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[Genem]

Another call-out to a stuck vehicle on the Forest Drive from the National Park Rangers. A German couple this time, had reversed one wheel into the ditch. A simple recovery job for Tonka and a bottle of Reisling for our Anniversary this weekend.  ...and luckily the rain stopped for long enough to get the job done ! 



 

[Tom]

Visitors to the National Park must often have a bemused smile when you rock up in a vintage land rover to rescue them. 

Although I must ask, out of interest, what vehicles do the National Park Rangers use to need to call on you to rescue stranded motorists? Is it a lack of appropriate vehicle for towing them out thats the issue, or some health and safety ruling that they can't get involved?

[Wittsend]

A nice little earner .... 


Meanwhile something more mundane ....

Having removed the 2 plugs from my rear diff, I fettled them up and painted.
They were in quite a state from PO butchering.

[Genem]

Visitors to the National Park must often have a bemused smile when you rock up in a vintage land rover to rescue them. 

Although I must ask, out of interest, what vehicles do the National Park Rangers use to need to call on you to rescue stranded motorists? Is it a lack of appropriate vehicle for towing them out thats the issue, or some health and safety ruling that they can't get involved?

They have several Ford Rangers and a couple of vans but are not allowed to do recovery for Insurance and "lack of training". The last person to call out a Recovery company waited hours and paid £250...  Last year I recovered on of the Rangers, they had pulled over to allow a vehicle to pass and not noticed the ditch in the bracken !

[diffwhine]

The lunacy of it all...
As far as I am aware, most of the "rangers" round here if using a 4x4, have to have undertaken winch and recovery training which I think is one level up from LANTRA 2. They too are not allowed to recover others - only self recovery... 

[Exile]

I loaded mine with a similar amount of bricks and sand, when the loading was finished the guy in charge said ' still room for a bale of hay and a sheep'

                                                                                                                                              Love that ^.
                                                     Or maybe a bag of cement and a dog?