Our local J**p club had a trail maintanence event at Waiporous Off-road area near Calgary this weekend.
The original plan was to dismantle a bridge that had been washed out. We were going to salvage the decking and any of the structural componants that were still useable.
At the last minute, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans, who administer all navigatable waters in Canada, decided that the salvage operation might disrupt the spawing activities of some species of trout in the creek. So we wouldn't be able to do the salvage operation.
So, what to do with twenty or thirty volunteers?
I showed up in my suburban, paint was still wet on the 45, and got sent out with a small crew to recover a rolled and abandoned pick-up.
It was in a bit of a wash-out, on its roof. The wheels had been taken, as well as the rear axle, so there was no way we could put it on its wheels and roll it out. The passanger A pillar was collapsed and the drivers one was digging in to the ground, so was the passanger B pillar.
We hooked up the Ribicon to it and tried to slide out on what was left of the roof and the hood. Despite being locked front and rear, the recent rain did not allow the Rubicon's tires enough traction to move it.
We then hooked onto the back of the truck and towed it downhill and onto the trail. That worked fairly easily.
Once the pick-up was on a smoother surface the rubicon was able to tow it up the trail until a sharp turn, where the pick-up decided to slide of the trail and into the bush. That's gravity for you.
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The original plan was to dismantle a bridge that had been washed out. We were going to salvage the decking and any of the structural componants that were still useable.
At the last minute, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans, who administer all navigatable waters in Canada, decided that the salvage operation might disrupt the spawing activities of some species of trout in the creek. So we wouldn't be able to do the salvage operation.
So, what to do with twenty or thirty volunteers?
I showed up in my suburban, paint was still wet on the 45, and got sent out with a small crew to recover a rolled and abandoned pick-up.
It was in a bit of a wash-out, on its roof. The wheels had been taken, as well as the rear axle, so there was no way we could put it on its wheels and roll it out. The passanger A pillar was collapsed and the drivers one was digging in to the ground, so was the passanger B pillar.
We hooked up the Ribicon to it and tried to slide out on what was left of the roof and the hood. Despite being locked front and rear, the recent rain did not allow the Rubicon's tires enough traction to move it.
We then hooked onto the back of the truck and towed it downhill and onto the trail. That worked fairly easily.
Once the pick-up was on a smoother surface the rubicon was able to tow it up the trail until a sharp turn, where the pick-up decided to slide of the trail and into the bush. That's gravity for you.
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