15th sep richmond trip(friday)

[tariadamar]

hi all just putting it out their to see if any one would like to come and do cabbage tree lane and then vinyard on this day. their is a few of us going out. their is hill climbs hard and intermediate and a couple of extreme. and vinyard is mud and truck twisting stuff. lots of mud just let me know if you want to know.

[Bellie]

Im in, oh oh oh, pick me, pick me.... I wanna go

[tariadamar]

u were alreading in but for my team i pick um um um uuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmm
lets see umm
bellie

[Bellie]

woooohoooooo I got picked 1st :P :P :P :P

[UhhOhh]

Sorry Kieran bit too far of a mission for a day run. Let us know when you're hitting the watto's next and I'll come meet up for sure!

[simple]

it's been raining guys. do you think the mud might be too wet still on friday ;)








hehehe. mmmmmmmuuuuudddddd

[65mog]

Guys, Gabbage Tree is now gated, I'm not sure if the gates are locked but they're there.

[tariadamar]

yeh i know i was their like three weeks ago it was unlocked but i think they can be closed at any time i think it is just incase it is worth going to have a look. and it is open most of the time u can tell.

[65mog]

I know a guy that was locked in there by a couple of council workers, once they locked the gate with him on the wrong side, they called the cops and the NPWS, he ended up getting fined.

[tariadamar]

yeh i know bad stuff can happen but u can legally go thier when the gates are open as their are warning sings and stuff.

[Bellie]

Mud to wet ???

Havent heard that before. Just means more fun doesnt it?

[tariadamar]

it will be fun with your tyres the whole place is like clay and brown thick mud. it will be fun for all. do ya want to go 4wd camping show thing at penrith cause i am going their afterwards.

[Bellie]

Is that on Friday?
Thought i had missed this years show..... Be pretty good rocking up in some very dirty trucks

[tariadamar]

i know they will be plastard it will look pretty sweeet. so i guess that ia a yes. what size tyres u running

[tariadamar]

i don't think it is the 4wd caravan and camping show thing but i know it is atleast a camping worth a look and all indoors.

[Bellie]

Yeah sounds good. Just some little 31s :(

But they survived a trip to the watagans with mick and steve (green beast)

[tariadamar]

yeh i run 31s as well cool size tires cannot afford bigger. my car already has some mud i found last night near my house.

[Bellie]

Some of us are lucky. All the tracks near my place are gated

[tariadamar]

where is that. cabbage tree has gates on it but it has just been reopened after they clased it for like a year it is legal to go their.

[Bellie]

All over the blue mountains, just about everything has gates and the 1's that dont have be bulldozed to 2 lane highways

[tariadamar]

yeh i know but i guess you ar enot to far from hampton state forest depends where in the mountains u live. te only thing is a couple of mt hay rd and some of mcmahons look out to .

[Bellie]

Yeah i do all of them. Im in springwood so kinda central. Used to be an awsome little track bout 2 min drive from my house but they bulldozed it :(

[tariadamar]

have u done hampton state forest or not.

[Bellie]

Yeah but not really if that makes sence. Was there for about 2 hours and a mate blew a radiator hose and front diff in the same area, so it was a short day.

Go out to Ben Bullen state forrest abit. thats pretty good

[BigRed]

Can't make this Friday :( but let me know next time you head out and I'll gladly go out and watch you get bogged. :P

[simple]

hey boys, i may have to work overtime on friday, but i won't know till 8am, i don't think there's much goin at the moment but still if i get called...
but i'm still in. see ya at maccas (its the one next to the railway line isn't it)
i'm gettin excited, bit of fun mud and hills..

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[tariadamar]

yeh it is the one next to the railway line if you have to work back i will send u my phone number just call us and we will meet up still as we could go to mud still in the after noon.

[Bellie]

Or we might even be stuck on the first track we do tryin to recover the vehicles...... Bit of a trip before I start a new job on Monday..... WHOOOOHOOOOOO

[Bellie]

Sorry bout the late notice fellas, wont be able to make it tomorrow :(

Due to lack of go juice (fuel) and moving house. Maybe in 2 weeks i can, on the 7th of oct? Maybe make it the 6th, just found out i gota baby sit my neise and nephews on the 7th

Keen to try those tracks down Richmond way

[simple]

we went, and had a good time. was jus kieren (tariadamar) and his 2 mates in his mq shorty. and me in the GU ute.

went to cabbage tree in kurrajong. tried a few minor climbe and a few steps, both needed bigger tyres for a couple of them though.
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kieren was the first to get stuck. bellied out on a bash plate with both passenger side wheels spinning. got him out with a bit of rock placement and road building. went down the hill and it got a bit too big for us. "do you need to go there?" no, so we didn't.

back tracked a bit and went up another trail to a descent hill. i was first up... and first stuck. i got the line wrong and ended up with my diff on the top side of a rock with both front wheels lacking traction from the air and a rear wheel on the bottom side of a step. rock placement didn't work cos they kept getting thrown out, factory jack wasn't big enough. so out came my hand winch and kieren's hi-lift. some decent rocks under the wheels and a bit of work on the winch and i could move again down the hill that we built up a bit first.

kieren drove straight up while i packed up. my second attempt didn't fair much better. so we moved on.

another hill, and a bit of work for kieren and his mate to make the track alright. and then my couple of close calls with some trees.... thank god i have a ute.



a bit of luch in richmond and we moved on to vineyard

the first track proved the most interesting. pretty much a former road that has been blocked off by a coupla hundred metres of 4' piles of dirt that over the years have become piles and holes of mud, glorious mud.
the ute walked straight though all be it with a bit of side step usage.
but the mq wasn't so lucky. 50mtrs in and he was stuck, and the more he worked the worse of a position he appeared to be in. he ripped the end of his exhaust off.
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but managed to back out. but he had to give it another go. than he got better stuck, on a precarious angle
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so GUte to the rescue

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pulled him out. but then as i reversed out i missed the track and ended up in a hole that i drove out of, onto the wrong side. and the bullbar doesn't work well as a dozer blade but not for lack of trying.
bit of digging and i was back on.

so up the road to another wombat hole track with more side step damage.
and some rutted mud holes to drive using the mq as a depth guage.
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k123/joel001_2006/Cnv0032.jpg

more damage

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k123/joel001_2006/Cnv0033.jpg

and that was about it.

damage toll:

GU Ute;
mud flap removal, bent steps, broken spottie for reversing... thats all i've found.

MQ;
front quater panel, rear of exhaust, alternator, was there more?

cheer's ya'll. hope to see ya on the next one.

[tariadamar]

yeh my frount diff got filled with water as my breather was blocked but all good now and the side panel is fixed the alternator now works and the exaust is now going to come out the side and wil work good with my new tow bar that is coming sweet hope to meet up again.

[Bellie]

Gee fellas does look like i missed out on an awsome day.