(6) 20070107178.mp4

SAGA of BRITISH MOTORHOME STUCK IN RHEINLAND MUDDY FIELD -
Part 6 (of 6): Extrication completed and now returning on track through woods --
- Before this final (6th) video was taken, the now-extricated tractor (driven by BM) re-attempted to tow us back to the track, but failed dismally, unable to get enough traction to pull us up the sloping grassy field (although I had been instructed to assist with my engine driving too to reduce the load).

Then some passing hikers started to criticise the tractor driver, telling him that he would never succeed in towing us up to the track. They then told me that the motorhome could be driven back to the track completely under its own steam without any assistance by tractor whatsoever!

The towrope was detached and the hikers instructed me to drive as fast as I could in reverse parallel to the track (then about 30 metres away to my right) -- by this means I got the motorhome some way up the slope towards the point where the 3rd video had been shot.

I was then instructed to drive forwards fast and obliquely and slightly down towards the track to my right -- I did, and succeeded in getting back onto it!

I then waited on the track until the tractor took up a position in front of me, and then began to follow the tractor back along the track through the woods.

This 6th and final video recording (4 mins long) is shot from inside the motorhome out through the windscreen as I begin to drive it along the track through the woods, with the tractor ahead. At its beginning you can see the 2 hikers ahead of us, and at 25secs into the recording you can hear me shouting out my thanks again to them as our 2-vehicle convoy passes them. At 50 secs into the recording you see a small yellow van (that was parked in the woods) now pull in ahead of the tractor and lead the way back out. The video is ended just as I reach the asphalt proper of the side turning.

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Travel & Events

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• Rheinland
• Germany
• recovery
• tractor
• failure
• pull
• British
• motorhome
• stuck
• mud
• field
• saga
• part6
• daytime
• self-extrication

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