Quote from: caskur post_id=495776 time=1678936035 user_id=2156

Quote from: Frood post_id=494607 time=1677028012 user_id=1676
I pulled the pin for a second day almost instantly upon arrival.



Can't get across this swollen creek bed without nearly flipping over or blocking entry/exit on the front window.



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Yesterday it took 1.5 hours to get the lexcen glass door open so I could pull the vehicle up close enough to hop up and safely reach the winch hook, just in case it came crashing down.



Then when it was righted, still attached, couldn't get grip in 4 low to pull the skid steer further enough back to stop it from see-sawing back in. Because landcruisers are notoriously bad for hand breaks and stopping on inclines, not to mention the wet clay track the wheels were sitting on.. and the SS by default is in park without a person inside. I had nobody that could help me and these creeks flash flood pretty quickly.



Finally stopped the ute(truck) from sliding long enough to leap out and grab a decent sized boulder to wedge under a tyre, then very gingerly yet quickly crawl up into the cab, slammed the door before I got pinched and start reversing and pulling in on the winch.



No damage, except maybe the left track has to be re-tensioned.... it's drooping a fair bit. Which is no easy job for 2 people out in the field, and 1 is impossible when one needs to lift off the ground inside the cab, but then can't get out while lifted.



I shouldn't have gone in with the attachment at 1 metre yesterday but alternately, there were huge boulders on the left side of the track which would have mostly assuredly make me slip a rubber track clean off the machine. Then literally literally dead in the water.



So today, turned up... donned a poncho and walked down to this swollen abomination.... and went, "not today, Satan.... no fucking way if I manage to get over will I ever get back for the next 4-5 days, and SS's need fuel"....

omg.... you dipshit.... Do you know how many of those machines kill people or cut limbs off? Don't be foolish.