Thread: VIDEO LAND ROVERS IN EXTREME MUDDY TRACKS

Nice vid, those jungles look pretty sweet. It would be interesting to see the same obstacles driven with some flatter tyres, some of those sections didn't look to be as bad as the cars made it look, that could also be the camera, never looks as hard on screen!

Owners of 4WD's who deliberately drive on muddy roads or tracks to test the capability of their vehicles and driving and recovery skills in such conditions should first consider what the road is normally used for by locals and others frequenting the area. Regular users and those who sympathise with them normally try to avoid driving on wet roads if it will obviously do significant damage and the trip is not an important priority. It can be very annoying to those trying to avoid damaging the road when "urban cowboys" trying out their 4wd's effectively deliberately plough them up.


These types would most likely not be obliged to use the road again in the condition they left it. Including when it had dried to various extents leaving very deep and hard ruts that are very rough and often difficult to drive through. I got stuck once in near dry ruts on a back road near home when most of vehicle weight was on diffs scraping the ground. Also, is a lot of not easy work grading the road. Often take several runs to properly fill in and smooth out the ruts. A bloke I know told me about an incident in Queensland. A group of "urban cowboys" that had just made an awful mess driving up and down a section of muddy rural road was confronted by a representative of the local Shire backed by police who presented them with a large bill to cover the cost of grading etc to repair damage they had done.


I have heard of cases where 4WDers have become bogged doing stupid things that have unnecessarily damaged the road and locals, including rangers in forests passing by have left them there, despite being fully equipped to pull them out. However, the same people would almost always help those who got stuck while trying not to. With this approach, would sometimes cost idiots a lot of time and money arranging to get out if no mates nearby.


When there is a wet boggy patch on an otherwise easily passable road, sometimes a detour can be made around it to avoid making the bog worse and maybe leaving less mud to clean off vehicle. Responsible road users who have good reason to go through usually try to minimise the destructive effect.


Those who want to test 4wd's in the mud should try to find places where damage done is least likely to upset anyone. eg a track which was formerly a road and has been replaced by a new much better road nearby serving the same purpose better.


Note I am a farmer who drives a Defender. Find its capabilities handy despite largely deliberately trying to avoid mudholes with it.

On the flip side, the worst thing for erosion is to drive around mud holes and create new tracks, it makes more of a mess than driving thru it.

I nice little track by the look of it , mostly a firm base too.

I think lower tire pressures and difflocks would have made it a lot easier however.

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Originally Posted by Summiitt

On the flip side, the worst thing for erosion is to drive around mud holes and create new tracks, it makes more of a mess than driving thru it.

Yep sure is

All the one sided BS aside ,
Back to the point another great quaility video keep up the good work

There is a thread where all LR videos are supposed to posted: http://www.aulro.com/afvb/armchair-w...er-videos.html

I felt sorry for one bloke a couple of years ago who was taking his family out in their nice Pajero for a Sunday drive in the mountain area behind Hobart, he came across a what looked like a flat muddy patch on the track and not suspecting anything went to drive through it, only to have his Pajero sink up to above the windows sills, the windows were open and the inside of the car quickly filled with this liquid clay.
He and his wife had to quickly get their toddlers out of the window from off the back seat, as they were in a precarious situation with wet runny clay all over them.
His vehicle was a write off, and the family had a close call from having a something worse happen.

How did this hole come to be so deep? Prior to the family coming along, a group of lo-IQ-wits a couple of weeks before, in their battered 4wd bombs had used this wet spot to have some fun, going back and forwards to see who was going to get bogged first and when they finished they left the mess, a hole large enough to trap the unwary, rainwater filling the hole which then skinned over with the clay as it started to dry on top.

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