F30 4x4

[Rod Salter]

In due time we were met with the owners and their old backhoe

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Removing that extended front bumper arrangement, mostly with a cold chisel was an exercise in its self.

Eventually got it loaded onto my smallish trailer

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appoligies for photo quality

I crawled out of there in low 4 with diff lock onto the narrow bitumen, and for the first 15 clicks I don't think I got past 3rd as I twisted and turned back up the range.
On the flat and into high range I comfortably rolled along at a good convoy speed, getting home, way after dark.
The neighbours didn't see this one come in!

Home and in the flash shed "The one with concrete slabs for a floor"

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Its 134 inches long

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