We received a message that there was a pickup truck in trouble. It was on the side of a very steep soft dune, almost into the sea.
We followed the GPS to a whatsapp location, at Khor Al udeid, the Inland Sea on the border with Saudi Arabia.
When we arrived there was no one there. We called the number that had also been sent to us.
The owners of the truck were just along the coast waiting for a call.
We positioned the cruiser to get a winch rope to the truck.
At first the Land Cruiser was being pulled forwards. We anchored it to another Land Cruiser.
Then the winch stalled, the pull was to heavy.
We rigged a snatch block to the line. This doubles the winch capacity whilst halving the line speed.
The pickup truck then came up.
because of the angle of the dune, when it reached the top, it became high centred on the ridge there.
A second vehicle with a winch came along and we connected both winches to the pickup and pulled it over the ridge.
20 дек 2023
