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thick icey water
kizz81:
:lol: but no one else wanted to go in it :lol:
a proper bumper? :evil:
Saffy:
i'd be boring and not enter water that deep unless it was emergency (then it wouldnt matter). Driving deep thick ice I have crushed wings, damaged winch and would have torn full length intercooler and rad if it wasn't for the sheet metal grill I had on at time which got buckled - the fun element kinda wains when time and $$ comes into it for repairs.
auf_wiedersehen_pet:
--- Quote from: Saffy on December 24, 2009, 11:55:27 ---i'd be boring and not enter water that deep unless it was emergency
--- End quote ---
Agreed.
I used to drive a lane (Pepper Box Hill near Salisbury IIRC) which was often thick in ice. My concern was not bodywork but things like brake pipes!
Mark Y:
There is a correct method to enter thick ice as taught by Land Rover, I have used it many times in training and it does work,
Here we go, slowly enter the waters edge where the ice is thinnest very gently, break up a small amount of the ice a ft or so,(you could consider reversing in and using rear cross member to break initial ice) reverse out and drive back in at speed and brake sharply just before the solid ice, this sends a shockwave of water under the ice and it breaks it up, if it doesn't work fully the first time do it again, you can then drive through pushing the ice aside.
Obviously this method depends on how thick the ice is, if your on a frozen lake in Canada it's not going to work !.
Drift:
In the Army we where taught to throw the biggest rock you could find in to break the ice ;)
Of course we didnt as the LRs where not ours (dont get tax payer technical on me lol) and that would have been boring :lol:
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