How not to drive on a slippery slope

Hi all, we were out for a nice amble through the countryside and we came across this guy and his family with his (road type) 6x4 trailer full with camping gear trying to get down the slope that we were attempting to come up. It was raining and the track had turned into toboggan run. He had taken a wrong track and ended up in all sorts of trouble. When he tried to winch, his winch didn't work, his tyres were suitable for the road and not this type of track, his recovery gear was at the bottom of his trailer etc........
This is the full un-edited footage.
Needless to say the damage to the 40 did not stop the 40 driving the rest of the track in 2WD high!!!. Well done schuttie. Well done to Trent on the videoing.
As for the Disco, I got the trailer to the top of the track and a call was made to people who specialise in retrieving people who were not prepared to be there in the first place.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Discovery
• jack
• knife
• mud
• trailer
• slide
• pinion
• break
• diff
• fj40
• v8
• 350
• chev
• bad
• 4x4
• preperation
• 4wd
• slip
• slipping
• yt:stretch=16:9

[soup1223]

i seen that 40 series in the latest issue of 4wdaction

[itsfromlawrence]

@soup1223 what # was that?.

[TravelAdventureFun]

That 40 is a beast! What happened at the end?

[itsfromlawrence]

@TravelAdventureFun

The 40 with the broken pinion went off up the track. I was left, mine is the yellow 40 from my other videos, and I pulled the trailer up the track at 5000rpm with mud flying everywhere. It sounded great as it was on song as I would call it. The people got in touch with a recovery person and last I heard they were on their way to extract them.

The owner of the disco was talking about paying for the pinion to get fixed, but I am not sure if that will eventuate as I not heard.

[soup1223]

@itsfromlawrence it's issue no. 13 page 10 :) looks pretty sick

[crazedvs]

Holy Crap,That looked knarly as. Hat off to the poor fella in the 40. True Aussie Mate.

[pyrofella]

That would be a Land Rover Diffbuggery?....You should have kicked his sorry arse...

[80sLandcruiser]

@123cameronj What's wrong with that? Why would you not attempt to climb the hill, whilst towing someone who's towing a trailer with the front diff unlocked?

He'd need all the traction he could get. And he 40 with the 350 was probably used because it would have been the car with the most power and torque to get the muddies to actually do something and keep pull all that weight.

[3575redandy]

Yes......Not the best off-road driver. It's a pity really cause he's giving Land Rover a bad name as the Discovery is usually a very good off -road vehicle.

There must have been a Magnitude 10 earthquake near the camera guy, cause for about 2 to 3 minutes there it looked like a current affair cameraman chasing a crook.

[therealshlong]

What a dum ass yuppie dickwad, didnt even bother getting out of his car to have a chat or thank anyone for helping! Unless i missed that bit, sorry, good on you guys for helping Mr Toorak out in any case. Mind you he gave it a go, good for him i suppose?

[NoBlouse]

@hillbillycol - that's exactly what they are using when the 40-series breaks.

[NoBlouse]

Good work lads, this is what I love about offroading. No-one gets left behind.

I destroyed an ARB snatch strap a month ago getting German tourists out of a rising tide at Hook Pt on Fraser Island (they ran over it and it got torn up around the stub axle) but hey - you can't just leave people in the shit. Karma comes around.

Great seeing that V8 40 cranking it up the hill!