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Maris Widgeon

Member Since: 11 Dec 2013
Location: Cotswolds
Posts: 216

2007 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Santorini Black

Towing, towing, gone....

Here's the story.

Today was to be a very busy day at work and I needed to be organised, so last night I sorted out the re-cycling and the wheely bin ready for the off in the morning. The good thing about having a HCPU as a work truck means moving junk around is easy. So, said junk was loaded up to take the 300m up to the road ready for collection. That was me organised for the morning.

Alarm went off, cup of tea drunk, so outside I went to find it quite frosty and the Land Rover needing some de-icer (which I then had to rummage for in the garage) Then, turning on the wipers, it blew a fuse. By now I was getting a bit stressed but finally set off to work.

The drive to work is approx 4 miles. I was about 3.5 miles into the short journey when I heard a noise and thought what the hell is that. But in typical Land Rover driver fashion thought it was just another noise to look at later.

On turning in to the farm entrance I thought I had better have a quick look underneath to see what had fallen off this time. What I had forgotten was that the night before, I had put the wheely bin on the 50mm ball hitch to take the bin to the top of the drive in the morning and in my haste to get to work, I'd forgotten that it was still there. This is when I remembered the bin and looked at the back to see a wheel-less wheely bin with some melted plastic at the base where it's wheels used to be - luckily all the rubbish was still in tact. The bin had had a catastrophic axle failure at about 55mph which of course I had chosen to ignore!

Our bin, complete with about 50kgs of rubbish, managed speeds of up to 55mph on country roads and the A433 before it gave up which, to be fair to the bin, was quite impressive.

Work mates thought I was starting a new trend of 'Bring your Rubbish to Work' day ha ha!

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(For some reason I can't upload this image the correct way up - sorry!)

10th Jan 2014 8:45pm

excossack

Member Since: 22 Feb 2012
Location: North West
Posts: 5884

1999 Defender 110 Td5 SW Caledonian Blue

Not surprised you had a bad with the Landy on its roof!

1999 Defender TD5 110

Regards
John M0VAZ
Econet Station 48 no clock

10th Jan 2014 8:50pm

sweepc

Member Since: 19 Jun 2011
Location: uk
Posts: 568

2013 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Santorini Black

im amazed that the bin made it at all.

10th Jan 2014 8:52pm

LandRoverAnorak

Member Since: 17 Jul 2011
Location: Surrey
Posts: 11324

You sir, owe me a fresh cup of tea and a cloth to wipe my ipad with! That's brilliant

Darren

110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak

"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia

10th Jan 2014 9:01pm

238kirk

Member Since: 03 Nov 2012
Location: Doncaster
Posts: 233

that's quite funny, bet that was a sight going down the road

10th Jan 2014 9:04pm

grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4795

2002 90 Td5 Station Wagon
1990 Vogue SE
Triumph Tiger Explorer 1200
Td5 90 Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic50767.html
Tdi 110 Thread https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic69562.html
RRC Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic54492.html
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10th Jan 2014 9:19pm

grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4795

10th Jan 2014 9:22pm

bm52

Member Since: 04 Apr 2010
Location: Kent
Posts: 2189

2014 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Havana

oh dear.. a case of 'bin-laden'.

i'm off now..................................................................... BM52

10th Jan 2014 9:30pm

grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4795

I thought trailers over 1m had to have lights

10th Jan 2014 9:33pm

Blacktt600

Member Since: 30 Nov 2013
Location: Leeds
Posts: 125

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Cairns Blue

Classic!

10th Jan 2014 9:33pm

X4SKP

Member Since: 29 Nov 2013
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 2297

2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 SW Stornoway Grey

Hello Maris Widgeon...thank you!

I am with LandRoverAnorak/ Darren on this one;
I laughed out loud and all but choked on my beer...fantastic!

You will be asking your Council for a replacement then!

Had to help here and turn the photo the right way up so we can all really appreciate this one.

Click image to enlarge SKIP
https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic83242.html

10th Jan 2014 9:34pm

GUM97

Member Since: 05 Feb 2012
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 3555

1997 Defender 90 300 Tdi HT Stornoway Grey

nice one! An engine to TDi for!
"Land Rover- Proudly turning drivers into mechanics since 1948"

10th Jan 2014 10:10pm

mrd1990

Member Since: 16 Aug 2012
Location: Wales
Posts: 601

10th Jan 2014 10:40pm

leeds

Member Since: 28 Dec 2009
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 8582

Surely MW must get the award of the most amusing story reported by a relatively new forum member?

Full marks to MW for telling us his rubbish story

Caption competition time?

Brendan

10th Jan 2014 11:28pm

cornish rattler

Member Since: 31 Aug 2013
Location: Manchester
Posts: 642

1988 Defender 90 200 Tdi CSW Bronze Green

Tell the council that the wind blew the bin against the tow ball and you only noticed it there when you got to work

Graham

1988 Defender 90 county 200tdi ( Beast )

Paul Walker 1973-2013
( I Almost Had You )

11th Jan 2014 12:11am

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