David decided we'd be organised this year and get our wood for winter now so it dries over the summer. He purchased a licence from the forestry commission which gives us the right to take any wood left on certain sites where harvesting was done a year or so ago. So armed with map of all the sites we could collect from, bug spray and a chain saw we've been driving down lots of muddy trails well off the beaten track in the Harvey area and filling out truck with tree trunks. One site has been elusive to us and so tonight we tried for the third time to find it. That's when we came over the brow of the hill into the mud. We were well stuck!
Thankfully we had our cell phones with us and if you stood in a certain position could get a little signal. We phoned our friends the Warringtons who live not too far away and have a big truck to come and rescue us. This was just before 9pm...not much longer before dark.
This is us riding in their truck to get to our stuck truck!
Well and truly in the mud.We attached the trucks together ours moved slightly, then Keiths got stuck too, after about half an hour of 'fun' we gave it one last chance. Everything got hooked up, we used a snow shovel to dig the worst of the mound which was then stopping our truck moving, Keith prayed then an amazing thing happened, Keith drove forward our truck released like a champagne cork from the mud flew up in the air and landed on the road! Praise God. All in all we were out 2 1/2 hours and came home with a very muddy truck and a twig which Sue put in the back so we wouldn't leave empty handed!
We've marked that road on the map a no go road!
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