and super well done to WOP, DB and their team, taking 1st place
Hawkes Bay Tough Truck Challenge
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well, back now from some of the hardest bog hole, deep rutted climbing, freeezing forests, stoopid electrics, BEST fun!!!!
and super well done to WOP, DB and their team, taking 1st place
and super well done to WOP, DB and their team, taking 1st place
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no pics no proof
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no pics no proof
I took one for them..... I'm sure theyll put up pics asap
Awesome weekend... damage report is 2 stuffed clutches, 1 starter moter, Beercruisers kettle kept cool enough occasionally to do some hazards...and its still running .... although he has sore ears from the trip
, and sadam got into a fight and got a bloody nose and lip.Got a bit muddy so had to give Badnuz and Grandad a man hug
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Jerry wrote: and sadam got into a fight and got a bloody nose and lip.
Was someone stealing his firewood???
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We had a forken excellent weekend...
Lots of laughs,smiles, hard driving, mud, lots of skids and a few swear words
A few of the bog holes were just truck killers.Deep as, the only way through was to winch them(for our team anyway). As Jerry said 2 of our team were knocked out with stuffed clutches.But not the 40s....
I had over heating dramas all weekend and a flat tah sat evening.
Big thanks to my winch bitchs Marty on sat and Graham on sun.
Cant wait for the next one...
Lots of laughs,smiles, hard driving, mud, lots of skids and a few swear words
A few of the bog holes were just truck killers.Deep as, the only way through was to winch them(for our team anyway). As Jerry said 2 of our team were knocked out with stuffed clutches.But not the 40s....
I had over heating dramas all weekend and a flat tah sat evening.
Big thanks to my winch bitchs Marty on sat and Graham on sun.
Cant wait for the next one...
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badnuz wrote:well, back now from some of the hardest bog hole, deep rutted climbing, freeezing forests, stoopid electrics, BEST fun!!!!
and super well done to WOP and his dad, mr &mrs DB and their team jeremy and jack, taking 1st place
Churrrr
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curly12 wrote:Jerry wrote: and sadam got into a fight and got a bloody nose and lip.
Was someone stealing his firewood???
Yeah do tell ...
And come on ... Where's the real pics ... you know ... the ones of trucks doin' stuff ...
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badnuz wrote:
and super well done to WOP, DB, SATALITE and their team, taking 1st place
x2 and I fixed it for you Euan
Bloody good to meet all you guys even though there wasnt a lot of spare time over the weekend to talk lots of shit and do all the usual social stuff.... congrats on the win
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wopass wrote:badnuz wrote:well, back now from some of the hardest bog hole, deep rutted climbing, freeezing forests, stoopid electrics, BEST fun!!!!
and super well done to WOP and his dad, mr &mrs DB and their team jeremy and jack, taking 1st place
Churrrr
Sadam_Husain wrote:Bloody good to meet all you guys even though there wasnt a lot of spare time over the weekend to talk lots of shit and do all the usual social stuff.... congrats on the win
was good to finaly meet you guys yea, been a bloody long time comming !! and sadam dude you should really pay attention when your in a fight eh
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only took 1 pic while out in the stages...was kinda busy doing other stuff
and the team pic
and the team pic
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Yeah! fawkin awesome event! Much harder then our tracks at the Costa plenty Tuff truck, now we know what we have to work towards for the next one.
We had plenty of electrical dramas in the Jalopy, fried relays, melted fuses, buggered solenoids, but it still basically kept going Our other Hilux team member busted two cv's and rope jumped of the pto drum and jammed, also overheated, ( I see Longfields in his future ) the Rangy in our crew went pretty well except for the last stage, overheating and dead fuel pump, very heavy truck for a poor little 4cyl to tow out of the stage and back to camp! If I'm going to do more of these style of events, we'll be making a few changes to the truck, rear mounted winch and vastly improved winch speed are needed, mount the alternator higher, and try and keep a bit more mud out of the engine bay, may have to put some inner guards back in
All in all a very cool event, and congrats to Pete, Sarah, Ben, Bens dad, Jeremy and Jack on a well deserved win
We had plenty of electrical dramas in the Jalopy, fried relays, melted fuses, buggered solenoids, but it still basically kept going
Our other Hilux team member busted two cv's and rope jumped of the pto drum and jammed, also overheated, ( I see Longfields in his future ) the Rangy in our crew went pretty well except for the last stage, overheating and dead fuel pump, very heavy truck for a poor little 4cyl to tow out of the stage and back to camp! If I'm going to do more of these style of events, we'll be making a few changes to the truck, rear mounted winch and vastly improved winch speed are needed, mount the alternator higher, and try and keep a bit more mud out of the engine bay, may have to put some inner guards back in All in all a very cool event, and congrats to Pete, Sarah, Ben, Bens dad, Jeremy and Jack on a well deserved win
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Thanks fullas! It was an awesome event and we had a blast! It was kinda like a winch challenge (which is what we're used too), but with two extra cars + driver & co-driver and no time to wait and re-group in-between stages. Some of the stages were very technical and very cool to drive (with a few real 'hold-your-breath' moments).
Thanks to Pete & Sarah for the invite, and to Jack my co-driver for keeping me (or more often getting me) out of trouble, being our team navigator and always getting stuck in and organising us all.
Of-course a big 'job well done' should go to the organisers and all their helpers for putting on one heck of an event and a great weekend out 4wding.
Thanks to Pete & Sarah for the invite, and to Jack my co-driver for keeping me (or more often getting me) out of trouble, being our team navigator and always getting stuck in and organising us all.
Of-course a big 'job well done' should go to the organisers and all their helpers for putting on one heck of an event and a great weekend out 4wding.
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Man that water was deeeep!
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Finally back home
Anyone want to do some clean up work??? My poor trucks dirty
Anyways, what an awesome event, was everything it was cracked up to be and more!!!!
The bog's were deep, the hills were steep and it was just luck of the draw as to which track you got given
Started 15 stage's, 5 on Saturday during the day and 3 at night after the compulsory stop then 7 Sunday morning between 6am and 11am
DNF'd one stage at 11pm Saturday night as we made the call that it would probably have been the end of the event for Jeremy's truck, and would have definitely left my zook on the trailer for the rest of the event, Ben might have been ok, but would have been marginal. Later we heard one Chev powered truck seized through lack of oil pressure on that hazard while almost verticle, under water, getting the winch set up
We had a pretty mixed group of trucks, but that wasn't an issue, as we were all self recoverable, and had Ben's monster PTO to bail us out if thing's went wrong. As it turned out, i can't think of one time other than a few quick snatch's where our trucks weren't all in use winching or driving in the hazard. As soon as one winch point was free, the next truck was using it
Basically, I think the result was due to treating the event as an endurance event so driving the trucks sensibly i.e two attempts at something then out with the winch, awesome team work, being clever about the deep bog's, and definitely luck of the draw on hazards
Big thanks to our team, Jemery, Jack, Ben and Paul for the awesome effort. Learnt so much from Jack
Good fun
The tide mark's tell the story:
If you follow the line in this series, you can see that the entire rear end of the truck was under water up to thr front of the rear wheel while winching out of one of the bog''s:
Anyone want to do some clean up work??? My poor trucks dirty
Anyways, what an awesome event, was everything it was cracked up to be and more!!!!
The bog's were deep, the hills were steep and it was just luck of the draw as to which track you got given
Started 15 stage's, 5 on Saturday during the day and 3 at night after the compulsory stop then 7 Sunday morning between 6am and 11am
DNF'd one stage at 11pm Saturday night as we made the call that it would probably have been the end of the event for Jeremy's truck, and would have definitely left my zook on the trailer for the rest of the event, Ben might have been ok, but would have been marginal. Later we heard one Chev powered truck seized through lack of oil pressure on that hazard while almost verticle, under water, getting the winch set up
We had a pretty mixed group of trucks, but that wasn't an issue, as we were all self recoverable, and had Ben's monster PTO to bail us out if thing's went wrong. As it turned out, i can't think of one time other than a few quick snatch's where our trucks weren't all in use winching or driving in the hazard. As soon as one winch point was free, the next truck was using it
Basically, I think the result was due to treating the event as an endurance event so driving the trucks sensibly i.e two attempts at something then out with the winch, awesome team work, being clever about the deep bog's, and definitely luck of the draw on hazards
Big thanks to our team, Jemery, Jack, Ben and Paul for the awesome effort. Learnt so much from Jack
Good fun
The tide mark's tell the story:
If you follow the line in this series, you can see that the entire rear end of the truck was under water up to thr front of the rear wheel while winching out of one of the bog''s:
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