whats your strangest 4WD recovery?

[frederick Member Find all posts View Profile Close frederick]

Gidday all, yes it happened to me and i am rightly embarrassed by it. We were at the Daly river causeway in the NT when i decided to drive up a bush track for two clicks looking for a better fishing spot, anyway no problems along the track but about 30 metres from the river there was some soft sand (very bloody soft sand i soon found out) anyway i decided to drive through it and guess what i got bogged. Real greenhorn stuff this was, tire pressure at 38 & 40 psi for towing the van, all recovery gear in the caravan 10 ks away and the list of stupid things goes on and on.
After 3 hours of sweating in 36 degree heat and digging and jacking and digging we had not moved anyway by now the wife was over it big time ( i was too) and she heard a boat coming downstream along the Daly river so she waved it down and four local aboriginals scrambled up the bank grinning like hell and offered to help. Apparently they were heading to the Daly water inn for a coldie when they were waved down. Anyway more digging, jacking, pushing back and forth and finally the Prado lurched free and onto hard ground. We agreed to meet the boys at the pub and shout a drink or two once we got permission. NT laws are different fron th rest of AU regarding indiginous drinking etc. We met at the pub and after checking with the publican could only buy one of the boys a beer the other 3 had cokes and we were only allowed to buy one round. As we left i could see the older boy telling all the others about the silly whites fellas getting bogged then waving their boat down and getting the black fellas to push them out.
Can you beat that recovery??
And yes i will be shopping for maxtrax as soon as we reach a outlet that sells them.
If you go into my profile i have a blog link that you can log into to follow our journey.

Wassa

[Matty80 Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Matty80]

Photos say more than words mate? You have any of the recovery?

[VKPrado Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close VKPrado]

I thought you were going to tell us they used the boat to pull you out!

A very valuable lesson learnt but you are not the first and surely not the last to do something like this. Glad it all worked out in the end.

[frederick Member Find all posts View Profile Close frederick]

If i could have thrown a rope around some of the crocs i have seen i would have been pulled out in no time!!!

Yes a timely reminder about ensuring you are able to recover yourself from the position you put yourself into this applies to many things in life if you get my drift.