broken kerr - oh do tell
op2:
This story really was me being a complete dickhead to be entirely honest. Top of Kirton theres a little track at the top of a hill which is about 8ft wide, fence one side, drop off into trees the other. Lil-landies pottering along and comes across a very interesting scene.
Theres some kind of hybrid stuck facing me. Between me and the hybrid, theres a suzuki facing the same way as me trying to reverse and tow him out. "OK, I'll go see if I can lend a hand" thinks lil-landy (this is in the days before my winch).
They told me if I wanted I could attach myself to the suzuki which was attached to this hybrid and we could both reverse and pull it out. In the process, my wheels spun. And I ended up stucks.
Suzuki manages to pull me out, but in the process breaks something which stops him having any movement. Hes now about 40ft away from this hybrid. So, thinks I. Suzuki weighs stuff, not much, but stuff. Why not through my KERR under his suzuki, attach it to another two tow ropes, and onto the hybrid, tow out the hybrid, and then worry about the suzuki.
So now we're on a typical recovery, except instead of one tow strap, we have a KERR and two tow straps. And sat on top of these, is a suzuki with its engine still running, which is slowly melting my KERR, every so slowly weakening it until BANG!
Strops flying every which way, shackles up in the air. You don't realise just how much energy is in a KERR strop until you see something like that. Fortunately no-one was hurt. But we did spend 3 hours waiting for a tractor to come up and sort us all out.
Before you all have a huge go at me, we tried digging, jacking, chocking, rocks under the tyres, allsorts, before we went through all this.
But we live we learn. It was a big mistake. But after this its taught me about travelling round sites in groups, so one vehicle can go get someone bigger and better. I also fitted a CB just after this. And I refuse to put myself in situations I'm not completely comfortable with. Because, at the end of the day, its just a vehicle. Its not worth what could of gone wrong that day just to get a vehicle out the mud.
