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Further to this and kinda tangental to it, there's an awful lot of heartbreak on the Anne Beadell Highway with abandoned busted campers and the like. We came up the Connie Sue so didn't see the western end, but not far east of Neale Junction are the remains of what appeared to be a home-built caravan- frame built with heavy RHS but the aluminium body had disintegrated. Not surprising. Further east, there were two separate camper trailers, or at least the abandoned wreckage of them- both were rear-opening hard-floor types, similar to the original Kimberley Camper design but not that make. One cheapy, one Jayco so I guess not a cheapy. It looked to me like the latches had failed and the campers had opened up and folded back, unbeknownst to the driver until too late, the open camper would then have been totally destroyed by overhanging vegetation. Another one that should never have been taken out of the suburbs was a steel box trailer with- I kid you not- slipper leaf springs! One spring set had snapped through all the leaves at the centre bolt. That bloke was only a day or two ahead of us but I don't think he was going back for it- just another pile of debris now. Not far west of Emu, don't know which way he was heading- the corrugations are relatively mild west of there but reach 10/10 from the Emu airstrip eastwards.
Twenty years ago the Gunbarrel was similar. I came across a near new 'Offroad' camper, that had experienced severe, undercarriage and chassis destruction. All fittings e.g. removable awning, were still attached. I know salvaging is a no-no, but can see why it occurs.
It also posed the question to me, as to whether one of Australia's top selling brands of 'van/camper, was over represented in these wrecks, by way of sale's numbers or quality?
Back on topic. A length of hooked, fencing wire is always a good tool to carry. Even to remove sticks and branches from underneath, when you're an old fart. 
'sit bonum tempora volvunt'
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