Cape York, Kimberley, Simpson - SHAUNO & GRAHAM'S expert trip planning tips! Shed #19
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Shauno & Graham sit down to give you all the expert tips on planning BIG 4WD trips, remote touring adventures and more! The boys will have some advice for you no matter where you're headed.
Cape York, The Kimberley, Simpson Desert, Victorian High Country, Tasmania, the west coast of Australia, heck - even the EAST coast of Australia... Where are you going?!
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30 mins. in. I think thats the very first time I've seen Shauno without a hat on.
It is super weird eh! I dont think i've ever noticed the hat before, but I certainly noticed the hair
29:50 :)
Eating breakfast here in Sweden and watching this 14 min old shed-episode -Couldnt be a better start of a new day!
Perfect mate!!
Another Swede here!? Sweet
@@Johanss-on And a third one here! ;)
Yeap sweden hehe
@@saltyswedes9080 cool film ni gjort ;)
the culture and attitude of everyone watching and commenting on these vids is a credit to you 4wd247 boys
Absolutely unequivocally GAME CHANGING VIDEO
Does anybody else notice how Shauno constantly picks up his beer only to put it down 3 seconds later?
I hadn’t
but I do notice how they say “mate” at the beginning middle and end of almost every sentence. The episode would be about 10 minutes shorter if they didn’t.
Probably empty but he is still thirsty. :)
I can’t wait boys it’s been a long time since you guys went to the Kimberley
It's quiet, almost too quiet... 😉
Watching you guys gets me amped for my next adventure. Coming up this weekend! Love and respect from the USA!
Everytime I watch this I learn more thank you guys
Back around 2010ish we were 4wding south of yalwal and we had a beginner 4wder with us and he didn’t know to wait for the first car to get thru the mud before you go thru... so sure enough 2 Holden rodeos were bogged for 7 hours, no winch, no phone connection, no food and 7 hungry kids. Ended up walking around for a few hours to find phone connection and we eventually got a mate to come save us and we got home around 1 am. Live and learn.
Best video you guys have ever done, I can’t agree more about the conversation at 21:30
Tbh, I just want a winch so I actually have the confidence to go to places where I will get bogged and have stories to tell. Winch for me just boosts the confidence massively
My thoughts exactly! My 4x4 is also my daily driver/work car so I rely on it! I went without a winch once and I didn’t have any fun cause I was so stressed about getting stuck
Awesome 👌 and the song 🎵 i must say a true compliment to you guys and the singer well done 👏 love it
Bloody legends 🤙🏻
Good to see Graham again.
Yes boys! Planning our trip to the NT and the Kimberley in June, rig prep has already begun!
careful with alice at the moment I reckon aha
Alice is fine during the day.
@@walkabout_adventures that is a facutal statement there
@@uwot9021 we have never had an issue
When i read Kimberly, I think of Kimberly in South Africa. Can't wait boys!
Love it like always
That song is a brilliant. Hats off to the legend who wrote it. Great episode too as usual fellas
7pm told mum “I’m just popping down to maccas” ended up at the local river calling local farmers to bring there tractors down to pull me out at 3 am in my stock Holden rodeo
Ayy stock holden rodeo gang all i got on my is maxtracks and 2 spottys
dont have a 4wd yet so never been bogged, but cant wait for the first time!
Noice can't wait for our Simpson Desert trip next year!
Back when I had my first ever four wheel drive, stock GU Patrol, thought it'd be a good idea to create my own tracks in the local quarry. Long story short, got bogged, had to leave the car there over night. After a day full of attempted recoveries and broken snatch straps, we resorted to asking a local farmer to bring his tractor down to pull us out, good fun!
Im early as. Keen for this episode 👍😍
Bloody beauty fella's. You keep wheelin and we'll keep watching.
One day I was so badly bogged that my life came to an absolute downward spiral, I went out camping and drank sooo much iron jack that before I realised I had some of the worst after grog bog I’ve ever had 💩
Dry bogged in a sand river with a pride of lions 300m away. Faulty 4wd so had to burry the spare tire and gradually pull the 80 out using a ratchet strap. The shovel was forgotten in camp so palm fronds where used for digging. Best 16th birthday ever!
I was bogged for 3 days in waist deep mud on the back paddock of my friends farm, I'm not making this up.. I truly regret every moment of it! A sweaty miserable mess and no change of clothes. Day 2 a neighbors tractor came to assist, it got stuck attempting to drag me out. Finally I borrowed a winch, swapped it over in the mud and dragged my way out!
Lengths of threaded rod and nuts, best thing I have taken on a trip. You can then make bolts of any size. Also, replace your serpentine belt before you go and then take the old one as a spare. That way you know it fits, how to fit it and what tools you need.
Love the episodes also can you do a montage of jocks biggest mistakes
Haha YES!!!
The first time I cracked into 4wding and got the bug for it. Was an over night trip just out the back of Coffs Harbour when I lived there. I didn’t know any tracks but binge watched a few of your episodes and threw the swag In the Ute with the fridge and went for it alone. One night turned into 3 and two days of rain. I got bogged 6 times and had the time of my life. Ended up after the first bog with 8 short logs in the back of my Ute and cut the rubber matt up off the floor of the tray to combine as makeshift tracks and sent it. Been hooked ever since!
Third night was relaxing at pebbly beach alone after restocking the supplies!
You blokes are legends. Can’t wait to get my Ute a bit more fitted out and head north.
Dont think I've ever seen a beer opened more times then Shaun's 🤣
Once again guys great show thanks for keeping us entertained back in South Africa. Can't wait for the next one!!!!
I got bogged at inskip point, everyone had a laugh😂
Wow!!
I have a new drinking game - every time you guys say the word “iconic” you had to take a shot………… keep up the good work lads, amazing adventures, great wheeling and an all round great crew. The Young Family are hooked (especially when comparing pics from our recent Cape York adventure).
One thing Shaun And jock have in common? They both can keep there cars clean for 30 minute on a track
Hey guys love your work. Because of your show I'm now 10 day away from heading the the cape. In my 08 ford ranger.👍👍👍👍
I took my partner out the bush when we first started dating in my old r50 terrano and slipped into a really sticky bog pit we were so bogged we ended up having lunch on the roof until my mum could bring my second truck out to snatch me out and we are still together now with a 3year old daughter who loves the bush
Bogged in Ourimbah: I wanted to take my new rig out on its maiden voyage. I decided to head down to “The Can-opener”, at the Palmdale side of Ourimbah State Forest. I’ve been on this track about 3-4 times in my old Navara so was pretty confident and it was just going to be a quick trip so I didn’t bother with my usual recovery/comms gear. I only brought my Maxtrax and compressor. Rookie mistake #1. After airing down, I headed down this track and was taking it pretty easy, enjoying my time. I caught up to a random guy driving a GU Patrol and followed him for a short while. Nearing the bottom of the track, it started to sprinkle. I forgot to check the weather - rookie mistake #2. I started to turn around. Within 5 mins, it was absolutely pissing down. I kept sliding towards the bank and eventually ended up with my rear diff hung up on a rock and 3 wheels spinning in the air. I was bogged. Considering the rain was making the place look like a scene from Waterworld, I thought it would be a good idea to hang out inside the car and wait for old mate in the GU to come back up. I waited about an hour and realised that there was probably another way out that I didn’t know about. It was getting dark. I didn’t come with anyone who could recover me (rookie mistake #3). I had no idea what to do. Did I mention I was in the car with my Mrs and 2 kids under 4yo?
Long story short, we end up calling 000. Police and fire came, left my car there, took about an hour to hike out in the rain and got dropped off at the local train station. About 3 hours later, at around midnight, we were back in Sydney at home, trying to figure out how to get my car back and feeling incredibly guilty about wasting the resources of emergency services. I ended up contacting a Facebook group 4WD 4X4 RESCUE NSW and an awesome bloke offered to meet us there to winch us out. Literally was a 30cm pull and I drove the rest of the way out on my own steam. Fair to say there were plenty of lessons learnt that day and some excited kids telling stories to teachers the next morning.
Love the song at the end boyos! Yewwwww!!
Most stuck? Looking for a sweet camp spot around Old Glen Innes Rd area, my partner Nathan and I got stuck in a relatively shallow, wide rocky river crossing. With only one bad-angled winch point available, locker in, we were in and out of the car a dozen times packing rocks to make inches of forward travel. About 20 minutes in, I was contemplating walking back up the track to find help when Nathan stops: "Oh... you're going to hate me." A long pause and then a sheepish "...It's not in 4WD." Got our exercise that day.
Not my finest moment!
@@nathanpaull8239 Maybe not but you have fronted in the comments. I know my memories are mostly of recoveries and being bogged so think of it as just building a library.
I love this 4wd show I think, talk,and dream of doing a full Resto on a 60 series land cruiser and you folks keep inspires me to do a full Resto.
Keep the good work up because you folks are who inspires be to 4wd and keep whacthing this please do not give up
Love the work you people do kind regards Ben Sacco
Baby wipes in the fridge after a hot day, is better than a cold shower!
Our best bog was out at the end of Track 13 at Paradise Beach. The son got his VE commodore bogged about 100m out from the shore on the salt flat (went out the night before in a bad mood to do doughies, got bogged, was too proud to get help and slept in a cold car), his missus got her CX-5 bogged getting him out. We got called up to help, got her out and got our Subaru Forester bogged instead. A couple of city boys went past and dragged us out in their 2005 GU, then got themselves bogged trying to get my son's VE out. Some local stoners ( one called "THE CRABMAN") were watching from across the peninsula, came across with a couple fourbies, dragged out the GU by anchoring two 4x4s and about 100m of snatch straps and winch cables together. We all then threatened to leave my son there as it was pissing down rain and the tide had come in...and we were all free. He bought slabs, so we stayed. The locals got him to about 10m from the shore and the VE bogged again. They winched the car the rest of the way. Everyone had a few drinks, we shook hands, said good bye to our new mates and headed back out over the sand dunes (now very wet), where the VE promptly got bogged...again. I pulled him out with the Subaru pretty easily(but not happily), and we still give him shit to this day. The questions from the day that were most asked were "who is the idiot who drove the Commodore out here?" and "Why are you called THE CRABMAN?" .Pics from the day still bring a smile. Oh, we now own a Pathfinder as an SUV just doesn't cut it and we would love to have a winch as the boy is still an idiot.
When is graham taking the gq patrol out on the tracks
Perhaps when he doesn't have an sponsorship from Isuzu? Notice how even when he isn't able to come on a trip his rig does.
1983 in my first MQ shorty petrol coming out from lawn hill gorge before it was a national park with skinny 16” wheels at highway pressure. It stormed all night at Easter time and the black soil track from the lower gorge to Adele grove was bottomless. We almost made it but got pulled out by another shorty diesel. We were only about 100 metres from the red dirt track. Washed off at Adele’s grove and drove on to the Gregory and got stormed on again as we approached the river but got across the bridge and overnight the river rose 10 feet and stranded people on the western side. Great trip.
Hi from south Africa, following you guys and loving it! Most terrible and wonderful bog I experienced... Went out with a mate and myself on the west coast in search of the beach from where we were based for the night. We travelled for a good 6km in deep sand and bush and found us at turning point. Needless to say we got so bogged up to the chassis with no signal and only one way out... Had to cut down two bushes and build a road. We were down deep in the end of an off camber rut in sand softer than you'd think any 4wd could get through. After a good 6 hours of track building and the time tipping on to 4am we managed to get out and made it safely home. I must say if I had a winch for the sturdy tree 20m infront of us we would have been out in a heart beat.
My old man taught me and my mate how to drive back in the early 00's in a pine forest, driving a 1984 Subaru Leone 2-door manual hatchback 4wd with only high range. My mate decides to take on a 30%incline on very soft sand, and proceeds to get bogged, but keeps spinning the wheels. 2 hours of digging with an old military shovel and we finally get out but only enough to reverse down the hill. Problem was, the hill climb was the way out, so we decided to take another route which meant getting lost with no gps etc. Took us 3 more hours to find our way out and get home. Bloody excellent time!
Bogged past my side steps out the back of Redhead Beach in 2019. Got my mate in his 75 to reverse up the hill I was stuck on to give me a snatch, but that ended up with him getting stuck in my tracks, also down to the sills. Took us a fair while to get them both out!
I couldn’t agree more, everyone says they will go. Day of, no one around. I go by myself all the time. It’s nice!! Come prepared!! Have the time of my life!!🤙😎🤘
Another great beers in the shed episode and on one trip we got bogged and after many attempts to get out we ended up walking five kilometres to the nearest farm house where the farmer drove us back with his tractor and he got the tractor bogged. We then walked back to farm house to get a bigger tractor to pull the tractor and Rodeo out.
Hey guys
Setting up my 90 series shorty Prado for trips away around godzone (NZ). Love all you tips. You've proved that you don't need to spend a small fortune on all the gear. I've done a few trips, no winch, no lifted suspension. Sensible driving, pick the right line, no probs. Just get out and do it
I'm getting my Ps soon and getting a 4wd and I very excited, and u guys have helped me out so much. Thanks u guys and love watch your videos
Zukis for life ! Sick suzuki samurai !!
Great to hear Graham and Shaunos invaluable advice for remote travel. Thier experience truly coming to the fore ecspecially Graham who is a vertiable legend of solo travel in Oz. Cheers legends.
100% you can go on your own to some of the more popular places. 2017, Cape York. we had three cars in the convoy. D40 Navara, 2007 BT50 and a KUN26R Hilux. 5 days later, we added, a 90 Series Prado, a 75 series troopy, a D22 Navara, a TD42 GU Wagon and a new BT50. Such great memories with people we met along the way!
Hey guys ive been watching the channel with my cousin since i was 10
Got so bogged in my patrol that the mud was up to the bottom of my doors amd water leaking in, stuck there for an hour in the rain. Rung a mate to help out who tried winching me from behind and he started dragging himself towards me. So he got around me amd tried snatching me out and i didn't even move, ended up tying a strap to the back of him around a tree then using his winch to pull me out. Also ended up doing a head gasket in the process. Loving the shows boys keep it up 🍻
Hey Shauno, Iron Jack are gunna be on the phone tomorrow, 20:57 into the vid and you haven't had one sip! I will tell you IMO it is the nectar of the gods mate so drink up. All jokes aside, these 'Beers in the shed videos' are bloody awesome!!! Not everyone needs to have a 150k vehicle with a 6 inch lift kit running diff locks everywhere, so on and so forth. A day spent off road is a day bloody well spent!
Hey lads, I was 17 at the time, Backed a jet ski in to the ocean with a old 70s BMW and sunk the whole rear end in front of a large crowd 🤦♂️🤣... An 80 series come to the rescue and got me out! I'm 32 now and have finally purchased my own 80! It would be awesome to have a winch for the new bar going on soon 👍 Love the channel! cheers legends 🍻
Now this was a proper detailed discussion, and some great humour added to it. Well done lads
After many of episodes and getting fired up watching 4WD24/7, I wanted to hit Watagans. My mates were busy so the misses and I went up in my stock as a rock 4 month old Triton. Day 1 we got there and were exploring and found some lovely spots and then we thought we’d find camp.
We recently bought a Hema so we thought we would follow a track to the end and camp but as we were going down the track we found a few mud holes. Thinking they were okay we drove through and ended up stuck in the mud with no way out and all by ourselves.
3 HOURS LATER!!! Chris from a towing company comes and pulls us out with his personal car, we thank him, find a spot to camp and go home scarred the next day.
I have been saving up for a bullbar and a winch ever since and have yet to purchase either.
Few years back took the 4x4 to a mates new property he bought in northern nsw where we decided to go exploring massive property, overgrown as hell, no reception. After about an heading whatever direction the dismal remains of old track led, the ground basically swallowed my D40 nav, 4inch lift with 35s it all of a sudden was mush, to thick for us to move and up sunk to the sills.
Took us a few hours to trek back and then walk a few kms to a neighbour who was kind enough to pull us out with his tractor, which actually also got bogged but had the winch to on his tractor to pull him free and the nav. Haha the best times are when exploring ay Haha
Love the song bloody beauty
I was with my dad in his 100 series and we got bogged in a black mud hole on the Balfour Track on the west coast of Tasmania. I stripped down to my jocks and climbed out the window to connect the winch and a bunch of locals including a couple of girls rocked up during the recovery - super embarrassing but they helped us out then took us on a tour around Trial Harbor. I love Tassie 4wding!
That song at the end by Cam should be the theme song👍🏻
100% agree with Steve Kratzmann. Love that tune by Cam!! Theme song for sure
The very first day I got my first 4WD, hadn't bought any recovery gear and didn't realise rear tyres we're bald. Was too excited and took it to a small off-road area out the back of an industrial area literally 30m from the black top and it sunk to the chassis where it stayed for 5hrs until the postie driving past snatched me out with a 2.5t ratchet strap 🤦♂️ bloody legend!
Good bogged down to the axils in my 1980 VC Commodore sedan in a paddock. It had been raining for days and I gone camping with a few mates and my girl at the time. Mates were annoying the piss out of me while I was trying to get it with the missus so I headed off the track to hit a boggy paddock. Long story short. Got the quality time with the missus but had to go find the farmer the next morning to pull me out with his tractor lol
First time ever driving, learning on kinkoona beach. Bogged dads 200 series to the sidesteps... learnt how to dig aswell that day 👍
The most bogged I've been, we were down a tiny track between Oberon and Goulburn somewhere. Driving the forester just at the start of vivid, so no-one was around, drove though a creek easy, came back through on a slightly different line, and just got wedged between the bank. Took an hour of digging and back and forth to get out. Was a real bonding activity for me and the missus
i was bogged out majorly in a place here in the uk called salisbury plains, a millitary training grounds, i wasnt aware that the bog in question was one they drive tracked tanks through, and was alot deeper than we thought, the water/mud was up to the windshield and took 2 trucks simultaneously to pull me out 😂 good times!!
That would have been fun cleaning haha
mate, nightmare it was hahah
Step Dad bought me a Triton for my 21st. I offered to take him wheeling to show him how awesome I was after owning it for a week. Went through a bog hole I had driven multiple times in that week, but didn't want to bounce him around too much, so I backed off in the hole. Bogged and flooded the 4wd to the window sills in mud. Mates attempted to snatch me with no luck, called more mates who couldn't get me out with a double line pull off 2 patrols. Ended up needing to call a flat bed tow truck to winch/skull drag me out. Rig was never the same. Step dad was super impressed in my wheeling abilities.
Favorite bit of advice I've seen lately on spare parts for a long trip was when someone asked about what to take for an old Defender. The consensus was that the best thing to do was to tow another Defender as a spare...
bogged on my couch during covid watching back to back episodes of 4wd 24-7!! :( need a winch to pull me out of that one!
Me and a few mates went for an afternoon mission to Jeffreys Track in South Tas a few year back. We had a Subaru Forester , 90’s Hilux and snatch strap.
Once the confidence grew, we did a few side tracks. On this one section, the Forester got completely belly’d out... 7 hours later with midnight approaching still trying to dig it out, we opted to leave it there the night and came back the following day with a car with a winch... just getting to the car from the opposite direction was a whole other mission...
You guys talked about not waiting until you have all the expensive mods before you start hitting the tracks... this was one of my favourite trips to date and some of the best memories were made and heaps of laughs as we were neck deep in mud.
Ironically, it’s also true some of the weekend trips are more remote than some of the iconic ones... we were 45 mins from home yet didn’t see a single car either day we were there!
My mate brought a new Navara and had never been offroad, Me as a semi experienced 4x4 driver with all the gear (Lift, tyres and locker) I skiped the age of Shauno rule of "Check the hole before you roll" safe to say 3 hours later and multiple snatch attempts the brand new Navara finally pulled me out on standard tyres no lift straight off the floor and he has never let it down since.
all right....Best episode ever and hats off to that man who made that song i was tearing up laughing so hard and singing it, You should put that as your guys intro
I got parked (bogged) pretty good on some random mud track up on the Barrington Tops. Smallest car, with the smallest tyres leading the convoy. It started with “you’ll be right mate”, swallowed the whole front end 😂. Turned into a bit of a comedy show trying to un-bog the old shorty. Now I check every big puddle I come across.
We got half way up Stockton Beach before realising toyota didn't fix the centre diff actuator on a 400km service (something I specified needed fixing). Sand became soft and we bogged down. Only had 2 Maxxtraxx and rear wheel drive. Tide was coming in fast and. Finally got some assistance with an extra set of traxx which allowed us to escape the waterline but still bogged down until some legends came along and towed us out and stayed with us all the way to the northern exit. Needless to say I learned my lesson, got an extra set of maxxtraxx and went to a real mechanic to sort 4wd
The time I was bogged the worst was on a little track at black river (Townsville) and I had got myself suck turning around between two trees with less then a foot between each tree. End up break both tray mounts on the driver side from hitting the tree before sinking to the diffs. Also did a steering rack because we had to put the car sideways to get it out.
My first time 4wding at a local track up the road from glassy I was so exited to get into it I forgot to lock my hubs... long story short had to jump into about 400 mil of water with about 100 mil of mud at the bottom to lock both my hubs, a good lesson learnt and an even better story 🤣
Need to get myself a UHF. It's the next thing on the list thanks for the GME suggestion/UHF topic, cheers.
Ngkala rocks!!! As any good mates do when on a trip, you like to boast youve got the best 4by, although much to my dissapointment I went first through the track and failed miserably in my luxy turning around the corner. After traveling smoothly and about to call the boys through, I decided to change gears as I thought I had it in the bag. I Was stuck for a long time as my mates just opened a beer and watched. They certainly havent let me forget!
I’m new to 4x4ing, so my bogged experience is fairly tame. My brother and I took our stock standard utes up Jeffries track in Tasmania, my first recovery was pulling out my brother, can’t beat it! I held it over him for the whole day until I too got stuck. Let’s just say we called it even. Beers all around!
Love the song nice to see beers in she'd again
Some great tips in there! Excited for locations like Cape York, Kimberley and Simpson
Bogged in the salt plains of Botswana in a 1990 toyota hilux.... still one of the best trips....
We most bogged was in my own paddock🤦 took about 5 hours to get a Amarock a 75 landcruiser and the “recovery truck” out of the soup. Bloody good time to spend with the family
Amazing video! Been watching you guys non-stop for a year now and it just keeps getting better. Watching previous episodes on repeat until the next video is uploaded and I just can't get enough.
Recently got a 2020 Toyota 4Runner Venture and I am getting ready to travel across the United States in 2 months from East coast to West coast taking the Transamerican Trail and stopping many places along the way making a several month trip out of it. I will be traveling alone with my two dogs and reckon that I will get stuck many times along the way. A winch could come in very handy when tackling some of the best tracks in the US.
Can't wait to see the Kimberly trip. 4WD 24/7 is no doubt the best show on UA-cam. Keep it up! You guys are awesome.
i live up in Canada and i got stuck on a logging road with a buddy in the passenger seat. we were the first ones threw and were plowing threw 3 feet of snow in a jeep with 31s and open diffs. On the left there was a cliff and the right a ditch bigger then the jeep. lucky i had and old folding army shovel in the back and an ax. cut some fur branches and put them under the tiers and you have your self some make shift max tracks. love the adventure and it gave us time to sled down the trough we had plowed so far.
My mate got bogged so did a quick snatch with my truck, got 40m and came to a hault where we both got bottomed out on our diffs. We spent 12 hours digging as we had no other way of recovery, using rocks from a near hill about a hundred meters away, using our packs to transport through marshy land. Went through two jacks to lift up the truck, we place the rocks under the tyres but we almost had to make a Roman road for 10m to get. I tell you after getting free I now know what freedom feels like! haha.
It was my first trip to glasshouse and not wanting to look too soft, I charged head first into a little puddle.. that engulfed the vehicle halfway up the doors and prevented me from getting out. It took several snatch attempts and a fair amount of cleaning, but I've learnt to always check the depth of any water source before charging in.
We did the Simpson solo and only met 3 other vehicles on the trip. We love exploring and it’s exciting to meet other like minded people.
Out spotlighting on property just a couple weeks ago, hit a bog hole that was a little too sticky to get out of on my own steam. Turned into more than an hour recovery with everyone getting covered in mud, had frogs and tadpoles on the sidesteps, split the crotch out of my jeans from waistband to waistband. Eventually had to walk back to the homestead 8km away to grab a tractor to pull us out. A winch would've had us out in 5 minutes and saved our night!
Good luck to everyone chasing the runva haha. Worst bogged situation I've been in was night time with a mate in his bog stock petrol rodeo and he got beached on top of a hill out in wilbinga wa. Due to it being on a hill, the other cars in the convoy struggled to get close enough to stop and put the snatch straps on so it took a damn good bit of effort to 1) get a car close enough and 2) get enough traction on the recovery vehicle to pull him out of his perch on the hill. Shovels, maxtrax and the snatch was all out and all of us were pitching in to help.
Was down in Victoria in the high country the weekend after Easter, there were three lines you could choose from, number one was basically instant death, and the second one was medium level and third was easier, I made it about 1 meter into the medium level bog hole, I was stuck and completely covered in that heavy mud, had to get out through the window because my dad refused to put the shackle onto my car in the mud so I had to get into the freezing cold mud and it took us a good couple snatches to get out, would of been amazing to have that runva winch on that trip, I kept the snatch strap on the passenger seat since it was used so much 😂👍
A couple years back i went for a cheeky run up at the powerlines track in mundaring, wa in the hilux that i was given for work, Ended up trying to power through a massive bog hole with mud up to the windscreen and the old luxy just sank straight into it, Had mud and water in the cab up to my knees while my mate dove in and tied a snatchy on to pull me out. The boss wasnt too happy when i let them know as you could imagine 😂
Great show guys
My mate had his massive 105series stuck in a huge bog hole at glasshouse mountains. He had his winch and bonnet buried. So off with the clothes and the only person getting him out was the little winch I had on my old 97 rodeo. Was a sight to see and a few good laughs were had
Travelling through Cape Melville national park on the way to Bathurst bay and came across a real sus looking bog that we weren't real keen on crossing after spending the best part of the day snatching and winching two vehicles with camper trailers across a few boggy crossings along the way. It was almost time to set up camp but it wasn't a real ideal location so we decided to try and go around over a nice green grassed section to the high side of the bog. About 20 meters into it and the surface gave way and dropped me into some of the most luxurious thick mud I've ever seen, bogging my vehicle and camper up to their respective floor pans. Just on dark we managed to skull drag the camper back to dry ground and get it set up for the night and left the vehicle for the morning. After about 8 or 9 attempts at snatching we finally retrieved the vehicle and decided to give the original crossing a go and managed to drive straight across without getting stuck once! :D :D You live and learn!
Worst time getting stuck on a track was on Brewery Track in Woods Point, Vic. Was in my mates 80 series which was dual locked with 35 inch tyres, the first hill was steep and slippery and we had to winch the whole way up, the next hill was even worse, halfway up the car slid to the side and the tyre rolled off the bead. Ended up having to winch down the hill while trying to stop it going over because it was on a bad angle. Only travelled about 500m in 7 or 8 hours and then had to go back down the hill to where we started!
I sat on the tipping point for 1h10mins on Scorpion track in glasshouse. Thank my wife for the sliders they were all that kept me off the drivers side