Thread: D4 on Big Red

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Why for no flag on the Landcruiser?

Originally Posted by matti4556

Why for no flag on the Landcruiser?

Because he does not want to stand out when stuck half way up Big Red !

I didn't say in this post that my D4 flew up and over the top with me backing off at the top. No one else on the day could get anywhere near the top. The closest was a Prado who thought he would copy my line and stopped about 10 m from the top where it started to get really soft.


I will try to post a video when I get an MP4 version from the Landcruiser driver with no flag who is my son's mate. We were travelling in a convoy of three cars on a five week 13,000km trip from Perth to Perth via Central Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Darwin and the Kimberley.


We didn't do the Simpson, just went for about 10 minutes into the Desert from Big Red and back but I did think he had a flag until I saw these photos.

There's no requirement for every vehicle in a convoy to have a flag.

BobD , were you doing e/w or w/e crossing?

On the w/e approach there have been up to 4 different tracks each one becoming harder as you go north.

Last year when I drove big red from the east there was only one track available which was difficult at the time as a Patrol had ploughed it's way up not long before me.

There had been a fair amount of wind erosion and several mtrs had gone off the top.....a fairly steep knoll left on the southern end of about 4-5mtrs proved impossible to top.....but it changes and this was "pre season".

That was the west to east track at the northen end. The south track and the east to west tracks were easy and no need for speed, just like all the sand hills we crossed on our short trip into the desert. It amazes me that people continue to dig up these hills when all of the cars in our convoy just walked over the hills with no speed or wheel spin required. I don't know how they make it so difficult. The harder tracks up Big Red are a bit different, however!

Two years ago,we got there late in the arvo,after a crossing from the west.

There were two guys with a late model LC tray back each,they had spent most of the day trying to get up the hardest track.One had lowered his tyres to 12 psi,still couldn't get up.

The fully loaded D4 shot up like a walk in the park.I did take a long run up,and had to back off at the top as I was flying.They were amazed.

When we left the top I forgot to turn off the DSC. as I restarted the D4 and it bogged down.We were lucky to get going without a bit of help from the long handled shovel.Rock crawl,DSC off,a bit more body height and it scrambled out. with the Tojo owners looking on