From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 6/10/2024 12:47 AM, Richard Smith wrote:   
   > Hi all   
   >   
   > Back in about February I pulled some folk out of where they had sunk   
   > into the grass.  Has rained so much here and we had no clearly   
   > identifiable Spring.   
   > Was funny walking along inventing a "Wurzels like" song about taking my   
   > rope for a walk (cider-drinking world - including famous "I am a cider   
   > drinker" song).   
   > Want to find a light block can attach to vehicle being towed, end of   
   > rope to fixed object, so getting 2:1 advantage with rope attached to   
   > towing-point of towing car.   
   > Only had 1:1 then - but mercifully I had a long coil of rope so I could   
   > tow from the tarmac some distance away.   
   >   
   > Was at an event where the booked venue had fallen-through and an   
   > enterprise at an airfield had stepped in - bless them.   
   >   
   > Rich S   
      
   As a designer from Bulgaria I sometimes work with told me, "The more off   
   road capable is your truck the further you need to walk to find a   
   tractor."  I guess rednecks are the same all over the world.   
      
   Glad you were able to get them out.   
      
   On my recent recovery effort, after airing down, I used four recovery   
   straps linked together with soft shackles to slam them out and back onto   
   the road with my truck about 2-3 feet at a time.  I was rather proud of   
   my heavy Chevy and how it managed the sand after I aired down.  I never   
   really used that technique before (shock loading recovery straps), but   
   it was uphill, sideways, in bottomless dry river sand.  On "level"   
   ground I can usually just pull somebody straight out with steady   
   pressure.  I rather learned a bit from the experience and I like to   
   think I am a fairly experienced desert/offroad driver.  I did have a 120   
   winch cable and another 400-500 feet of heavy nylon rope, but I'd never   
   have recovered them that way.   
      
   Sometime I'll tell the story of the night I caught 21 fox in 18 traps...   
   and why I was able to do that.   
      
      
      
      
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