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Total Recovery & Extraction Device (TREDS) – Work Well.

Published June 18, 2014 By Mick Farmer

Treds - Recovery

Been using these on our recovery course; they work very well. Especially when you have difficulty reversing out of the situation you've just driven into. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Equipment Tagged With: Equipment, recovery gear, review

There are Tools and then there are Tools

Published April 30, 2014 By Mick Farmer

I was trying to remove a drop-arm from a Landrover Defender steering box. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Rants and Raves Tagged With: Mechanical, review, tools

My Take on the 200 Series Toyota Landcruiser (review)

Published November 27, 2009 By Mick Farmer

The 100 Series I think that the 100 series Land Cruiser is one of the best 4wd vehicles ever built. The GX part time 4wd version is great. It has the best compromise available of all time for off road capability, on road handling and executive luxury appeal. It is the only large 4wd vehicle that could be armoured without any modification to the chassis and still maintained quite good handling capabilities with only up rated brakes and suspension. Organisations throughout the world bought … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 4wd Vehicles Tagged With: 4wd, review

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