When Disaster Strikes In The Vic High Country!
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- Опубліковано 13 кві 2023
- Our most dramatic episode yet. Not much goes to plan as five cars start and only three finish when we take on the Vic High Country in the wet over the Easter long weekend
Terrible with the rollover, but a great recovery effort. Better luck on the next VHC run!
Up the Gladiator 💪
Lucky that everyone was safe.
Easter 2023 was't kind to me either. I busted my transmission on Blue Rag, on the way back; on Friday.
Lesson learnt, when off-road turn off ABS. Glad everyone is OK.. scary..
Mate there's a lesson to learn in every experience. Just grateful this one ended well.
I suppose leaving ABS/ Traction Control on makes sense on paper, but in reality Not!
Oh boy. I'm not a regular UA-cam commenter but this was like reliving a nightmare. Did the same thing in an 08 BT-50 (silver too, so almost identical...), minus the rollover. Hit a fairly innocent looking waterbar on a steep but fairly well graded track, wouldn't have been worth a second glance in the dry, but with a bit of moisture it was super greasy right at the crest. After a couple of steady attempts, went again with a little more right foot until it got hung up again. Did the rookie move (in hindsight) and hit the brake pedal, which presumably from the extra wheel speed caused abs to engage and the pedal went rock solid while we very quickly started going backwards down the hill. Same deal, once that momentum was up there was no stalling out. Managed to grab the handbrake, which felt like it did a fifth of fuck all, however on the second waterbar back down it was just enough to bring the shitshow to an end. Pure luck that I got away with nothing more than a damaged pair of jocks. Learnt to pull the abs fuse whenever things were possibly going to get hairy, but that's not foolproof either. Although I'm still pretty bloody shy about the hairy stuff after that.
Sorry about the car, but glad there were no injuries. Hopefully Blake can put it behind him and get back into it. I'll never forget that feeling, it's almost surreal.
@@barryking6283 yeah maté scary stuff.
You'll see Blake back in the saddle soon.
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Wow!!! Rob
That could of ended a lot worse hey
Cheers for a good vid 👍
Yeah mate
That ended as good as it could have
That must have been a very steep hill for that ute to be in low range reverse, and presumably driving through the brakes, and get to that speed.
Yeah the video doesn't show it but it was super steep
Glad no one was hurt there mate thanks for the vid
cheers mate
Geez mate, just goes to show how bloody pear shaped it can and how quickly too 😲😳😱😱
Just glad everyone got out ok 👍
Cheers mate
unlucky ! good work with the recovery ! 🏞️🛻📹🤙😎
Farout what an experience thankfully no one was hurt!
Subscribed 👍 great vid
I lost it at the opening right after the roll over "This episode contains some course language"... yeah, I bet it bloody does, what an absolute nightmare. Blake had no chance there, no driver error on this one. Poor bloke.
Makes me appreciate not having ABS in my 4WD seen that sort of thing happen and it makes for dangerous times.
OH MY GOD!!!, I'm glad that bloke is OK. Scared the bejesus out of me, can imagine what you guys felt seeing that happen in front of your eyes.
Mate we're just thankful he was okay. Never something you want to happen but when you do tracks like these ones things can and do go wrong.
@@wewentthatawayadventures Too right mate
Just go's to show how quickly things can turn to Shizzen, well done boys..
Great ep mate, shame about the roll over but like you said nobody got hurt so that’s the main thing. You’ll just have to head back one day. 🤠👍
We'll be back mate
Yikes … conditions so different to when I was up that way in March. Glad everyone was ok.
What track was that rollover on?
Junction Spur track
Glad to see no injuries apart from pride, paint and panels.
Out of curiosity - auto or manual?
Manual
@@wewentthatawayadventures Looks like a - went for the clutch and not a stall/stop and recover.
Always very easy to judge in hindsight and in the panic of the moment, so easy to get it wrong.
Fortunately it could have been and wasn't a whole lot worse.
I'm an accredited instructor in 4WD techniques ( Victorian based ) and we try to explain to students what can go wrong
throughout our courses. This is a particularly graphic and well shot example to show how quickly and easily things can happen.
Question - would you allow me to use an edited version of this as an instructional demonstration?
Cheers
John
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Plenty of great spots to set camp for a few days by a river. Don't need to driving around for for three days.
That bloke who lost it on the track was smoking the tyres before sliding backwards.
Needs to spend some time as a passenger in your car to learn so driving skills
Sure is mate but no one wants to watch a video of us in the same spot for a few days. We'd love the time to sit back and chill but for us these are filming trips and the goal is to show as much as we can.
At 21:00 you can see the steepness of the track
Wow, thats big for the 1st day of the trip... High country night drive on these tracks... How many new seat covers were needed by the end of the trip ? 🤠
You got a new sub out if this, well done boys 👊#666 😳
Yeah a few mate
I'll never go back to manual 😏 glad no one was hurt
Wow that's scary stuff.
Glad no one was injured.
Why didn't the gladiator hook up earlier?
No one was expecting that mate. The plane was to get the ranger as far as we could then hook up.
Didn't really go to plan
🤔 why didn’t he take it like the jeep..slow and steady 🤷♂️
Because the jeep and the Dmax are both twin locked with both lockers engaged, the ranger was unlocked therefore struggling for traction
Modern bullshit tech shit in a 4wd neary killed somone. Im glad i drive old shit
Looks like too much psi in the tires?
tyres were around 18psi
@@wewentthatawayadventures Now I watch it again I can see it started to fail when the front wheel lifted off the ground, so I guess it's because it has less flex than the Jeep and the it was probably unlocked at the front?
I actually run at 10psi or even less on these tracks in winter. If you can get the Icon Innerlock Rebound wheels, I highly recommend 👍 (I have no affiliation but they're awesome).
Subscribed, one of the best 4wd channels!! Hope you grow to be massive on UA-cam!
Would love to take my Pajero out with you lads I'm located in Victoria 😊
Thanks so much mate appreciate the compliment. We are Sydney based but we get around best way to hook up on one of our adventures is to Join our crew page facebook.com/groups/1632416280251784
Hope to see you there.
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Bigpapaharis4588 I also have a Pajero, nearly finishing setting up, and would love to do billy goats when it’s ready. If none of the mates are up for it I’d love to find a few keen to hit it in the snow.
Good idea not to take novice 4x4 drivers on tracks like that in the wet & have all your safety gear checked & working before the trip