jack the wheels (with a kangaroo jack) one at a time, and put broken ant beds pieces under the wheels. Then dig any mud from between front and back wheels, putting more ant bed in, clear behind the rear tyres adding more broken ant bed if needed, and almost every time, a bogged vehicle can be reversed out in low 4x4.
Marc
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