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Dace wrote:

Landynut wrote:<<SNIP>>

If ya look carefully in the third pic, there is a shovel applied to the ground in what is called "the council position"

<<SNIP>>

Lmao!!!!

Dace wrote:

Landynut wrote:I was gonna say something bout that earlier, its a nice short truck with a good winch by the looks of the bulldozing its doing cant say much for the shiny tho, cant see it very well...

did you have a shovel or any other recovery tools besides a winch?

didn't happen to get a pic of where it was recovered from?

doesn't look like your in any major trouble in those pics....

If ya look carefully in the third pic, there is a shovel applied to the ground in what is called "the council position"

And in a different earlier pic, our young visiting friends were utilizing a hi-lift jack

ah I see... so at what point was it necessary to be "rescued?"

unless one of their engines packed up and died it should have been a fairly simple recovery unless they were trying to winch dead-weight ....

Update:


Got my LC70 back yesterday.


It needs some work on left front HUB or CV,ARB bullbar and rear diff lock,

Where I can get an external roll cage for it?




Prepare for the next trip on Thompsons

Good to hear you have the vehicle back. I'm sure the guys up your way will point you in the right direction for getting the work done

Take Wopass with you next time

zero4 wrote:Update:


Got my LC70 back yesterday.


It needs some work on left front HUB or CV,ARB bullbar and rear diff lock,

Where I can get an external roll cage for it?




Prepare for the next trip on Thompsons

MEAN AS COUNT ME IN

zero4 wrote:Update:


Got my LC70 back yesterday.


It needs some work on left front HUB or CV,ARB bullbar and rear diff lock,

Where I can get an external roll cage for it?




Prepare for the next trip on Thompsons

Sweet,
How much did you have to pay the burgling Wankers?
If you still owe the mongrels anything tell em to shove it.
I am sure someone on here in your area will point you in the right direction for your repairs.
If you get stuck next time put a message out on here I'm sure you will get help for little or no charge.
Best of luck out wheeling.
Richard.

pm Badnuz for ARB stuff

definately agree with mylux, ask around - dont go with the first vulture that jumps on you with cash quotes . . .

I would have put up a 100hp 4wd tractor with pretty decent rubber and a pto winch - if someone else provided a truck you woulda had yourself a pretty cheap recovery....

Far out
How bout we keep it on topic eh.
Petty bullshit pissing contests are F All help here

The last 5-6 pages of this thread have just turned in crap, it was good reading and a usefull thread to the people involved up untill people started dribbling on.
Keep on topic aye guys!!

ClassicCruiserSpares wrote:The last 5-6 pages of this thread have just turned in crap, it was good reading and a usefull thread to the people involved up untill people started dribbling on.
Keep on topic aye guys!!

Yep time for a moderator to clean the off topic crap out, this thread is being viewed by the whole of the NZ 4wd community and we all want to see the outcome not the dribble

Sadam_Husain wrote:

ClassicCruiserSpares wrote:The last 5-6 pages of this thread have just turned in crap, it was good reading and a usefull thread to the people involved up untill people started dribbling on.
Keep on topic aye guys!!

Yep time for a moderator to clean the off topic crap out, this thread is being viewed by the whole of the NZ 4wd community and we all want to see the outcome not the dribble

X2

Weed out the drival

Cleaned up now, only took 25 minutes Please keep it on topic

kricky that stopped it fast

good stuff

whats the progress/ results on this assummed dept that BOP have done to you zero4

i see you have the truck back, all good there

what about this contract busines??

whats the results???

SO WAT DID IT COST IN THE END?
OR SOMEONE ASK ALREADY

wopass wrote:This is a statement from Bay of Plenty Four Wheel Drive Club following a special executive meeting held yesterday.
1. BOP4WD Club was not involved in the recovery.
= they all got kicked outa the club yesterday

2. The use of the BOP4WD Club name was not authorized by the Club.
=nothing to do with us,they stole it!

3. There was a request and an agreement for the recovery of both vehicles between the owners and the recovery team. The verbally agreed price was $3000 and the only claim made for payment has been for $2750 as per a signed contract.
=the contract that has nothing to do with the club because they stole it and are not members anyway...

4. The vehicles were ill equipped for Thompson’s Track. The owners of the vehicles did not want to be involved in the recovery & voluntarily left the keys with the recovery team & asked to be contacted when the vehicles had been retrieved.
= OMG im scared, lets get outa here before someone gets hurt!

5. Alternative recovery methods were suggested & rejected by the owners. This recovery was performed at the insistence of the owners who allegedly are uninsured for 4WD activities.
=we can do it or you can go get fcuked is an alternative!?

6. At no time have the vehicles been held ransom pending payment of the agreed fee. They have been properly recovered, securely stored, cleaned, & radiators and brakes flushed, thus restoring them to a drivable condition.
=play it down, give it a hose,make it sound like were still good guys!!...

Hmmmm,

We paid $2750 for our trucks,


Guess what?

Wopass was right with most of the things

and theres the first post from an expert BOP recovery person i guess...



dont let the door hit you on your way out

Bugger moving countries, just found this. I always miss the fun, unless I'm in it of course. That tosser must be one of the recovery ripoff artist's bumbuddies :lol. That should get him riled, live in Oz mate if you want to talk about it!

Got to say that reading thourgh all of this really highlights the ORE community spirit. It was clubs that tried to destory this forum in its infancy and many of us old b**a*r*s stood up to them and won. It heartens me to see this spirit continuing. This site will only flourish as, dare I say it, clubs are shit! Been there and done many as many of us have and many will do on their 4wd journey. This may not be a club, but my best trips were through this forum. Keep it up guys, you better still be going when I return to the Land of the Long White Cloud!
Al

albundy wrote:Bugger moving countries, just found this. I always miss the fun, unless I'm in it of course. That tosser must be one of the recovery ripoff artist's bumbuddies :lol. That should get him riled, live in Oz mate if you want to talk about it!

Got to say that reading thourgh all of this really highlights the ORE community spirit. It was clubs that tried to destory this forum in its infancy and many of us old b**a*r*s stood up to them and won. It heartens me to see this spirit continuing. This site will only flourish as, dare I say it, clubs are shit! Been there and done many as many of us have and many will do on their 4wd journey. This may not be a club, but my best trips were through this forum. Keep it up guys, you better still be going when I return to the Land of the Long White Cloud!
Al

Well said Al...

We paid $2750 for our trucks,

Was that for both or per truck?

ToYoda wrote:

We paid $2750 for our trucks,

Was that for both or per truck?

For both trucks,mate.

sorry Al clubs play there part in this past time, and I'm gald I'm in one

Was the money paid to the club (as per contract)???

sorry Al clubs play there part in this past time, and I'm gald I'm in one

I'm sure they do Coxsy, but clubs are always full of politics and people have their agendas, but you just don't get that in ORE on trips, and I have been on sh**loads of them. There are good people in clubs, I have just always found they usually don't take seats of office and peole with the agendas take control. I have seen it in all clubs even non 4wd. Human nature really. Good to see your club may prove me worng. And there are many that are not in clubs that also do their share, the West Coast CMS review was but one example. As was the CHCh earthquake.
Al

So to sum it all up, just a bunch of blokes, with trucks, who like mud, beer and giving each other some stick.....and can use an internet web browser

Holly shit

GotFlex wrote:mate how long have they had your trucks for now? ill help come get them for if you want lol, ill be that way this week,

not to get off topic

Belonging to a club isnt always the best idea, all i can say is HBClubs are a pack of queer c**ts.


stand up to these pricks quick.

You should be very carefull what you write on a public forum Jesse. You have already made enough enemies in H.B. dragging the names of respected people into the mud with your certification saga....

I do not know who was involved, they certainly have made some bad decisions though. I strongly hope that the club, for its own sake, has ejected a few people.

I was in the BOP club 5 or 6 years ago, but have not lived in Tauranga since. There were a few Muppets (as with any group) but SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BOP CLUB ARE AMONG THE BEST YOU WILL EVER MEET. I suspect that the reply from Neville was his best attempt at protecting the club from the PR damage that a few members inflicted, with the information he had (though in hindsight, with info from zero4 it could have been a better reply). If it wasn't for the help and guidance from a couple of awesome BOP club members I would possibly not be involved in 4wding today.

I remember BOP club members leaving their nice warm lounge during the middle of the Bathurst1000 to come out on a real shitty day to help recover my dead truck from Thompsons. I don't remember paying a cent (but I hope to goodness that I bought them beer). Another time I borrowed a trailer from a club member to bring my broken truck home. Another member spent the best part of an afternoon teaching me some driving tips, others helped me get around the wires unscathed. There is (was?) a good club feeling in this club.

Please do not strike this club off. There are good people involved.

Arron Eades.

P.S I'd be keen for a Thompsons trip soon, let us know when your trucks are ready zero4 and JJS.

Yup I know a few good people in the BOP club too. Recovered 3 trucks from the pines up near thompsons. We'd ventured into a track that apparently only people with 37"+ tyres go up and had managed to get almost the whole way back to to the road before running into problems. Was a friend of a friend of a friend recovery so not officially by the club, but since they could see we had well setup trucks and all the gear and werent just idiots playing around and had given a good effort of recovering ourselves, infact had spent about 2 hours hand winching with a hi-lift jack to get one truck clear lol. Cost us $200 all up, they guys got to have a bit of a play, we learnt a few lessons that day/night, and everyone was ok and drove home. Big thanks to them. $8k sounds like a rediculous figure. as mentioned before i think you pay a reasonable pre agreed amount and shouldnt be expected to pay for the recoverers broken gear. We agreed on an amount and were made aware that if they needed to get in more gear we would be charged accordingly