In article , Andrew Mawson writes
'When I were a lad' I helped put up a Bailey bridge at a school cadet summer-camp. We built it faster than any of the other squads, but found out why when they tried to drive a three-tonner over it - we'd missed half the pins out, so it promptly collapsed.
Next day's exercise was 'how to get a three-tonner out of a gulley'...
On or around Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:05:52 +0000, Bob Unitt enlightened us thusly:
oooops.
hehe. waste not want not.
I remember having to set up a 'recover a Bedford 4T from a ditch' exercise while in the TA.
Drove Bedford into ditch, shuffled it around for a while to get it settled in, and the bloody thing still drove out. tried getting the wheels to spin in 2wd, to dig it in properly, the bloody thing still drove out. Ended up just having to pretend it was stuck!. Bloody good trucks them bedfords!
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