Welly Anzac Day Fundraiser Terawhiti Ramble

Sadam_Husain · Post by **Sadam_Husain** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:16 pm

seeing how far you got that sook up that steep track graeme all I can say is you were robbed of sucess :shock:

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:18 pm

Dent it some more and it will be a lot cheaper to fill :roll:

, photo's uploading now.....brb

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:01 pm

Photo's are here

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... php&page=1

So who's doing the trip report

Graeme?

Or Saddam?

graemec · Post by **graemec** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:28 pm

As I said earlier, 10 trucks , good weather, many challenges, a couple of moments and all well recorded by your camera.

How could mere words add to the record shown by your photos?

Thanks for organising this trip.

cheers

Graeme

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:30 pm

Next trip will be http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... 8126#58126

Post by **Mark** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:09 pm

Excellent day out. Thanks Jerry for organising the trip. The Whale went around all day with the handbrake on........... the steering wheel! I didn't do a minute of driving today, she did it all.

There were a couple of heart stoppers today thanks to greamec and Sadam_Husain. Graeme came close to a nasty fall, but Sadam takes the cake on getting as close to the tipping point as you possibly could. I was right in front of it and it was on two wheels for a very long time before coming back down on three. :shock:

Anyway, here's a couple of interesting photos. The rest can be found at http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... _album.php

Good views

Tell him he's dreaming

Even Marty got stuck in there and had to be dug out (literally)

The whale got a good workout

Sadam's truck monstered anything it got thrown at

And Cloggy's got very wet :shock:

Post by **Mark** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:52 pm

Basic video (no fancy editing :wink:

) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in88yzl54-4

Unfortunately the battery died early on so there isn't a lot of interesting footage.

graemec · Post by **graemec** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:21 pm

Good video Mark.

Interesting to see my incident from the outside

Cheers

Graeme

helga · Post by **helga** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:03 pm

Great trip - thanks everyone. We learnt a lot, had some nice muddy fun and saw some countryside.

Sadam_Husain · Post by **Sadam_Husain** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:20 pm

cool trip

thanks jerry and all the navigators of the day :!:

the gravity gods must of been on my side when the frount wheel hooked up on that bank :scratch: ..... or maybe they were being leinient on me because of the anzac donation :!:

took a fair while to waterblast all the mud and clods of earth off the truck :roll:

but I'm sure mrs husain will appreciate it when I pick her up from the airport in it tomorrow

....oh, and thanks for digging me out with your spade when I got stuck graeme.... don't think I would of seen that pair of red bands again otherwise

al889 · Post by **al889** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:46 pm

thanks Jerry and everyone else, we had a great time too. Pleased with the way the Vit went on the little AT's. Good day.

Cheers

Alan

Cloggy_NZ · Post by **Cloggy_NZ** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:47 pm

I am spending this evening stripping out the interior to get all the wet carpets out.
My truck must weight near 4 tonnes at the moment. Man that underfelt / sound deadener is heavy when it is waterlogged.
At least it will be spik and span again when I am finished waterblasting the mud out of the carpets (and the 6 stacker CD unit, silly place for them under the front seats).
My cell phone took a dip too, but amazingly it still works, I should have taken some pics of the muddy water inside that.
All good fun though, won't stop me trying that bog again next time.

mroffroader · Post by **mroffroader** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:53 pm

Cloggy_NZ wrote:I am spending this evening stripping out the interior to get all the wet carpets out.
My truck must weight near 4 tonnes at the moment. Man that underfelt / sound deadener is heavy when it is waterlogged.
At least it will be spik and span again when I am finished waterblasting the mud out of the carpets (and the 6 stacker CD unit, silly place for them under the front seats).
My cell phone took a dip too, but amazingly it still works, I should have taken some pics of the muddy water inside that.
All good fun though, won't stop me trying that bog again next time.

Iv'e taken mine out all together there was alot of surface rust under neath :oops:

my sound deadner was full of water and heavy aswell but the carpet was dry. I took all mine out and wire brushed the floor rust converted and then primered and painted gloss black and just put some rubber mats down on the floor :wink:

lilpigzuk · Post by **lilpigzuk** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:19 pm

<thread hijack> you know Discos are prone too rear floor rusting?? <thread hijack> Especially imports.... That is all.

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:04 pm

As I discovered as I got all my stuff out the back when cloggy dropped me off :oops:

...must have been a swimming pool in the back :roll:

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:10 pm

From a Trip leading perspective it went really well, we had a range of vehicles and driver experience. The convoy kept together well, everyone kept an eye on everyone else going thru hazards. thanks to Handbrake/Mark, Graeme & Saddam who took up leading the convoy/tail.

I can run another 'shiny' trip like this in 8 or so weeks if there is interest, This one will be in a different area, be kid/family friendly and involves exploring some tunnels so bring your torches.

PS This will be a normal trip...not a fundraiser