Hello,
We went to a show over the weekend where everyone parked in a field. Rain and traffic churned up the field and made it very muddy. On the way out, my car got stuck. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised, it got stuck in the snow the other year! (it's a 60 plate Mondeo).
I had got stuck in a muddy patch and was pulled out by something that looked like a quad bike. Whatever it was, it must have been stronger than it looked. I didn't get a close look but it seemed the chap that rescued me used a plastic coated cable to pull me out.
Now I was wondering, to stop this happening again, would something like this help:
Could I have used them to reverse back onto firmer ground?
I was also wondering about a tow rope to pull me out. I googled and found a land rover forum where they were saying not to use "standard" tow poles and tow ropes. Their logic was that these are designed for pulling broken down cars along roads, which requires less force than trying to pull a car out of mud. That makes sense to me.
I also think that if you were towing along a road you would not want a long tow rope whereas if you are stuck in mud, you want a long rope so that the rescue vehicle is nowhere near the mud.
However someone off roading in a landrover and getting completely submerged in mud is completely different to the front wheels of my Mondeo sinking in a muddy puddle, so I am wondering how heavy duty my tow rope would need to be. Any ideas/recommendations?
Thanks, Stephen.