Late March 2005, me being stuck on a farm road. I was driving too fast while turning (walking speed) and fresh snow on ice invoked enough understeer for front wheel to catch a little bit into the snow wall. I almost had enough momentum to pull lorry out right away, but it fell little short. Farmer cleared the field right to me with a snowplower and then friendly chap who just happened to drive by with his wheel loader pulled me out.
Revering into a farm off a single track back road, caught some ice and couldn’t move 
This is the jack knifed lorry that caused all the chaos between J28 & 27 yesterday on the M25. The front was caved in but i couldnt get a photo as i went past
and my dad’s last night in Crawley
Heres my moment in the spare motor last year 
CRISPY:
Heres my moment in the spare motor last year
bloody hell that is too close. 
Could you not read the sign from the road?
He left his reading glasses at home 
canaldrifter:
Then as now. Steady as she goes lads…1977
March 1979
Tone
The Blue DAF
Had such one for a few Year. Never stook in Snow
jessicas dad:
CRISPY:
Heres my moment in the spare motor last yearbloody hell that is too close.
he just wanted a close up to see what the sign said lol
… and a voice from above said, “Lo, tiz a sign. You are at a crossroad in your life.”
I’d be interested in what the satnav was saying…
Tone
canaldrifter:
… and a voice from above said, “Lo, tiz a sign. You are at a crossroad in your life.”I’d be interested in what the satnav was saying…
Tone
Should’ve gone to Specsavers!
I got stuck on a B road trying to get to Southwood nr Horsham. Normally I can sail up that hill but yesterday it was just a bit icy and even the crawler gear wouldn’t budge, wheels just kept spinning. Had visions os spending the rest of the day there until a kind soul in a supped up 4x4 offered to give me a drag up the hill. Would you believe it it worked, never thought that Land Rover had the strength to pull a fully laiden artic. The good thing was once we got going it wasn’t that bad. Sorry no pictures but took this one of the A264 & Pease Pottage services slip road.
A264
Pease Pottage services
Paul-H:
never thought that Land Rover had the strength to pull a fully laiden artic. T
It would struggle in normal conditions. But you were driving too? It was just a question of a little extra traction.
youtube.com/watch?v=xk0mRaZC_20
Tone
I would say more of sliding than driving at that point 
canaldrifter:
Paul-H:
never thought that Land Rover had the strength to pull a fully laiden artic. TIt would struggle in normal conditions. But you were driving too? It was just a question of a little extra traction.
youtube.com/watch?v=xk0mRaZC_20
Tone
Which having a 6x4 unit would probably provide instead of tying a Land Rover to the front of a 4x2 or 6x2,if there is’nt one around. 
Paul-H:
Had visions os spending the rest of the day there until a kind soul in a supped up 4x4 offered to give me a drag up the hill. Would you believe it it worked, never thought that Land Rover had the strength to pull a fully laiden artic. The good thing was once we got going
A264
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I had a “P” reg landrover give me a bump start in reverse once using a ratchet strap as the tow rope 
and it pulled away like it wasnt towing anything at all, i was fully loaded Bet it’s engine was cursing though as it pulled away.
wonder what the limit would be on one of those, before the engine just couldnt cope and the wheels would just spin?
It seems Landys are quite good at this towing thing:
heres mine from this morning, got sent to Matlock to collect an ancient grey fergie tractor, drove into the farm yard and promptly slid on the sheet ice into the gutter that was covered in snow and ice, couldnt go back and had to wait for the big 4x4 tractor to try and free me which didnt work, but with a bit of lateral thing, the hiab stabilser and some timber i freed the front wheel and got dragged back
Managed to get myself stuck this afternoon in Dover. I pulled into the farm, went to the right, tried to straighten up and get the steer off the trailer so i could reverse back and round the barn, couldn’t see where the edge of the concrete was because of the snow and went straight off it into a stupid little ditch
2 tractors later and i was free
Also saw this poor sod on the M2 on the way home
The actually pictures of me being stuck will remain in my hands only…ego denting and all that!!
On Tuesday morning when I first saw a bit of the white stuff…
By the afternoon it hadnt let up…
After getting a pull out of Tilbury docks when a couple of inches of ice scuppered my exit!!..
On Thursday afternoon I really had had enough of it to be honest…
And after driving a fair few miles along the M180 where it was just white over and no lines/lanes anywhere then its no surprise when I made it to the nearest space possible in a side road and left it with this in the mirror (only a few hundred yards from the local police station)…
tonka236:
The actually pictures of me being stuck will remain in my hands only…ego denting and all that!!And after driving a fair few miles along the M180 where it was just white over and no lines/lanes anywhere then its no surprise when I made it to the nearest space possible in a side road and left it with this in the mirror (only a few hundred yards from the local police station)…
man up, weve had it worse up here and still continued to drive. a few inches is nothing.