Truck stuck in snow, rescued by little land rover discovery 

little land rover?! the discovery is one of the best off road vehicles of ALLTIME!!!

This just gives testament to how tough a Land Rover is!!!!!! That was awesome!

Makes me proud to be a land rover owner!!!

woohoooo!!! i love Land Rover!!! they are little tractors. all you needed was a set of chains and you would have towed this thing across the field. mine has gone where the snowplows wouldn't tackle the hills of St. John's, Newfoundland.

Maurice & Spencer. Tough guys. Thanks Lads.

Its amazing how capable these vehicle are, we had a severe snow storm over just a couple of hours here in Merseyside a few days ago, about 8 inches of snow was dropped and it was the first time I have driven the Discovery in truly testing conditions. It was incredible...I had to get everyone home from my sister's party that night aswell as rescue a BMW, towing it up a snowy muddy bank whilst its rear axle was locked due to a side on crash all done with ease in a standard Disco 300Tdi, amazing.

Jeeps and Land Rovers are the best off road vehicles of all time. Fact.

Plucky Little Landie =) Good Old 4x4s

this vid shows that a landrover can do anything!:D

the video is really about the fact this guy was kind enough to help out...

Land rovers are AWSOME

Best 4 by 4 by far!

gotta love those discos. when not on snow, a disco WILL pull an artic as dead weight, having the low ratio transfer box is why

Great job...LR for life...

He's very generous to offer to bend his chassis trying to yank it up. Deffo no rust in that crossmember!

I remember watching a Police Land Rover pushing an articulated lorry off the motorway in snow - the lorry was on it's side!!!

Yeah go Landy!!!

Fantastic. I remember seeing the americans doing it. I hopeing this winter when i get my Disco That I can help a lorry that is stuck and get pictures of it and a video. The satasfaction would be so good Fantastic video 10/10

Brilliant ! Dad's Army all the Way....;) Thanks for Posting.

@chrissie117 good for him. he's a Landy lover sharing his toy.

Proper 4x4

landrover's power!

BEAST!!!

@chrissie117 These Discoveries are more ballsy than most people think. I am a die hard big Chevy pickup owner, but these LR's are very off-road capable and quite ballsy. If I ever owned another vehicle besides a pickup truck, it would be a land rover

thats why i will only have landrovers got a disco1 and a td5 just putting a 300tdi into my 90 and they all do anything asked of them good job with the vid mate next time i see an artic struggling mite even give it ago myself ha ha ha

disco is determined!

I agree, I've done loads of towing out with my disco 300tdi last two winters. But before we all get too carried away, this artic has the lazy axle up in the air, so it's not fully laden by any measure. Best car I've ever owned though by a mile.

I've just come back from working in Poland, in November most people change from their summer tyres to winter tyres, so when it snows, they just drive a little slower, but trucks don't change their tyres, so when there is a slight incline, the truck gets stuck, and the cars get stuck behind them, a no win situation.

lol the little disco that could =]

good job

awsome video i did this last night in my 300tdi discovery in caerwys north wales lol the lorry driver didnt even say thank you prob embarresed hahaha

Up a slant. Nice!

bravo maestro molto bene complimenti!!!

NICE!!!!

A couple things I noticed, the tractor-trailer driver did not put on chains, the load is improperly loaded on the truck there is extra material at the far end of the flatbed this would make the back heavier making it difficult for the drive wheels to achieve traction.

Rovers need a little more rep. Cause this is pretty crazy.

nice!

Suprising how jelouse some folk are about land rovers doing well. Oh and your fourtrack probably can tow them both in that snow/ice, but coming down the other way pal. Jog on and go and buy yourself a land rover If you can afford one. Otherwise put up and shut up landys are awsome, BEST IN THE WORLD.

Flipster1325, That extra wheel is a tag axle and isn't driven. It's only used when the total weight exceeds 38Ton, then whith the axle down the total weight can be 44Ton. You are correct that they save fuel though as when they are lifted up they lower the rolling resistance. HTH

My 2004 disco 2 goes through snow like a snowplough. You have to drive them right for the conditions. Low range 2nd gear great for snow. Low revs and careful.

@MStanleyRoss another reason to pull up the 3rd axle is even if you are near the top end of your max weight, you would still pull her up in these conditions. It is not a driven axle so all it does is take weight (and traction) off the rear axle :)

For the countless noobs watching this, the last 3-4 seconds explains every thing. First, the truck is a piece of Euro crap with out duel drive axles. Hence, no diff lock capability. Second, In spite of the trailer being loaded, the load extends so far back, it over hangs the trailer. This takes the weight off the drive axle

Never seen this happen to an American truck.... Maybe if he put his second set of axles down and was using chains, which is a requirement for trucks here in the winter with steep grades, then he would never have got stuck. Especially with that little bit of snow, ice under it or not. I live where we can get over a foot of snow overnight and still can drive around. I would also love to see that little land rover pull that fully loaded truck without the driver spinning his wheels in the truck too.

It's a pity the trucker didn't have a lift axle on the trailer as well.

turcker should have had a bag of road salt handy, bit of that jammed in your wheel grooves and that hill wouldn't've been a problem eh

no its just a extra lift axle, its used for to put the w8 per axel down, if you got a heavy lood, they use it on the road, but now its up to get extra w8 on the rear tire's to get more grip sorry for my bad english (A) hope you get it on some point :Phaha

is the disco petrol or diesel? good work!!

discos are around 2 tons, they are meant to have a 3.5ton tow limit in the uk.......although thats the limit on paper lol. they can manage a few pounds more weight.....if you need it

That's gonna do a great deal for shocks on the landrover isn't it. People worry about them towing little trailers. So a wagon weighing 18+ tonnes is gonna do a lot of good for that landrover.

The lift axle would have been up from the start of his journey because the load is not heavy. if it was a heavy load the axle would drop and even if you wanted to lift it for more traction as you say it would not let you.

looks like it has highway tyres too

@RudeMcNasty the more weight over the trailer axles is most likely to keep within the axle weight limits we have in the UK but if you can tell each axle weight from the clip your good

@Moosemuir ??? When it snows they are the only cars out and about. So on that score they are 100% reliable. Landrovers are working vehicles, on a daily basis they put up with more abuse than anything you can mention. I don’t see many other near 20 year old cars pulling that lorry in the dry let alone in the snow. Think on old chum.

The trucks only a single axle. Wouldn't surprise me if it had trouble going up that hill.

97% truck + 3% Disco = movement.

Is the motor in the blue truck shut down? He doesn't seem to be helping a bit.

so.. where are you pulling him to? lol

@juzzlookin i first thought that but as a trucker i can tell you the weight distribution would be greater therefore making the grip less

isnt that extra wheel in the air on that truck another drive wheel for situations like this. correct me if im wrong but im sure thats what its for and they pull them up in the air when its not needed to save on fuel.

diamond vid, have got 300tdi disco, freelander2 and have orderd discovery4

Is it me, why didnt the truck driver lower the other axles? or are they not driving wheels?

@recallUK82 disco has a tow limit of 3.5 tonne?...guess you never saw the press release for the discovery in 1989 then..they pulled a combined 157 tonnes of train from a siding to the platform, the only conversion was a set of track follower wheels. i have used my disco(1989 200tdi) to pull artics, cars, vans even other non landy type four wheel drives and never once as it failed to do the job required ;) tow strap will be on the tow bar or towing eyes on the chassie.

@deliow The reason they didnt lower the other axle was because lowering it only spreads the weight and weight = grip the more weight on one set the more grip sharing weight only makes it lighter on the axle therefore losing traction

gotta get some studded tires and u will b fine =]

Why is it an MPI?

sometimes it just takes a little help

u know why are they so good in this? =] coz of theyr weight and 4wheel drive

lol and it looks like the truck driver is not helping in any way..... nice

i really want a car like dat... does anyone know how much they cost?

only a landy eh!

every bit helps :D

Recaluk82 What is that all about? Where did I put my strap for towing, this in the vid is not me. someone elses credit not mine. Oh and don't get offended about the four track thing, I didn't even slate the vehicle. Just some folk get a little jelouse that's all I was stating. This discovery has done really really well. I was merly explaining a fact, that land rover are the best 4x4 by far. You only have to look this info up on the net it's all there.

wow... amazing. dont think my mercedes can do that lol but who knows :o

so in the case where his drive wheels needed more traction and if he were to put more weight on the drive wheels which may or may not create traction but he could have tried =P

your car eats breakfast & dinner?? Mine just uses diesel. :-]

pusher sucks on the trucks. thats why they dont get any grip.

to majstore star radi discovery kad je u pravim rukama

Show the entire video tas proof hat he got him up the rest of that hill.

landy ftw :)

ope I dont think so, he was out the next day and the next month helping stuck drivers with the same vehicle.

cracking toast gromit.

@the69gringo But double the footprint = double the grip.

@216StealthSS Not if it was in low range.

Nope, its the white thing on the road who explains it, trust mee, been there done that. Btw, the truck has difflock.

Why didn't the truck driver put his other set of tires on the ground that's 4 more tires therefore my traction!!

@kayu38 not much - look for LAND ROVER - Discovery

This truck would have a axle locking diff lock and the driver has loaded his trailer the correct way. Its looks like a light load anyway as his lift axle is up. Your country is covered in snow for long parts of the year but here in the uk we only get it once in a blue moon so we dont need to run trucks with 2 drive axles for normal road haulage because 99% of the time we dont need them.

The clutch was gone after this exercise.

pusher sucks! thats why they dont get any grip at all....

My diesel Disco is a Torque monster... Great video. Thanks. Check out some of my vids - but be nice!!!!

Excellent video but perhaps the most annoying commentary ever.

@marklandynut and tourqe*

eh try 'landrover' not 'jeep' but other thn tht... aye discos can pull almost anything

My fourtrak would pull both those together lol

@spliffthedog Oh come on dude, you really believe that small little engine and vehicle is actually PULLING that thing? it's prolly just taking the edge off enough to help the truck get some momentum

Lets face it all the landrover is doing is sat there spinning it's wheels. The truck is taking and moving all the weight and would get up there on it's own at around the same pace as it slowly eats throught the snow. Lorrys aint as bad as some make out in the snow. Mine didnt get stuck once over the snowy period up and down the wreking

No discovery series is crap!!! Old or New

False

It does piss me off when people get all goey thinking they have the 'best 4x4xfar'. Bullshit. The vehicle was assisting. The tiny amount of relieve it gave the artic just happened to be enough and could easily have been too little had the weather been worse or a fraction steeper gradient. My jeep would have done it just as well as my bobtail disco. Fuck it my wife's s60 with winter tires probably could have done it. Grow up