Why?

[Johnno260]

Why would anyone try and cross this?
And why did the moron that I am help to push them out?

RIP my new Timberlands.

Not even a thanks from the driver either.

 

[Signum-GB]

Doable in a Volvo XC70.....

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Doable in a Volvo XC70.....

Or any rented car.

 

[Smudge]

Why RIP on the Timberlands ?
Would have thought they can easily survive a soaking ok.

 

[I like Skol]

It doesn't look too bad...

 

[Johnno260]

Why RIP on the Timberlands ?
Would have thought they can easily survive a soaking ok.

Not totally RiP but it wasn't just water, local house septic tanks were flooded, I need to clean them off very very well.

 

[Johnno260]

Was the OP wearing timberland boat shoes?

Not they're boots, but the pictures don't do it justice, with the current the water came up just under my knees.

The poor biker that helped me, her crash helmet fell off the bike into a torrent of water and was filled with water and grime.

 

[Smudge]

Not totally RiP but it wasn't just water, local house septic tanks were flooded, I need to clean them off very very well.

Yeah, that wont kill em. Timbies are tough as f*ck boots.
Wash em in a bucket of soapy water, with added disinfectant, dry em out and then apply whatever leather application after. Jobs a good un.

 

[I like Skol]

This was me a few weeks ago...

 

[screenman]

https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...=12dee47f3c4ae301bc845e172d9b5bbd&action=view

Have a look at about 4.35 and see what somebody did with a nice BMW.

 

[Johnno260]

This was me a few weeks ago...

wow was the current dragging a little?

 

[Electric_Andy]

Benefit of the doubt...some people are so flustered and glad to have been got out of a sticky situation that they forget to say thank you, but there are people around who are just rude. I once towed a taxi up a snowy hill with a tractor, the lifting strap had pulled so tight that we couldn't get it off his vehicle. He promised he'd get it off at home and return the strap when the snow had gone. That was the last I saw of it, but at least he did say thank you

 

[screenman]

Benefit of the doubt...some people are so flustered and glad to have been got out of a sticky situation that they forget to say thank you, but there are people around who are just rude. I once towed a taxi up a snowy hill with a tractor, the lifting strap had pulled so tight that we couldn't get it off his vehicle. He promised he'd get it off at home and return the strap when the snow had gone. That was the last I saw of it, but at least he did say thank you

9 this year alone, the number of new inner tubes I have given away free and despite every cyclist saying they will not one has dropped a replacement in, I live over looking the Sustrans route in Bardney and if I see somebody pushing a bike chances are they have a puncture. Over the 20 years I have lived here and done this only one person has dropped not a tube back but a nice bottle of wine, that was a motorcyclist. who broke down outside the house and I fixed his problem.

 

[Hugh Manatee]

There is a ford near us, (Trescott if you are from round these parts) that is basically a idiot trap. Despite the depth markers and the fact there is a raging torrent in front of them, someone will always try it. The local rag always has a picture of some crappy car with only the roof showing above the water.
I often wonder if their insurance pays out? I mean, it doesn't take a genius to work out that (unless you have a Series Land Rover) it isn't going to end well!

 

[Johnno260]

There is a ford near us, (Trescott if you are from round these parts) that is basically a idiot trap. Despite the depth markers and the fact there is a raging torrent in front of them, someone will always try it. The local rag always has a picture of some crappy car with only the roof showing above the water.
I often wonder if their insurance pays out? I mean, it doesn't take a genius to work out that (unless you have a Series Land Rover) it isn't going to end well!

There is a water splash crossing near my mums place, it was a raging torrent and some spoon in a small car tried it this morning, the insurance shouldn't pay out if you disregard the depth warnings.