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fesuvious:
On sunday Sididuous and myself went over Cotswolds way for a spot of greenlaning.

I do not have the grid ref to hand of exactly where, sid can provide that.

As we just got into the lane a freelander (seperate to us) was starting the descent down the hill. The hill got very rutted (deep) and said freelander basically slid on its belly all the way down. We were watching this getting rather worried about damage to the freelander and the lane

At the bottom we were faced with a nightmare. There was no way to get the freelander back up the hill and the way ahead was a non starter.

What do you do. We decided that as coming back the way we came was a non starter as the freelander wouldnt make it and it was too steep to tow we'd have to go forwards.

Cue a 4 hour nightmare: the pictures are in my gallery. We managed to get the freelander @100 metres down the lane using sids range. Then we had to quit.

At which time it dawned that we'd have to get it back to where we started.

We left the freelander at the midway point (solid ground and out of the way) after  a solid 3 hours of recovery.

The owner, his wife and their 3 kids we gave a lift home to.

Hopefully they have been able to trace the owner of one of the fields and have had the vehicle pulled across the field. Otherwise , its still there !

This lane was clearly marked and for a family who had never gone off tarmac before looked to be ok. Just goes to show dont it !!!!!!!

paul_humphreys:
This is why if you have never driven them before you should walk them.

Paul

Jimbo:
Can you imagine the conversation between the bloke and his missus in the car  :twisted:

Her - "I told you not to drive down here"
Him - "But the salesman said it had 4wd and would go anywhere"
Her - "How are YOU going to get us out of this mess"
Him - "You could start by shutting up, and get out and push !!!"

Meanwhile, the kids are yelling that they are hungry and need the loo !

I'm not having a go at Freelanders, or woman passengers - maybe she was driving ?..............but it does prove that you should walk all unknown lanes if you want to avoid getting stuck !

Jim

fesuvious:
Ahh, my sentiments entirely - but - if you look at it from the familys point of view....

They park for a bit of scenery.

They realise that the clearing to their left is available for use by a motor vehicle.

Why would they think to walk it ? Its legal? The sign is there. Why should a family who know nothing of laning, have reason to presume the way ahead could be beyond the means of a freelander?

Moreover the middle section that the car is left in is @500 yards down the hill and out of sight. Who is going to think to walk that far ?

I can understand how this happened. I post it not to cause an arguament. Just merely to point out an 'interesting event' that happened.

Thank god we were there by chance.

p.s SHE was driving !!!!!!!!!

Thrasher:
This sounds awfully familliar, only in my case we had a single Discovery (me) recovering with a winch - and two unequipped Discovery's on road tyres stuck on a lane next to a freshly ploughed field.

We managed to get one of them back onto solid ground, but the other one was so far down the lane that I feared for the damage we would cause trying to recover him, plus it was getting dark (it was also raining!). I was called out to rescue them by the way - I wasn't laning at the time!

We walked down to the stricken vehicle with the hi-lift, and atempted to dig out the vehicle and use the hi-lift to get it out of the ruts. It didn't play so we left the driver with it while we went to find the farmer.

It would appear he used my hi-lift as a sand-ladder......as it was bent when I got it back. However - he did get out!

Another "Sunday" jaunt gone wrong.

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