If you havent heard the story from PFR, the Pacific Forest Rally located in Merrit this weekend. Had a couple cars slide off the road during the Recce. A jeep was pulling one of the cars up a hill when it started to slide, bumping the car it was towing and another car off the road.
picture doesnt do it justice, as they always say. But this "ditch" the cars are in is deep and on a steep hill. I can actually barely get started if I stop on it.
thinking
At least it started
Even in the ditch, and weighing as much as a 3/4 ton suburban, had to anchor to a tree.
didnt use this spot, not enough angle
coming
coming
coming
almost out
so, its not out, but I got no more room to winch.
ended up spinning it around downhill by hand and then pushing it out.
thats the other car, they were sandwiched together to start.
this one is right up against a log and a stump. I warned the guy that we would probably have some body dammage from pulling it out. He told me he didnt care, just needed the car out so he could race it tomorrow.
thinking
it starts
ooh, factory tow hook, theres a better one on the other side but I was concerned about rolling the car.
pulling it out almost sideways to reduce body dammage.
checking the integrity of the tow hook, it bent slowly over the course of the pull, stopped using it when the first crack apeared.
so that was the last picture, but again we ran out of room to winch, didnt want to try just pushing the front end around like las time. SO we hooked a strap around the back left wheel, winched it tight, pushed the front around and winched the back foreward until we could drive the car out. This was about 2:30 am, got there about midnight, and still had a hour drive back to merrit. Oh yeah, not a scratch on the car from the recovery. Only dammage we did to the car was the factory tow hook. mind you, he did put the car on its side later that day...
PFR rescue mission lots of pictures.
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