Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Reading a few of the threads in Trips which people get chubbies cause they rolled and crap...

I'm wondering what the easiest way to right a rolled truck would be - without causing much more damage?

EG
Rolled only onto side
or
Rolled onto roof.

I mean a snatch over the roof to the B Pillar from the side could work, but I'm sure there would be more damage than when you started....

I know every situation is different, EG access to front only/side only etc..

Just after some thoughts and I'm sure there will be plenty of examples, and things to learn for lots of people.

We just pushed a mitsu van back over when it fell on its side, with a snatch around the towbar, then wrapped once around a tree and held onto by a person to stop it from rolling down the hill once righted.

A winch with snatch block would generally be the best and safest for minimising more damage i would think, can take it nice and slow and the block means u can pull at an angle without having to drive off the track.

when i put my old(47series) ute on its side we put a snatch strap through the loading bar and and got my mates 4wd sqaure off the side and slowly pulled it back on its wheels!

Winch through snatch block on a tree to the side and back to the chassis, nice and slow. Couldn't really have got vehicles in to help in the position it was in without incuring more risk and damage. You've seen the pics

Rolled onto side last weekend. Some helpful bystanders (thanks guys) pushed it back up, started after the carby decided to play and off it went.

kewl.. general trend seems to be crowd into it and just push it over.

I was wondering if you ahd to winch it over, waht to attach the strap/cable to...

bogged wrote:kewl.. general trend seems to be crowd into it and just push it over.

I was wondering if you ahd to winch it over, waht to attach the strap/cable to...

If its light enough, this thing was like a coke can, only took 3 of us

First of all, you've gotta make sure the vehicle isn't going to get moving again on it's own or rollover again after it's back on it's wheels. It may sound simple and silly but I thought it would be good to add in. So chock up wheels or have it chained to something depending on situation. It's just something that may get too easily overlooked when it does happen

When my mate rolled a zook and ended up on it's side at stockton sand dunes, I just put a snatchy around his chassis rail and slowly pulled it back onto it's wheels. With my last rollover I think we tied a snatchty to the higher part of the cage on my car. It was almost on it's roof but not quite at the time and we pulled up slowly with a snatch and then for extra precaution we chained it to a tree also, tightening the chain as we pulled it with another car (chain was connected to a recovery point on the rear LHS of my car).

Other times we've just got a few people to push the vehicles back onto thier wheels

No further damage occured to the rolled vehicles with these recovery techniques

here's how we did mine in march:




little cheapy hand winch on the back end just to assist in bringing it over evenly instead of 'twisting' it from front end only


the right front tyre popped off the bead when it landed (cloud of dust you can see), I was running about 18psi - probably should've bumped it up to 30psi or so before winching it back up, just didn't think of it at the time. it popped back on fine with the portable air compressor.

apart from that it was very quick and easy

The bloke winching at the back is just praying that front cable doesnt let go im sure

+dj_hansen+ wrote:The bloke winching at the back is just praying that front cable doesnt let go im sure

he is the safety officer

Saturday just gone

snatch strap around the cage to a snatch block to the hilux, also attached the zuks winch to the hilux to stop it rolling away.

Very easy, but having no body work is like that, 1L of engine oil and it was good to go

if you do the victorian 4wd association advanced driver training course at mike smith's place in talarook they do a roll over recovery session on a donated land rover they teach you best places to put straps/winche's and best way to get it back on its tyres without causing more damage

InSanE wrote:if you do the victorian 4wd association advanced driver training course at mike smith's place in talarook they do a roll over recovery session on a donated land rover they teach you best places to put straps/winche's and best way to get it back on its tyres without causing more damage

yea waited for others in the club to do it before susing it out.
they had lots of + to say, and they were all experienced dudes.