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8th Jan 2010 3:00 pm
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8th Jan 2010 3:00 pm
simon
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At least one of the wing mirrors looks to be OK
8th Jan 2010 3:01 pm
stapldm
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That wall to the right looks like it might be the other side of a single lane sloped driveway. If it's sheet ice they may have turned into it but carried straight on off the edge.Dr. Ian Malcolm:
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8th Jan 2010 3:02 pm
SPOTTER
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explain that one at home, "Why dear is the roof free of snow but both sides covered in it?"end of an era ....... maybe a Defender when it appears.......
8th Jan 2010 3:15 pm
TallPaul
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How would you recover that.
Discuss.
Assuming sides already foobar'd might as well drag it back up a bit so it can be toppled over right way, not sure how you would do that with a D3 though, wonder if you can get something all around the chassis rails.
Maybe someon'e just investigating ways to get into extreme extended mode?
Looks to me like it came down the steep track to the left and didn't make the corner.
Strops through the airborne wheels, attached to a snatch block somewhere near that wall - a tree, a ground anchor, anything you can find that is strong enough - and then to a Tirfor or vehicle winch. Pull the vehicle up on to the bank, steer right and drive it backward, slowly, back down onto the road, slowly letting slack off on the winch. No need to do any more damage then has already been done and should still be perfectly drivable
8th Jan 2010 5:09 pm
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Could have been thinking he is invincible and driving up the bank to let a Eurobox past the other way. Whatamistakatomaka!!!
8th Jan 2010 6:34 pm
Smarticus
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We had to recover quite a few offroaders from that position over the years. Secret was to chock the underside wheels, then attach winch to roll cage on the lower side with the winch cable running accross the roof to upper edge then off at right angles to the car. As long as you could stop it sliding along the road, mud, slope, it would rotate it up back onto its wheels. Ideally you would use a second counter balancing winch supporting it back the other way - to lower it back down and stop it crashing back down onto its wheels from a height.
Without a roll cage - that would be harder. Maybe a large strop through the drivers side window and rear same side passenger window and central frame work would do the job. That side will already be quite damaged and the frames on these vehicles is pretty strong.Disco 4 TDV6HSE
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8th Jan 2010 7:06 pm
craig
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a little different that one (seeing as I was right behind him when he did it) - I remember posting that picture - it came off my old laptop running over the slowest ever 2G mobile phone link out of the back of someone's elses D3 about 45 minutes after iconix had been extractedSteve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
8th Jan 2010 8:26 pm
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8th Jan 2010 11:14 pm
character
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I recon, left hand side you can see skid marks in the snow, where the drive comes down to meet the road, simple case of coming down without GGS or HD and paniced causing the D3 to come down off-line and head for the snow bank (notice the snow missing on the bushes) with the driver over compensating when approaching the pending doom
8th Jan 2010 11:43 pm
AWeatherup
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Reminds me of the 'gritter' piece on BBC news... what we need is a view of it being righted and then moving off unscathed - perhaps apart from the driver's mirror!Disco4, BMW1200RT,
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