Outer Limits 4x4 Board

BOB_1 wrote:Moose - I think you will find it was on Vic Range you pulled the Mav and 80, was nice work considering you had more diff clearance than the Mav and 80 combined

Nah , definatly cockpit !!
i drove up & waited , & waited , then went back down !!
Andrew in the mav tried , didnt get far , knew the 80 wasnt gunna do it , so snatched them together , then hoiked them both up at the same time !!!!

I have to tell my story of my first snack with a zook.
My father was in a notoriously wet padock with a 75 landcruiser loaded with spray equipment and a tank of spray. I was in a stock 1l sierra ute, stock 6.00R16 bartread tyres let down to 5 PSI and two kelpies on the back for extra weight. The only modification was a towbar of my fathers and my construction and a CB radio. Dad told me to go through first to test the ground. I radioed back to say that I didn't even leave a mark, he immediately radioed back to tell me to come back to pull him out!!!! When I got there the front of the 'cruiser was still above ground but the back was down to the axle. Dad wondered if the zook was big enough to snack, and I said of course it is. Snack strap comes out and we hook the two together. Now remember we have only had experience before using snatch strap between bigger vehicle like 'cruisers and hiluxes. So me not thinking backs up and takes off full throttle, with dogs still on back for extra weight, and me with no seat belt. Well that snack strap doesn't quite stretch as much when a 850kg zook comes to the end of it as when a 2000kg 'cruiser does the same. It felt like I had just come to the end of a drag chain. I ended up over the steering wheel just inches from the widscreen, while the dogs were yelping in the back from being throw up against the loading board. Worse still the bit of spring that the strap gave pulled the zook back and slackened the strap, while I kept my foot flat, all four wheels spinning, the zook had another go and repeated the process though no as harsh this time. When it was over, the 'cruiser was out, and Dad was laughing his head off. Our tow bar survived the punishment, and I pulled the cruiser out a few mor times that day, but with out the extra weight of the dogs, and also wearing that seat belt.

HotAe92 wrote:i think thats twice ive read ppl have got a forklift bogged.

how the fu** do you get a forklift bogged? The only forklifts i know of are used on bitumen.

LOL some good snatch stories here though!

Cheers
Jayden

Very easy to get a forklift bogged, no suspension and no clearance and open diffs means as soon as ya go off bitty or concrete ya have a chance of gettin stuck. It's possible to get stuck on flat gravel if ya get a sway up an it digs down an bellys out!

i pulled a sigma that was on it's roof that was half sunken in a muddy hole out

HotAe92 wrote:i think thats twice ive read ppl have got a forklift bogged.

how the fu** do you get a forklift bogged? The only forklifts i know of are used on bitumen.

LOL some good snatch stories here though!

Cheers
Jayden

I have got a high reach stuck on concrete before. First day of driving a high reach . I went side ways on sloping ground. What a POS that was.

fraser island snached a troopy full of backpackers and a pretty new prado with a box trailer

Last week at fraser i snatched out a landrover discovery bogged to the sidesteps on the hill up from Eurong .... did it in reverse using the front recovery point .... not sure if that was a good idea or not

Did it pretty easy anyway and nothing broke , landrover driver was a little embarrased ....

back when i owned a lj50 i think it was 1977/78 i pulled a gtr xu1 off sealrocks beach in nsw he said the surfies told him he could drive over the sand hill to the beach never seen a xu1 on top of a dune before cost him 100 bucks to get off i had a cheap weekend

nicbeer wrote:Whats the best method of snatching a bigger vehicle with a zook?

As i have tried a 60 series on the beach and went airborne on the end. result 60 moved about 1 inch.

Nic

Dig! Spend 10 minutes on the end of a shovel /with your hands digging ramps for the wheels, springs, diffs, anything that's causing the vehicle to get stuck. I thought that'd be common sense.

Ask any driver trainer. Recoveries go bad when you don't look and just hook the strap up, reverse and red-line it. Plus I'd be worried about twisting my chassis or snapping a recovery hook off...

Back OT, I've snatched my old man's 80, but it was diffed out on some muddy ruts and only required a bit of a tug...

gezook pulled a mates patrol out of the mud hole at the watto's on the weekend, the thing was sitting on its guts, took a few go's but he got him out . guess who had the red face lol

Had to snatch an 80 series out of the mud through some paddocks and to his joint all in 2nd low with the reduction gears just so we could move!

When we finnaly got on the black stuff i pulled him in 2wd JUST!

Not sure how you guys can pull full on stuck patrols and stuff out have tryed but they move about 2mm's and it feels like i will have a LWB if i try more!

My sierra had to pull a 350 engined 45 series with 35" Baja Claws,Stuck, above the axles in the egde of Burrenjuck Dam. Took about 15 mins of big hits with a snatch, I nearly when through the windscreen once.

With mine, which is pretty much bone stock, I've pulled out a Falcon wagon and a Land Rover Disco.

Doesn't sound or feel good, needed quite a few goes for both... still worked but.

Landie was my mate. Annoying thing is when I give him shit he does the old "I don't care" trick.

I snatched a mates 60 series out with my zook.

I was following fairly close behind his fourby while doing cirle work in a mud puddle, when he stopped dead and my zook nearly ran fair up its ar$e.

I jumped out and grabbed the snatch strap, hooked it up and snatched him out backwards.

He was kicking and screaming "you're not towing me out with that thing".

Later he said that he was still in 2wd and that's why he got stuck. Likely story that. But you never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

60 Series got stuck, then rescued by a Suzi. Hah!

Pulled out a front and rear locked 80 series last weekend at 3am with my Sierra, and pulled a Troop carrier out almost in the same spot a year before.

Best ever was watching the little Sierra snatch out (from memory) two Luxes on a double line from the mud run at the Jamboree at Dunedoo... 2002? 2003?

The more unusual ones were.

Jan 2 2000 dragged a bogged up to the diffs jimny about 900 meters through a seemingly dry part of the lake eildon shoreline (tried pulling him out backward, but as it was uphill i was digging in pretty bad myself so had to take him out forward an gradually up a the slope. As soon as you brokr through the surface it was strait down.

Pulled out an old Fordson major tractor that got stuck pulling out a loaded twin axle tip truck.

Add another forklift to the list,
Damn idiots at works, "QUICK BEFORE THE BOSS SEES US"


Guys.....forklifts don't flex, they have no suspension

RBZOOK snatched out my dad's Rangie out at Bargo a few years back...

What do all you guys attach to when snatching? Have you added in your own tow point like this ?http://www.bushranger.com.au/tow_hook_with_keeper.php

I go out with a Surf regulary, and I have seen the effort it's taking him to pull out another hilux, I don't think and standard tie down points will survive a snatch.

eXc wrote:What do all you guys attach to when snatching? Have you added in your own tow point like this ?http://www.bushranger.com.au/tow_hook_with_keeper.php

I go out with a Surf regulary, and I have seen the effort it's taking him to pull out another hilux, I don't think and standard tie down points will survive a snatch.

Two of those hooks attached to the bull bar
Those hooks are much safer as you don not have to use a shackle
Rear has a hoop either side where the tow bar attaches

Thanks

i pulled a 7 tonne truck out of muddy driveway with my vitara although i did bend his bullbar down to 45 degrees. whoops. didn't know i had that kind of power from a 1.6.

Last night...
Double locked GQ on Q78's.

Go the mighty sierra.

hilux woo

My best effort was a fully loaded(Mum,Dad and Kids) in a vey stuck LWB 60 series down a track near Walkerville in Gippsland Vic.He got stuck so his mate in a bog stock Cherokee decided to drive through and pull him out.When I arrived they were both stuck and in deep shit with their wifes.Highly amusing as I pulled them out with a 1 Lt.with series 1 rockhopper 31's migged rear end.11 pulls it took.

v8 discovery at glasshouse bogged up to the footwells, took a few snaps but finally came free after bending that little tow loop under the zook! its since been removed and had hooks fitted front and rear..

note to self: always take an extra car bigger than yours

I pulled a 4 tonne mini garbage truck out of a slop hole in a council park. Silly bugger thought he'd save a walk 10 metres and drive to the bin. Middle of the wet season in cairns and he went to the axles. No snatchy so i zoomed home and got an anchor rope looped it from my bbar 2 his about 5 times and pulled and after snapping rope twice got him out. covered the truck in mud like nothing else. Legendary driver got his boss on the 2 way and told him it saved him a tow and or a backhoe hire and the boss bought me an arb snatchy, a tree strap and 4 rated shackles. was like a flea dragging a cat. LOL.

Did mention a stock 91 model only with bfg 30's muddies did this. NO RESPECT LOL