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NoDo$h
Member Since: 02 May 2006
Location: Finding new and exciting ways to milk badgers.
Posts: 19689
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| Another graphic demonstration of tow strop failure |
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Graphic content, so don't look if you don't like seeing people knocked over like skittles
Lessons learned....
1) Check your kit
2) Double check your kit
3) Don't pull at right-angles to the direction the car wants to go in!
4) If ignoring 1, 2 and 3, ask the spectators to back the hell out of the way.
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There is a more graphic, longer version of this out there. I suggest you don't look for it, as you get to see exactly what happened to the people the strop took out. Brains leaking out of places where you might expect a forehead to be, that sort of thing. I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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 6th May 2014 7:17 pm |
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GSLRO
Member Since: 10 Sep 2008
Location: Sunderland
Posts: 1279
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 Club N.E.R.D.s
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| 6th May 2014 7:45 pm |
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Grunders
Member Since: 30 Apr 2011
Location: Manchester
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Thats quite a nasty outcome If it ain't broke... Take it apart anyway, how else you gonna find out how it works
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| 6th May 2014 7:50 pm |
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Iguana
Member Since: 14 Oct 2013
Location: 'Sunny' Zomerset
Posts: 9424
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Oh dear dear, horrible and makes you think Iggy/Ieuan
Current LR =
2015 RR Sport Autobiography
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1992 Land Rover Defender Camper
- Gone but not forgotten:
MY10 D4 GS
MY05 Disco 3 'S'
MY14 FL2 HSE manual in Blue
MY15 Disco 4 HSE Lux in Santorini Black
MY08 Disco 3 SE manual in Buck Blue
1960 Series 2 88" (No idea why I sold it!)
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| 6th May 2014 7:58 pm |
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NoDo$h
Member Since: 02 May 2006
Location: Finding new and exciting ways to milk badgers.
Posts: 19689
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Then my work here is done..... I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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| 6th May 2014 8:01 pm |
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comedyharvey
Member Since: 03 Jul 2010
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 1727
 
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Nasty. Were they killed by the strap or the tow hitch which ripped out of the towing vehicle? A few pounds of steel flailing around n the end of a tow strap.....that's one hell of a lethal weapon.
Either way, a lesson to be learned. Arthur.
Comedy was a horse, Harvey a dog, both sadly gone. Thought I was choosing a password!
Currently;
Discovery 3 HSE 2009
101" Fwd. Control 1976
Nuffield 10/90 Tractor (10/60 with 6 cylinder conversion) 1964
Previously;
Series III Lightweight. 1976.
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| 6th May 2014 8:39 pm |
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Hairy Dan
Member Since: 19 Jan 2011
Location: Co. Durham
Posts: 12319
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Very nasty
comedyharvey the title of the video is Tow Strap Snaps Instantly Kills Two Spectators Accident Video22 so I fear the worst happened  Cheers Ian
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| 6th May 2014 8:43 pm |
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NoDo$h
Member Since: 02 May 2006
Location: Finding new and exciting ways to milk badgers.
Posts: 19689
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I've seen the more brutal, longer version and the strop killed both. Strop-shaped gaps in the forehead will do that, unfortunately. I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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| 6th May 2014 8:52 pm |
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comedyharvey
Member Since: 03 Jul 2010
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 1727
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You maybe right chaps but that's not what the video actually shows. The tow hitch clearly rips out of the rear crossmember with a puff of rust and snatches back with the strap, we don't see the strap break. So, both tow hitch and strap fail?
Lethal either way. Arthur.
Comedy was a horse, Harvey a dog, both sadly gone. Thought I was choosing a password!
Currently;
Discovery 3 HSE 2009
101" Fwd. Control 1976
Nuffield 10/90 Tractor (10/60 with 6 cylinder conversion) 1964
Previously;
Series III Lightweight. 1976.
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| 6th May 2014 10:30 pm |
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LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23823
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Genuine questions from a winching novice:
If a winch blanket had been used, would it have done it's job? Or are blankets only of use when the actually rope/strop/wire etc. snaps, not the tow bar or recovery point being pulled away from the vehicle? 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
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| 15th May 2014 1:22 pm |
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DiscoDunc
Member Since: 08 May 2006
Location: Bristol
Posts: 16390
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this related vid is of interest
Duncan
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D4 HSE MY13 SOLD
FFRR 3.6 Vogue TDV8 SOLD
D4 HSE MY10 SOLD
D4 SE TECH MY15 SOLD
D4 XS MY12 SOLD
D4 HSE MY10 SOLD
D3 HSE MY06 - Re-Cycled Worldwide
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| 15th May 2014 1:36 pm |
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Navigator
Member Since: 17 Mar 2010
Location: Stay at Home. One of the lives you save could be your own.
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Bit worrying that is video 22 - what is the total death toll from the 21 that preceeded it? A vaccine does not stop you catching a virus, or passing it on, or getting ill from it, really ill. It does reduce the likelyhood of you dying when really, really ill. Stay Alive - KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE.
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| 15th May 2014 3:37 pm |
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