Offroad-Express

picked up my arb winch bar on friday, finished putting it on about 11am sat morn and went for squirt up thompsons track


starting to look like a truck now

Went up thompsons today and did the loop. Found all the trees D boy and wopass were talking about a couple of weeks ago. I cleared a few of them. I have been wanting to tackle the pond on the loop for some time. Today was the day.










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That looks like fun

tgaguy1 wrote:Went up thompsons today and did the loop. Found all the trees D boy and wopass were talking about a couple of weeks ago. I cleared a few of them. I have been wanting to tackle the pond on the loop for some time. Today was the day.

Bugger, i was looking forward to using my chainsaw up there next time

I wussed ot of the pond and followed the 4wheeler track around the edge ( Was worried about how deep those ruts where and if i missed them i would have been on my side )

Went for a cruise up Odlins Rd passed the hut and explored a couple of the side tracks, is gettin pretty rutted in places, loved it

DieselBoy wrote:Spent all weekend following the WRC and the Possum Bourne Memorial Rally around. AWESOME as usual. Spent a windy night last night up on the the Whanga Coast to to beat the road closure so we could get to the primo spot where you can see the cars for about 5k's.

Did i mention it was AWESOME

Not much 4x4 realated, but did about 700K's+ in the safari, towed a few knobs out that got there cars stuck on the side of the road. Biggest was a ford transit with car trailer from one of the support crews that go stuck up to its rear axle

was that you in the red safari db, we were the noisy wankers locked in the paddock with the big yellow and red tarps, we laughed watching the odd couple with bags of gravel in the transit camper you towed, had i known i would come over and introduced my self.
vaughan

Yeh, that was me, showed up at about 11pm sat night out there

So it was you with the spot light huh

my weekend started with miner repairs tom my rig on saturday the on sunday went up the fourmile to clear up a bit of a blockage where a slip had dumped a large treetrunk on the track making it impossible to pass as the side of the road had fallen away so abbit of chainsawing and wiching with the help of a freind we reopend the road
further down the track was more overgrowth on a side road so we got out and cleaned up the sides of the track and then continued bak to town hopefully all going to plan will go up again this week i will go finnish the repairs

Daz wrote:Well spent last night in hospital with the wife giving birth to our daughter, she was born at 1:39am this morning 9lb 2oz. Im a pretty proud daddy at the moment.

Congats to ya Daz, good shot
Hope she's settling down well now for you and mum

Daz wrote:Well spent last night in hospital with the wife giving birth to our daughter, she was born at 1:39am this morning 9lb 2oz. Im a pretty proud daddy at the moment.

congrats on your new arrival hope u get loads of sleep just incase bubs doesnt let u

Thanks for the replys, shes settling really well misses is doing the feeding, so not to bad on the sleep side.

Hows your little one doing Tim??

I know the weekend is over but i had to share... got these little puppies from the courier today. Thanks Warren

we fitted a set of those to the winch truck in time for the rotorua winch challenge. They made a HUGE difference. I reckon it is money well spent. Took a bit of time fiddling with the nitrogen pressures to get them right though.

Daz wrote:
Hows your little one doing Tim??

real good, really enjoying a girl for a change, last one though we think

real good, really enjoying a girl for a change, last one though we think

I should bloody well hope so, I've now got one more chrissy and birthday present to buy.
Al