Drive to sweden with trailer, cross bog, recover old **** drive home!

I agree about the explosives and JCB, although I have 2 optimistic cold weather mates, One's answer was a 'fekkin massive flamethrower' and the other was 'build a cabin around it and fill it with wood burners' - Both of these options I considered and declined....

Ok, maybe not the dead of winter, but during the spring thaw, before it get super boggy.

Give me a shout..i'll tag along from denmark...it'll be fun...although i will add im not taking my 90 into the bog...just a copy of 'juggs' as usual.

streetwagens said:

Paul D, I'd love to see any pics/drawings of that A frame setup, sounds interesting!

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Don't have any, but found this on line ... us army driving manual vehicle recovery ch22

A-FRAME RECOVERY

Narrow ditches, slit trenches, and shell holes can quickly stop your truck. They are common obstacles to off-road movement and maybe hard to see. If your front wheels should drop into one, the A-frame is a very useful recovery tool (Figures 22-9 and 22- 10). It is not very difficult to put together nor too complicated to use. You need two 8-foot poles with a large enough diameter to support the front end of your truck. Lash them together near the top with a figure eight or girth knot; use your tow chain or a length of rope. Dig two 10- to 12- inch holes 5 or 6 feet apart to hold the legs in posi- tion when power is applied. Rest the upper end of the A-frame on the hood of the truck with the legs in the anchor holes. Select a suitable anchor in front of the truck. Tie a line from the A-frame joint to the anchor, bringing the frame up to a position where the frame joint is directly over or slightly to the rear of the bumper. Move your winch line through a snatch block fastened to the A-frame joint and secure it to the front bumper. Winch up the front end of the truck until the wheels clear the ditch. Then slowly back the vehicle off to solid ground. When safely away from the edge of the ditch, lower the wheels and unhitch your rig. If you have no winch, another vehicle may be used for power, though more rigging will be required.

You need this. It'll pull the bog out of the bog

I would suggest that using a range rover and electric winch is too marginal for the job that you are trying to do.
Ist thing unless it is a very long cold winter forget about getting across bog with anything wheeled. You then have the problem of casualty vehicle being frozen into ground .
I would take a vehicle such as bedford RL recovery . about 12mpg ,45/50mph, with pto multi directional winch , also has spragging equipment to hold you still.
and has crane to lift sled on/off trailer . make sled(lightweight/flat moveable by hand(many ) so you can bury rear edge under front of vehicle to be recovered . winch sled, to casualty vehicle . use 2 pully sytem to force sled towards casualty and at same time winch vehicle up onto sled . When vehicle on sled, re rig to winch loaded sled out . You should then be able to winch uponto trailer secured at rear of RL . HTSH
I have done recovery for many years , in UK and Aus, upto CAT D9 and Antar , and the above is how I would do it

you need my 110, or as its rangey orientated you'll need my rangey

preferably though just wait till my 110 is built, then do a similar job to your motor. that will do the trick nicely

OK think with some logic. RR and trailer isn't gonna get you there unless you have super wide stupid tyres. Also weight is a huge issue so I wouldn't bother with portals and a heavy 110 if its propper bog you will sink, dig holes and go nowhere. This terrain needs lockers hd shafts etc but at no weight penalty. Depending how close you can get I would: Get a serious winch with lots and lots of cable length such as what was fitted to LR 101's. Attach a snatch block to a tree behind the scrapper. Mmake a sled/wide ass wheels for the trailer and winch it close to the trailer. load trailer (somehow) then winch the sled/wide ass wheeled trailer back. You do not want to put your towing vehicle in the ****e because it will get fecked propperly and you want to get it back without ending up stripping and rebuilding the bearings diffs timing cover etc because 9/10 they will all be filled with crap after this kind of thing. Ok if your poodling around here be it Wales or london its not really that bad. Many people have fallen at the maintainance point because they throw their vehicles into the crap and don't do any maintainance until parts start falling off their mota. The last thing you want is the Rangie letting you down on your way home which means you will be not be towing back your obviously loved scrapper.

When you get the trailer back strip and rebuild the hubs to make sure all the crap is out of them before the return journey. Also any marsh/Peat that gets in your engine bay becomes Very flamable when it dries out. A friend of mine lost his challenge RR Classic because of Peat drying out and catching fire under the bonet comming home from competing in one of the first challenge events held in Ireland.