Offroad-Express

Picked up 6 36" Swampers today, big thanks to Warren at 4WDBits for an awesome deal, if they work as good as they look I won't need my winch too often... Will be a while before they make it onto the truck though as I will need to re-gear the diffs first, don't think the asthmatic old 2.8 would turn them with stock ratios.

Don't worry axle sets and diff gears will be on special next week

spent today cleaning up the garage, can't do much with a badly sprained ankle.

went for a walk to survey the damage up thompsons friday and to have a gander if the 95 hectares for sale up there was slip/fucked,
its not fortunately but funds could be an issue.
thompsons however is toast for this winter,
we walked in past 3 across the track slips before we got to the second creek, which we then walked up and sidled across the hills having a gander at the slips from the top,
we then dropped down the creek just before the shale section to find the creek bed is 3x as wide and has Suzuki size boulders all over the place.
up the rocky incline towards the pines is not too bad with just one dose of clay across the track from the hillside.
walking back past Suzuki boulder creek we had to pick our way through some fairly impressive earth subsidence,
some big puriri trees had even rode the slips down and managed to stay upright till planting themselves in the middle of the original road.
head up for a look on foot with a decent machete as theres a butload of supplejack tangled in each slip.
was a great walk but a pity the track is in need of some serious attention or
even just the trees and foliage cleared from each slip and you'd have a severely tough winch challenge event