 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Idiots will be idiots, I supposed, but it's worth noting that those are not winter tyres. I have the superficially similar winter ones on my Landy. Quite a different tread pattern, and presumably a softer compound too, with 3-peak/snowflake markings of course. Whether they'd have helped I don't know but the use of branches like that does imply that they're just not getting any traction, and it just goes to prove that, as we all know, four wheel drive is not a panacea and is no substitute for proper tyres.
Is this road in a designated 'winter tyres or proper equipment required' zone?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Chaletbeauroc, you'll have to wait for the next installment (pictures), as I'm currently climbing, taking breaks as more cloud around, so snow will take longer to cook, but you're just not going to believe it 
I'll be about another three hours or so.
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Idiot. Clearly didn’t click his poles before reversing.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Orange200 wrote: |
| Idiot. Clearly didn’t click his poles before reversing. |
Defenders are a bit basic, do they come with poles as standard ?
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Bet he wishes he had bought a winch for the Landrover instead of those fancy touring skis. 
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With no diff' lock and M+S tyres (we always regard them as mud+slush) it was enviable. Chains would have helped but only if fitted front and rear.
I've done the sticks/branches under wheels trick but full bows work better complete with needles. How far did it shoot the sticks? Hope nobody got impaled.
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When any four wheel drive gets the traction "relieved" diagonally like that one is, then those two lightened wheel will spin while the other two (it's predominantly sitting on) will get zero torque.
More advanced method is to lock centre differential, then gently spin the wheels while applying the footbrake to equal the torque on all four wheels, it'll probably drive out of there with that.
IF it was fitted with a rear differential lock as well as std issue centre fitment, then likely it wouldn't be stuck there, or the driver may have got it further and deeper to really get it stuck
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What a mess! Turning circle on a landy isn't big, especially when the diffs are locked.
Dropping the tyre pressure can help but once the wheels have sunk enough that the weight is on the axles and the diff you are snookered! Going to need something big with a winch or a big melt, I think.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Thick As wrote: |
| ...Turning circle on a landy isn't big,.. |
You're right. It's huge!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@adithorp, Indeed. A friend who's a part time bus driver on the IoM came out to Corfu with us last year and on one day was driving my 110 around the tiny roads there (I was feeling a bit crook but the other three wanted to go to the beach). Reckoned he'd have been more manoeuvrable in a 40-passenger bus on some of those roads.
@Weathercam, Did you happen to look at the tyres on the second one? I wonder - were they also thinking that chunky summer tyres would be 'good enough'?
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