Extracting a stuck van

[Wild Brambles]

This guy seems to have gone off the road, and dropped his wheels into a muddy gully. His tank and prop shaft ended up resting on the edge of the metalled road. They tried a variety of methods to drive and tow the van back onto the road, and it seems to have messed it up underneath. My inclination would have been to jack up the vehicle, and pack branches or whatever else I could find into the gully, and then just drive it back onto the road. How would you handle this situation? The interesting bit is about 9 minutes into the video.

 

[Minxy]

Lovely to see Ireland again! I don't honestly know how you could safely jack it up as it seemed quite away over the edge so finding somewhere to put a jack would be difficult, certainly worth considering though. they should, however, have pulled it out backwards rather than forwards to minimise the damage as they'd be taking it out the way in went it via the existing 'tracks' rather than dragging it through more mud etc possibly digging it in more before getting it out which is what appears to have happened.

 

[Wild Brambles]

Pulling it backwards is a much more sensible option I agree. I would have placed the jack under the rear,rather than at the side.

 

[DBK]

I bought a pair of tracmats after nearly getting stuck in soft sand in Spain. That was several years ago and haven't had a chance to use them yet. Fortunately.

They would probably have worked in that situation but you need to carry a small folding spade to clear away any earth or sand from in front of the the driven wheels. If the wheels are in a hole you can't get the mat in.

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[Geo]

Full right lock and pull forward
Vehicle will immediately start to climb out the ditch

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[HandyAndy]

Been there, done that...
High lift jack the front up and swing it over on to the tarmac
High lift jack the rear up and let it swing over to the tarmac
Put the jack away
Carry on..
DO NOT drag the thing up the road unless you have good underbody skid plates.. Which this won't have.

 

[pappajohn]

Call recovery and let them sort it.... Simple.

 

[pappajohn]

Been there, done that...
High lift jack the front up and swing it over on to the tarmac
High lift jack the rear up and let it swing over to the tarmac
Put the jack away
Carry on..
DO NOT drag the thing up the road unless you have good underbody skid plates.. Which this won't have.

Of course, why didn't I think of that.
Now where did I stow my 1mtr tall hi-lift farm jack?
And which part of the plastic bumper should I put it under?

 

[Wild Brambles]

High lift jack the front up and swing it over on to the tarmac
High lift jack the rear up and let it swing over to the tarmac

That would have been easy for the tractor if he had a hydraulic bucket on the front, and a grappling chain.

 

[TinaLes]

Reminds me of our first ever Fun Rally at Chester, Brand New Van first time out, van sunk up to its axles in mud, ALL of us were towed out that year, some even dragged out backwards
Les

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[HandyAndy]

Of course, why didn't I think of that.
Now where did I stow my 1mtr tall hi-lift farm jack?
And which part of the plastic bumper should I put it under?

Well if you are carrying the jack to start with, you would have made a support piece that screw into the towing eye

 

[Wild Brambles]

No plastic on LDVs. I've got a steel girder with a footplate set into it under the cosmetic bumper.

 

[Campervan_man]

I recently bought a 12V winch off ebay for those 'I'm stuck' moments.
Attach to a convenient tree or another vehicle.

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[Rosemary1]

Reminds me of our first ever Fun Rally at Chester, Brand New Van first time out, van sunk up to its axles in mud, ALL of us were towed out that year, some even dragged out backwards
Les

Remember it well (we went forward )

 

[Minxy]

I recently bought a 12V winch off ebay for those 'I'm stuck' moments.
Attach to a convenient tree or another vehicle.

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I don't think that's big enough for your size/weight of MH.

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[mikebeaches]

I dropped front nearside wheel into a seriously deep hole a couple of weeks ago.

To my own amazement, managed to reverse out!

The wheel trim is well scratched now, but I think that's the only damage.

 

[gus-lopez]

I learnt long ago that when in a van never pull of the hard standing for someone coming the other way. either they reverse to a passing place/gateway or you do.

 

[WESTY66]

Lovely to see Ireland again! I don't honestly know how you could safely jack it up as it seemed quite away over the edge so finding somewhere to put a jack would be difficult, certainly worth considering though. they should, however, have pulled it out backwards rather than forwards to minimise the damage as they'd be taking it out the way in went it via the existing 'tracks' rather than dragging it through more mud etc possibly digging it in more before getting it out which is what appears to have happened.

Always a good idea to pull it out the same way it went in (30 years of earthmoving experience) oh I’ve had some big machines stuck in some stupid places

 

[Kingham]

This guy seems to have gone off the road, and dropped his wheels into a muddy gully. His tank and prop shaft ended up resting on the edge of the metalled road. They tried a variety of methods to drive and tow the van back onto the road, and it seems to have messed it up underneath. My inclination would have been to jack up the vehicle, and pack branches or whatever else I could find into the gully, and then just drive it back onto the road. How would you handle this situation? The interesting bit is about 9 minutes into the video.

Similar to the angle that I found this delivery van at last week in Kirkcudbright. Grounded on a stump, so took a good couple of hours for recovery !

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[Larby]

This may take a bit of clever thinking to remove this !!