On or around 1 Mar 2006 03:00:51 -0800, "Dave R" <
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enlightened us thusly:
>Had brilliant time in the snow yesterday, had to go to birmingham in
>the works landy (new Td5) from Pembrokeshire and decided to go via Aber
>and Devils Bridge, was wonderful except I spent so much time playing,
>John Craddocks was shut! BUgger, at least I got to have a nose in the
>George Borrow hotel. However, towing a 23ft boat back through the snow
>at 2 in the morning on the motorway was less fun!!
I had sufficient fun today that it took a large tractor to extract it.
Ooops. I'll also either have to repair the fence, or pay the bloke who's
coming there to do fencing anyway in due course to do so.
score:
fence: -3 posts and about 20' of wire
LR: -1 wing mirror, +scratches to bumper and front wing corners.
face: lost. Hopefully one of the ankelbiters videoed the attempt to pull it
with his dad's UNlandrover[1]...
See, people shouldn't say "don't try to come down the hill to our place,
it's slippery", should they? 's unfair temptation, is that.
If I'd had about half a ton to put in the back, I reckon it would have
reversed out - front wheel off edge of road = no grip on opposite back
corner. Mind, if I'd had half a ton in the back, it might not have stopped
at just putting one wheel off the edge, and had it gone over completely it'd
have been a damned sight more difficult to recover.
Prize for blasé self-recovery goes to an almost-90-year-old in the same area
who put his LR90 over the hedge, rolled 360 degrees, landed in the field on
the wheels again, and drove out the gate, shutting it behind him. He'd have
got away with it if the chap I went to see today (he of the UNlandrover)
hadn't been watching.
[1] ex-UN 90 still in white with UN on the side, bought cheap with no engine
and box and now fitted with a 2.8 NAD diahatsu and daihatsu box.
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Austin Shackles.
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"Festina Lente" (Hasten slowly) Suetonius (c.70-c.140) Augustus, 25
