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Chris made so many mistakes yet he was able to put aside his pride and share his story publicly. Hat off to Chris! Thanks for sharing
It's a Starlink ad .
Old mate in the truck is a mad dog
You could do a mini series out of it...
Worked and lived in the Pilbara for over 20 yrs. Break downs and bogs are normal, it’s adventure, just be safe and carry recovery gear. Take 30 minutes to check your gear and the condition, and throw a 6 pack of 1l water in your vehicle…..$4 from woolies. Have a ‘recovery check’ BBQ with the mates and go through what ya got and how to use it, would be a Saturday well spent🤘🤘
Gotta be the most sensible comment i've read on youtube. Good on ya 👍
I found myself in a similar situation, bogged on a remote clay pan near Cameron Corner, solo in my GU Patrol which was pretty loaded, probably about 3300kg. I had a pair of maxtrax, winch and the usual recovery kit. She was bogged to the sills/axles. Started digging her out, that clay was the worst shit I've ever had to dig, it was a sticky nasty mess. Got the maxtrax in position, gave it a go and sent one of the maxtrax to China and moved the vehicle about 3 metres. I then spent over an hour trying to find the buried maxtrax during the hottest part of the day, I was worried it was gone forever. Anyway, several hours later I had moved the vehicle about 20 metres to firm ground. The things that really helped was having a plan (before you start work out the easiest recovery route to firm ground), conserving energy, working slowly and methodically, staying hydrated and protected from the sun, keeping a positive (but realistic) mindset and having a "shit hits the fan option" (PLB).
Great to see lc78 getting stuck then recovered, I think this is a high demand content that is missing from many 4x4 channels. Adding such content will definitively attract more subscribers. thanks for the tips and video.
Good video. A good reminder to keep a calm head in a recovery situation. A great learning moment for Chris too.
Got to love the embarrassing moments when you have to get recovered by a different vehicle!! I remember my first time having to be recovered out of Snow on a trail a few years back and I was still new to all this. About 30 minutes later another individual came by and looked things over. Probably took only a few minutes to get things set and we went with a static recovery. Thankfully I was able to get out and I learned real quick that I need to get some basic recovery gear at least. Now I'm at a point where I have a Recovery Strap, Recovery Boards and a Winch. Depending on the next situation will depend on what I will or won't need.
How …please tell me how!!?!😂
Love your contents, hello from Italy 🇮🇹
Such an awkward social situation when people go out of their way to help you, but you know they're doing everything wrong. I guess that's when you've got to be ultra confident in correct recovery techniques and take the reigns and direct proceedings. Thanks Chris for filming this vid, love your stuff.
I got bogged the same way in a salt lake 1.5km from the edge (I was right in the middle), I aired down to 5psi and 4 maxtrax popped me out. I rarely use the maxtrax, but that one bogging made me never ever leave without them, they are legit.
How do you get bogged in the aldi carpark tho?
@@Tom-lf8hx I made a complaint to the manager, obviously
Great advice when the tray pick up driver said “ drive through the wet track” it’s firm underneath
Growing up around atv/quads all my life. Find myself in these situations over the years. Great advice for sure.
I have recovered many vehicles over the years, including my own a few times haha.
But seriously, when you get stuck yourself it's good to have the gear with you because the Samaritan almost never has gear with them.
Had a similar solo situation going to an overnight camp spot going from Perth to Adelaide - was after a massive rain that closed the highway and Ghan a day earlier
Took me 5hr digging and moving only 2m at a time - the saver was the jack with the first movement it released the bloody suction that was holding me down. Lessons - take 4 maxtracs not 2, don’t go off road after massive rains (12mths in 24hr) esp at night when you can’t see that the normally flat plains was fully flooded
Loved the 4WD experience of it 👍
Great Video. I learned a few things. Once again, thank you, Ronnie and Chris!
Hindsight is a wonderful tool. Listening to the experienced, priceless.
Hey Ron, as a long time fan I need to let you know something. Your content is great. So great, in fact, that your use of AI really detracts from it.
Troopy looks bloody good even if its bogged🤣 Jamie is a legend!
Love the colour of that Troopy, midnight blue is classic 90's Toyota. Don't see many around either.
Awesome! Can't wait for the next one.
8:36 seems obvious but its not in the moment. Very good information to know and good logic to understand so you can stop and think your way through these areas.
You should have gone with Muddies Maaaaaate!! Love your work!
High lift jack on ya spare should get you up enough to put a heap of scrub under the wheels.
Same thought
If you have a winch simply make up a sand anchor and you will not drag that back towards your vehicle.
Got bogged twice on/in salt lakes. First was about 20yrs ago in China (I am German, lived in China from 2002 -2010) with my 4Runner knock off (Chinese copy), with a 2.5 liter Mitsubishi Engine. Didn't have a clue about salt lakes then. Fortunately I wasn't too far from the 'shore', when I felt it's becoming somewhat soft. But too late.. I got stuck just 5 meters from the shore. We (4 pax) started digging with 2 shovels, tried to push what ever available under the wheels (didn't have sandboards) but nothing helped. Bogged in stinky, sticky black mud. We saw a tracktor a few km away, ran over and he pulled the car out.
The other was 2015 in Iran with my HDJ100 (5cm lifted, on ATs, triple locked etc) which we (my wife our 13 yrs old son and I) drove all the way from Germany to visit some friends, who introduced us to some serious Iranian offroaders/overlanders who showed us some really great places for offroading and overlanding. One was this island in the salt lake where we wanted and did watch the meteriod shower at night. We drove on this 'island' to find a nice spot to set up our camp, it was almost dark, I just drove a few meters to far off the island... and wooosh, I sank all of a sudden through the crust. Fortunately this time I had sandboards and my new friends with their 4x4s with me. It took maybe an hour of digging (this time not so stinky mud), pushing the sandboards under my rear wheels, then both other cars at the same time pulled my out slowly, carefully.
However both incidents were not life or car threatening. In China the next village was in walking distance, we had plenty of supplies, the weather was mild. In Iran I had great friends with their cars to help me out of this not sooo embarrassing situation.
First step would be getting rid of the Bridgestone dualers,
Very valuable information regarding driving in this specific environment you're actually better in the water on the main track then driving around it, makes sense regarding the water not able to drain away because the ground is compressed tight and safer to drive on, I would still be checking the depths however.
Hay Ronnie you could use the rude to get the car out. Tie a few 44’s to the Troopie it will pop out when the tyde come’s in. It’s been done before. Not quite 36 grand either 👌🏼👍🏼.
This is still a very important video for anyone travelling anywhere remote. Even not so remote. Thanks mate cheers
Fantastic episode and great advice, has Chris bought the muddies yet??
Spectacular Shark Bay! Full of hidden surprises when it comes to driving around the burridas (clay pans)! Local knowledge is everything and those locals, Jamie and Stacey of Shark Bay Marine and All Recoveries have seen it all…. the right gear with the right people makes all the difference every time.
To get unstuck in that sort of mud use the high lift jack to get the wheels up and put max tracks under the wheels.
High lift jacks are very underrated in Australia. But they are very useful pieces of kit. In South Africa the high lift jacks come with tube protrusions that fit into tube recesses in the bull bars, so that you can lift a car and push it over to the side to get it out of a rut.
When is he going to get rid of those awful tires.
I.K.R.!! lets get some maxis razr's on them
Ronny only managed to tear the tow ball off after he cut it half way through .
winch has got me out of some decent bogs and wet muddy hills. also winched a seized hilux and 80 series up a massive hill with my little d22 navara.
I think air bags jacks have a role in self recoveries like this. They seem to have gone out of favour these days.
Unless you are towing something your tow ball should be stored away just to stop idiots from using it, I leave receiver shackle in all the time, they are not any more expensive than a tow ball so why not have one.
I don't understand how people go out so far without gear. I'm usually less than an hour from the nearest road and I have at least some traction boards and my winch. Theres really no excuse to not have a winch on a build like this.
I think know the exact area Chris might have gone down in. We snatched out a car from a salt pan on some tracks south west of Monkey Mia... imagine our suprise, when we rock up to help, to find it was a fisheries vehicle 😆
Thanks mate
Glad he's still alive.
I most definitely could have recovered both without writing one off by dragging it through the ocean. I have an excavator with float tracks and it would have been a walk in the park to get to it.
The best way out is the way you came in. Carry a hand winch and winch yourself backwards. I have front and rear winches, just like the army trucks 🤷♂️
Did you notice they were both Toyota drivers 🤔 Just saying 👍
Crazy the white troopy story😮
Now Chris needs muddies
G’day Ronnie.
Why didn’t Chris ask to be pulled out backwards, instead of trying to push through more mud, getting deeper and deeper all the time?
When you told Chris he didn’t need a winch fitted to his vehicle (something I agree with completely), you could have recommended the Australian invention BOG OUTS as the alternative. They’re compact and light (5kg) and can pull you out backwards as easily as forward. Much better than having 20+ kilos hanging off the nose of your vehicle.
In fact, I was surprised that you didn’t have them amongst the recovery gear you showed us a couple of months ago.
And no, I am not affiliated with BOG OUTS, just a fan.
Cheers
More than a little surprised that Chis hasn’t bothered to see your videos Ronnie, or even to absorb the messages you deliver on all the trips he’s been on with you. Especially given that his business takes him into remote country all the time. Less surprised now that I saw his reaction to the gifted maxtrax at the end-his immediate focus was on the looks. Emblematic of the approach of so many people, however.
I had to recover a ford territory out of a KFC drive thru yesterday with my Landcruiser which was funny 😅 all I had was two soft links and a snatched strap lol
Do a video or short on tube vs tubeless tyres and normal rims vs split rims and which one is easier to change out bush and wich is easier to put a tyre on the rim
We had a dude die out here in Arizona from a tow ball recovery not to long ago
Mate I don’t know what you’ve done to your editing team but the last few videos are almost unwatchable. Non stop cuts, breaks, audio fluffery, building up big events that turn out to be nothingburgers, holy crap I can’t take it any more! Just tell us the story from beginning to end, and get the editors to take their meds!
A winch and some sort of ground anchor?
The pin will bend and you will have trouble removing it.
i would not feel awkward if someone came to help me and I said "this is what I need"
Have done stupid shit because of others in my ear . Only twice . First time going up a hill hit a point i couldn't pass . And let them talk me into winching over it . That cost me 4000 back in 96 . Next was a water crossing no snorkel so put a tarp over the radiator but didn't go far enough under the car . I knew better . Sold that one as parts . In the heat of the moment think three times .
Whats the explanation for the 30k bill for that recovery? I mean, why did he charge so much?
Probably it was just under the cost of the fine they would have received from National Parks or EPA for leaving it there. Also I’m assuming that they had quite the mission to get the boat there and back. I’m also guessing that in the price was towing the vehicle back on a tabletop etc etc. $30k sounds steep but it’s probably cheaper than the alternative.
Cheers 🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺
Are the first few comments on your videos bots? I’m normally watching seconds after it drops and you get the same generic comments straight up. The start of the video looks good, but I’ll watch the rest now that I’ve said this.
Those comments do seem quite mindless.
Yeah they're the level of comment on molly dixon videos.
Yea, you can tell it's a bot. Usually some half dressed tramp that says "you videos are so uplifting and inspirational..." Etc.
These ‘influencers’ pay for likes and comments. That’s what those are
Those accounts are 7 hours old. Defs bots or some dumb shit.
The advice to use hitch pin alone is horribly wrong a 5/8" or 16mm pin is only suitable in double shear dont ever pin a strap or soft shackle in a receiver
Now if only he had muddies on the bloopie 🤣
Good vid, but you should of shown that people can actually use a snatch strap straight through the pin of the tow hitch! Because a lot of people can afford a snatch strap but not the accessories!
Maybe of had more than pizza cutters as tyres would of gotten out alot easier or not stuck at all 😂
Physics disagree
I wonder, wouldnt it be better if they pulled back instead of forward ? Looks like the back was more free, while the front wheels were half way burried already.
What kind of hat ya wearing Ronny?
No mention of mud tires??????
Why are the videos so short now?
yeh i miss the 30 min episodes
Chris demonstrates that no matter what you do or think you know, without proper planning before venturing off tarmac you can end up in shit very quickly. Glad he had Starlink, that proves how effective and important the system is when out in the wilds of nowhere.
That second Troopy - waste of a decent vehicle by idiotic arrogance by the drivers.
Yeah thats why street tires are no fun, It was light mud too nothing insane 🤣
1981 Landrover owner's instruction VHS, rule 1 for traversing offroad obstacles.
As slow as possible but as fast as necessary.
Mud tyres mighta helped?
you would think by now these guys would know a thing or two
Tyre type wouldn't have made any difference.
Any of the cheap max tracks copy are fine, if kept out of the sun. A half decent winch and a PRT would have been useful
Ronny you had to cut the tow ball almost all the way through before it broke. Be honest mate.
Star link. Probably the only good thing about musk.
Yeah wrote the car off but anyway and $36,000 to ‘recover’ it! 😅😮 sorry but that’s not a success.
I wouldn't be proud of that recovery using the boat. Example of wrong equipment and not enough elbow grease?
I am constantly amazed that when driving forwards and sinking, the recovery attempt is to drag the vehicle further forward into unknown bogginess. FFS pull it out backwards (incoming tide excepted :) ) And as for the towball use - how F'n stupid are our people?
Time for some decent tyres….!
Recovery gear.
Mud tyres become o-rings in that sort of clay, same as any other tyre.
For $36K, I wonder if there is a helicopter that could retrieve that truck
my bet is there was an insurance company involved and they did the maths
It cost a few grand just for a human to go on a chopper flight....having a chopper that can lift that would definitely cost u more than 36k if theres one on the west coast of Australia with the capacity to lift that. Maybe if u had a dodgy mate in the army lol
another reason for chris to get mud tryes haha
I freakin love sunday mornings!
Why are you not coming out and voice protest to how WA Labor are going to ruin people's access to 4WD and outdoor life in WA?
Struth..
He is too old to be that dumb. Lucky he had 40 psi racing slicks.
Theres so many bot comments.
Ronny, can i have you number so i can ring you if i ever get stuck ahahaha - just gotta invest in a starlink now
Watching your channel is like a celebration every time you post a new video. Continue to delight us with your fun and energizing content!🥌👊🍦
Hello Toyota Head Engineer,
when do you plan on giving those dumb rear spring hangers the arse? These trucks are garbage.
Love Nissan driver.😅😅😅😅
If I send you bogged people Iv rescued can I have a maztraks present 🎁 please 😢
I bet if the Bloopie had Mud tyres on it like Ronny insisted then he wouldn't have been in that situation.
Each of your videos is a small masterpiece that is amazing in its beauty and depth. Keep inspiring and surprising us!🦆🌷💥
Dont use the hitch pin to tie off your strap!!! Its a pin that is sized to lock in a sleeve (tow hitch in the receiver). Look at the size of that pin. Cant believe that Ronnie will advocate AGAINST using a towball to strap off, but says its fine to use the hitch pin..ffs!!!
Also. Compare that hitch pin diameter size (around 12mm) to a proper load rated hitch shackle (around 16-20mm).
Think about it - if a towball breaks off it is a lethal weapon - deaths have resulted from towballs. What Ronny suggested with the pin is standard practice- not as good as a tow hitch but much better than towball
Much safer option, given they didn’t have a recovery hitch. His advice is correct
Ronny is 100% right. Make sure you stop telling people the towball option is ok, literally a death-trap
sad in 2025 people still dont know NOT to use a tow ball.
If I was on my own with no boards- lots and lots of digging and scrub under the wheels.
I'm too chicken to drive on a salt lake.
Having just fitted a winch though and watched some safety vids, i might by pass the hook and just attach a soft shackle ¿! 🫠