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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:52 am
by crowey
Well guys......
Its been arranged..... 4wd this sunday, go for a bit of a cruise around down south.
Anyone who is interested, meet at the BP servo on Main south rd, Ohalloran Hill.(on the service rd out the front) 0930 sunday 13th June. We will be going for a drive down to the Victory hotel (sellicks hill) across to Willunga and home via Mclaren vale. If anyone knows of any tracks feel free to join us and show us some mud!
Jarrad
And for those who might be late........ dont!
Or call us on UHF 25
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:15 am
by murcod
OK SW1 (Steve) and a couple of his mates are coming. We're going to be meeting up in the northern suburbs and driving down together.
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:08 pm
by murcod
Jarrad and Dave, what are the chances of us going through deepish water on Sunday?
(ie. would it be wise for me to put a disable switch on my electric thermo fans before then?)
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:57 pm
by crowey
Hey dave
I am not dure if you want to go through water.... i dont plan on going though any deep water... there might be a puddle half way up the tire but thats about it..
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:03 pm
by Dangerous Dave
We'll have to go home via some fire traks through kuipto and surrounding areas. Hopefully there should be some water on them.
Shouldn't be too deep as jarrad said. Kewl, see everyone there then. is 9:30 ok for you murcod?
Dave
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:23 pm
by crowey
Yeah 0930 is good!! read back a few posts dave...... the time has been set!
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:29 pm
by murcod
Everything's sorted out for times. We're leaving from Wynn Vale at around 8:15am- should be plenty of time to get down there.
I've got a UHF hand held, and I think Steve's got one in his rig as well.
Lots of rain forecast for Saturday and Sunday, it should be fun!
PS: Somebody is going to have to out do Croz's effort in the mud.....
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:31 pm
by crowey
Whats the go with croz??? what do you mean out do him??
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:43 pm
by murcod
A picture says a thousand words:
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:51 pm
by crowey
Well you all know that i spiked a tire last week and couldnt get another tire the same...... so i am wearing new rubber all round! have to wait until sunday to see, but if there is mud dont worry ill beat that without a doubt!
Mind you i wont be getting stuck!
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:03 pm
by murcod
Well the trip was on today. We had three Ferozas (Jarrad and Dave x2); plus Sam in a Landcruiser and Steve in a Pathfinder.
It was an excellent day (although Sam probably doesn't think so....) and I've got to say my Feroza surprised me with some of the stuff it was able to do.
We spent a good couple of hours trying to free Sam's Landcruiser after he got stuck big time in a muddy creek crossing. There was nowhere to attach the winch cable to and it was too steep to position a vehicle above him to tie onto.
Jarrad and Steve decided to make a new crossing up further and both got stuck part way having to be pulled out.
Some pics to follow.
PS: If you ever go out with Dangerous Dave don't trust him when he says "You'll be right mate it's not that hard....."
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:10 pm
by murcod
more pics
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:19 pm
by murcod
more....
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:24 pm
by murcod
more...
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:35 pm
by murcod
Sam when he first got stuck. And the first attempt at winching- we had to stop when the rock sounded like it was about to come tumbling down!!
The other guys have got more shots to come. (Including me sliding sideways along a creek bank trying vainly to climb out
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:41 pm
by murcod
One more of Jarrad's Centapede clad beast.
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:45 am
by murcod
Video- each file is just under 4Mb
http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~murcod/119_1984.AVI Steve crossing creek
http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~murcod/120_2004.AVI Dave sliding down mudbank
http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~murcod/120_2009.AVI Sam's Cruiser sliding back down and into D.Dave's Feroza!
http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~murcod/120_2011.AVI Sam slowly burying himself
http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~murcod/120_2031.AVI Jarrad discovering that spot wasn't such a good place to cross afterall.....
http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~murcod/120_2034.AVI Jarrad getting snatched out on the second attempt by Steve, who got snatched out of the same spot by D.Dave.....
And then they wanted me to go through there- NOT LIKELY!!!
A big thanks to Jarrad and Dave for playing "tour guides" and showing us around their neck of the woods.
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:49 am
by Dangerous Dave
Guys, guys, guys,
Like i told you all. It was just like a walk in the park! lol not... So when's the next one? The next one needs to be up north so start looking for some good spots guys.
Sam let us know how you go with the insurance company! I recon it was a pretty fun day had by all. Even if you did basically throw away $800 into the wind. How did you go with the mrs!?!
Ah well i'd like to see more pics of the recovery if anyone has more of them and if there is any shots of my car could you e-mail them to me at:
Dangerous_Dave_83@hotmail.com.
Cheers fellas
Dave
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:55 am
by Dangerous Dave
Oh and by the way. Did you know that you can chop trees down with a Claw Hammer!
Dave
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:09 pm
by murcod
Dangerous Dave wrote:Oh and by the way. Did you know that you can chop trees down with a Claw Hammer!
Dave
You see it was a feral Olive tree and I thought I'd do my bit for the environment while you guys were mud wrestling with the cruiser...
No doubt the pictures will emerge sooner or later
. But I did get through first go after the cruiser created the huge mud pit. Not a bad effort for a near stock Feroza.
BTW I haven't got any pics of the cruiser stuck, I was too busy cleaning up the area of Olive trees and collecting rocks.
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:17 pm
by Dangerous Dave
Nah thats all good i'm pretty sure croweys got some on his camera. we'll wait and see. Jarrad hurry up andpost ya pics!
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:33 pm
by ferog
looks like you all had a good time guys, a bit of mud there too! awww how cute
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:48 pm
by sw1
hi all
all is good, Sam is still alive and in one piece....
one tyre can be repaired and we are still waiting to find out the other one.
more photos to come soon
and i have two videos of dave and jarrad to doing crossings
my spare was ok in the end, yay!!!
all has sort of ended well, well sort of....
steve
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 1:02 pm
by murcod
So which tyre can be repaired?
For those wondering Sam's Cruiser got bogged big time up to the axles in thick slippery mud. The only way to winch it out was by pulling it sideways tied to two vehicles (directly ahead up hill was too dangerous and slippery).
Anyway, the front left broke the bead as it was getting pulled sideways and nearly came off the rim completely.... Then there was a hissing noise from the back left as he was trying to drive out- a hole in the sidewall! All on near new Copper STT's; and of course he only had one spare (left the other at home!)
Luckily Steve's Pathfinder was the same six stud PCD and his spare fitted. It was bit bit touch and go jacking the Cruiser up on a slippery muddy slope.
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 2:17 pm
by murcod
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:08 pm
by *BESTY*
I thought you guys were going behind the Victory ??
I take it that Cox Scrub is still open
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:40 pm
by murcod
Ferozius wrote:I thought you guys were going behind the Victory ??
I take it that Cox Scrub is still open
Ummm... secret location- not Cox Scrub.
Dangerous Dave's favourite playground that he kindly shared with us.
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:48 pm
by *BESTY*
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:58 pm
by murcod
We went to many areas down south of the city Besty. Did over 250km from when I left home- keep guessing!
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:04 pm
by murcod
OK some hints- there was a creek, some gum trees, it was hilly and there were lots of feral olive trees..... the olive trees will give away that it wasn't any conservation park/ national park or else they would have been poisoned.
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