Crap news Pickers. Keep us posted on how it all goes.
i left the patrol in the garage today and took the bike. In case i've done damage, this way i have another day of ignorance.

I'd be reluctant to send a truck up that track without a winch. if it got stuck, you'd have to drive a car down nose first to secure it and then there would be no room to pass once it was moving again.
Pickers also got a little sideways when he was crossing from the right track to the left tracks and I was bloody glad to get his winch hooked up so he wasnt going to have a 'lie down' on his side.