A first aid course he had taken paid off.
He pulled two pieces of metal from the frame of the vehicle and ripped ropes from the soft top canvas to splint his leg.
"I didn't know how long it would be before anyone found me. I was settling in for the long haul," he said.
"I hadn't taken a cellphone ... I knew I needed to do something."
As the sun dipped about 5pm, he crawled back into the vehicle for shelter. He was wearing only a T-shirt, shorts and overalls.
"I was worried about hypothermia."
But help arrived; a woman riding her horse along the ridge saw him, went to his aid and then rode off to get help.
Rescuers could only get to Mr Furkert using four-wheel-drive vehicles.
"I went onto the mountain alone in a vintage four-wheel drive and it took 30 people to bring me down," he said.
"It was touch and go" for the Life Flight Trust air ambulance to land on the top of the ridge to pick him up, Mr Furkert said.
The alternative was to trek him on a stretcher down 6km of "rough tracks".
"It was pretty windy."
He said even police in a four-wheel drive found it difficult to negotiate the tracks to reach him.
"I heard one of them went into a ditch on the way out," he said.
The father of three said once he had cared for his broken leg, he had "plenty of time" to check out the view from the top of the ridge.
"Once I had the splint on there wasn't a lot of pain ... I was watching a few wild goats ... it was a long way up."
His wife Tracey didn't even know where he was.
He hasn't yet retrieved his vehicle from the hillside.
Mr Furkert is philosophical over the damage to his treasured Land Rover, which he took 12 years restoring and only put back on the road last year.
"[The Land Rover] was there to be used ... it was a rogue gust of wind. It's not like it was through doing something stupid. It couldn't be helped."
Two bones in his leg are broken. He will be laid up for 12 weeks.
"No shearing for me ... and that's the end of running for this season too," he said.
