Blr243 wrote:Extremely dodgy wet ground Dj is a great reason to stay home. Good to hear there will b some pigs about for you when it does become safe nuff ..I had 20 mm of rain fall today. I took the quad out for a carefull test run afterwards. It did not attract mud to the wheels. A bit slippery and I gotta be careful. Hopefully the tracks around the edges of the stubble paddock s are raised and tapered enough for safe transit tonight. No way in hell am I Gunn Risk it with my Ute that would be suicide .....
Blr243 wrote:Turns out I did not read the track surface well enough in the dark with poor lights on my quad ( pathetic but it’s all I got ) so I bogged and it took me ten mins to get out of there. A bit tired but worth the effort better than a long walk or spending the night with mosquitoes . When trying to get all that mud off my boots gaiters and bike it reminded of how awful that stuff is just hell ...it will have to be a gerni job when I get home
Die Judicii wrote:Since the worst of the recent rains and subsequent flooding when my ute spent 4 days wallowing,,,,,,,, my three main shooting properties remain
extremely dodgy,,,,,,,,,, with Mother Earth still oozing copious amounts of fluids.
But,,,,,,,,,,,, the piggies are out there in big numbers, according to the owners.
One in particular who is bitching cos the oinkers have all but consumed his Millet crop.
Blr243 wrote:When I was younger all hunting was on foot. Then a bloke reaches the older fatter stage where he’ll use a quad for some of it. Later after there’s the fat hunter with arthritis stage where been riding the quad ove rough ground is too much hard work. I don’t visit my gorge country properties north of injunr for that reason. Favourite style Ideally is in the cooler months is no quad at all. 100 per cent walking into the breeze the whole way , no noise to spook game and I can fully immerse myself in the Bush and really focus on my search. But the country has got to hold lots of game for this to be successful....Then when I’m just About stuffed , turn around and do the long walk home with the breeze up my backside and hoping it will spin around. Alternatively I could , if the country were open enough and smooth enough I could quad it , see lots more game because I cover so much ground , but also spook at least 50 per cent of it. Can’t have my cake and eat it too. Speaking of food I’m a bit hungry. I got bugger all food to eat for the next two days. I’m too lazy to drive into town and my lamb has become too much of a pet so I can’t put him in the oven
Blr243 wrote:I found that hunting in New Zealand like that. Once u get up the top above the bush line , and above most of the tussock. Amongst the rocks and ice .... I called it thar country. It took many hours of climbing to get there but it was so worth it. I was so impatient during the climb up. I absolutely hated anything lower. All that low green chamois country. Def not for me The view up there of all the surrounding mountains scree and the valley floor below , was so amazing you could sit up there in the one spot all day and never get tired of the same view
GQshayne wrote:Recovery tracks are worth their weight in beer I reckon. Quick to give them a try, and can be used in reverse of course. No need to look for an anchor point either, which are not common in the middle of farm tracks.
I never go away without mine.
Blr243 wrote:Hi dj thanks for the offe r of box. I guess I will have to look at my mounting situation and work out if it will work or if I have to do something myself. I have plenty of welding and cutting gear and my sheet metal shop cuts and bends heavier duty stuff as well ...I would be lost without those blokes. For anyone in bris I highly recommend ENTERPRISE SHEET METAL MANUFACTURING. In rock lea Been useing them for maybe ten plus years great service ...I can’t look at my Ute rear to design the winch mounting at the moment because it’s in a padfock a few kilometres away surrounded by black sticky bogs. If I can’t get out and end up living here forever I certainly hope the hunting improves because I just can’t see myself happy shooting one cat every two weeks .... if I use real heavy duty 10 mm welding cable extensions on the factory cables is that enough for the rear mounted winch or is the extra battery at rear more suitable to ensure reliable functioning ?
Wm.Traynor wrote:An apprentice eh, bigrich?
Wouldn't ya just know it?!
Those stories about them that I've heard must be true then
bigrich wrote:Wm.Traynor wrote:An apprentice eh, bigrich?
Wouldn't ya just know it?!
Those stories about them that I've heard must be true then
it was pretty cool to be working with petrol heads . at one point the shop leading hand was a fella called ron holtz , he held the world record for a grey motor FJ in the 80's. 12.2's is stout for a grey motor . later on he ran quick red sixes . the "dixie chicken" was the name of his red FJ .probably still doing car stuff
Die Judicii wrote:GQshayne wrote:Recovery tracks are worth their weight in beer I reckon. Quick to give them a try, and can be used in reverse of course. No need to look for an anchor point either, which are not common in the middle of farm tracks.
I never go away without mine.
MaxTrax in my experience aren't worth a pinch of sh!t.
I did have two pair, but the first time I used the first pair they just split and cracked.
And that was only to get my quad out of a mud hole,,,, and it doesn't weigh bugger all compared to a 4WD ute.
I keep the other pair plus two other different brand ones in the dog box,, and will only use them as an absolute last resort/emergency.
Considering what they cost I think they are vastly under engineered and something I wouldn't spend $$$ on ever again.