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Have a quick read of something like this:
http://www.goodwinch.com/Learning/ropes-for-towing/

Don't just tow them up your hill for them to get stuck at the bottom of the next one though Laughing
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Your responsibility/duty is to ensure that people are safe, not to recover vehicles.

Just because a vehicle is capable of doing recovery work, is the driver capable/trained to do recovery work?

If in doubt do NOT attempt to do the recovery.

I have assisted strangers, I have also refused to recover strangers as I felt unhappy about the situation.

Play safe rather then play the hero!

Think very carefully, long and hard, before rushing in head long.


Brendan
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In all likelihood it'll be a BMW that's stuck .
Wrap your rope around its bumper and pull hard . Rolling with laughter
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Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter
Post #473312 16th Nov 2015 10:17pm
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Well that was a chassis recovery point all right wasn't it. Rolling with laughter

I always thought you were supposed to use a strong point on the chassis or axle ideally chassis.

A lot of cars have these stupid little screw in eye things, only rated about a tonne if that.
Rolling Eyes
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LRmud wrote:
No, Mr Steve, I was aiming my comment primarily at Mr Mick.

I find it surprising, perhaps I'm naïve. No intention to offend anyone.
Where I live, I do not believe anyone would sue anyone for helping them out - period.
I have never heard of this happening to anyone else I know either. Thumbs Up

Yeh well I have and I've pulled a few people out in the past towed a guy 5 miles in the peaks a couple of years back pulled a AA van and the car he was rescuing out of a muddy field at the same time and various others Rolling Eyes
But if you ain't got the gear and no idea it's best left
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leeds wrote:
Your responsibility/duty is to ensure that people are safe, not to recover vehicles.

Just because a vehicle is capable of doing recovery work, is the driver capable/trained to do recovery work?

If in doubt do NOT attempt to do the recovery.

I have assisted strangers, I have also refused to recover strangers as I felt unhappy about the situation.

Play safe rather then play the hero!

Think very carefully, long and hard, before rushing in head long.


Brendan

My point exactly but I wrote it Yorkshire style Thumbs Up
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Snow
How much of this snow is expected then ?
Post #473337 16th Nov 2015 10:57pm
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leeds



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Mick, apologies but I have not got my Yorkshire citizenship yet Razz


Brendan
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You've no need to apologise Brendan your a better writer than me Thumbs Up I just write and say what I think Rolling with laughter keeps getting me in bother Mr. Green
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five or six years ago it snowed a lot, so I went out for a play in my old Series landy. Was making steady progress up quite a steep minor road, covered in fresh snow, maybe doing 20-25, when I see flashing lights in my rear mirrors, before a black Range Rover Sport comes blatting past.

That will not go well, thinks I, because at the top of the hill is a short flat section, then a 90 degree right-hander.
sure enough, I potter up onto the crest, and there is a large Range Rover shaped hole in the stone wall in front of me.

So I stopped and had a look, and there it is sat in the middle of the field, having done a 180, so I can see the front end is completely smashed in and it isn't going anywhere. I walked over to have a look - the driver gets out, covered in airbag powder, and I hear her saying "he's coming over, THE GUY WHO MADE ME CRASH!" She started arguing that if she hadn't had to overtake me due to my dangerously slow speed, she would have not had an accident !! Rolling with laughter

The recovery rope stayed in the back of the landy that time.......
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leeds



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mick wrote:
....Thumbs Up I just write and say what I think Rolling with laughter keeps getting me in bother Mr. Green



I know that feeling Mick!


You can not please all the people all of the time! Just ignore them and carry on Mick.


Brendan
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keith wrote:
In all likelihood it'll be a BMW that's stuck .
Wrap your rope around its bumper and pull hard . Rolling with laughter


I just put Winters on the Five and wave at all the stuck AWD & 4x4s as I go past Rolling with laughter
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Ref the driving with no breaks thats how I was taught to always drive!! Ive been stopped about a dozen times in the past 12 yrs or so by the police cause they thought my break lights were blown!!

Definatley go and have a play on some where and see what it feels like. And remember yes we have capable machines that can go anywhere but we have the disadvantage of having heavy machines with momentum !!!! So stoping becomes fun fun fun.

By the way im not 100% sure on the wording now but I belive it is along the lines that you can only use a tow rope to tow a vehicle to the nearest safe place from a dangerous place. So if they break down near a roundabout, Bad corner, Single carraigeway then you may tow them to the NEAREST safe place which includes hard shoulders and roads with no markings preventing parking. So if there is safe parking at the bottom of the hill get them to park and offer them a lift up the hill. Obviously in Scotland this doesnt apply as people get on with their lifes like there is no snow lol
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