Norwest club Waitapheta trip this weekend

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:34 pm

I'm taking a Norwest club trip to Waitapheta this weekend on saturday (the 21st).
At this stage there aren't many Norwest trucks coming, so I have some free spots if anyone wants to come.

Waitapheta is an awesome track, in the Karangahake gorge area, with a bit of everything - mud, ruts, rock, and mud (especially after all this rain)
It is a grade 4+ track though, so you need to have a fully self sufficient and capable truck.

You also need to be a NZFWDA member and meet out club requirements which include:
Towhooks front & rear
First aid kit
Snatch strap
Fire extinguisher
Spade / shovel
Spare wheel, wheel brace and jack
Roll cage in open / soft top vehicles

If you're interested, reply here, or shoot me a PM

Ben

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:00 pm

OOooooo.... tempting ! !

let me work on it a little.....

skid · Post by **skid** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:06 pm

damn you

why do you have to do on the weekend of my daughters birthday

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:28 pm

wopass wrote:OOooooo.... tempting ! !

let me work on it a little.....

This would be the perfect trip to test out the Missile with the new V8 and lockers against my mighty zuk again

Be good if you can come.

And Skid... what sort of excuse is that? Cant you tell her she's adopted or something, and that her real birthday is a week later??

Ben

skid · Post by **skid** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:55 pm

Ben wrote:
wopass wrote:OOooooo.... tempting ! !

let me work on it a little.....

This would be the perfect trip to test out the Missile with the new V8 and lockers against my mighty zuk again

Be good if you can come.

And Skid... what sort of excuse is that? Cant you tell her she's adopted or something, and that her real birthday is a week later??

Ben

its a bit trickier than that, with the divorce and shit happening at the same time :cry:

but with more than 5 days notice, I could be a starter for the next trip, so long as you don't go somewhere that I have to have a winch, and I hate big water holes. :roll:

mudhaw · Post by **mudhaw** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:01 pm

You'll have to lst us know how good the slip bypass is, me Wyane and Steve are thinking about doing a trip down there after the winch comp.

Dion

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:01 pm

i would but i think this is a little out of my league at the moment and besides the mudcedes still isn legal the panelbeater was supposed to ring me this week oh well it will be worth the wait

skid · Post by **skid** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:03 pm

mercutio wrote:i would but i think this is a little out of my league at the moment and besides the mudcedes still isn legal the panelbeater was supposed to ring me this week oh well it will be worth the wait

how long will it be :?:

we're starting to think maybe with a name like mercedes, thats its too scared to go off road :lol:

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:40 pm

skid wrote:its a bit trickier than that, with the divorce and shit happening at the same time

Doh. Better get that sorted = more time for 4wding later

mudhaw wrote:You'll have to lst us know how good the slip bypass is, me Wyane and Steve are thinking about doing a trip down there after the winch comp.

Yeah, will do... I think we'll go up that way to get across it first, rather than turn up there late in the day to find the whole hill is gone after all this rain. :shock:

Ben

mudhaw · Post by **mudhaw** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:02 pm

We were planing to go that way too
Been the other twice this year, took us 26 hours the first time. That was with 2 out of the 5 truck braking down and over 100mm of rain while we were in there
The second time 3 trucks no brake downs, 5 hours
and next day did Thompsons, car park to car park and back again in 5 hours. A bloody good weekend

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:10 pm

skid wrote:
mercutio wrote:i would but i think this is a little out of my league at the moment and besides the mudcedes still isn legal the panelbeater was supposed to ring me this week oh well it will be worth the wait

how long will it be

we're starting to think maybe with a name like mercedes, thats its too scared to go off road

it shoudnÂ´t take him to long to fix i have got the replacement parts

just waiting for him to finish some of his other jobs

and believe me this mercedes isnÂ´t scared of going off road

it will wear itÂ´s scarrs with pride :lol:

Furgus · Post by **Furgus** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:38 pm

Ben wrote:I'm taking a Norwest club trip to Waitapheta this weekend on saturday (the 21st).
At this stage there aren't many Norwest trucks coming, so I have some free spots if anyone wants to come.

Waitapheta is an awesome track, in the Karangahake gorge area, with a bit of everything - mud, ruts, rock, and mud (especially after all this rain)
It is a grade 4+ track though, so you need to have a fully self sufficient and capable truck.
Ben

How did you guys get on - any pics????

Norwest club Waitapheta trip this weekend

Norwest club Waitapheta trip this weekend

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