Re: Airing Down

On 6/10/2024 12:47 AM, Richard Smith wrote:

Hi all
 Back in about February I pulled some folk out of where they had sunk
into the grass.  Has rained so much here and we had no clearly
identifiable Spring.
Was funny walking along inventing a "Wurzels like" song about taking my
rope for a walk (cider-drinking world - including famous "I am a cider
drinker" song).
Want to find a light block can attach to vehicle being towed, end of
rope to fixed object, so getting 2:1 advantage with rope attached to
towing-point of towing car.
Only had 1:1 then - but mercifully I had a long coil of rope so I could
tow from the tarmac some distance away.
 Was at an event where the booked venue had fallen-through and an
enterprise at an airfield had stepped in - bless them.
 Rich S

As a designer from Bulgaria I sometimes work with told me, "The more off road capable is your truck the further you need to walk to find a tractor."  I guess rednecks are the same all over the world.
Glad you were able to get them out.
On my recent recovery effort, after airing down, I used four recovery straps linked together with soft shackles to slam them out and back onto the road with my truck about 2-3 feet at a time.  I was rather proud of my heavy Chevy and how it managed the sand after I aired down.  I never really used that technique before (shock loading recovery straps), but it was uphill, sideways, in bottomless dry river sand.  On "level" ground I can usually just pull somebody straight out with steady pressure.  I rather learned a bit from the experience and I like to think I am a fairly experienced desert/offroad driver.  I did have a 120 winch cable and another 400-500 feet of heavy nylon rope, but I'd never have recovered them that way.
Sometime I'll tell the story of the night I caught 21 fox in 18 traps... and why I was able to do that.
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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff
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