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bru21 wrote: and keeping a cost tally.
We have the perfect place! has full insurance for unreg vehicles as well. 120km of enduro trails with 1-3ft jumps and huge rock sections as well. Next year we might organise a comp, but its hard cus 99% of competitors that COULD enter wouldn't cus you said there would be those nasty things called ROCKS. Dont forget the main group of competitors would either be buggies that really aren't setup for speed, or winch trucks which don't have any front diff strength (mainly nissan). We are building a Truck to try and be competitiive in this sort of stuff (eg KOH style stuff) and would love to run this sort of event but i can't see it happening. Some of the winch truck would do well in a lot of the sections but it will come to a halt quickly when there are serious rock sections with nothing to winch off but F####'n big boulders.grimbo wrote:there must property somewhere suitable. Probably some farm in the Kimberley tho. Another option maybe get in touch with a property like Willow Springs in the Flinders Ranges. As they already have the Skytrek 4wd loop there. There would be ample tracks and obstacles plus they have the wide open spaces for the high speed bits
Slight correction/addition. They were made by a company called "Roadless Traction" who mainly did 4x4 conversions to 4x2 tractors. AFAIK it was just a project for a cheap go anywhere vehicle, not specifically for the forest commission.Gwagensteve wrote:No, it's a landrover chassis with planetary hubs and tractor tyres. They were made in a small batch for the department of forestry in the UK in the 1960's by Land Rover. The forestry commisison had a specification for being able to climb over 16" logs or something. I think the Dunsfold Land Rover museum in the UK still has a couple.lump_a_charcoal wrote:That is awesome!
Is it a LRover on a tractor chassis or something?
As an aside, tractors don't generally have chassis at all- the gearbox casing is a structural member and the cab and guards just bolt to the gearbox.
There were also bolt on track converted rovers (the "cuthbertson" from memory) and turbocharged 9.00X16 tyred sailsbury diffed land rover trucks prototyped too in the 60's.
Land rover tried all sorts of interesting stuff in the 60's which all culminated in the Range Rover, designed in 1967 - Along with the unimog and the Hummer H1, Still one of the most elegant peices of off road vehicle design ever IMHO.
PS Well done Bru21 - I've bench raced your idea to do something similar before but there's a big difference between talking about it doing it.
Steve.
just need to build into the terrain winch points, score them depending on their location within the obstacle.1MadEngineer wrote:We have the perfect place! has full insurance for unreg vehicles as well. 120km of enduro trails with 1-3ft jumps and huge rock sections as well. Next year we might organise a comp, but its hard cus 99% of competitors that COULD enter wouldn't cus you said there would be those nasty things called ROCKS. Dont forget the main group of competitors would either be buggies that really aren't setup for speed, or winch trucks which don't have any front diff strength (mainly nissan). We are building a Truck to try and be competitiive in this sort of stuff (eg KOH style stuff) and would love to run this sort of event but i can't see it happening. Some of the winch truck would do well in a lot of the sections but it will come to a halt quickly when there are serious rock sections with nothing to winch off but F####'n big boulders.grimbo wrote:there must property somewhere suitable. Probably some farm in the Kimberley tho. Another option maybe get in touch with a property like Willow Springs in the Flinders Ranges. As they already have the Skytrek 4wd loop there. There would be ample tracks and obstacles plus they have the wide open spaces for the high speed bits
But if when your finished you ever want to go for a play then we would love to head out for a long weekend!
NOOOOOOOOOO, if they want to WINCH then go do a WINCH CHALLENGE, KOH is all about having a rig that can drive hard and fast. otherwise i may as well enter a WRX with a highmount!grimbo wrote:just need to build into the terrain winch points, score them depending on their location within the obstacle.1MadEngineer wrote:We have the perfect place! has full insurance for unreg vehicles as well. 120km of enduro trails with 1-3ft jumps and huge rock sections as well. Next year we might organise a comp, but its hard cus 99% of competitors that COULD enter wouldn't cus you said there would be those nasty things called ROCKS. Dont forget the main group of competitors would either be buggies that really aren't setup for speed, or winch trucks which don't have any front diff strength (mainly nissan). We are building a Truck to try and be competitiive in this sort of stuff (eg KOH style stuff) and would love to run this sort of event but i can't see it happening. Some of the winch truck would do well in a lot of the sections but it will come to a halt quickly when there are serious rock sections with nothing to winch off but F####'n big boulders.grimbo wrote:there must property somewhere suitable. Probably some farm in the Kimberley tho. Another option maybe get in touch with a property like Willow Springs in the Flinders Ranges. As they already have the Skytrek 4wd loop there. There would be ample tracks and obstacles plus they have the wide open spaces for the high speed bits
But if when your finished you ever want to go for a play then we would love to head out for a long weekend!
x PetaMegaboggedyGwagensteve wrote:X boggeddytrillion.
Winch challenges are dumb. Cars are for driving, not winching.
Steve.
DO IT!!!!!!1MadEngineer wrote:We have the perfect place! has full insurance for unreg vehicles as well. 120km of enduro trails with 1-3ft jumps and huge rock sections as well. Next year we might organise a comp, but its hard cus 99% of competitors that COULD enter wouldn't cus you said there would be those nasty things called ROCKS. Dont forget the main group of competitors would either be buggies that really aren't setup for speed, or winch trucks which don't have any front diff strength (mainly nissan). We are building a Truck to try and be competitiive in this sort of stuff (eg KOH style stuff) and would love to run this sort of event but i can't see it happening. Some of the winch truck would do well in a lot of the sections but it will come to a halt quickly when there are serious rock sections with nothing to winch off but F####'n big boulders.grimbo wrote:there must property somewhere suitable. Probably some farm in the Kimberley tho. Another option maybe get in touch with a property like Willow Springs in the Flinders Ranges. As they already have the Skytrek 4wd loop there. There would be ample tracks and obstacles plus they have the wide open spaces for the high speed bits
But if when your finished you ever want to go for a play then we would love to head out for a long weekend!
yep but these trucks already exist whilst those suitable for KOH aren't. Get people competing with the hope they will then build suitable rigs.1MadEngineer wrote:NOOOOOOOOOO, if they want to WINCH then go do a WINCH CHALLENGE, KOH is all about having a rig that can drive hard and fast. otherwise i may as well enter a WRX with a highmount!grimbo wrote:just need to build into the terrain winch points, score them depending on their location within the obstacle.1MadEngineer wrote:We have the perfect place! has full insurance for unreg vehicles as well. 120km of enduro trails with 1-3ft jumps and huge rock sections as well. Next year we might organise a comp, but its hard cus 99% of competitors that COULD enter wouldn't cus you said there would be those nasty things called ROCKS. Dont forget the main group of competitors would either be buggies that really aren't setup for speed, or winch trucks which don't have any front diff strength (mainly nissan). We are building a Truck to try and be competitiive in this sort of stuff (eg KOH style stuff) and would love to run this sort of event but i can't see it happening. Some of the winch truck would do well in a lot of the sections but it will come to a halt quickly when there are serious rock sections with nothing to winch off but F####'n big boulders.grimbo wrote:there must property somewhere suitable. Probably some farm in the Kimberley tho. Another option maybe get in touch with a property like Willow Springs in the Flinders Ranges. As they already have the Skytrek 4wd loop there. There would be ample tracks and obstacles plus they have the wide open spaces for the high speed bits
But if when your finished you ever want to go for a play then we would love to head out for a long weekend!
If you don't mind me asking, what was the course then? Seems you're into fab for a living? (totally aside from this proj?)bru21 wrote: full time 3rd year uni!
cheers bru
wow.DJR96 wrote:
You may have already seen it, but here's my project in progress:-
http://www.4wdmonthly.com.au/forum/show ... hp?t=36370
Said it in one mate. i have been watching it for the last 12 months and am astounded by DJR's work. I wish Bru all the best with his build. Look forward to both finished products.Gwagensteve wrote:wow.DJR96 wrote:
You may have already seen it, but here's my project in progress:-
http://www.4wdmonthly.com.au/forum/show ... hp?t=36370
Steve.
Thanks for that. So does this mean the full fee again every 5 years? Or just checking all is as-engineered and there are no major issues developing.bru21 wrote: re engineering every 5 years and upon sale.
I reckon it might be so that you don't make lots of changes post-engineering, since it would be hard for anyone to know what you'd done.bru21 wrote:Just a minor inspection fee. The 7's total eng bill was under $800. I would a ssume a re-inspection would cost $200 odd.
cheers Bru