We're having our driveway re-concreted, so they dug up the old one yesterday and left me a nice 40m stretch of dirt to park in. 6am this morning and they're outside bashing retaining planks into the dirt and generally ensuring that last night's headache won't be forgotten quite as soon as I would have liked.

7am and a large Mercedes cement truck (apparently they make cars as well?) backs down the drive and starts pouring. I'm outside looking on as the young bloke explains how the truck inches forward as they pour, to keep the out-flow constant. Did I mention the dirt? Oh, and that the driveway is at a 10deg incline? I nonchalantly reply that the truck seems to be inching _down_ rather than forward. Much scurrying around later and yep, the truck is bogged. Full of concrete. Costing me $!**# per hour. 90mins to get another truck around to pull them out. The older bloke wanders up and eyes off the Rangie:

"Recon yous could pull the truck up the driveway? How much will that tow?"
Hmm - "Around 3 1/2 tonne" I reply, "Why, what's the truck weigh?"
"Ooh, I dunno, around 20 tonne?"

He helpfully adds that he's got a chain. Ah well ..........

Of course, the chain won't reach all the way to the road, and somehow the humour of me helpfully asking them to move the truck forward a couple of metres is rather lost. So I back the Rangie into the driveway, wheels in the dirt, engage low range, Rock Crawl and lock into 1st gear. A rather large chain is attached to the rear tow point and I take up the strain. Thumbs up from the grinning psycopath in the truck and I give it a little more revs. A slight shudder and then she just _walks_ forward. No spinning, no straining - the truck rises out of the hole in the drive and I pull it up the drive a few more metres.

The old bloke walks up to my driver's window - "Jeez, these things have got a bit of guts, don't they?"

They sure do  2015 RRS SDV6 SE, Santorini Black, GOE 2-way HS rods, Traxide dual battery, 275/55R20 Nitto TerraGraplers

2015 Discovery 4 SDV6 HSE - GOE 3-way HS rods, GOE underbody plates and sliders, 275/65R18 Courgia MT

You're a frigging legend Gordon, and welcome to marry my sister any time!
 4wding only starts when you have to get out the cab. Everything before that is just driving on crap roads!

Don't suppose you recorded it for posterity and for thee forum?!

superb

Did that a few years ago with a subbie's RRS and a 360 excavator (rubber duck) that was bogged into a field. Just as the rubber duck came free, the chain snapped and made a bit of a mess of the bootlid on the RRS. Luckily a new (much larger) numberplate covered the dent up pretty well.... Ex-G4 Challenge RRS HSE, BV55 YZE. Subtle shade of orange ! Now registered YZE481 G4RRS in Melbourne.

Awesome story, pics would have been even better  If it aint broke leave it!


MY 18, Autobiography
MY 05, 07, 10,

For some reason it doesn't sound as good if your a disco3 driver

http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic56364.html?

Great story  2013 Discovery HSE Luxury - 3.0 SDV6 - Santorini Black
2013 Evoque 5 Door Pure Tech SD4 - Orkney Grey with Panoramic Roof (Mrs E's new baby)

GONE - RRS - 3.0 TDV6 HSE - Santorini (2010)
GONE - RRS - 2.7 TDV6 HSE - Java Black (2007)
GONE - Porsche Boxster S - 3.2 - Black

I love it, great story

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You're a frigging legend Gordon, and welcome to marry my sister any time!

 MY10 3.0 HSE Santorini Black, Ivory Premium & extended leather, privacy, paddles, diamond turned alloys, Ipod lead that charges, tasmods, rrsport.co.uk stickers

Jeep 4.0 High Output XJ 94 6" teraflex lift, c/w rear coils, 9500lb winch, 35" TSL super swamper boggers, safari snorkel, custom made bumpers, tom woods custom double cardon driveshaft, twin electric fans. Don't follow it..............you wont make it. The first 4 x 4 by far.