Whanga Road the Trip

[madaz068]

So the trip has started, we are all at Nick's place for the Friday night drinks. He (Nick) is cooking us dinner, isn't he a good wife (said by Ryan) . So we are thinking of heading to Ron's place, (Jerry the sober one) has said tha the will drive Nick's shiny around there so us drunken bums can keep drinking!! Top bloke that Jerry!!

So here are some photo's of the trip so far,.... STOP IT TAYLOR!!! (he is taking heaps of photo's of shyt.....)


yeah you take this thingy and then you go right and then left and then.....

Daces Pussy

[SV1K]

Check out more photo's here. These are from Nick's place, we will post more when we return from the track clearing trip.

[skid]

whoa, check out that goatee




is he trying to relive his 70s porn star status

or maybe trying to look like his childhood WWF wrestling hero

[madaz068]

Grandad (Ryan) is not amused

[skid]

so are you fullas enjoying the video of jerrys life

[madaz068]

When BIN Skiddy saw jerry so happy

[Nizsafari]

whoa, check out that goatee




is he trying to relive his 70s porn star status

or maybe trying to look like his childhood WWF wrestling hero

Ryan the "Hulkster"...

[wgtnnewbie]

whoa, check out that goatee




is he trying to relive his 70s porn star status

or maybe trying to look like his childhood WWF wrestling hero

Ryan the "Hulkster"...

looks more like he's trying to channel the BIG YIN himself.....

[Nizsafari]

Where's the goddam friggin photo's, its bad enough i missed this trip AGAIN..

[Jerry]

Got back to nicks at 10pm tonight, go heaps of work done, Mike broke an inner CV on his surf and Ron killed his jeep, cleared lots of slips (not the big one), rebuilt the brifge at mcfetridges crossing and cut back scrub in lots of places. My first trip out to Whanga Rd and its a great track, spent the night at the campground there last night and had dinner at the pub just down the road (very hospitalble).

Loads of pics and vids, will be uploaded when we get a chance. for all those that didn't turn up then thats your loss, but don't panic ....Reece and myself are planning another trip/working weekend at some stage.

Thanks to Central Zone FWD Assn for paying for the digger, and to Porter Hire for giving us a really cheap deal on the digger hire, I believe that the Whanga pub donated to this as well. I would thank all the other local clubs for helping but there was no sign of them at all.... great work guys ..... not .... this is a public road after all ....I expect to see you at the next one or else !!!!.

[crizpy]

Thanks everyone For a really good weekend, im trying to learn how to upload photos so hopefully this works,
I only took a couple of photos of my vehicle before camera battery died but ill throw them up anyway

[Jerry]

got a ton of pics and vids to look at and sort out, anyway heres a few teasers


only a slight dropoff on the left here



Wheres Wally oops Dace oops Dave

One of the small slips being cleared by Nick and his digger (I had to drive his lexus prado )

Pulling up old bridge, the drain was cleared and relaid

Here we are making a new one


The snoring section

This fella called Mike showed up

Broken jeep


These were from day 3 from the bonus trip (thanks Wilson for letting us play there)




this is only a handful of the photos taken, there will be more put up soon, and video too

[wisard2]

What an awesome trip. A huge thanks once again to the wonderful hospitality shown to us all by Nick & Rachael, who just open their home up to us to trash . Thanks to all those who attended for your company and for making the trip what it was. Thanks also to Wilson, a good friend of Nick & Rachael's who allowed us to dump half a tonne of Whanga mud in his cow yard and hose our vehicles down with his high pressure wash hose, the first time in the middle of the night, and again today. And a big thanks again to Wilson for taking us all to his huge run off block and allowing us all to trash that as well. (If your reading this Wilson, there is a bottle of Jim Beam that Nick is going to drop off to you from us all, so enjoy ).

And a top effort to crizpy, Tom & Mark who all made the effort to come up on Saturday night in time for tea with us at the pub, and on the piss at the camping grounds afterwards. And the same effort was made by Mike and his better half, who made a made a mad dash up first thing Sunday morning to spend the day with us all. We all got a lot of work done on the Saturday, and played on Sunday and today....................what a buzz.

Can't wait for the next trip up there.

Photos will follow in the next day or so.

[Jerry]

Heres Nick (Madaz068) towing Ron's broken jeep up the sideloop track near the swingbridge

http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/node/654

[wisard2]

More or less towards the start off Whanga Rd doing some cleaning up.





A long way down to the river!




Reece trailered the digger as far as he could to save time.



Clearing a nasty slip that dropped off into the river way below.







Move along please, there's nothing to see here, move along.

[wisard2]

The Lexus Smurf.



The digger Smurf.



More Smurfs.




The Smurf's truck.



Everyone playing in the mud.











Recovering Ron's broken Jeep.




Stuck, stuck, stuck & stuck.








Remember this place Dace???



My off sider for much of the trip, and man, can he fart!!



Day 3 at Wilson's place, and the views.

[Mark]

Nice work gents. While you were all working hard I was up relaxing in Tauranga with the family... bugger it all!

What tyres have you got on your truck Reece? Wouldn't be a new purchase by any chance would it?

[madaz068]

A big thanks to EVERYONE that turned up to help, got done what i wanted to achieve and more so bloody excellent.

I have hundreds of pics on my computer so just going to pick a few.

First one i will pick on is Mike. He turned up at Whanga on Sunday morning after a hell of a trip from National Park (his words about road lol)

Mike trying out the local mud. We wont talk about him stuck





Tony discovers some mud


This is what happens when you lend your truck to the little asian (aka Jerry) and Kev


Believe it or not we had great weather (even Jerry got sunburnt), but for about 10 mins the heavens opened (dam it)


Clearing a recent slip on the road



Start of the big repair


Pipe moved and starting to rebuild


Repair mostly done and a nice job by everyone

[SV1K]

What a trip!! Thanks heaps to Nick and Rachel for putting up with as all again, it was great!!

Thanks to all that made the trip, it was AWESOME and the people that were there made it just great. Those that missed it, don't worry there will be another one in there soon, just need to work time and dates.

A special thanks goes out to Wilson, as granddad mentioned, he opened his milking yard up late at night for us to clean our trucks without even a whisper of pi$$ off, it's to late! He also let us play around on his run-off paddocks on Monday then clean our trucks once more! TOP BLOKE!!

I am sorting out the vid's and will upload them soon, the photo's are here, they are from the whole trip and in ramdon order for some reason? but anyways they are all there.

Thanks again to Rachel, Nick and Wilson for putting up with us out of towners and for the play in your "play ground" it was great!

[Sadam_Husain]

I hope somebody brought me a load of those kanuka's home for my wood stove

[madaz068]

This one worries me

[skid]

This one worries me

you beat me to it

Be afraid, be very afraid

when Jerry is around

[wisard2]

It worried YOU................?

[skid]

It worried YOU................?

please tell us you didn't pose for it

that you had no idea what that asian fulla was up to

[madaz068]

It worried YOU................?

please tell us you didn't pose for it

that you had no idea what that asian fulla was up to

I can put hand on heart and say Ryan had everything ..... opps sorry nothing to do with it

[Jafa]

It worried YOU................?

dodgy fawkn chink!

[Dace]

WHAT A TRIP!

It was Mud-tastic

Got heap of work done on the saturday, cleared some slips and overhanging branches, built a bridge and got over over it. Big ups to to all the guys (and Gal) that turned up to do the work, pity the local clubs were too busy, maybe we'll see em next time we are up.

Sunday, play day in the whangas, crispy was there with mark and nut-####, pointed him at a couple of mud holes which he dutifully drove into! (good on ya mate ), Mike turned up so show us the effect a front auto locka has on CV joints
and Ron showed us how strong his jeep was

note to Ron, Was very sorry to hear your's and Ricky's bad news Monday morning, a real tragedy and I hope she Is well soon.

back on the track

Sunday, Went to a mate of Nicks place (yes, he has one!!) Big thanks to Wilson for the day and the use of the hose to clean the truck. Had a tour of his farm and took in the amazing views played in some more mud, and dutifully broke the hilux

A quick trip to Wilsons shed and application of some Nissan parts (Wilson assured me it would go much better with em there ) and we were back on the road and headin home

A great weekend!

[Dace]

It worried YOU................?

please tell us you didn't pose for it

that you had no idea what that asian fulla was up to

I can put hand on heart and say Ryan had everything ..... opps sorry nothing to do with it

To be honest, I think Granddad enjoyed the attention

[wisard2]

It worried YOU................?

please tell us you didn't pose for it

that you had no idea what that asian fulla was up to

I can put hand on heart and say Ryan had everything ..... opps sorry nothing to do with it

To be honest, I think Granddad enjoyed the attention [/quote]

Piss off Dacey!! You sound jealous.

[Jerry]

heres the rest of my pics

http://s339.photobucket.com/albums/n475 ... 8/?start=0

took some movies too, these will appear later