Saturday, May 07, 2011 at 19:11
G`day JB & Peter,
Peter after trying for some time to dig a hole deep enough to stand the spare up in and not succeeding because of a
rock like base about two feet down, I then tried a circular hole and laid the spare down in this but that didn`t work either.
My offsider ( seen in pics) got sick of me stuffing about and wandered off disgusted. LOL
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We had two vehicles travelling together, both of which were bogged, we gave up on
mine for a while and concentrated on the other, a 200 series L/C. Several hours later after a lot of digging and two broken MaxTrax we managed to get it forward of
mine but a considerable distance away, using the full length of my winch cable and two snatch straps joined together we just reached it.
I know, it`s not good using snatch straps for winching but hey,we had been at this task for nearly 7 hours and we were willing to try anything.
With both diffs and auxiliary fuel tank etc. resting in the mud there was a lot of strain on the winch, being a single line pull the solenoids over heated and burnt out and the cable had buried itself into the cable on the drum and shredded about 75% of its thickness in several
places along its length.
But we got out eventually.
Scrubby
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