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Well I didn't get photos, BUT, I got bogged yesterday.
Not your average typical bogging either.
I was doing some work for Lindas work, (daycare centres) Installing Toilet Cubicles in centres around Perth.
I had to carry some stuff that was to big n Heavy for either inside the Prado or on top, So I took the Camper trailer and loaded her up inside and on top.
After a long day I was driving home and decided that a coke from Maccas would be good, So peeled of the Kwinana FWY and pulled into Maccas at cockburn central, Its not a big car park at all so I parked over the kerb on the vacant block next door. I thought it was better than taking up spaces or blocking people in.
Well this is where it all went sour, This such vacant block must be a ground zero for a fine sand that is just more stable than TALCum powder.
The outside 20 feet was hard enough to drive on, but the inside acre was a bottomless bowl of fairy dust, the kind of stuf that after you walk on it ,no matter how careful you are, you end up with sand in your shoes around your toes.
The forward progress that I have enjoyed and have taken for granted for years was immediately replaced with a different direction, that direction was down. Not down south, but down down, in the same way that your heart sinks when you know you are going to be in a position of helplessness very soon. Sure there is that glimmer of hope that when the PSI is reduced in the tyres that all will be OK, But that is a very fine glimmer. This is about the time I remember that I have no deflators, No compressor, no snatch straps, no winch controller and a bloody great big camper trailer that offers no drive whatsoever, quite the opposite, about the same drive as an anchor.
A fello 4X4er offered a snatch while I was airing down using a stick and a well tuned thumb acting as a pressure gauge, But I foolishly said I will try this first. Plus I think it was to far for a front snatch, and there is only flimsy loops on the trailer for a rear tug.
The attempt with reduced pressure was about as successful as lighting fire to a rag in the bottom of a bucket of water in the wind. Hopeless.
Another onlooker offered the use of his truck and drag chain from his Hiab crane. This offer I did take, And I might add worked very well. Arb should sell them. We rolled out the chain and swung the arm of the Hiab around and hooked up my poor old bogged to the side steps prado.
It was the only thing causing forward motion for at least 30M until my soft tyres could get up and onto the outskirts of the sand that John west rejects.
I wobbles down the road to the servo to air up and think that they will soon build a building in that very spot. Scary.
So that's it, My most embarrassing stuck story, no photos but it will stay with me for sometime to come. plus it gave the drive thru crowd something to look at as they waited inline.....
A close second for me would be the time I had a 2WD Hilux and was reversing across my front lawn in tassie. The people before us had positioned feature rocks around the place. One such rock was just big enough to wedge itself under the axle tube between the wheel and the diff pumpkin which just lifted a wheel about 10mm off the ground. Open diff, with a wheel in the air. The old ladies going for a sunday walk thought it was funny as Linda snatched the hilux off the rock with a daewoo.
So what's your funny/ embarrasing story regarding getting stuck in a place when you didnt expect it. I dont mean up some gnarly mud hill or some off the beaten path, but everyday places etc..
Not your average typical bogging either.
I was doing some work for Lindas work, (daycare centres) Installing Toilet Cubicles in centres around Perth.
I had to carry some stuff that was to big n Heavy for either inside the Prado or on top, So I took the Camper trailer and loaded her up inside and on top.
After a long day I was driving home and decided that a coke from Maccas would be good, So peeled of the Kwinana FWY and pulled into Maccas at cockburn central, Its not a big car park at all so I parked over the kerb on the vacant block next door. I thought it was better than taking up spaces or blocking people in.
Well this is where it all went sour, This such vacant block must be a ground zero for a fine sand that is just more stable than TALCum powder.
The outside 20 feet was hard enough to drive on, but the inside acre was a bottomless bowl of fairy dust, the kind of stuf that after you walk on it ,no matter how careful you are, you end up with sand in your shoes around your toes.
The forward progress that I have enjoyed and have taken for granted for years was immediately replaced with a different direction, that direction was down. Not down south, but down down, in the same way that your heart sinks when you know you are going to be in a position of helplessness very soon. Sure there is that glimmer of hope that when the PSI is reduced in the tyres that all will be OK, But that is a very fine glimmer. This is about the time I remember that I have no deflators, No compressor, no snatch straps, no winch controller and a bloody great big camper trailer that offers no drive whatsoever, quite the opposite, about the same drive as an anchor.
A fello 4X4er offered a snatch while I was airing down using a stick and a well tuned thumb acting as a pressure gauge, But I foolishly said I will try this first. Plus I think it was to far for a front snatch, and there is only flimsy loops on the trailer for a rear tug.
The attempt with reduced pressure was about as successful as lighting fire to a rag in the bottom of a bucket of water in the wind. Hopeless.
Another onlooker offered the use of his truck and drag chain from his Hiab crane. This offer I did take, And I might add worked very well. Arb should sell them. We rolled out the chain and swung the arm of the Hiab around and hooked up my poor old bogged to the side steps prado.
It was the only thing causing forward motion for at least 30M until my soft tyres could get up and onto the outskirts of the sand that John west rejects.
I wobbles down the road to the servo to air up and think that they will soon build a building in that very spot. Scary.
So that's it, My most embarrassing stuck story, no photos but it will stay with me for sometime to come. plus it gave the drive thru crowd something to look at as they waited inline.....
A close second for me would be the time I had a 2WD Hilux and was reversing across my front lawn in tassie. The people before us had positioned feature rocks around the place. One such rock was just big enough to wedge itself under the axle tube between the wheel and the diff pumpkin which just lifted a wheel about 10mm off the ground. Open diff, with a wheel in the air. The old ladies going for a sunday walk thought it was funny as Linda snatched the hilux off the rock with a daewoo.
So what's your funny/ embarrasing story regarding getting stuck in a place when you didnt expect it. I dont mean up some gnarly mud hill or some off the beaten path, but everyday places etc..
ops: 
he knows he cant make it....
Snaga
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