Uki Trip

[Busman]

A quick thanks to Tim & Harry for organising todays trip.:)
These guys took the time to research this area, and put something different together for all the experience.
Good job !!!
Had a great day and relaxing leisurly drive.
Certainly worth looking at a few more day trips, within reasonable
distance from Brisbane & the Gold Coast.:cool:

[harry]

thanks for the day to all,
we may be able to do more later in the year.
an interesting day,
one car off the track :o and saved by pommie plants,
one track stuffed by pommie cars:wasntme:.
ok you clever people, bring on the pics.

and thanks eric, i want another ride.:cool:

[djhampson]

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Thanks to Tim and Harry for organising the day... I had a blast!

[tapout]

Fantastic day, i had a ball and the kids loved it, first time ive ever been off road so ive got alot to learn, cant wait for the next one, hopfully ill have bigger tyres and alittle bit of lift by then.

Jason.

[Rhi]

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[dungarover]

Glad you blokes had fun and it seems from early reports that everyone enjoyed themselves. Whilts you were all out wheeling I was dismantling the fuel tank from the bullet in-between watching the footy as well as having a few coldies to help with the 'dismantling' :cool:

Trav

[CheekyD1]

We are not very clever but we have some pictures

So we arrived at the BP Chinderah early, cause Henry was on a promise to get McDonalds, he likes that Scottish food for breakfast.
Slowly but surely the Rover’s arrived, till the parking lot was almost full of Rovers
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Convoy to Uki was very impressive to be part of, finally arriving at the pub.
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After meeting our guide it was off to the tracks
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With the sighting of some snakes, at the next stop there was a lot of standing on Rovers
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Or just plain staying in Rovers
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After lunch we headed into some more challenging tracks, steep and slippery
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Opps
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At least he can still smile about it
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Nice parking
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YouTube- Recovery.wmv


Cheeky then discovered a new species, if you look closely in the bush you night see it.
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After all that fun we found a fun hill, check out these rascals

You tube (on the way)

This RRC even starts fires
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Thanks Tim and Harry, great trip

Gaz

[Killer]

Thanks for organising another great trip Tim and Harry, and a huge thanks to Brian from the Tweed Valley 4wd Club for his efforts in leading us aroud the tracks, and for his hospitality.

Cheers, Mick.

[Skiboy]

Thanks Tim and Harry for organizing - thanks to Brian for work in clearing the tracks and thanks to his wife for some great scones, jam and cream!

By the way Brian said there were a heap of tracks like the last one with rocks and some fun gully stuff in that last area BUT they needed cutting. I suggested that he talk to the club about us putting together a working party with brush cutters and we help clear - then come and use the tracks.

He said good idea and would talk to Tim about that for later in the year.

Also does anyone have more pics of that final hill climb?
Keith

[stevo68]

Awwww.....looks like a great day was had....am bummed we couldn't make it...great pics as well.

Regards

Stevo

[WhiteD3]

Thanks Tim & Harry for a great trip. Great turn out and lovely country. Andy was getting a bit bored in the arvo until that slippery section:eek:

Special thanks to Harry for immediatly moving after my panic call on the 2 way!

Some pics of the day....

Uki hotel
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We had to stop here as Brian had come across a calf seperate from it's mum.
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Harry's Mrs' looked to be having a good day out:eek:
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[Skiboy]

Thanks for pics and esp the video WhiteD3

Anyone else with pics of the action? Will try and upload a few myself tonight
Keith

[CheekyD1]

Sorry for the delay in posting some video
I had to clean up my computer, it was full you see :o full of pictures of Land Rovers it turns out.
So having made space for some more Land Rover video, things worked better.

The video was longer but WhiteD3 had a lot of the same footage, so not to boor I cut it down, see WhiteD3 above. :cool:

:twisted::twisted::twisted: Check out Eric and Darth (Justin) :twisted::twisted::twisted:

YouTube- Uki_0001.wmv

Enjoy
Gaz

[THE 109]

The first 2 louts and Skiboy did far less damage to the track by only having one attempt:D

[Skiboy]

Eric - we also keep to the track (through good fortune I suspect in my case) - I did do a jump to the right then a jump to the left you will note in the video!

Rachael actually wanted to have a second go - and I had almost convinced her to drive it - but when we got back down everyone seemed keen to pack it in so we left it. Anyway this is part of the reason for building another car so more of our family group can get out and drive.

For us the mud hill was the highlight of the trip - to do something a little more difficult. Having spent a fair bit of time preparing and sorting the car last year (and some repairs last/this year) we need more fun stuff.

Mind you we only just made it up with a lot of side to side on the steering wheel when we started to slow down!

We ran second gear in the auto - almost tempted at third with the reduction transfer gears - so that keep more traction.

Looking forward to doing more driving and less grinding and welding this year! Black dust on the driveway makes a mess.

Keith

[CheekyD1]

The first 2 louts and Skiboy did far less damage to the track by only having one attempt:D

Maybe so, but the track was cut up, thats my story and I'm sticking to it. :cool:

[NOZ]

The first 2 louts and Skiboy did far less damage to the track by only having one attempt:D

I was trying to entertain ;)

[Skiboy]

Noz
The sound of that engine is entertainment enough for any V8 lover!

But as I saw it you got as far as where we slowed down and almost stopped - only difference is we are on mud tyres!
Keith

[harry]

The first 2 louts and Skiboy did far less damage to the track by only having one attempt:D

following eric and justin, there were two other cars that tried this track, one failed, and the second got it, then noz and the others were to follow,
we missed those events as we were still returning from the successful first conquering of this track.

yeehar,
and i didn't have to hang on,
eric drove it well,
and the four wheel drifts between trees going uphill at 75 k's were excellent, i even got some of that rally driver/navigator hand signal stuff going, so he didn't have to slow down.

thanks eric, that was fun.











toddles off to garage to work out something with disco wheel arches, where does the supercharger fit, how much of the front do i cut off, where;s the angle grinder.

[dungarover]

Gotta love the sound of those V8's althpough Justin made it look simple.

Gaz at least the Disco sounds like a real V8 now :twisted: The bullet sounds good with it's 2 1/2 inch straight through muffler and new extractors too when it's running properly :(

Trav

[NOZ]

Yes was an interesting first outing in the newly purchased Rangie. To be completly honest I was a bit disappointed I didnt get up the slippery hill but I more put this down to my poor driving than the cars capabilities


We are booked in for the new tyres Saturday week and a few other mods soon to follow eg: recovery points, plasma rope for the winch, suspension lift,diff guards,Super Charger, Nitrous oxide, Twin Turbos and anything else I can fit so it wont happen again :mad: :D ;)

Just joking on the last 3 ;)

[DRanged]

Gotta love the sound of those V8's althpough Justin made it look simple.

Gaz at least the Disco sounds like a real V8 now :twisted: The bullet sounds good with it's 2 1/2 inch straight through muffler and new extractors too when it's running properly :(

Trav

Way to go Trav just keep "Torqin it up" for the Rangy's hey.

Darth

[Skiboy]

Here is a pic for you Noz
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