Thread: Logan Challenge Comp - Team Rovernutters

Cheers for the update Dave. I tried calling a few of them last night but all their mobiles were off or out of signal.

Can't wait to see some pics and footage.

Congratulations to the Rovernutters for their efforts on Friday night and all of Saturday. It was well worth the drive down and would have been better if we could have spectated all events (hard due to the competition format). Anyway here are some photos from Saturday. I will do up a CD for all the competitors and a couple of extras and bring them to the next meeting.

Bolts throwing the plasma rope across the creek.


The objective was to get a spare tyre and first aid kit across the creek.


The team being briefed before a good driving stage. There was a photographer on the climb on the other side of the hill that said they were the first people to drive the hill that day. Unfortunately Trav had some problems with the Dunga though.


Justin and Bolts highlift winching.


Camo and Greg swapping them out.


The team on a driving/winching stage. The winching component really got everyone thinking.


Camo and Bolts setting up the winching component.


Count the number of lines.


Justin trying to figure out why he was still moving foward instead of backwards (could make a good profile pic).

Looks like you guys had a blast......wish I could have made it. Look forward to more stories from the event.

Here is a quick bit of vid of the Rovernutters in action.
Proper footage will go on disk & hopefully be played at next meeting.
Bit of damage & breakage, but nothing major on the day.
Best if l let the guys upon their return give their version of how
the whole comp went.
All participants will be just plain stuffed when they get home, as they were up at 05:00am each day & still going well into the night,
then have to pack up camp & drive a further 3 hrs to get home>

TOP EFFORT ALL ROUND !!!



[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpvCVOSyNuk"]YouTube - Emu Creek (logan Challenge) GCLRO[/ame]

Just to give you an idea of this course shown, you are timed to complete a round circuit. (Winching is allowed). The course is very rocky and uneven, especially on the bottom to top part of the course.
The comment made by the camera man who was next to us was "No other team has managed to get up this hill without a winch")>
So what does Justin & Greg do ! A puff of diesel smoke & whistle & bellow of the mighty Izuzu at the limiter and straight to the top ! (Awsome to watch)
Phillipe & Bolts also made it to the top with some hold ups, but did the job also. (great effort)>
Trav in the Dunga with Camo were the last to ride to the top.
Trav was going very well to until we heard a loud tinny crack.
We all said oh S**t, what was that !!??
Then we noticed the front wheels were facing opposite directions.
First thought came to mind was a broken steering arm or the like>
Camo jumps out and advises that is only a tie rod on the left side that has jumped off. The split pin came out and the nut vibrated off the tie rod thread.
The thread on the tie rod was ok, then Harry leaped into action.,
A bit of something of this & something off that and Harry had it fitted in around 5 mins (Great effort).
The mighty Dunga lives to fight on.
Justin winched Trav just to be sure to the top and the boys completed the course.
Trav also would of made it up the hill for sure. (Lucky an easy fix).
This is only one of many tasks that team worked as a team and should be congratulated.
After Justins amazing run up the rock covered track, he noticed oil coming out of the front diff.
The Rangie even with the front diff guard had suffered some damage.
It was a previous crack from some time ago that had reopened.
So back to camp for some running repairs then back on the track for another task.
Overall from the time l was there, no real major damage to report and top effort by the guys.

Hey folks just a quick hello and yes we all made it home under our own steam. just a big thanks to all the team and the GCLRO groupies who were superb in their help ( I will tell more later).

Big thanks to Harry for looking after us. Big thanks to Grimace & Jess for a fantastic job feeding and hydrating us. Was a great site coming back to camp to a set out feast.

Once again thanks to the whole team and support crew for a great weekend.

A very sore & stiff Justin

what a trip!
i wish to thank the team, killer, the supporters, and a huge thank you to jess and grimace.
these two set up a huge covered area, as soon as we got there, and had a meal on the table almost instantly, they had good food for us and it was ready for us each time we needed a break through out the weekend, including special meals prepared for killer [mick] as he would return later than the team from his 'marshalling' duties
this included being up at ridiculous hours saturday and sunday morming.
without their support we as a team would not have been able to do what we did.
thank you.
to mick, you volunteered to marshall for the event, and was left out in the dark, the bush, and the hot sun all day, with 5.00 am starts and midnight finishes,
thank you.
the supporters, thank you for coming down and assisting us, it gave us all a lift to hear your reports of how we were doing, as you were able to give us some comparision with the other teams.
and the team,
everyone performed very well and we achieved some mammoth tasks and challenging driving, with no major damage to cars or people, although we tried to kill justin friday night at the tug of war, and greg on sat morn, dropping a tree on him at the see-saw logs, trav by ripping his foot off and phillipe with a pair of stillsons, sorry, it was my fault .
we gave chief navigator 'greg' some challenging gps points and he found the way for us.
justin powered the bullet proof isuzu up and it went there,
phillipe and bolts followed on in good time with trav and camo in the dunga pushing them from the rear [this was the car order for the event]
we won the 'pull the car with a high-lift jack stage' in record time, and the team came in 13th overall out of 15 teams, and considering this our first event and we did not attempt quite a few stages, this was an excellent result.
and we were able to drive the cars home - way better result than some others,
we even supported other teams with emergency parts and tools [including supplying the winning team with parts to keep their rr going] courtesy of phillipe's trailer spares
travs dunga is now a bit longer from being the 'dead' car in one stage, where it had to be towed to move forward and streched aft to stop, even though justin tried to shorten it a bit!
justin's torqit smoked the opposition in the speed trial and phillipe's v8 could he heard on full song making those beautiful sounds only a v8 can do with the dunga echoing the chorus in the dust, lights blazing.
all in all an excellent trip and a big thank you all from me.

Ditto ditto ditto Harry

Got up this morning and surveyed the old girl. The diff pan must have let go over night and the carport had a drink. Kathryn just calmly said ( as she was leaving for school) oh the Rangy is leaking a bit of oil I think. About a metre in diameter of Phillipe's nice clean fresh gear oil mind you.------woops
But when you think about it, we punched above our weight considering the vehicles we were up against. Top team effort.

Justin