Thread: Patrol killed at big river

Funny.......

They wont have learned their lesson though, they will blame the track, tyres, some mechanical failure well before he will say I stuffed up.

He's a Patrol driver after all.....

ha ha ha

i've herd alot about the shortcuts up there

even been invited to do a night run up shortcut2 after a few ales

but declined well and truely


by the sound of it they were lucky not to do any serious damage to themselves as for the poopie who cares

As far as I'm aware, short cut 2 has been graded. Which part of short cut 1 did he loose it on, as the only really hard bit is in a deep rut where you can't loose it, unless it's really wet, as the by pass for that bit is extremely slippery.

The second part of this video, where it is wet, is short cut 1 track. The non rutty part is the by pass for the hard part. This was taken on Anzac weekend this year. For the record, no one got up the hard part, and only three cars got up the by pass.

Originally Posted by cmurray

As far as I'm aware, short cut 2 has been graded. Which part of short cut 1 did he loose it on, as the only really hard bit is in a deep rut where you can't loose it, unless it's really wet, as the by pass for that bit is extremely slippery.

The second part of this video, where it is wet, is short cut 1 track. The non rutty part is the by pass for the hard part. This was taken on Anzac weekend this year. For the record, no one got up the hard part, and only three cars got up the by pass.

Cool - thanks for posting this video. Wish some of the clips hadn't been short - i wanted to know what happened to the Patrol at 1.15mins, started sliding backwards ominously.

Can someone help me in my 4wding ignorance, it looked like most ppl were taking even the dry rocky parts at a fair speed. Is that because it was steeper than it looked & they needed momentum, or would a 'slow & steady' approach have worked better? Looked like there was a lot of bouncing around.

As I said, 4wd ignorance - I'm here to learn as much as possible!

Far out, those are some mean tracks - and Landie's

Originally Posted by carjunkieanon

Cool - thanks for posting this video. Wish some of the clips hadn't been short - i wanted to know what happened to the Patrol at 1.15mins, started sliding backwards ominously.

Can someone help me in my 4wding ignorance, it looked like most ppl were taking even the dry rocky parts at a fair speed. Is that because it was steeper than it looked & they needed momentum, or would a 'slow & steady' approach have worked better? Looked like there was a lot of bouncing around.

As I said, 4wd ignorance - I'm here to learn as much as possible!

Similar thoughts.... bouncing aruond on stoney tracks when a slower pace may have been gentler on vehicles and picking better lines. But then again it must have been pretty steep... ??? Don't think I;m interested in pushing my own vehicle that hard in and through those deep mud ruts. Don't have the $$ to maintain a rig when things obviously will go bang....

As a matter of interest what is the track graded in terms of difficulty and for you who are in a club what are minimum rig setups to tackle these places??