When we did turn up, and the rain stopped, we were going to have a go at pulling Ed's Golf - except we couldn't find a towing point on the front (do VW really expect them to be THAT reliable?!?) and so we had to try and pull Bryan's Land Rover 101 - all three tons of it! We've only tried to pull the 101 once before, when the weight limit was 80kg, and the ground was wet - Tornado barely managed, only then with a bit of extra help in the form of my weight on top! But now the ground was dry, and Tornado was at a full 100kg... The first try was completely unsucessful. We suspected that the brakes may have been partially stuck on, so Bryan drove a few feet and coasted to a halt. We tried again, and despite some big bouncing, and finding that the steering controls were reversed, Tornado just about managed it. But one of the watching crowd told us that the announcement had said that we were going to do the tow once the previous arena show had finished - and it hadn't, so we drove back to the start to do it all again. I made sure the steering control was set up correctly this time around and the pull was much more convincing, pulling the 101 from rest up to a fast walking pace with a fair amount of ease... Has any other robot sucessfully pulled this much weight?

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