Originally Posted by
WHBM
The road HGV recovery contractors are past masters at how to pull heavy trucks out of all sorts of unfortunate positions in extremely short time - overturned across a motorway, down an embankment, etc. Just stuck in the mud would be one of the easier recoveries. Big-engined truck to do the pulling, ancillary truck carrying the cables, boards, tools etc. All they need is a strong point to attach to. Did the vehicles actually pull, or did they use their winches ?
There was a wagon and drag with a Hiab for the boards on it. Looked like each MLG had a winch cable to a recovery truck and the nosewheel had a blooming great strop to another recovery truck to pull it out.