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Haven't seen any posts for a week or so now - so just testing > Haven't seen any posts for a week or so now - so just testing Hopefully they were not scared off by what looked like it might have become another spat with Bogus the insignificant. Also, people might have actually got away to do 4WD type things. We had grand plans for buggering off over the Easter break, all of which came to naught due to the aversion I have to setting up camp in the in the rain. Off to Canberra tomorrow, which has bugger all to do with off-roading except that the only warm gear I own is my camping/bushwalking stuff and it is freezing bloody cold in Canberra at present. If they show any television footage of the High Court on Friday, I'll be the one arriving in a Goretex jacket wearing Rossi boots and carrying my suit in a plastic bag to get changed into once I get into the nice warm dry building.  SignatureCheers Tony Smith Tony Smith wrote: >>Haven't seen any posts for a week or so now - so just testing > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > carrying my suit in a plastic bag to get changed into once I get into > the nice warm dry building. My 4wding over the break amounted to crossing a deep gully after bypassing 5 klms of stopped traffic. had to get out and lock the hubs in which was well planned as I would have looked silly having to do it while half way through the gully and in front of all the traffic, and as it turned out I needed to engage 4WD because the drop into it was a bit steeper than I throught and the towbar got hung up And no Figjamitupyabum your lowridin ute wouldn't have even got that far before bottoming out Kev Dont worry KitKat you wouldnt hav made it on the new Xtreme trak i found in elimbah on sundy anywho :P Fig > had to get out and lock the hubs in which was well planned as I would have > looked silly having to do it while half way through the gully and in front [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Kev > Dont worry KitKat you wouldnt hav made it on the new Xtreme trak i found > in elimbah on sundy anywho > :P Well I got two days off if ya wanna prove it Kev allready bin there i dont gotta prove nuffin a real toyota dont have to prove its worth anywho LOL > Well I got two days off if ya wanna prove it > > Kev > allready bin there i dont gotta prove nuffin > a real toyota dont have to prove its worth anywho LOL > >>Well I got two days off if ya wanna prove it >> >>Kev ya still got another day to prove that the 100 won't do it Kev Figjams version of extreme is standard 4x4ing in a hilux to the rest of us >> allready bin there i dont gotta prove nuffin >> a real toyota dont have to prove its worth anywho LOL [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Kev yeah sure mate :P >>> allready bin there i dont gotta prove nuffin >>> a real toyota dont have to prove its worth anywho LOL Wangling in the bush Steve wrote in message > "Steve" <c210-49-12-56.fitzg1qld optusnet.com.au Steves version of extreme is dragin that rustbucket along dirt trax behind Kmart carparks >>> allready bin there i dont gotta prove nuffin >>> a real toyota dont have to prove its worth anywho LOL [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >> >> Kev Tony Smith wrote: >>Haven't seen any posts for a week or so now - so just testing > Also, people might have actually got away to do 4WD type things. Spent the weekend at Bendethera in the Deua National Park (35 57' 57"S 149 44' 26"E if you want to play with google earth) We started to go in via the Merricumbene firetrail, but had to turn back after a couple of hours (driver of cruiser with camper trailer was distinctly uncomfortable with the track after she 'failed to proceed' up one large hill) Headed back to the coast and came in from Moruya. "How's the serenity?" is a phrase that springs to mind. Not a lot to do except sit around the fire, natter and imbibe. River was bordering on too chilly to swim. Mid 20's during the day, -2.5 overnight. Nice set of caves at the end of a 4k trail (last 300m horizontal includes 300m vertical on loose shale with a covering of wattle seed pods) The caves are fairly undeveloped, just ladders and chains to get you through. Tip #1. Take overalls. There's at least one point you have to go through on your stomach (piked out there) Don't know what went wrong... we brought beer home! SignaturePeter Degotardi peterdegYourHat@au1.ibm.com (remove YourHat to talk to me) IBM Australia I speak *from* IBM, not *for* IBM > Haven't seen any posts for a week or so now - so just testing My effort on Saturday.. That hole wasn't there last time! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/barnseylynda/Keelbottom-EditThatOut-Sat15 thApril.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/barnseylynda/bogged/bogged.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/barnseylynda/bogged/bogged2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/barnseylynda/bogged/Keelbottom-EditThatOu t-Sat15thApril.jpg > > Haven't seen any posts for a week or so now - so just testing > > My effort on Saturday.. That hole wasn't there last time! Well. How come you are not still there? Who pulled you out? And on a completely different note, how goes the study? About 3 weeks ago I submitted what I plan to be the last bit of assessible academic work in this life time. A very liberating experience. Tony Smith >> > Haven't seen any posts for a week or so now - so just testing >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > ago I submitted what I plan to be the last bit of assessible academic > work in this life time. A very liberating experience. I'll look forward to that feeling in 3-4 years. So far the uni is going well. I do most of my study at work on night shift, where it's nice and quiet, but I have brain fades sometimes and don't get far. I got a distinction for my first assignment so it's looking good so far. The online study is great (through CQU). Surprisingly organised for a uni! I'll be a OH&S person in 2009, and no, I won't be working for Qld Health. Perhaps a year or two in the mines at $150k /annum will rid me of my financial insecurities. As for the bogging............the recovery is a bit of a shameful tale. By the time I went home and back to get my hilift jack, some ringers in a hilux had winched, and dug me out. Leaving the wife and kids there must have appealed to their chivalry. And before someone says anything, no I don't carry my recovery gear with me for 200 yard tracks off the main highway. It was the south west side of Keelbottom Creek by the way. I've driven down there to take the kids for a swim 5-6 times this summer, hardly needing 4wd. Some sicko must have put that hole there since March, and covered it with tall grass! Not a scratch on the Patrol. Full report here: http://www.outerlimits4x4.com/PHP_Modules/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=72073 > So far the uni is going well. I do most of my study at work on night > shift, where it's nice and quiet, but I have brain fades sometimes > and don't get far. I got a distinction for my first assignment so > it's looking good so far. The online study is great (through CQU). > Surprisingly organised for a uni! Gee, I wish I'd gone there. I spent 3 years telling JCU admin what a bunch of incompetent f*wits they were. Then, after I went to ANU, I dropped into JCU admin people and apologised for all the nasty things I'd said about them, compared to ANU they are ace. (But still wouldn't be gainfully employed in a sheltered workshop). Tony Smith >> Haven't seen any posts for a week or so now - so just testing > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/barnseylynda/bogged/Keelbottom-EditThatOu t-Sat15thApril.jpg Wouldn't it be easier to use the trials bike ? LOL Barnsey! I love the Hilux rescue story. I actually think that if hubby was driving and went down that ditch I would be not a happy wife LOL In the end did you get the swim and the picnic in? Kathy. > LOL Barnsey! > I love the Hilux rescue story. I actually think that if hubby was driving > and went down that ditch I would be not a happy wife LOL > In the end did you get the swim and the picnic in? Another Nissan rescued by a Toyota with a happy ending:-) A very common occurance:-) Daryl Not as comon as saggyarsed 100's bein yancked out by a Bazooki LMAO p.s. any datsuns bein yanked by a toyota is a happy ending > Another Nissan rescued by a Toyota with a happy ending:-) > A very common occurance:-) > > Daryl > Not as comon as saggyarsed 100's bein yancked > out by a Bazooki > LMAO That was a Datsun ute if you please I have the video I winched myself out thanks Kev oh yeah sorry........... that was jus before ya 100's arse dragged and ripped off the drain pipe LOL > That was a Datsun ute if you please > I have the video > > I winched myself out thanks > > Kev > oh yeah sorry........... that was jus before ya 100's arse dragged > and ripped off the drain pipe LOL that's right but no one had to dig the hillside out from under the bullbar or the rear tray because it beached it's self, unlike the lowrider 75 with cow catcher on the front been towed off any more tiny sand dunes lately? 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