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Heads Up.... Dam Land Rovers
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 9:09 am
by 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)
Re: Heads Up.... Dam Land Rovers
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:56 am
by Fat tyre kicker
A recreation of the old ad they had for the 90 (different dam though)

Re: Heads Up.... Dam Land Rovers
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:24 am
by Ben98
Fat tyre kicker wrote: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.

Re: Heads Up.... Dam Land Rovers
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:55 am
by 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.
Re: Heads Up.... Dam Land Rovers
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:39 pm
by benp1
Ian wrote: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?

Re: Heads Up.... Dam Land Rovers
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 4:23 pm
by johnnystorm
Ian wrote:
Slightly puzzled as to what happens when they get to the top......
Replace the rusted chassis?

Re: Heads Up.... Dam Land Rovers
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:05 am
by scott of the woods
Ben98 wrote:Fat tyre kicker wrote: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.
Re: Heads Up.... Dam Land Rovers
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:30 am
by whitestone
From the scheduling info on the BBC site it looks like this is going out in tonight's episode
Re: Heads Up.... Dam Land Rovers
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:09 pm
by johnnystorm
Perhaps the crane at the top is to provide a "top rope belay" in case the winch fails?
Re: Heads Up.... Dam Land Rovers
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:08 pm
by 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
