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> Badger wrote:
>
>> Not meaning to be picky, but that's only 800kg, far less than the payload
>> of the vehicle so nothing special in that.
>> I once loaded the back of my 110 with concrete building blocks, 100 x 4"
>> blocks @ 20kg each, 2000kg total. The back end was on the bump stops, the
>> handling was like an ocean-going oil tanker made of rubber and the brakes
>> were, well, not! Thankfully I was only going 5 miles.
>
> Pah, call that hard work?
> I once towed an entire north sea drilling platform from Falmouth to the
> Shetlands by coast path in a Series I!
I once got a phone call from my brother-in-law to ask for help, they were
trying to move a "static" caravan, one of the big mobile homes that's 10
foot wide, 30-odd foot long and has a harled exterior, god knows what it
weighed. Anyway, it was stuck on a slope, axles bogged down, and an old
fergie tractor hooked up to the van's removable drawbar. Fergie's wheels
would just spin, even with the diff locked. We attached a big tree strop
around the front axle of the fergie, hooked it onto the back of the landy
and pulled the whole bloomin' lot! Brother-in-law was walking at a fast pace
next to my drivers window laughing his head off, when asked why he replied "
look at the fergie's wheels". I did, and saw that not only was I dragging
the caravan, but the fergie as well!! It's wheels were turning but it was
moving faster than it's wheels..... That was with a high-torque 3.5 engine
and an LT77 box, in 1st low, 1500rpm at nearly full throttle. I was just
waiting for the bang as a half-shaft let go, but somehow it all held
together.
I was once asked to pull a Mk2 Escort out of a rally stage - with the NSF
wheel ripped back under the navigator's footwell, when I told him the price
of a clutch, he said I suppose you'd best just leave it (the car) somewhere
we can get access with the trailer then. Boy, was I glad, I didn't fancy
towing a dead unsteerable weight for 5 miles to the end of the stage, I
doubt if I would have anyway, it would have ripped the track up too much.
Badger.
