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[garethj]

I was at a swapmeet today, to park near the door to unload all my stuff meant a little jaunt across the grass.  As I have a 4x4 I am clearly invincible so drove across the grass and got a bit of wheelspin about half way across.  I was wondering whether to switch on the difflock but by the time I'd thought this and then had a look down to find it on the gearlever the wheelspin had stopped and I was parked on the concrete.

 

A look back on the grass showed that I'd sunk about 6 inches into the mud and that the grass was more like a shallow swamp.  Think no more about it, instead think about selling my stuff to punters for the rest of the day.

 

When I came out there was a note under my windscreen wiper "to the owner of the Land Rover, please help, signed the owner of the Jaguar behind you" and a phone number.  I looked behind me and a very nice silver Jaguar hadn't been quite so lucky crossing the grass.  Fair play, if I'd have tried zipping up the motorway at 90mph he'd have done a lot better than me.

 

I gave him a call and said I'd tow him out but I didn't have a tow rope.  After he'd asked around he managed to get one and I walked over the grass to where his car was SLAMMED 2 DA MAX. sitting about 3 inches lower in the mud.  You could barely walk on the grass after almost a whole day of rain but I reversed towards his car and got stuck.  What a twat I am.

 

With a lot of forwards and backwards action and the diff lock definitely on, I pulled out of the mud and found that I'd left tracks about a foot deep.  That's really muddy.  The problem is that there was only a towing eye fixing on the front of the Jaguar and nothing on the rear so I couldn't tow him out backwards.  The handbook was as much use as a one legged man in an arse kicking competition, so we stood around for a few minutes while the rain got more and more horizontal and icy.

 

After a more careful look it turned out the handbook was fibbing, there was a fixed towing eye on the rear so I could pull him out backwards without getting bogged down myself.  Here we are with a selection of tow ropes, one of which wasn't quite as strong as we'd hoped.

 

But after some skilled help with knots and finding a better towrope we were off.  Bearing in mind that the ground was so soft you could hardly walk on it and there was several inches of standing water everywhere, the fact that an amateur like me could tow a 2 tonne car out of the mud was staggering.

 

In other news, I took my lad and his 6 friends to the cinema for his birthday and they all had a laugh.  Then a couple of days later I took my 3 kids plus 2 cousins and all their scooters & skateboards to a park for to work off some of the sugar rush that kids have during half term.

 

Verdict: Windows with windy handles are the strangest thing ever.  And a car where the doors are locked until you reach in and unlock them one at a time from the inside just does not make sense.  The youth of today, eh?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Is that Woughton College in Milton Keynes ?

[inconsistant]

Gripped AND sorted.

[garethj]

Is that Woughton College in Milton Keynes ?

It's Woughton Leisure Centre, is that the same place?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Only just seen this thread and it is giving me THE HAPPY.

 

I have just moved to an old falling down farmhouse, mainly to give my old falling down Landy somewhere more appropriate to fall to bits at.  

 

MoT just passed - needed some fugging about with front hubs and other bits and bibs, but no big rot horrors. 

 

You can get quite a lot of manky old tat in a SWB Landy, but this weekend of OMGhousemovekaos just gone I would have appreciated a LWB. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[garethj]

That's a little sweetie pie.  If you're used to the levels of comfort and luxury in an old Landie, or perhaps something like this

then a Defender will seem like outrageous opulence.  For anybody else it's like being made to sleep in the shed.

[Guest Breadvan72]

This are be true.

 

Series Landy has a speaker in it, but no radio.  I bought one for it on eBay from a Defender (so its says Land Rover on it and is guaranteed to be shit), but the bracket  bolted to the roof is is too small, and I CBA to change it.   Anyway, I suppose a radio might be useful in a traffic jam, but why would you be in one of those in an old Landy?   Most of the time, the aural driving experience is like putting your head in a zinc bucket while someone hits it with a lump hammer.  When I engage the Fairey overdrive you get demented shrieking (but also 63 actual MPH, I shit you not)  As you said on page one, Gareth, you can relax more while being relentlessly machine gunned by crack fuelled nutters than you can while driving a leaf spring Landy.