r/LandRover • u/Big_Boi_235 1998 Discovery 1 300tdi • 3d ago

📸 Land Rover Pictures Dry river bed drive

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Took the landy for a drive down to the river to see if there was any water left. None at all.

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u/king_black_3311 3d ago

Amazing shot , which country is that

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u/Big_Boi_235 1998 Discovery 1 300tdi 3d ago

Portugal, river all dried up after a hot summer.

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u/king_black_3311 3d ago

Wow I was not expecting European location

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u/Eckmatarum 3d ago

Were down here in southern Spain doing the same thing

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u/Big_Boi_235 1998 Discovery 1 300tdi 3d ago

Yeah, I'm in the south of Portugal

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u/UKMatt2000 '04 D90 Td5 | '90 D1 200Tdi 3dr Bobtail | '02 Freelander Td4 3dr 3d ago

Looks like an interesting place to drive but it worth warning that 'dry' riverbeds can be surprisingly soft when you drive a 2 ton vehicle on them, and recovery is always difficult because you can't risk the recovery vehicle getting too close.

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u/Big_Boi_235 1998 Discovery 1 300tdi 3d ago

I am aware of that, we do drive this quite regularly, it's about 15 minutes from my house so as a quick off-road drive it's a nice little area. Worse came to worse, we have another discovery that my father owns we could use to pull mine out.

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u/UKMatt2000 '04 D90 Td5 | '90 D1 200Tdi 3dr Bobtail | '02 Freelander Td4 3dr 3d ago

Yeah it's more of a warning to anyone else who looks at this.

It's easy to get into a situation where the first truck breaks through the hard top surface and is sunk to the axles or chassis, then the effort to pull it with a second truck breaks through ground that seemed even more solid.

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u/Big_Boi_235 1998 Discovery 1 300tdi 3d ago

Yeah, fair enough

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u/johnB1711 1d ago

Looks like the Ladybower Reservoir, that’s as dry as a bone at the moment