My Discovery went places my wife only slightly preferred that it hadn't... some of the more difficult tracks in the Tallarook State Forest, north of Melbourne.
A friend's D3 also came along - Horto - he has the rear diff lock option fitted, and as another friend said "if you drive a D3 like it was stolen, then it will go pretty much anywhere a twin locked D2 will"...
Both of us suffered damage to a rear mud flap, and I shredded a sidewall of the Mickey T's on the shail rocks...
cheers,
SimonD3 - Buckingham Blue, SE, TDV6, 06 model; chipped; underbody armour; Mickey Thompson ATZ 275/65-18 AND MAXXIS Bighorn muddies; rear wheel carrier from 4x4intelligence.com; iPOD aux connection! GME 3200 UHF - aerial mounted on wheel carrier ; LR roof rails/cross bars; Autosafe cargo barrier, Safari Snorkel; Traxide - aux battery; ARB bull bar with Tigerz11 winch; Lightforce 240 XGT driving lights (mitchell bros tow hitch to come)
15th May 2007 1:45 am
Dom Harvey Lord of the Four Fingers
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Went to Eastnor Castle for the day courtesy of Landrover, absolutely cracking day starting with breakfast and then 2 hours on the offroad course in a new Defender 110 which is not bad (but I wouldn't exchange it for the Disco)! then lunch and then an afternoon of activities including an awesome zip wire from a 120ft turret - 300metres across the lake - even SWMBO did that , clay pidgeon shooting, tyrolean traverse, climbing wall, LR massage , mountain biking. A top day cheers LR 2004 Discovery 3 - gone
2006 Discovery 3 - gone
2008 Discovery 3 GS - gone
2011 Freelander LE Special Edition - gone
2007 Discovery 3 XS - gone
2012 Discovery 4 GS - current
16th May 2007 8:21 pm
10forcash
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not today - Saturday & Sunday... winched out a 7.8 tonne Case excavator, countless 110's, 90's Disco1's Disco2's Rangies - not a single Disco3 8) they just took the offroad course at Driffield in their stride
The lead instructor from LRE Skipton judged a slope i'd driven up & down in forwards & reverse countless times in my D3 to be 'too extreme' for the FFRR G4 he was driving all weekend
At one point I had a 110 tied to a 90 and a P38 rangie hanging off my rear recovery point dragging all three of them across a field
Strangely enough, nobody suggested I get a 'proper' Landrover
16th May 2007 8:29 pm
Dom Harvey Lord of the Four Fingers
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nice one 10!2004 Discovery 3 - gone
2006 Discovery 3 - gone
2008 Discovery 3 GS - gone
2011 Freelander LE Special Edition - gone
2007 Discovery 3 XS - gone
2012 Discovery 4 GS - current
16th May 2007 8:30 pm
10forcash
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The best bit of kit I saw over the weekend was
Unfortunately the fun police curtailed their enjoyment somewhat... still, they got ample opportunity to tw@t it round the section I was managing - and nobody died! 8) the oil slick is due to the oil filter being impacted by the front axle after 'enthusiastically' jumping a mound build by the stuck excavator above
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16th May 2007 10:09 pm
craig
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Quote:
winched out a 7.8 tonne Case excavator
what did you weigh the winching vehicle down with
Can we have a go at this the next time at Boughrood?
16th May 2007 10:09 pm
10forcash
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it was plated @7.8 tonnes - as required by EU regulations therefore I assume the mass to be 7.8 tonnes plus the load accumulated by the incline and the friction - probably nearer 9 tonnes I have to admit that 1) I was a bit worried about the noises coming from the winch cable
and
2) the 90 anchoring me made feck all difference fortunately I had a weekends worth of San Miguel in the back, this obviously helped the D3 stay where I intended it to be
16th May 2007 10:14 pm
craig
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Aha now i understand, a 90 and D3 full of San Miguel - plenty of weight
16th May 2007 10:20 pm
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10forcash wrote:
fortunately I had a weekends worth of San Miguel in the back,
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You've now got a stretched D3 then Theres a spare set of doors on ebay to fill the gaps if your interested
16th May 2007 10:21 pm
10forcash
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It was Sunday morning but given the distance to the 'facilities' i'd recycled the bottles so the mass was the same
Gareth, do you really think a 90 hanging off the back would be enough to stretch a D3 - even with a fat b d at the wheel? the real difference was some wheel chocks one of the other guys had 'borrowed' from a gritter wagon last winter 8)
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; LR roof rails/cross bars; Autosafe cargo barrier, Safari Snorkel; Traxide - aux battery; ARB bull bar with Tigerz11 winch; Lightforce 240 XGT driving lights (mitchell bros tow hitch to come) 
, clay pidgeon shooting, tyrolean traverse, climbing wall, LR massage 
nice one 10!
still, they got ample opportunity to tw@t it round the section I was managing - 
