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  1. 17th August 2020, 08:10 AM #41
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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipA View Post
    up around Mudgee we called it Vomit country when we had a club Christmas in July at a member's brothers property.

    Everyone got bogged and we spent all day recovering.

    One bloke broke a snatch strap which took out the tailgate of an RRC.

    Another with a D1(same at broken snatch strap) had a 12000 lb winch which just pulled him along like the Queen Mary with mud half way up the drivers door, so he couldn't get out.

    We eventually got him out by placing my exhaust jack under the front then pulling the car up onto it and rolling it a bit.

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    There is an area of nasty stuff up around Aramac and Jericho that the locals call "swampy soil". It is greyish and when dry wears down to a hard surface like a concrete slab. Wheeled traffic wears the top off into a fine dust that gets in everything. Wet, one has to move vehicles and machinery regularly or they just slowly sink into the soil. Proper PIA for property owners. Go away for a week and if there is rain, return to find every vehicle or piece of plant on the place sunk to the axle housings or chassis rails.
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    Not just near Aramac - I encountered this on Ludgate Hill station between Muttaburra and Prairie.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    Not just near Aramac - I encountered this on Ludgate Hill station between Muttaburra and Prairie.
    Yes, same area.
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    Muttaburra is well known for it. The Capricorn Highway west of Jericho used to be like a roller coaster.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hogarthde View Post
    But I like your thinking ! Get in and get dirty .
    gee tis easy from the kitchen table solving problems 🧐

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    And yet more interest to the tale! yesterday the mother of the next door property owner was brought out to stay there for a fortnight by the bloke they had hoped would take on the caretaker job.

    This afternoon I got a call from him asking if I could take him out to the bitumen, where his niece could pick him up. Turns out that he thought he would "do the right thing" and get some firewood for her. So he drives out to the bogged trailer with firewood unloaded next to it........

    Now have another ute bogged on the property.
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    you must feel like some people never learn JD
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    The family/paddock/thread that just keeps delivering... The questions are, how long is winter and how many vehicles do they have?
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    Quote Originally Posted by windsock View Post
    The family/paddock/thread that just keeps delivering... The questions are, how long is winter and how many vehicles do they have?
    The only vehicles that live there that are bogged are the trailer and the Fergie. Everything else has been brought in (to get bogged)!

    The only working vehicles there now are a four wheeler and a small dozer (with flat batteries!). The owner is currently working in Cooma, says he will be back in three weeks.

    I wait for the next episode with bated breath!
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    The only vehicles that live there that are bogged are the trailer and the Fergie. Everything else has been brought in (to get bogged)!

    The only working vehicles there now are a four wheeler and a small dozer (with flat batteries!). The owner is currently working in Cooma, says he will be back in three weeks.

    I wait for the next episode with bated breath!
    Me thinks it is about time they stumped up some cash and got a contractor onsite with say an excavator to get everything out. They at least owe it to you to get your landy and tractor back.
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