Marcus's Easter Monday Adventure

[difflock]

Seeee,

Started 07:30, lunch at 12:00,

Took trailer up put a 1/2 load by about 13:30

Went to bring out more, decided to doze a wheen o branches off the landing.

OOPS.

Back for tow strops an odds and ends.

Recovered by 18:30, after finally switching the winch to the Ould DB.

Only need single line pull on about a 1/2 drum.

Strangled the tractor stone dead on the first attempt, only about 1250rpm.

A few more reves an bobs yer bent Uncle.

Cost me a drop arm with the initial sideways winch.

PS

Well seeing the wee crawler is a "Mountain" varient.

No lack of oil pressure even at that somewhat extreme angle.

I did think to check!!

Edited April 21, 2014 by difflock

[daveatdave]

glad to see you have the battery well secured

[Graham w]

looks like you need one of these!

[difflock]

No!

(i) Bigger, therefore much more cumbersome.

(ii) Heavier, therefore more likely to (a) get bogged and (b) more difficult to extricate.

(iii) On bald tyres = useless in the Moss.(though there is another school of thought on that issue)

cheers

PS

Wot I really need is a 6-8 tonne excavator on long reasonably wide steel tracks.

With grapple etc (and to double up as a recovery aid)

Plus a 10 tonne front mounted hydraulic recover winch on the crawler.

Plus explosive couplings for the ends of the link arms so as I can "blow" and discard that horrorendously effective brake otherwise known as a forestry winch.

cheers

m