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failed recovery!
Just got back from attempting a simple recovery of a crashed car, it happened to be buried in a 3ft deep snow drift and it was resting on the shasy!! after trying to pull it out our self's then again with another car pulling us and us pulling the crashed car, we gave up because we had no luck then we got the disco stuck after about 10 mins and lots of pushing it came out, thank god! then a friend that had stopped by in his hilux lost his keys, to the work car we looked everywhere for them but no luck so he rang his work asking for the spare pair, along with lots of verbal abuse they said that we will probly have to come and get them so off we go, we got about 2 mins from home and on the main road, i thought it would be clear but no, it was sheet ice, with snow drifts 4/5ft deep and the normal 2 track road was down to one track
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(sorry for poor pics, they were taken on my HTC, and it is very very windy!)
And all this just to recover a little mazda
Mark
11th Mar 2013 9:18 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Amazing how complicated a "simple" recovery can be.
11th Mar 2013 9:20 pm
MHP
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your telling me but was a good laugh
11th Mar 2013 9:22 pm
InnuendoMaster
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Good god, this in Rye. I was heading to Winchelsea in the morning then to St Leonard's nr Hastings. Doesn't look a good idea
11th Mar 2013 9:25 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Couple of years ago tried to pull someone out of a snow drift, no chance. Also a small car type van. Drew the line at a full snatch recovery as didn't want to pull his front end off. Then remembered dinner was ready and reassessed my priorities, left him there phoning the AA.
11th Mar 2013 9:26 pm
MHP
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InnuendoMaster wrote:
this in Rye
nope, lydd but rye is bad, was at school this morning and it was getting worse!
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11th Mar 2013 9:30 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Good to see you've got a nice light dusting!!
11th Mar 2013 9:33 pm
InnuendoMaster
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Might have to rethink my travels
11th Mar 2013 9:37 pm
MHP
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What did you hope to achieve from a recovery? It's not like the car was going to be safely driven anywhere, or even safely towed.
Get the driver to a place of safety and move on
11th Mar 2013 10:08 pm
MHP
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to get the car out of danger from other road users because it was on a sharp bend and it was sheet ice, while we were there a van and 2 ford's nearly went through the side of it
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then we got the disco stuck 
after about 10 mins and lots of pushing it came out, thank god! 
then a friend that had stopped by in his hilux lost his keys, to the work car 
we looked everywhere for them but no luck 
but no, it was sheet ice, with snow drifts 4/5ft deep 
