OK i know it was only one night i weren't on for.
I was just sittin down to do another chapter of study then was gonna come on here when i got a txt - "u still up?"
so i replys -'yep', within a few seconds phone rings "hello mate, how u doin?, how do you fancy comin out to give us a hand pullin bob and dave out?" the conversation goes on along the lines of
"We went out laning, bob's disco got stuck about half way through, so we managed to get through in dave's hilux, dragging bob through aswell, til' the hilux overheated. I didn't have my phone to ring u so called a taxi from bob's phone to pick us up in the middle of nowhere at the junction where the byway meets the main road and take me back to daves workshop to get my 110 and more strops and drawbar and phone"
So i says OK i'll bring my motor and meet you at the petrol station in 10 minutes. I'll not bore you with the exact details but i went out met the fella, he was plastered in mud, head to toe, and had got a taxi like that from the middle of nowhere, to about 12 miles away, also in the middle of nowhere.
So we went out to where they were stuck, they had got the hilux out but the top rad hose had split, the winch had overheated and packed up. Now this hilux sit's on 36" boggers, with about 8" of lift. And had been up and down the lane, a couple of times now spinning and slipping and trying to drag the disco out (Which is on a 2" lift and 31" a/ts), and left rut's up to about 18"+ deep in places. The disco is belly down in the ruts all 4 wheels spinning freely about 120yds away from the road still. The road is the main road from Ashford to Teneterden, and very busy, the lane comes out opposite a junction, on a slight bend just before the brow of a hill. Traffic regularly going in both directions at 60 mph plus.... TBC
I was just sittin down to do another chapter of study then was gonna come on here when i got a txt - "u still up?"
so i replys -'yep', within a few seconds phone rings "hello mate, how u doin?, how do you fancy comin out to give us a hand pullin bob and dave out?" the conversation goes on along the lines of
"We went out laning, bob's disco got stuck about half way through, so we managed to get through in dave's hilux, dragging bob through aswell, til' the hilux overheated. I didn't have my phone to ring u so called a taxi from bob's phone to pick us up in the middle of nowhere at the junction where the byway meets the main road and take me back to daves workshop to get my 110 and more strops and drawbar and phone"
So i says OK i'll bring my motor and meet you at the petrol station in 10 minutes. I'll not bore you with the exact details but i went out met the fella, he was plastered in mud, head to toe, and had got a taxi like that from the middle of nowhere, to about 12 miles away, also in the middle of nowhere.
So we went out to where they were stuck, they had got the hilux out but the top rad hose had split, the winch had overheated and packed up. Now this hilux sit's on 36" boggers, with about 8" of lift. And had been up and down the lane, a couple of times now spinning and slipping and trying to drag the disco out (Which is on a 2" lift and 31" a/ts), and left rut's up to about 18"+ deep in places. The disco is belly down in the ruts all 4 wheels spinning freely about 120yds away from the road still. The road is the main road from Ashford to Teneterden, and very busy, the lane comes out opposite a junction, on a slight bend just before the brow of a hill. Traffic regularly going in both directions at 60 mph plus.... TBC
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