Thompsons track

MNC · Post by **MNC** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:35 pm

Scott wrote:Can't be that hard,Sounds like we should run a trip up there skid,(taupo club)

Ha ha ha, sounds like famous last words to me. Remeber the boy Scott saying - BE PREPARED!

tgaguy1 · Post by **tgaguy1** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:36 pm

I'm goimg upto the summit and doing the loop on Sunday (from the Te Aroha side) with the BOP club. Can give you an update on track condition after if you like.

skid · Post by **skid** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:36 pm

Scott wrote:Can't be that hard,Sounds like we should run a trip up there skid,(taupo club)

sounds like I might need a permanent rope between me and a winch truk

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:37 pm

iÂ´m keen to do a te aroha to summit trip sometime soon

iÂ´ll leave the complete trip till when i get off my but and get my winch sorted

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:39 pm

tgaguy1 wrote:I'm goimg upto the summit and doing the loop on Sunday (from the Te Aroha side) with the BOP club. Can give you an update on track condition after if you like.

track is fairly cut up and the loop is.....wet :wink:

and a few water ruts

tgaguy1 · Post by **tgaguy1** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:40 pm

wopass wrote:
tgaguy1 wrote:I'm goimg upto the summit and doing the loop on Sunday (from the Te Aroha side) with the BOP club. Can give you an update on track condition after if you like.

track is fairly cut up and the loop is.....wet and a few water ruts

Goody. I don't want it too easy.

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:42 pm

tgaguy1 wrote:
wopass wrote:
tgaguy1 wrote:I'm goimg upto the summit and doing the loop on Sunday (from the Te Aroha side) with the BOP club. Can give you an update on track condition after if you like.

track is fairly cut up and the loop is.....wet and a few water ruts

Goody. I don't want it too easy.

everything on tearoha side is easy unless you have bald 145/80/13's on an eb1 civic :roll:

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:44 pm

tgaguy1 wrote:I'm goimg upto the summit and doing the loop on Sunday (from the Te Aroha side) with the BOP club. Can give you an update on track condition after if you like.

do you know darryl drives a turbo charged diesel FJ40 i think he is on the BOP committee but iÂ´m not certain

tgaguy1 · Post by **tgaguy1** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:47 pm

Sunday's run isn't catering for the rough trucks. Darryl's 40 would be best described as "rough truck", very capible though.

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:49 pm

tgaguy1 wrote:Sunday's run isn't catering for the rough trucks. Darryl's 40 would be best described as "rough truck", very capible though.

yeah it is a little rough i used to live across the road from him a couple of years ago

skid · Post by **skid** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:53 pm

MNC wrote:
skid wrote:would you take a lonely orange cruiser with no winch and no Thompsons experience on 33s ??

Skid, you need to fit a 60 or 70 serise PTO. That will deal to the bombing range no problem

hmmm, I wonder if I can fit this into my 40....

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Business-farmi ... 9.htm?p=17

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:57 pm

skid wrote:[
hmmm, I wonder if I can fit this into my 40....

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Business-farmi ... 9.htm?p=17

that is cool !

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:06 pm

or how about this one

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Business-farming-industry/Industrial/Other/auction-105613474.htm?p=1

xj · Post by xj » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:06 pm

didnt safarimulisha go over the katikati side at night, and return, on his own, not so long ago???? Im sure he can tell you all what the track condition was like.

Im sure there were pictures here someplace.

mudzilla · Post by **mudzilla** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:12 pm

Theres a chalange Monstr,,, A night run...

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:16 pm

I think (heard second hand) he was in there for 3 days :shock:

Me personally, i wouldn't be going in there in anying other than a winch truck, or something like the missile, with out a good radiator blind, a tank full of compressed air, a spare alternator, 20L or water and a well sealed bell housing. That and the usual spare axles and CV's, innition parts etc etc.

The track its self is not so bad. Its the mud inthe boggs that gets ya.

Think that your sittin in a bog, mud up over your tyres while your setting a winch line up, the watery mud in the meentime is finding its way into good knows where (bell housing, causing clutch slippage/failure, or being spalshed around the engine bay by the fan getting into the electrics). Thats what gets people. Over heating through clogged radiators, driveline failure through mud ingress, or electrical failure through mud in the alternator or worse.

Take the gear to combat those factors, and its well do-able :twisted:

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:18 pm

mudzilla wrote:Theres a chalange Monstr,,, A night run...

a mid winter night run !...Oooohhh now were talkin :twisted:

xj · Post by xj » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:20 pm

DieselBoy wrote:I think (heard second hand) he was in there for 3 days

Me personally, i wouldn't be going in there in anying other than a winch truck, or something like the missile, with out a good radiator blind, a tank full of compressed air, a spare alternator, 20L or water and a well sealed bell housing. That and the usual spare axles and CV's, innition parts etc etc.

The track its self is not so bad. Its the mud inthe boggs that gets ya.

Think that your sittin in a bog, mud up over your tyres while your setting a winch line up, the watery mud in the meentime is finding its way into good knows where (bell housing, causing clutch slippage/failure, or being spalshed around the engine bay by the fan getting into the electrics). Thats what gets people. Over heating through clogged radiators, driveline failure through mud ingress, or electrical failure through mud in the alternator or worse.

Take the gear to combat those factors, and its well do-able

Still cheaper that $170.00 too aye ????? :lol:

skid · Post by **skid** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:20 pm

DieselBoy wrote:Take the gear to combat those factors, and its well do-able

hahahahahahahahaha, sounds like the gear I need could be a tank or a bulldozer :lol:

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:26 pm

xj wrote:
DieselBoy wrote:I think (heard second hand) he was in there for 3 days

Me personally, i wouldn't be going in there in anying other than a winch truck, or something like the missile, with out a good radiator blind, a tank full of compressed air, a spare alternator, 20L or water and a well sealed bell housing. That and the usual spare axles and CV's, innition parts etc etc.

The track its self is not so bad. Its the mud inthe boggs that gets ya.

Think that your sittin in a bog, mud up over your tyres while your setting a winch line up, the watery mud in the meentime is finding its way into good knows where (bell housing, causing clutch slippage/failure, or being spalshed around the engine bay by the fan getting into the electrics). Thats what gets people. Over heating through clogged radiators, driveline failure through mud ingress, or electrical failure through mud in the alternator or worse.

Take the gear to combat those factors, and its well do-able

Still cheaper that $170.00 too aye ?????

Piss off

Not cheaper if ya gotta get Az and Mitch to come drag your ass out there :wink:

xj · Post by xj » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:37 pm

:pirate: couldnt resist....

monstr · Post by **monstr** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:58 pm

Hey Wayne,I may be a bit crazy at times but im not mad enough to do a run through Thompsons at night,Also before anyone jumps into Waynes truck as a Co driver Let it be known that his last one had a Heart attack and has now given up all 4wding,He was only 28yrs old.now im not saying its his driving but it makes you think EH"...

mudzilla · Post by **mudzilla** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:12 am

[Let it be known that his last one had a Heart attack and has now given up all 4wding,He was only 28yrs old.now im not saying its his driving but it makes you think EH"...[/quote]

-HAHAHAHA Monstr ,, He wasnt in my truck when he had a heartattack..
I obviosly didnt scare him enough ,, the V8 lux he got into must be so fast he had to find some excuse to get out

dazza85 · Post by **dazza85** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:58 pm

Thanks for all the great replies.

I was up there last weekend with a group of others in a standard Bighorn, others had winches though ...

Started on the Te Aroha side, got most of the way through and then turned around and went back. the size of the group (6 trucks) and the fact that we had lost 2 of our 3 winches made it the best move

Beyond the summit

I had some problems with a lack of clearance

Some great holes

What a great place

Then I misjudged the edge . . .
At least I missed the deepest part of the hole

'Tis a pity the window was open

spanky · Post by **spanky** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:08 pm

i like the last photo, nice
vaughan

dazza85 · Post by **dazza85** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:25 pm

Yeah, well I finaly got the door card off and hit it with a hose ...
And inside the door ... and started on the dash ...

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:42 pm

So how far down the other side do you reckon you got??

Did you get to the slip/washout?

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:06 pm

Wow, I wonder how many trucks have been on their side in that hole...

I saw this pic on the Manukau club photo album a while ago

Manukau club oops in thompsons

I remember the first time I went through that hole.... Hmmmm shall I go through, or round??? Hmm... Definately through, cos if I fall in....

Ben

skid · Post by **skid** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:12 pm

Ben wrote:Wow, I wonder how many trucks have been on their side in that hole...

I saw this pic on the Manukau club photo album a while ago

Manukau club oops in thompsons

I remember the first time I went through that hole.... Hmmmm shall I go through, or round??? Hmm... Definately through, cos if I fall in....

Ben

it looks like that hole needs a name.

'BIGHORN PUDDLE'

springs to mind. :lol:

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:15 pm

for a minute there i thought it was the same person..... isuzu bighorns both in the same holer both trying to do the same thing both faslling over trying to keep out of the water ......

bugger

gonna name it bighorn corner now i think :lol:

Thompsons track

What would you do ??