Heads Up.... Dam Land Rovers

[Matt]

Like Spectacular Victorian Architecture?

Like Dams?

Like Mid Wales? (Cycled round there, maybe even bothy'd or bivi'd)

Like Land Rovers (okay maybe just me)

Well

http://www.elanvalley.org.uk/news/artic ... comes-elan

On Telly this Sunday (15th)

[Fat tyre kicker]

A recreation of the old ad they had for the 90 (different dam though)

[Ben98]

A recreation of the old ad they had for the 90 (different dam though)

I believe the reason for doing it is that the original was faked (winch was at the top of the dam, not on the front of the land rover) and to prove it is possible to winch up a dam with a land rover.

[Ian]

That pic on the Elan Valley website doesn't do it justice - the front face of Claerwen dam is really steep

Slightly puzzled as to what happens when they get to the top, so will have to tune in on Sunday.

[benp1]

That pic on the Elan Valley website doesn't do it justice - the front face of Claerwen dam is really steep

Slightly puzzled as to what happens when they get to the top, so will have to tune in on Sunday.

Unhook it?

[johnnystorm]

Slightly puzzled as to what happens when they get to the top......

Replace the rusted chassis?

[scott of the woods]

A recreation of the old ad they had for the 90 (different dam though)

I believe the reason for doing it is that the original was faked (winch was at the top of the dam, not on the front of the land rover) and to prove it is possible to winch up a dam with a land rover.

I think this one was faked also, I remember they had a massive crane on top of the dam,, I will ask the lads at work who were there for the filming.

[whitestone]

From the scheduling info on the BBC site it looks like this is going out in tonight's episode

[johnnystorm]

Perhaps the crane at the top is to provide a "top rope belay" in case the winch fails?

[scott of the woods]

I was wrong,a big crane but not on the top of the dam, im not surprised that Hammond was in a pissymood that day screw doing that