Tommo&Claire
Well-Known Member
I really should start screening my calls on a sunday evening 
Having been there myself as i'm sure a lot of us on this site have, when you're in this sort of situation and it's dark, wet and muddy and you're miles from home and things seem a bit desperate, all you want is for someone to say "sit tight, help is on the way". The last thing you need is to have to barter and plead and listen to people suck air through their teeth ".....well, i've still got to load the dishwasher yet" etc! IMO if you can possibly help, then you pull out all the stops to do so, not only because you may well find yourself the next one to be stranded!
A good suggestion with the SOS section ... Crispin.....
The pictures don't actually do justice to how much of a sneaky obstacle that was. Yes there was clear evidence that at least one other vehicle had been stuck in there very recently and i'd put money down that had we all driven the same lane completely un-alerted, many of us, myself included would have ended up in the same situation as Crispin. The track narrows at that point and if you let your wheels to close to the edge then you are very quickly at the point of no return and even ATRAC wont save you
Having said that, three locking diffs, mud tyres even a tracked vehicle... once your in THAT hole, you aren't driving out of it! and on that note, thanks be to allah that it was not an 80 or a 100 in that hole because i'm not sure we'd have got that out, we were shearing bolts snapping plasma rope and stressing kit to the nth degree moving a 'relatively' light 120.
Still, all's well that ends well.
Having been there myself as i'm sure a lot of us on this site have, when you're in this sort of situation and it's dark, wet and muddy and you're miles from home and things seem a bit desperate, all you want is for someone to say "sit tight, help is on the way". The last thing you need is to have to barter and plead and listen to people suck air through their teeth ".....well, i've still got to load the dishwasher yet" etc! IMO if you can possibly help, then you pull out all the stops to do so, not only because you may well find yourself the next one to be stranded!
A good suggestion with the SOS section ... Crispin.....
The pictures don't actually do justice to how much of a sneaky obstacle that was. Yes there was clear evidence that at least one other vehicle had been stuck in there very recently and i'd put money down that had we all driven the same lane completely un-alerted, many of us, myself included would have ended up in the same situation as Crispin. The track narrows at that point and if you let your wheels to close to the edge then you are very quickly at the point of no return and even ATRAC wont save you
Having said that, three locking diffs, mud tyres even a tracked vehicle... once your in THAT hole, you aren't driving out of it! and on that note, thanks be to allah that it was not an 80 or a 100 in that hole because i'm not sure we'd have got that out, we were shearing bolts snapping plasma rope and stressing kit to the nth degree moving a 'relatively' light 120.
Still, all's well that ends well.
My comments are 100% with the benefit of hind sight and sitting in a comfy chair in a warm and dry house 
) when you're in deep schit (again no pun 
