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[vindiboy]

Photos: Burnham-On-Sea's BARB rescues two stuck beach vehicles :scared:

 

[Wooie1958]

Many many many years back i had a Mercedes 307D that i would come home in from work and had private use of :dance:

The kids were both on sleep overs at friends and the wife fancied a run to Southport so we went in the van :drive:

When we got there she said she wanted to have a paddle in the sea but it was miles out :sad:

Me being the smart arsed lazy bugger that i am said we`ll drive out there as i`d done it before in a car and been ok :idea:

Drove out and parked well away from the waters edge and out we got so she could go in the sea :dance:

After a while the sea was obviously coming in so i shouted the wife and she came back.

Got back in the van and as soon as the clutch bit down the back wheels went right to the axle :mad2:

I tried several times to get out but it was just sinking deeper.

Someone else saw i was in trouble and went in his car to get the Coastguard.

When the Coastguard arrived the rear wheels were completely under water and it was up to the bottom of the cab doors.

I`d left the engine running so water didn`t get up the exhaust and you could just see bubbles coming out the water.

I had to feel for the the tow ring at the front to attach the tow rope to because that was under water as well by this stage.

The land rover just about managed to pull me out but it was touch and go as that was starting to sink a bit as well.

When we got home it took me the rest of the day to wash off all the sand underneath and in the chassis.

I`ve never ventured onto another beach with a vehicle again and i`ve no intention of ever doing so no matter how hard it looks.

 

[Auld Pharrrt]

Even a stony beach can be bad. The number of vehicles I have seen drive onto the stones at Auchmithie and get stuck is surprising ... once on the stones your momentum will see you through, but trying to get back off is where the fun starts, because of the roundness of the stones, they just roll under your tyres and you go down, even 4x4's and tractors can struggle with it.

My nephew once got my transit into a similar situation on the banks of Loch Ness. We had just driven down to a small jetty to launch my jet-ski and I told him to reverse back up while I brought the jet-ski down to our camping spot, but, he decided that he could just swing around in a wide circle on the stony bank ... nope, stucked, we had to use his car to haul it off the stones ... It was thanks to seeing vehicles struggle at Auchmitie that I knew to keep off the stones!

 

[jagmanx]

Morecambe BAY is a deathtrap LITERALLY

Many many many years back i had a Mercedes 307D that i would come home in from work and had private use of :dance:

The kids were both on sleep overs at friends and the wife fancied a run to Southport so we went in the van :drive:

When we got there she said she wanted to have a paddle in the sea but it was miles out :sad:

Me being the smart arsed lazy bugger that i am said we`ll drive out there as i`d done it before in a car and been ok :idea:

Drove out and parked well away from the waters edge and out we got so she could go in the sea :dance:

After a while the sea was obviously coming in so i shouted the wife and she came back.

Got back in the van and as soon as the clutch bit down the back wheels went right to the axle :mad2:

I tried several times to get out but it was just sinking deeper.

Someone else saw i was in trouble and went in his car to get the Coastguard.

When the Coastguard arrived the rear wheels were completely under water and it was up to the bottom of the cab doors.

I`d left the engine running so water didn`t get up the exhaust and you could just see bubbles coming out the water.

I had to feel for the the tow ring at the front to attach the tow rope to because that was under water as well by this stage.

The land rover just about managed to pull me out but it was touch and go as that was starting to sink a bit as well.

When we got home it took me the rest of the day to wash off all the sand underneath and in the chassis.

I`ve never ventured onto another beach with a vehicle again and i`ve no intention of ever doing so no matter how hard it looks.

I remember the News item of several no MANY (Illegal immigrant Chinese) cockle harvesters being drowned by the incoming tide.
Very nasty !
Illegal or not they were being exploited and in the end it caused their deaths

 

[jeanette]

I remember the News item of several no MANY (Illegal immigrant Chinese) cockle harvesters being drowned by the incoming tide.
Very nasty !
Illegal or not they were being exploited and in the end it caused their deaths

We have been a few times to Morecambe and every time the coastguard and fire service has been called out to someone stuck in the mud, even though there are lots of signs tell you it’s dangerous

 

[RoadTrek Boy]

When I was a lad in the motor trade, we had a very nice looking Ford Zodiac coupé come in the workshop for a service and attend to the non working soft top, the salesman was chuffed to bits cause he had taken it in part ex for very little money, when we got it up on the ramp we noticed rather a lot of rust underneath, I gave a box section a little tap , a hole appeared and a load of sand dribbled out. Yes you've guessed it, it had been partly submerged and was now a write off, it certainly wiped the smug smile off the salesman's face...:dance:

 

[Wooie1958]

We have been a few times to Morecambe and every time the coastguard and fire service has been called out to someone stuck in the mud, even though there are lots of signs tell you it’s dangerous

Same thing happened to us the last time we was travelling from Arnside to Milnthorpe along Park Road not far from The Ship Inn :rolleyes2:

Got stopped by the Police whilst the emergency services turned the vehicles round to set up their equipment.

We could see someone well stuck in the mud with several people laid down on mats with them.

As you say there are PLENTY of WARNING SIGNS about the danger of the sands but a lot of people either can`t / don`t read or understand them :scared:

My sympathy lies with the emergency services who have to put their own lives in danger to rescue the irresponsible idiots that go out there :mad2:

 

[mark61]

Tyres down to 1 bar in emergency and drive very carefully, and do it before you start digging holes.

 

[oldish hippy]

have seen some dragged off the beach here when weston recovery used to used miltary scammels parke on the prom and dragg them out seen some pulled in half by the scammels

 

[jeanette]

Same thing happened to us the last time we was travelling from Arnside to Milnthorpe along Park Road not far from The Ship Inn :rolleyes2:

Got stopped by the Police whilst the emergency services turned the vehicles round to set up their equipment.

We could see someone well stuck in the mud with several people laid down on mats with them.

As you say there are PLENTY of WARNING SIGNS about the danger of the sands but a lot of people either can`t / don`t read or understand them :scared:

My sympathy lies with the emergency services who have to put their own lives in danger to rescue the irresponsible idiots that go out there :mad2:

We even seen them with little ones and the parent was up to their knees in mud it’s bad enough putting your life in danger but to put your little ones life in danger is another thing!! We just looked at each other shook our heads,as you say I feel sorry for the emergency services some people never think

 

[phillybarbour]

Many many many years back i had a Mercedes 307D that i would come home in from work and had private use of :dance:

The kids were both on sleep overs at friends and the wife fancied a run to Southport so we went in the van :drive:

When we got there she said she wanted to have a paddle in the sea but it was miles out :sad:

Me being the smart arsed lazy bugger that i am said we`ll drive out there as i`d done it before in a car and been ok :idea:

Drove out and parked well away from the waters edge and out we got so she could go in the sea :dance:

After a while the sea was obviously coming in so i shouted the wife and she came back.

Got back in the van and as soon as the clutch bit down the back wheels went right to the axle :mad2:

I tried several times to get out but it was just sinking deeper.

Someone else saw i was in trouble and went in his car to get the Coastguard.

When the Coastguard arrived the rear wheels were completely under water and it was up to the bottom of the cab doors.

I`d left the engine running so water didn`t get up the exhaust and you could just see bubbles coming out the water.

I had to feel for the the tow ring at the front to attach the tow rope to because that was under water as well by this stage.

The land rover just about managed to pull me out but it was touch and go as that was starting to sink a bit as well.

When we got home it took me the rest of the day to wash off all the sand underneath and in the chassis.

I`ve never ventured onto another beach with a vehicle again and i`ve no intention of ever doing so no matter how hard it looks.

That was a close call, good old Southport.

 

[shaunr68]

That was a close call, good old Southport.

Another tale from Southport, thirty years ago one of my mates took his Mk 2 Escort, old but precious to him as his first car, out on the beach there and got it stuck. There were 4 or 5 of us young lads in the group, we tried to dig it out but no luck. The sea was over the bonnet by this stage. Other people on the beach came to help and eventually there must have been more than 10 adults lifted the car from the sand and up the beach to safety. The car was a real mess, full of sand and salt water. We couldn't get it started, ended up towing it home.

My mate spent the next week cleaning his pride and joy, he took out the seats and all the carpets, stripped the carb, cleaned all the engine electrics, replaced HT leads etc, washed the salt off the floors, scrubbed the underside. You'd have to admire him, after all he was 18 and had spent his life savings on the thing, about 400 quid!

Anyway the next weekend he took his sparkling looking like new 1978 Ford Escort 1.3 GL out on the road and within half an hour crashed it into a wall and wrote it off! :banana:

We still won't let him forget it.