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richard, are you going to come and do a few things in wellytown?

cool__bananas wrote:richard, are you going to come and do a few things in wellytown?

At this point nothing is set in concrete. The only thing definate is staying with Wayne (Mudzilla) at Te Araha and doing Thompsons and a couple of other tracks in the Waikato.

There are other tracks in the middle of the North Island as well but are awaiting for confirmation.

Keeping options open at this time.

Cheers Richard

Lots of trucks are going through the Bulletproof Chasm track now and it looks as if the road always existed.

This is our first working bee in feb 2005 after the destruction of the big flood.

You can see what we were faced with.



Cheers Richard

Richard
You rightly talk a lot about 4wd recovery in a safe manner. I dont however see the use of chainsaw chaps when you are using your saw.
After i got mine I cut them up high whilst i was an hour from civilisation. Am very pleased I used them then and always do now. Femural arteries bleed you out pretty damn quick!

Please note I am not trying to Diss you, just to be positively constructive and to highlight safety.

IcedJohnno wrote:Richard
You rightly talk a lot about 4wd recovery in a safe manner. I dont however see the use of chainsaw chaps when you are using your saw.
After i got mine I cut them up high whilst i was an hour from civilisation. Am very pleased I used them then and always do now. Femural arteries bleed you out pretty damn quick!

Please note I am not trying to Diss you, just to be positively constructive and to highlight safety.

I worked in the forestry as a logger until I had a bad accident in 1974. In those days no one wore chaps so I have never really thought about it.

I am not making excuses because you are right, and I am glad you have pointed out the danger of not wearing them and I am sorry if I have given others the message.

Cheers Richard

apprently karkekireki sp ? is also good up here

when out to waynes last night for a banana split and a chat .. go tto see some of your vid's look awesome richard
the one thing out of all the footage i got to watch was the comprehensive voice overs :d and that fantastic backround music

cheers for sending them up .. weeeeell worth a watch .. your gunna love your time up here richard i think you will be in for a real treat[size=200] (weve all ordered 40's just to make sure we can keep up )[/size]



wayne

Bulletproof wrote:

IcedJohnno wrote:Richard
You rightly talk a lot about 4wd recovery in a safe manner. I dont however see the use of chainsaw chaps when you are using your saw.
After i got mine I cut them up high whilst i was an hour from civilisation. Am very pleased I used them then and always do now. Femural arteries bleed you out pretty damn quick!

Please note I am not trying to Diss you, just to be positively constructive and to highlight safety.

I worked in the forestry as a logger until I had a bad accident in 1974. In those days no one wore chaps so I have never really thought about it.

I am not making excuses because you are right, and I am glad you have pointed out the danger of not wearing them and I am sorry if I have given others the message.

Cheers Richard

Thanks for the sincere answer, and you are welcome.

Glen (NJV6) PM ed me the other day and said they opened alot of the tracks at Haast in the late 80s.

For anyone who hasn't been there it is big country and awesome scenery.

Barn Bay is the most southern point a person can drive to on the West Coast of the South Island.

A vid from 2004 with the Canterbury Landrover owners club.



Cheers Richard

My wife Dianne saw this and said ," Gee Iv'e lost some weight since then"

A slimey Westport track in more ways than one.



Cheers Richard

Looks like fun Richard!

Been at home today so here is another track.

A number of clubs have had several goes to do this track up to the pylon under the Karamea bluffs but have run out of daylight getting to it.

Marc Crackett ( Uboat) and brother Steve and myself are the only ones to have done it.

The first video shows the track leading to it.



2nd vid shows heading up. Very very slippery clay in the wet.



3rd vid shows the descent with Steve having a close shave with a nasty accident as his truck slipped back and nearly got him.




Cheers Richard

Awesome Richard, love your work!!

those clay tracks remind me of where i live, even with simex's the clay is very hard to clear off the tires!!

some good vids

what size were the superswampers on the single cab(red back)?

For all you 40 lovers .Play time at the end of Pine Valley beside the Wairau River.

The young guy holding the branch is Andrew Sathery (Sav ) winner of Hanmer winch challenge 08 and organizer of Reefton challenge in Oct 09

Joe McDowell in his cruiser.



Joe trying to float the cruiser across a water Channel




Cheers Richard

that is awesome, the 2nd one is like Camel Trophy footage. that was quite deep hahahahah!!!

Shane wrote:some good vids

what size were the superswampers on the single cab(red back)?

The swampers on my truck are just the standard TSL's 33x12.5x15 on some 15x10 whitespokes with heavy duty tubes. Poor old 2.8 cant do them justice really even with 4.88 diffs, that why im rebuilding the truck with more grunt .

Cheers Stephen

Im leaving myself wide open here, but these are typical of 2 different kinds of trucks in this video of the little Totara.

English-lack of quality

Nissan - no clearance



Cheers Richard

the nissan stopped quick then spun himself at hole clever

Looked like the Nissan was running 33's combine that with that rock, no lockers and what looks like a lack of experince in river work due to the excesive wheel spin and you will get stuck

Like to see a Toyoda on 31's with a newbie driving get over that rock

And yes I bite well

Bulletproof wrote:Im leaving myself wide open here, but these are typical of 2 different kinds of trucks in this video of the little Totara.

English-lack of quality

Nissan - no clearance



Cheers Richard

or maybe.... just maybe, the 2 mentioned vehicles havent had half as much work done to them as you have to yours.
and yes i am a Toyota driver

PR wrote:Looked like the Nissan was running 33's combine that with that rock, no lockers and what looks like a lack of experince in river work due to the excesive wheel spin and you will get stuck

Like to see a Toyoda on 31's with a newbie driving get over that rock

And yes I bite well

His comment on those british ones was bang on though

PR wrote:Looked like the Nissan was running 33's combine that with that rock, no lockers and what looks like a lack of experince in river work due to the excesive wheel spin and you will get stuck

Like to see a Toyoda on 31's with a newbie driving get over that rock

And yes I bite well

I could be wrong but that looks like Johnny Rae on 35's, if it is, I bet he'd love to hear you call him inexperienced Paul

I agree with you 100% PR.
And Tim if that is who you thought it was, then he sure wasn't showing any signs of knowing how to drive a river in that clip

What it shows to me is that you have to start somewhere, and it is going on trips like that, that help you decide what needs to be done to traverse that sort of country.
All you newer guys who want to push the envelope need to do trips that are just a wee bit more difficult each time if you want to get up to the level of trips that Richard does. It's the old adage, "you gotta walk, before you can run"

Hi Tim
No that was not Johnny Reay in that Nissan.

Johnny was on the very first trip as a passenger with Flag, and on that trip he was a passenger with me.

Xmas 07 we took Johnny's Nissan through there for the 1st time. At that time he didn't have a winch and didn't have the 35ETs fitted so he sat in behind me and I towed him without stopping right across the bogs to the steep bank.

Most Nissans we have taken through have broken steering or Panhard rods and Johnny didn't escape either.

Here is a clip of Johnny Reays Nissan





Cheers Richard

thats why mines solid steel now, tie rods crome moly, still have rear lower arms to mod

While the DVD of Johnny Reay is in the computor , Here is are a couple of clips of the the 1st return trip through Tailings at Xmas 07

We had a hell of a job getting out of Pigeon Creek with 2 boulders in the wrong place.

The complete return trip took about 5.5 hrs








Cheers Richard

you have some great vid richard.. keep em comming :d

Most Nissans we have taken through have broken steering or Panhard rods and Johnny didn't escape either

Couldn't agree more Richard hence why I put pressure pipe sleeve over the steering arm, and angle iron on the rear panhard and on the lower trailing arms. I stil;l carry a spare steering arm and rear panhard rod as spares. haven't broken any since strengthening.
Al

A greasy rooty bank at Mike Dredges place at Maruia QB 05

No one made it to the top. Too much bouce on the roots.



Cheers Richard