Knock me down with a feather, M43 under my nose

[Robin Craig]

Just to update this thread a bit.

It was very strange how when I posted about it suddenly the add popped up on Kijiji as pointed out by Frank V R.

It was at that point that I decided to take things underground and go quiet as in my opinion the vendor was a lurker on here. That seems to have been proven correct.

A number of us locally had made contact and the "owner" eventually sold it to a friend of mine and his Dad after they made a trip out here to look at the sad vehicle, all the rest of the locals including myself having stood aside. The truck has some value but no way near what the owner had imagined.

So, today was set as the target recovery day.

Yesterday I took a big tractor out there and packed down the snow and made a nice road in that we could get to with a 2wd pick up as we wanted to take some tools in to liberate the vehicle.

As an import Brit I love working outside in winter especially when doing tasks like this because of how the snow works and packs down.

Rob had to liberate each corner from the ice in turn with a trolley jack.

R