What’s That…, Explorer recovers Patrol

What’s That…, Explorer recovers Patrol

No it is not a typo. Went down south on the weekend and when 4Wding was following a friend (the Patrol) along some fairly boggy sections of mush on the back part’s of a property, I was following the leader as he took a short cut across a paddock and as I started along the same boggy path I watched as the Patrol slid out struggled for a bit and came to rest on the diff’s (Me think Oh that isn’t good). So I flatfoot it back towards the firebreak to hopefully more solid ground.

At this point he jump’s out of the car Throes the arms in the air and yells “TIME FOR A CONFERENCE” After a quick discussion I manage to get my car around to the slightly less boggy section in front of the Patrol and we hook up the snatch-strap.

First attempt By the Book, 2 Meters of slack on the strap and drive of smoothly. Patrol gets up and going before bogging down again and now I am almost stuck as well, 3 Blokes on the front of the Explores B/Bar pushing as I reverse back up.

Second attempted>(A nice shifty recovery)
We now have the explorer backed up about 2 metres away from the patrol. Low range in Drive (Explorer), Low Range Second (Patrol). We both floor it and as the strap hit’s full stretch I start to bog down as the patrol gets under way making up the 8 metre difference fast, then thank god I got moving again just in-time. Both cars were hitting the Rev limiters and mud was flying as we clawed out the 40 metres back to solid ground.

We have this grate photo of the patrol; the whole front up to the roof is completely covered with mud (: (:

As we started the second attempt my mate in the patrol says, This must be a world First a Bloody Explorer Recovering a Patrol I’ll get Alex to film this on my phone. Arrrrrr and the bloody camera on the phone didn’t work, Noooooooooo.

So if only for a bit the Explorer was king of the hill.

Alright I have had my moment in the sun.