Treads in the forest

[Treads]

I posted some of Tulip having fun, now it's my turn:

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[The Fish]

Hi Treads

The photos look great and the disco is looking good to. Do you have any photos of how your winch mounts with the TJM bar as I don't quite understand how the mounting bracket works for them. Also what brand is your steering gaurd as I wouldn't mind getting one myself.

Cheers
Dan

[Treads]

Hi Treads

The photos look great and the disco is looking good to. Do you have any photos of how your winch mounts with the TJM bar as I don't quite understand how the mounting bracket works for them. Also what brand is your steering gaurd as I wouldn't mind getting one myself.

Cheers
Dan

Hi mate,
I don't have any photos at the moment; however I'll try to explain. The winch is a TJM Ox9500 that mounts feet forward against the TJM steel winch bar. The lower two holes are also used for securing the fairlead. I was told by TJM that it was fine to mount up to a 10,000Lb winch like this in an airbag vehicle. For a 12,000Lb winch they recommend the use of a separate mounting cradle between the chassis rails.

The steering guard is a bearmach alloy guard I purchased from: http://myworld.ebay.com.au/garyclr4wd/

Gary is also an AULRO member, can't remember his username, something similar to his ebay one. I've bought quite alot of stuff from him.

Cheers

[shorty disco]

looks good treads

[Treads]

She certainly looks better than when I bought her in March:

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:cool:

[Fusion]

Mate them bighorns look great on the disco . Good to see some mud on the machine :D:cool::twisted:

[martinozcmax]

Great pics treads, looks like you were having a ball !



Martin

[warren9981]

I'm convinced.
Gotta get me some Bighorns;)
Where do we get them from in North NSW.

[long stroke]

Very nice pics Treads:)

[Treads]

I'm convinced.
Gotta get me some Bighorns;)
Where do we get them from in North NSW.

I got mine through my local bridgestone dealer here in Armidale. $265ea, which may be a tad on the dear side.

[long stroke]

I know a guy on the outerlimits forum who sells them around here, i priced some 33/12.5/15s they were $242 each;)

CHEERS TIM.

[goldey]

I've got the Bighorns in 245/75 16's, fantastic, paid 1000 bucks for 4 of them in Newcastle, sorry can't help you with up north, but I'd imagine pretty much any tyre stealer would be able to get Maxxis brand in if they don't already stock them.

And excellent looking Disco too Treads, resembles mine quite a bit, only mines a gold colour.

Cheers

Goldey

[Treads]

Playing again:

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The ruts were just an inch too deep on the exit :mad:

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Tulip to the rescue ;)

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She was quite chuffed after doing the recovery, although I could have winched myself out :angel:

[Treads]

Went out with the RFS cadets on a three day bivouac in the Styx SF earlier this week. Performed 3 hazard reduction burns and completed the cadets basic firefighter assessments. As well as this we drove as many fire trails as we could to check them before the fire season. Was a great few days of 4wding :)

My overnight setup
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After this my Disco was first through any obstacle ;)
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Spotted in it's natural environment :D
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Pumping training at Wattle Flat
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It was a great experience for a couple of our appliance drivers too, especially having to put up with manhandling our old training trucks around the bush
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One of the Hazard reduction burns on crown land beside the Waterfall way
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[Redback]

Not a lot of hard driving in Styx, but it's a very pretty place and the camping area are good and clean.

Here's something i put together from our wet weekend up there, this was an AULRO/Australia4wd combined forum gathering.
YouTube - Styx River Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q48UMRegT6M)

I love Styx,

Baz.

[long stroke]

Hi Justin looks like you had a great time in the stix:)
We will be heading up your way today, camping around the stix state forest, on chandler river (halls peak) near west cundarung;)
We will be leaving on sunday arvo.
Might see you round;)
By the way there will be two cars the county and a silver disco (dads brother)

CHEERS TIM.

[long stroke]

Not a lot of hard driving in Styx, but it's a very pretty place and the camping area are good and clean.

Here's something i put together from our wet weekend up there, this was an AULRO/Australia4wd combined forum gathering.
YouTube - Styx River Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q48UMRegT6M)

I love Styx,

Baz.

Nice!!! please tell me you are running another trip down there soon, we will be in it:D

CHEERS TIM.

[Treads]

Not a lot of hard driving in Styx, but it's a very pretty place and the camping area are good and clean.

Here's something i put together from our wet weekend up there, this was an AULRO/Australia4wd combined forum gathering.
YouTube - Styx River Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q48UMRegT6M)

I love Styx,

Baz.

There are a few harder trails, it mostly depends on the weather conditions. In your video I recognised Boundary trail, it can be quite interesting in the wet :) We love the place too.


Hi Justin looks like you had a great time in the stix:)
We will be heading up your way today, camping around the stix state forest, on chandler river (halls peak) near west cundarung;)
We will be leaving on sunday arvo.
Might see you round;)
By the way there will be two cars the county and a silver disco (dads brother)

CHEERS TIM.

It's a shame I'm instructing a fire brigade course this weekend, otherwise I'd head down for one of the days to meet you. I'll be spending a week down around East and West Kunderang at the end of this month. I can't wait to be back down there!


Nice!!! please tell me you are running another trip down there soon, we will be in it:D

CHEERS TIM.

As would we! :cool:

[Redback]

I am thinking of it, it will need to be a 4 day weekend for us because of the distance from here, but we will be going back that's for sure.

In that vid the 3 talking and laughing, that Dullbird and Muddymech (Ian & Lou AULRO) and Miraz (Jeff Aust4wd), that was Ian and Lous first camping trip in Australia.

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/nsw-act-reports/28139-styx-river-report.html

Baz.

[long stroke]

There are a few harder trails, it mostly depends on the weather conditions. In your video I recognised Boundary trail, it can be quite interesting in the wet :) We love the place too.



It's a shame I'm instructing a fire brigade course this weekend, otherwise I'd head down for one of the days to meet you. I'll be spending a week down around East and West Kunderang at the end of this month. I can't wait to be back down there!

You never know we might decide to come down that weekend to;)
We usually try to get down there 2-3 times a year;)



As would we! :cool:

You never know we might decide to come down that weekend to;)
We usually try to get down there 2-3 times a year;)

the only problem for us is the max time dad can get off is two nights:(

TIM.

[Xtreme]

Attached a couple of recent views in the East & West Kunderang area.
Magnificent country.

Roger

[long stroke]

Nice pics i'll post some up once we get back;)

[long stroke]

Some pics of our weekend in the stix state forest area (chandler river)
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CHEERS TIM.

[Bush65]

Nice pics Tim, thanks for sharing. Brings back memories as it looks remarkably like the bottom of Carters Trail and the last could be at one of the hairpin bends.

[long stroke]

Nice pics Tim, thanks for sharing. Brings back memories as it looks remarkably like the bottom of Carters Trail and the last could be at one of the hairpin bends.

All the pics are taken on halls peak trail, (about 5km's down stream from carters) sadly carters has been locked off:mad:

CHEERS TIM.

[long stroke]

Few more pics...
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CHEERS TIM.

[rangie83]

I've been down to the Halls Peak camping ground twice last month, national parks have put in toilets,tables and camp fire areas and graded the road pretty well too (bit too well). They also put a dirty big gate at the top of the track.
I rang National Parks to find out more info on when it will be locked and was told "in the near future" So I'll just keep going down there til the near future comes.

[long stroke]

I've been down to the Halls Peak camping ground twice last month, national parks have put in toilets,tables and camp fire areas and graded the road pretty well too (bit too well). They also put a dirty big gate at the top of the track.
I rang National Parks to find out more info on when it will be locked and was told "in the near future" So I'll just keep going down there til the near future comes.

Yeah the first toilet went in just before easter and they have put two more in since along with about 10-12 BBQ areas and afew picknick tables.
About the gate i think they are just going to lock it off and people who want to go down there just ring national parks and they send you a key in the post.
I think this is so they can control the amount of people down there at one time;) and there will be a fee involved to, to fund all the work they have done down there:mad:
In my opinion i wish they just left the track alone, i think the reason was when the track was still realy bad a hilux bounced off the edge and national parks had to recover them;)

CHEERS TIM.

[Treads]

Nice pics Tim, thanks for sharing. Brings back memories as it looks remarkably like the bottom of Carters Trail and the last could be at one of the hairpin bends.

Unfortunately, as Tim said, Carters Rd is closed. Apparently due to erosion issues. I doubt they'll put the same work into it as they have for Halls Peak trail :(

I'll be down there from the 24th to the 28th with the RFS. Part of what we'll be doing is checking trails for access over the fire season. It's nice to know what size truck (if any) will fit down those tracks.

[Bush65]

Unfortunately, as Tim said, Carters Rd is closed. Apparently due to erosion issues. I doubt they'll put the same work into it as they have for Halls Peak trail :(

I'll be down there from the 24th to the 28th with the RFS. Part of what we'll be doing is checking trails for access over the fire season. It's nice to know what size truck (if any) will fit down those tracks.
Carters trail was put in so a truck could transport water for the mine. The water truck had to zig-zag (forward from one hairpin then reverse to another and so on. But many of those areas, for running past the bends have eroded away now.

I had to do 3 point turns in the disco on a couple of the turns and 2 point on the rest. Some longer wheel base vehicles took 4 goes on some bends.

[Bush65]

Yeah the first toilet went in just before easter and they have put two more in since along with about 10-12 BBQ areas and afew picknick tables.
About the gate i think they are just going to lock it off and people who want to go down there just ring national parks and they send you a key in the post.
I think this is so they can control the amount of people down there at one time;) and there will be a fee involved to, to fund all the work they have done down there:mad:
In my opinion i wish they just left the track alone, i think the reason was when the track was still realy bad a hilux bounced off the edge and national parks had to recover them;)

CHEERS TIM.
Sounds like what happened over at Riverside when they put the gate in. There you make the payment and pick a key up at a servo in Walca, but just drop the key in a box at the gate as you leave.

[Poida4x4]

I'm selling some bighorns! They're in Perth though, check out the markets...