Vandy Road and Pureora

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Postby guppy » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:10 pm

what date you guys going?might be able to get there and help dig.

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Postby xj » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:12 pm

someone suggested the 2nd and 3rd. Perhaps the consensus however is that we ought to schmooze the local/s and talk more to doC before anything is done?

Would that be correct peoples?

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Postby guppy » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:15 pm

schmooze away.give a yell if ya need hand.

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Postby Ben » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:19 pm

I reckon 1 week is plenty of time to try and find 1 farmer and have a quick chat to DOC. :)

Otherwise we'll all lose motivation and nothing will get done.

We may not even be able to contact the guy, in which case we may just have to turn up and see if he's there / go anyway.

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Postby DieselBoy » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:35 pm

We may not even be able to contact the guy, in which case we may just have to turn up and see if he's there / go anyway.

Ben

Technically, if its a paper road we would be with in our rights to just charge on in......... :twisted:
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Postby wopass » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:38 pm

i may know a guy who knows the farmer at the start of the track, will try to find out :wink:
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Postby xj » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:38 pm

DB - yup, covered this already tonight, but the general feeling is for us to dot out i's and cross our t's and try to be as overt as possible. which makes sense. unless of course wagons start developing broken glass.

Wopass - that would be cool.

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Postby zuky » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:38 pm

Wopass and luck with getting hold of the farmer?

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Postby xj » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:56 pm

I'm out for this weekend. Repairs to be done on saturday, and sunday is spent with my wife and lad for Fathers day.

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Postby wopass » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:00 pm

zuky wrote:Wopass and luck with getting hold of the farmer?
not yet mate, hopeíng to see my mate at work tomorrow to see if he knows the farmer there at all. will let you know. may be we give it more time to sort out/set up then plan it ?
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Postby zuky » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:11 pm

Sounds good I'm still not sure I can get out next weekend anyhow. The leave pass from the wife is still pending :o Bens right though we do need to get up there while the motivation is high. Its a cool track I'm looking foward to getting back in there and hopefully getting further than the slip this time :D

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Postby xj » Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:12 pm

ran into blokes from the waikato 4x4 club at thommos yesterday and told em what we were suggesting, didnt get much of a response, but directed them to the forum to get in on the conversation if they so wished.

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Postby zuky » Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:06 pm

Anything happerning this weekend?

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Postby coxsy » Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:17 pm

no not this weekend started a thread on this earlier in off topic

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Postby zuky » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:02 am

Anyone keen for a look see this weekend?

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Postby lilpigzuk » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:13 am

Still waiting to here back from Bro-inlaw. He did say the Outcast motorbike gang used to be up there somewhere but may have moved on, apparently you didnt want to Fawk with them....
He is also trying to get in touch with a contractor that is near there too and see what he knows.

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Postby coxsy » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:19 pm

not avalable this weekend got a family thing over at hot water beach.
which also counts me out for that tuff truck enduroin the hawks bay

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Postby zuky » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:30 pm

Any more luck with finding out about the saftey of this track/ dodge land owners near by?

There was so much interest to get this track up and running again... and it's a cool track :D

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Postby xj » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:42 pm

I spoke to a neighbour (actually a new employee I just hired) and he has ratified some of the perceptions of people here. Simply.... It aint worth it.

The track may be fun, but the probability of nasty grief is high, and although some of us are of the "#### them" opinion, the general consesus, once tesosterone has abated, is that we should get on and find alternate tracks.

One of which is the Aotea block (is that right wopass, cant remember?) and around the Kawhia area.

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Re: Vandy Road and Pureora

Postby Okdokie43 » Sun Nov 30, 2014 9:00 pm

Not sure if people are still looking at this but went up Vandy road today. The cozzie 4wd club has done a bit of work up there but it really needs a digger. Especially for the slip and to fix the entrance. But looks like it's been seeing a fair bit of traffic. Would be a great track to see more usable. The entrance holes are full of big rocks, but after that it's just clay. I did it in my standard 72 range rover and had to winch 3 times. The start is the toughest holes due to the rocks.

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