Bill, you honour me greatly by imparting your highly educated and experienced knowledge here. Thank you!! I will immediately start researching into what you've said and see how I can implement it in the future. Warm regards, John

@@auto-funatics7147 No honour mate, just a bit of commonsense. If I were a bit younger I'd think about marketing a recovery point kit with doubler plates (which would need to be welded to the chassis rails) and widened Jate rings.

🤣🤣🤣 - a sign of the times we're in 🥴

It absolutely was...!

Thank you Toblas, your compliment is very encouraging! As soon as we're able to do a trip again, you can be sure another video will come of it 😉 In the meantime you can follow as I continue doing modifications and adding accessories to our 4x4's in my own way 🙂

So glad you enjoyed it Toblas! There were many many factors, chief of them being that I didn't "walk the way" first, else I might have realised how soft the soil in the stream was. Also, from the amount of sinkholes that I had to avoid coming in, should be an indication of treacherous ground that could give way. My vehicle was empty when trying to cross the stream, so no I don't think weight was the issue there. Deflated tyres helped delay the inevitable though - so that's the most important step in the right direction 👍🏻

Thanks man - glad you enjoyed it!

The tyres I used there were 265/65r17. I have since gone a little bigger

😂 just poking fun at my friends 😁

hehe, at least you can all laugh at the end, epic part of the world. That dude has serious knowledge@@auto-funatics7147

You're right! But what else do we have? The bridal works... until you don't use the bridal 😅. We really have a problem of there being no properly rated products for us available, unless one goes custom - and that's not tested and rated!

😂 yep... Glad you enjoyed it!

Think you need to watch it again 🤣

Agreed! 👍🏻

👌🏻

Definitely the plan now. Thanks for watching! Enjoyed your mma vids 😉

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Mooi man, dankie 🙏🏻😉

Agreed 💯👍🏻

John, I couldn't agree more about the recovery team. I've sent your compliment on to them. I'm glad you enjoyed the video so much. Thank you 🙏🏻

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

YES!

Thank you!!

You're absolutely right - but as Marcus says, it's all we've got - but using them with a bridle to distribute the load evenly between the two seems to work. The reason why mine snapped was because everyone was tired, and so we thought just using the one would be fine that once... Oops 😬. I couldn't include that part of the discussion because it was quite a heated discussion 😅. A debatable subject for sure 😁!

@@auto-funatics7147 ahah yeah I totally understand 😁 yeah I was looking into what could actually work as a proper defender recovery point for defenders and not much out there at all! I have the pin and ball 2 in 1 tow hitch which I thought I just use the pin and job down but been told can’t use the pin, so I think when poo has hit the fan use what you got and get out :)

Thank you! Yep, they were incredible ☺️

Never. Did an oil change at 250K kms, and today I clocked 300K. Still going strong 💪🏻

Cheers Steve!

That's just the turbo gauge, yes.

Dude!!!!

Yep!

😁

Thank you!

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