About this: how come the fire brigade (who quite reasonably declined to rescue thebloke on foot or in the inflatabubble boat) didn't drive 12 tons or more offire engine into the ford (which wouldn't have conked) and then do one ofthe following:push the motor cleartow it clearcome alongside, open the doors, and hoik the bloke into the fire engine.Tempted to say "serves him right for driving a jeep", but in reality itreally serves him right for poor assessment of the conditions - I don'tsuppose the rangie would've crossed that without conking either. A properlyprepped diesel LR with snorkel should've coped OK, but it's borderline dueto the speed of the current.

I'd be a bit worried about driving 12 tons of *anything* into that without knowing *exactly* what's under the water, TBH. I don't know the wading depth on a fire engine, either, come to that.On the other hand, someone on a safety line could probably have run a rope out, fastened it to a towing point and/or rescued the driver, but that wouldn't give the RAF an excuse to play with their toys, now, would it? ;-)

"Mark Solesbury" Don't under estimate them! I've been run over by one. :-)

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Mark Solesbury 17 years ago

A tractor that couldn't pull the vehicle free...

What was it? This one?

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Lee_D 17 years ago

Don't under estimate them! I've been run over by one. :-)

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