Cape York, Kimberley, Simpson - SHAUNO & GRAHAM'S expert trip planning tips! Shed #19
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Shauno & Graham sit down to give you all the expert tips on planning BIG 4WD trips, remote touring adventures and more! The boys will have some advice for you no matter where you're headed.
Cape York, The Kimberley, Simpson Desert, Victorian High Country, Tasmania, the west coast of Australia, heck - even the EAST coast of Australia... Where are you going?!
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30 mins. in. I think thats the very first time I've seen Shauno without a hat on.
It is super weird eh! I dont think i've ever noticed the hat before, but I certainly noticed the hair
29:50 :)
Eating breakfast here in Sweden and watching this 14 min old shed-episode -Couldnt be a better start of a new day!
Perfect mate!!
Another Swede here!? Sweet
@@Johanss-on And a third one here! ;)
Yeap sweden hehe
@@saltyswedes9080 cool film ni gjort ;)
Does anybody else notice how Shauno constantly picks up his beer only to put it down 3 seconds later?
I hadn’t
but I do notice how they say “mate” at the beginning middle and end of almost every sentence. The episode would be about 10 minutes shorter if they didn’t.
Probably empty but he is still thirsty. :)
the culture and attitude of everyone watching and commenting on these vids is a credit to you 4wd247 boys
I can’t wait boys it’s been a long time since you guys went to the Kimberley
It's quiet, almost too quiet... 😉
Back when I had my first ever four wheel drive, stock GU Patrol, thought it'd be a good idea to create my own tracks in the local quarry. Long story short, got bogged, had to leave the car there over night. After a day full of attempted recoveries and broken snatch straps, we resorted to asking a local farmer to bring his tractor down to pull us out, good fun!
Back around 2010ish we were 4wding south of yalwal and we had a beginner 4wder with us and he didn’t know to wait for the first car to get thru the mud before you go thru... so sure enough 2 Holden rodeos were bogged for 7 hours, no winch, no phone connection, no food and 7 hungry kids. Ended up walking around for a few hours to find phone connection and we eventually got a mate to come save us and we got home around 1 am. Live and learn.
Our best bog was out at the end of Track 13 at Paradise Beach. The son got his VE commodore bogged about 100m out from the shore on the salt flat (went out the night before in a bad mood to do doughies, got bogged, was too proud to get help and slept in a cold car), his missus got her CX-5 bogged getting him out. We got called up to help, got her out and got our Subaru Forester bogged instead. A couple of city boys went past and dragged us out in their 2005 GU, then got themselves bogged trying to get my son's VE out. Some local stoners ( one called "THE CRABMAN") were watching from across the peninsula, came across with a couple fourbies, dragged out the GU by anchoring two 4x4s and about 100m of snatch straps and winch cables together. We all then threatened to leave my son there as it was pissing down rain and the tide had come in...and we were all free. He bought slabs, so we stayed. The locals got him to about 10m from the shore and the VE bogged again. They winched the car the rest of the way. Everyone had a few drinks, we shook hands, said good bye to our new mates and headed back out over the sand dunes (now very wet), where the VE promptly got bogged...again. I pulled him out with the Subaru pretty easily(but not happily), and we still give him shit to this day. The questions from the day that were most asked were "who is the idiot who drove the Commodore out here?" and "Why are you called THE CRABMAN?" .Pics from the day still bring a smile. Oh, we now own a Pathfinder as an SUV just doesn't cut it and we would love to have a winch as the boy is still an idiot.
Tbh, I just want a winch so I actually have the confidence to go to places where I will get bogged and have stories to tell. Winch for me just boosts the confidence massively
My thoughts exactly! My 4x4 is also my daily driver/work car so I rely on it! I went without a winch once and I didn’t have any fun cause I was so stressed about getting stuck
Lengths of threaded rod and nuts, best thing I have taken on a trip. You can then make bolts of any size. Also, replace your serpentine belt before you go and then take the old one as a spare. That way you know it fits, how to fit it and what tools you need.
7pm told mum “I’m just popping down to maccas” ended up at the local river calling local farmers to bring there tractors down to pull me out at 3 am in my stock Holden rodeo
Ayy stock holden rodeo gang all i got on my is maxtracks and 2 spottys
Bogged past my side steps out the back of Redhead Beach in 2019. Got my mate in his 75 to reverse up the hill I was stuck on to give me a snatch, but that ended up with him getting stuck in my tracks, also down to the sills. Took us a fair while to get them both out!
One day I was so badly bogged that my life came to an absolute downward spiral, I went out camping and drank sooo much iron jack that before I realised I had some of the worst after grog bog I’ve ever had 💩
My old man taught me and my mate how to drive back in the early 00's in a pine forest, driving a 1984 Subaru Leone 2-door manual hatchback 4wd with only high range. My mate decides to take on a 30%incline on very soft sand, and proceeds to get bogged, but keeps spinning the wheels. 2 hours of digging with an old military shovel and we finally get out but only enough to reverse down the hill. Problem was, the hill climb was the way out, so we decided to take another route which meant getting lost with no gps etc. Took us 3 more hours to find our way out and get home. Bloody excellent time!
I was bogged for 3 days in waist deep mud on the back paddock of my friends farm, I'm not making this up.. I truly regret every moment of it! A sweaty miserable mess and no change of clothes. Day 2 a neighbors tractor came to assist, it got stuck attempting to drag me out. Finally I borrowed a winch, swapped it over in the mud and dragged my way out!
dont have a 4wd yet so never been bogged, but cant wait for the first time!
Watching you guys gets me amped for my next adventure. Coming up this weekend! Love and respect from the USA!
Dry bogged in a sand river with a pride of lions 300m away. Faulty 4wd so had to burry the spare tire and gradually pull the 80 out using a ratchet strap. The shovel was forgotten in camp so palm fronds where used for digging. Best 16th birthday ever!
Yes boys! Planning our trip to the NT and the Kimberley in June, rig prep has already begun!
careful with alice at the moment I reckon aha
Alice is fine during the day.
@@walkabout_adventures that is a facutal statement there
@@uwot9021 we have never had an issue
i was bogged out majorly in a place here in the uk called salisbury plains, a millitary training grounds, i wasnt aware that the bog in question was one they drive tracked tanks through, and was alot deeper than we thought, the water/mud was up to the windshield and took 2 trucks simultaneously to pull me out 😂 good times!!
That would have been fun cleaning haha
mate, nightmare it was hahah
Love the episodes also can you do a montage of jocks biggest mistakes
Haha YES!!!
Few years back took the 4x4 to a mates new property he bought in northern nsw where we decided to go exploring massive property, overgrown as hell, no reception. After about an heading whatever direction the dismal remains of old track led, the ground basically swallowed my D40 nav, 4inch lift with 35s it all of a sudden was mush, to thick for us to move and up sunk to the sills.
Took us a few hours to trek back and then walk a few kms to a neighbour who was kind enough to pull us out with his tractor, which actually also got bogged but had the winch to on his tractor to pull him free and the nav. Haha the best times are when exploring ay Haha
Bloody legends 🤙🏻
I was with my dad in his 100 series and we got bogged in a black mud hole on the Balfour Track on the west coast of Tasmania. I stripped down to my jocks and climbed out the window to connect the winch and a bunch of locals including a couple of girls rocked up during the recovery - super embarrassing but they helped us out then took us on a tour around Trial Harbor. I love Tassie 4wding!
Dont think I've ever seen a beer opened more times then Shaun's 🤣
Step Dad bought me a Triton for my 21st. I offered to take him wheeling to show him how awesome I was after owning it for a week. Went through a bog hole I had driven multiple times in that week, but didn't want to bounce him around too much, so I backed off in the hole. Bogged and flooded the 4wd to the window sills in mud. Mates attempted to snatch me with no luck, called more mates who couldn't get me out with a double line pull off 2 patrols. Ended up needing to call a flat bed tow truck to winch/skull drag me out. Rig was never the same. Step dad was super impressed in my wheeling abilities.
I took my partner out the bush when we first started dating in my old r50 terrano and slipped into a really sticky bog pit we were so bogged we ended up having lunch on the roof until my mum could bring my second truck out to snatch me out and we are still together now with a 3year old daughter who loves the bush
Bogged in Ourimbah: I wanted to take my new rig out on its maiden voyage. I decided to head down to “The Can-opener”, at the Palmdale side of Ourimbah State Forest. I’ve been on this track about 3-4 times in my old Navara so was pretty confident and it was just going to be a quick trip so I didn’t bother with my usual recovery/comms gear. I only brought my Maxtrax and compressor. Rookie mistake #1. After airing down, I headed down this track and was taking it pretty easy, enjoying my time. I caught up to a random guy driving a GU Patrol and followed him for a short while. Nearing the bottom of the track, it started to sprinkle. I forgot to check the weather - rookie mistake #2. I started to turn around. Within 5 mins, it was absolutely pissing down. I kept sliding towards the bank and eventually ended up with my rear diff hung up on a rock and 3 wheels spinning in the air. I was bogged. Considering the rain was making the place look like a scene from Waterworld, I thought it would be a good idea to hang out inside the car and wait for old mate in the GU to come back up. I waited about an hour and realised that there was probably another way out that I didn’t know about. It was getting dark. I didn’t come with anyone who could recover me (rookie mistake #3). I had no idea what to do. Did I mention I was in the car with my Mrs and 2 kids under 4yo?
Long story short, we end up calling 000. Police and fire came, left my car there, took about an hour to hike out in the rain and got dropped off at the local train station. About 3 hours later, at around midnight, we were back in Sydney at home, trying to figure out how to get my car back and feeling incredibly guilty about wasting the resources of emergency services. I ended up contacting a Facebook group 4WD 4X4 RESCUE NSW and an awesome bloke offered to meet us there to winch us out. Literally was a 30cm pull and I drove the rest of the way out on my own steam. Fair to say there were plenty of lessons learnt that day and some excited kids telling stories to teachers the next morning.
The time I was bogged the worst was on a little track at black river (Townsville) and I had got myself suck turning around between two trees with less then a foot between each tree. End up break both tray mounts on the driver side from hitting the tree before sinking to the diffs. Also did a steering rack because we had to put the car sideways to get it out.
Noice can't wait for our Simpson Desert trip next year!
1983 in my first MQ shorty petrol coming out from lawn hill gorge before it was a national park with skinny 16” wheels at highway pressure. It stormed all night at Easter time and the black soil track from the lower gorge to Adele grove was bottomless. We almost made it but got pulled out by another shorty diesel. We were only about 100 metres from the red dirt track. Washed off at Adele’s grove and drove on to the Gregory and got stormed on again as we approached the river but got across the bridge and overnight the river rose 10 feet and stranded people on the western side. Great trip.
Most stuck? Looking for a sweet camp spot around Old Glen Innes Rd area, my partner Nathan and I got stuck in a relatively shallow, wide rocky river crossing. With only one bad-angled winch point available, locker in, we were in and out of the car a dozen times packing rocks to make inches of forward travel. About 20 minutes in, I was contemplating walking back up the track to find help when Nathan stops: "Oh... you're going to hate me." A long pause and then a sheepish "...It's not in 4WD." Got our exercise that day.
Not my finest moment!
@@nathanpaull8239 Maybe not but you have fronted in the comments. I know my memories are mostly of recoveries and being bogged so think of it as just building a library.
Good bogged down to the axils in my 1980 VC Commodore sedan in a paddock. It had been raining for days and I gone camping with a few mates and my girl at the time. Mates were annoying the piss out of me while I was trying to get it with the missus so I headed off the track to hit a boggy paddock. Long story short. Got the quality time with the missus but had to go find the farmer the next morning to pull me out with his tractor lol
I got bogged at inskip point, everyone had a laugh😂
Wow!!
The first time I cracked into 4wding and got the bug for it. Was an over night trip just out the back of Coffs Harbour when I lived there. I didn’t know any tracks but binge watched a few of your episodes and threw the swag In the Ute with the fridge and went for it alone. One night turned into 3 and two days of rain. I got bogged 6 times and had the time of my life. Ended up after the first bog with 8 short logs in the back of my Ute and cut the rubber matt up off the floor of the tray to combine as makeshift tracks and sent it. Been hooked ever since!
Third night was relaxing at pebbly beach alone after restocking the supplies!
You blokes are legends. Can’t wait to get my Ute a bit more fitted out and head north.
One thing Shaun And jock have in common? They both can keep there cars clean for 30 minute on a track
The very first day I got my first 4WD, hadn't bought any recovery gear and didn't realise rear tyres we're bald. Was too excited and took it to a small off-road area out the back of an industrial area literally 30m from the black top and it sunk to the chassis where it stayed for 5hrs until the postie driving past snatched me out with a 2.5t ratchet strap 🤦♂️ bloody legend!
Love it like always
The most bogged I've been, we were down a tiny track between Oberon and Goulburn somewhere. Driving the forester just at the start of vivid, so no-one was around, drove though a creek easy, came back through on a slightly different line, and just got wedged between the bank. Took an hour of digging and back and forth to get out. Was a real bonding activity for me and the missus
Im early as. Keen for this episode 👍😍
Hey lads, I was 17 at the time, Backed a jet ski in to the ocean with a old 70s BMW and sunk the whole rear end in front of a large crowd 🤦♂️🤣... An 80 series come to the rescue and got me out! I'm 32 now and have finally purchased my own 80! It would be awesome to have a winch for the new bar going on soon 👍 Love the channel! cheers legends 🍻
When is graham taking the gq patrol out on the tracks
Perhaps when he doesn't have an sponsorship from Isuzu? Notice how even when he isn't able to come on a trip his rig does.
A couple years back i went for a cheeky run up at the powerlines track in mundaring, wa in the hilux that i was given for work, Ended up trying to power through a massive bog hole with mud up to the windscreen and the old luxy just sank straight into it, Had mud and water in the cab up to my knees while my mate dove in and tied a snatchy on to pull me out. The boss wasnt too happy when i let them know as you could imagine 😂
Baby wipes in the fridge after a hot day, is better than a cold shower!
First time ever driving, learning on kinkoona beach. Bogged dads 200 series to the sidesteps... learnt how to dig aswell that day 👍
Up in pine creek Bundy, found me self upon what I thought was a nice shallow bog hole looked alright and sent the old 80 in there and my eyes deceived me and ran out of clearence ended up with both diffs hung up on the rut and a rear locker wasn’t getting me out. Shockin part was it was winter and jumped out the car to sort a recovery ended up with wet socks for the rest of the day.
100% you can go on your own to some of the more popular places. 2017, Cape York. we had three cars in the convoy. D40 Navara, 2007 BT50 and a KUN26R Hilux. 5 days later, we added, a 90 Series Prado, a 75 series troopy, a D22 Navara, a TD42 GU Wagon and a new BT50. Such great memories with people we met along the way!
Got so bogged in my patrol that the mud was up to the bottom of my doors amd water leaking in, stuck there for an hour in the rain. Rung a mate to help out who tried winching me from behind and he started dragging himself towards me. So he got around me amd tried snatching me out and i didn't even move, ended up tying a strap to the back of him around a tree then using his winch to pull me out. Also ended up doing a head gasket in the process. Loving the shows boys keep it up 🍻
Was down in Victoria in the high country the weekend after Easter, there were three lines you could choose from, number one was basically instant death, and the second one was medium level and third was easier, I made it about 1 meter into the medium level bog hole, I was stuck and completely covered in that heavy mud, had to get out through the window because my dad refused to put the shackle onto my car in the mud so I had to get into the freezing cold mud and it took us a good couple snatches to get out, would of been amazing to have that runva winch on that trip, I kept the snatch strap on the passenger seat since it was used so much 😂👍
My mate got bogged so did a quick snatch with my truck, got 40m and came to a hault where we both got bottomed out on our diffs. We spent 12 hours digging as we had no other way of recovery, using rocks from a near hill about a hundred meters away, using our packs to transport through marshy land. Went through two jacks to lift up the truck, we place the rocks under the tyres but we almost had to make a Roman road for 10m to get. I tell you after getting free I now know what freedom feels like! haha.
After many of episodes and getting fired up watching 4WD24/7, I wanted to hit Watagans. My mates were busy so the misses and I went up in my stock as a rock 4 month old Triton. Day 1 we got there and were exploring and found some lovely spots and then we thought we’d find camp.
We recently bought a Hema so we thought we would follow a track to the end and camp but as we were going down the track we found a few mud holes. Thinking they were okay we drove through and ended up stuck in the mud with no way out and all by ourselves.
3 HOURS LATER!!! Chris from a towing company comes and pulls us out with his personal car, we thank him, find a spot to camp and go home scarred the next day.
I have been saving up for a bullbar and a winch ever since and have yet to purchase either.
Our first 4by was a NS Pajero we spent too much money getting all the accessories everyone wants but doesn’t need. We were doing a simple track not long after getting it, Duck Creek Rd near Lamington after some heavy rain and everything was going great. Until I decided to turn around off the side of the track and learned quickly what real untouched slushy mud is. Mud up to both sills. Not fun in the poring rain and a classic example of all the dollars and no sense, suffice to say I learned a lesson after a local fella in an old Hilux winched us out and I was left with a bent tow point and reality check. My own winch would have been handy then.
My mate brought a new Navara and had never been offroad, Me as a semi experienced 4x4 driver with all the gear (Lift, tyres and locker) I skiped the age of Shauno rule of "Check the hole before you roll" safe to say 3 hours later and multiple snatch attempts the brand new Navara finally pulled me out on standard tyres no lift straight off the floor and he has never let it down since.
Worst time getting stuck on a track was on Brewery Track in Woods Point, Vic. Was in my mates 80 series which was dual locked with 35 inch tyres, the first hill was steep and slippery and we had to winch the whole way up, the next hill was even worse, halfway up the car slid to the side and the tyre rolled off the bead. Ended up having to winch down the hill while trying to stop it going over because it was on a bad angle. Only travelled about 500m in 7 or 8 hours and then had to go back down the hill to where we started!
Favorite bit of advice I've seen lately on spare parts for a long trip was when someone asked about what to take for an old Defender. The consensus was that the best thing to do was to tow another Defender as a spare...
We got half way up Stockton Beach before realising toyota didn't fix the centre diff actuator on a 400km service (something I specified needed fixing). Sand became soft and we bogged down. Only had 2 Maxxtraxx and rear wheel drive. Tide was coming in fast and. Finally got some assistance with an extra set of traxx which allowed us to escape the waterline but still bogged down until some legends came along and towed us out and stayed with us all the way to the northern exit. Needless to say I learned my lesson, got an extra set of maxxtraxx and went to a real mechanic to sort 4wd
My worst bogging was down at Collie dam in WA. Me and my mates drove across a steep and rocky slope that kept pushing me towards the water of the dam, we finally made it across all the rocks and we were all cheering. Then one mate said "imagine if we got stuck now" not even a second later the car sinks into the soft mud all the way down to the axles. Spent the next 2 hours digging while my other mate walked to the other side of the dam to get his car. Great weekend
Middle of Simpson desert around the time of the Birdsville floods 5:30pm just before peoppel. Decide we could camp on the other side Dad floors his heavy 200 across and it sinks down to the door sills. I go in to pull him out 3 snatch straps, a winch extension and my whole winch line, cause he’s so far into the bog and the winch decides to give up. Brother has to come in after us, pull us both out and had to camp on the track till morning. Pretty late night.
A few months back now I got bogged pretty bad at water tower in Rockhampton CQ. I was stuck for over 2 hours and after about an hour of winching I snapped my winch rope which made things a bit interesting. In the end I was pulled out by another vehicle just driving past. 🍺
I got parked (bogged) pretty good on some random mud track up on the Barrington Tops. Smallest car, with the smallest tyres leading the convoy. It started with “you’ll be right mate”, swallowed the whole front end 😂. Turned into a bit of a comedy show trying to un-bog the old shorty. Now I check every big puddle I come across.
We most bogged was in my own paddock🤦 took about 5 hours to get a Amarock a 75 landcruiser and the “recovery truck” out of the soup. Bloody good time to spend with the family
Me and a few mates went for an afternoon mission to Jeffreys Track in South Tas a few year back. We had a Subaru Forester , 90’s Hilux and snatch strap.
Once the confidence grew, we did a few side tracks. On this one section, the Forester got completely belly’d out... 7 hours later with midnight approaching still trying to dig it out, we opted to leave it there the night and came back the following day with a car with a winch... just getting to the car from the opposite direction was a whole other mission...
You guys talked about not waiting until you have all the expensive mods before you start hitting the tracks... this was one of my favourite trips to date and some of the best memories were made and heaps of laughs as we were neck deep in mud.
Ironically, it’s also true some of the weekend trips are more remote than some of the iconic ones... we were 45 mins from home yet didn’t see a single car either day we were there!
Out spotlighting on property just a couple weeks ago, hit a bog hole that was a little too sticky to get out of on my own steam. Turned into more than an hour recovery with everyone getting covered in mud, had frogs and tadpoles on the sidesteps, split the crotch out of my jeans from waistband to waistband. Eventually had to walk back to the homestead 8km away to grab a tractor to pull us out. A winch would've had us out in 5 minutes and saved our night!
Funny enough worst bogged situation wasn't even on a track was at a job in Byron Bay in the work truck. Didn't expect the grass to be as wet as it was drove in fine unloaded everything and wasn't able to get back out so the truck just had to sit there for the next couple of days to the ground dried out got in with a stick and scrapped all the mud out of the tread, some right boot and was able to just get it out
Another great beers in the shed episode and on one trip we got bogged and after many attempts to get out we ended up walking five kilometres to the nearest farm house where the farmer drove us back with his tractor and he got the tractor bogged. We then walked back to farm house to get a bigger tractor to pull the tractor and Rodeo out.
Driving a rental Navara around my brothers property because the rig was at the mechanics and we found a track we have never seen before, first 3 puddles where ankle deep and thought nothing of it. came to a puddle with a side track but i thought what the heck everything has been nothing. Drove in slow and turned out to be 1m deep got stuck with no way of getting out. walked 2 hours to the nearest farm. Told old mate would give him a case of brews, he got the tracker and pulled us out just in time to get back for dinner with the misses.
My first fourby was brand new of the show room floor, took it to Aberfeldy in the high country, done a river crossing it swallowed my fourbie... had to abandon ship and leave the missus... Safe to say the missus has never gone on another trip again
It was my first trip to glasshouse and not wanting to look too soft, I charged head first into a little puddle.. that engulfed the vehicle halfway up the doors and prevented me from getting out. It took several snatch attempts and a fair amount of cleaning, but I've learnt to always check the depth of any water source before charging in.
Years ago my now wife and I did a week trek down south WA, getting late in the day we decided to go into Windy Bay, driving down the beach it was starting to get dark so we decided to pull up off the beach to high ground for the night, the sand was pretty soft so I just berried the old cruiser till it sat on the chassis. The next day I said if you dig out the sand from under the vehicle and bury the spare connect the winch to it while I catch some fish for lunch. After a couple of hours and no fish, I went back to the car to see how she went, she did a pretty good job so I started the car turned the winch on which pulled the spare straight out so put it in gear that was no good so I said oh well Ill have to let the tyers down now and got a stupid look after the tyers were down I just drove straight out and on to hard sand. All these years later she hasn't forgotten I had her digging that sand for nothing.
Robe SA- decided to go into the Little Dip Conservation Park with my two kids and pregnant wife(early stages). Bogged to the axles for 2.5 hours but got out eventually with some Maxtraks and lots of diggin. Got told later that day the track was supposed to be closed for that time of year.
When I was younger my old man, me and a few of his mates went out in the local bush when it was flooded and decided to drive though a part of the road that had water flowing over it without walking it and we were winding up the windows as the water was about to come in but when they saw the slab of beer floating pass that was the deciding factor to get out to safe the beer. The old 4by was stuck and drowned
I took my old man for our first father son trip away out to Licola down howitt road up to in the snow near The gorge and got bogged sliding off the road tried using my new maxtraxs but sadly didn’t work I was bogged so badly I had to get two 4wds we went past earlier to pull us out in sequence and ripped the ABS line out. But to this day am still mates with them and grateful for there help.
How’s it 4WD 24/7, I driving my 2019 fairly stock MR Triton to bottle bay camp ground in shark bay WA, found myself at a boggy sandy section and went straight down to the belly of the vehicle. Spent half the night trying to dig out and use recovery tracks to get the ute out. Before we knew it we were camping on the track and had to wait till the morning for a tug out. Cheers guys.
Absolutely unequivocally GAME CHANGING VIDEO
Hi from south Africa, following you guys and loving it! Most terrible and wonderful bog I experienced... Went out with a mate and myself on the west coast in search of the beach from where we were based for the night. We travelled for a good 6km in deep sand and bush and found us at turning point. Needless to say we got so bogged up to the chassis with no signal and only one way out... Had to cut down two bushes and build a road. We were down deep in the end of an off camber rut in sand softer than you'd think any 4wd could get through. After a good 6 hours of track building and the time tipping on to 4am we managed to get out and made it safely home. I must say if I had a winch for the sturdy tree 20m infront of us we would have been out in a heart beat.
My mate had his massive 105series stuck in a huge bog hole at glasshouse mountains. He had his winch and bonnet buried. So off with the clothes and the only person getting him out was the little winch I had on my old 97 rodeo. Was a sight to see and a few good laughs were had
Travelling through Cape Melville national park on the way to Bathurst bay and came across a real sus looking bog that we weren't real keen on crossing after spending the best part of the day snatching and winching two vehicles with camper trailers across a few boggy crossings along the way. It was almost time to set up camp but it wasn't a real ideal location so we decided to try and go around over a nice green grassed section to the high side of the bog. About 20 meters into it and the surface gave way and dropped me into some of the most luxurious thick mud I've ever seen, bogging my vehicle and camper up to their respective floor pans. Just on dark we managed to skull drag the camper back to dry ground and get it set up for the night and left the vehicle for the morning. After about 8 or 9 attempts at snatching we finally retrieved the vehicle and decided to give the original crossing a go and managed to drive straight across without getting stuck once! :D :D You live and learn!
I have a new drinking game - every time you guys say the word “iconic” you had to take a shot………… keep up the good work lads, amazing adventures, great wheeling and an all round great crew. The Young Family are hooked (especially when comparing pics from our recent Cape York adventure).
My first time 4wding at a local track up the road from glassy I was so exited to get into it I forgot to lock my hubs... long story short had to jump into about 400 mil of water with about 100 mil of mud at the bottom to lock both my hubs, a good lesson learnt and an even better story 🤣
We solo camped at a beautiful isolated spot on Bermagui River with an enormous bog hole on the way in. Got stuck with muddy water coming in and had to winch out fast. Happily suffered winching through the bog hole twice a day for the next three days because it was such a good camp site all to ourselves.
When i read Kimberly, I think of Kimberly in South Africa. Can't wait boys!
Awesome 👌 and the song 🎵 i must say a true compliment to you guys and the singer well done 👏 love it
That song is a brilliant. Hats off to the legend who wrote it. Great episode too as usual fellas
The most bogged I've been? Once on a lake, and the ice broke. Half of the truck in the water, the other one still on the ice. Took 2 whole days getting it out since we couldn't drive any other vehicle on the ice incase it would break. So we got a long hydralic winch on the back of a tractor and we finally got it 😝
I had a winch but it was on the back of the truck, which was submerged. Didn't help much. If i only had a great winch on the front... ;)
Camping at Glen Mervyn Dam in WA one weekend, had a mate decide to drive down after work. He decided to cross a narrow section of the dam on his way in well after dark and got stuck in the water. Passenger side flooded. Used my vehicle to winch him out (old winch, would love the Runva as a replacement), ended up needing to attach my vehicle to a tree behind it. Tree was up a bank so my car ended up with it's rear wheels in the air before his decided to move. Got him out and dried his car back at camp. He decided to go back the next day, when he could see and give the crossing another crack in the opposite direction. Promptly got stuck in the same place and flooded the drivers side of his car. Out with the winch again.
I drove though a deeper part of the same crossing earlier in the day on the way in. Water up to the windscreen. Decided to put a snorkel on after that.
Worst time getting bogged, went to poison creek, 120kms south of Esperance, WA. All the mates left early Friday morning, and me and 4 mates left after work Friday, 5 hour drive to the destination from where we were, 2 Td42 GU utes I went first, and lost my mate half way down the beach, turned around to find waves crashing on his bonnet. 3am the next morning, 3 snatch straps later and 2 maxx tracks gone, we called quits unloaded his Ute and let the water do it’s thing, woke up in the morning with soaking wet swags/clothes from the rain and 3 tyres off the beads. Trip to remember
i live up in Canada and i got stuck on a logging road with a buddy in the passenger seat. we were the first ones threw and were plowing threw 3 feet of snow in a jeep with 31s and open diffs. On the left there was a cliff and the right a ditch bigger then the jeep. lucky i had and old folding army shovel in the back and an ax. cut some fur branches and put them under the tiers and you have your self some make shift max tracks. love the adventure and it gave us time to sled down the trough we had plowed so far.
I’m new to 4x4ing, so my bogged experience is fairly tame. My brother and I took our stock standard utes up Jeffries track in Tasmania, my first recovery was pulling out my brother, can’t beat it! I held it over him for the whole day until I too got stuck. Let’s just say we called it even. Beers all around!
Hey Shauno, Iron Jack are gunna be on the phone tomorrow, 20:57 into the vid and you haven't had one sip! I will tell you IMO it is the nectar of the gods mate so drink up. All jokes aside, these 'Beers in the shed videos' are bloody awesome!!! Not everyone needs to have a 150k vehicle with a 6 inch lift kit running diff locks everywhere, so on and so forth. A day spent off road is a day bloody well spent!
Hey guys
Setting up my 90 series shorty Prado for trips away around godzone (NZ). Love all you tips. You've proved that you don't need to spend a small fortune on all the gear. I've done a few trips, no winch, no lifted suspension. Sensible driving, pick the right line, no probs. Just get out and do it
Not on a track, but on the family cattle station in NW WA. Bogged my fathers HZJ79 up to the top of the front wheel arches at the tender age of 11, and this was 'HIS' ute, no one touched it and it was clean. No car would pull it out, Nissan, Toyota or Holden. Out came the Toyota bobcat, lifted up the rear end, tried to break the suction, chain it up and give it a good tug, still no go! So, back to the drawing board, we've got a Komatsu WA420 back at the sheds, that'll do the trick, except it'll draw attention... Ah stuff it, they won't notice it lumbering out of the yard.
After chaining the bucket to the back of the 'cruiser, it was dead-lifted rear end first straight out of the mud, with the bucket at almost max lift and I kid you not, the cruiser dangling vertically from its chains and about to be eased back down and in the correct orientation plane, dad decides to check out the commotion, rounding the corner to see HIS ute suspended in the air. From within the cab of the loader all I and a member of staff who was trying to save my ass, see is a man throwing his arms in the air, head back, mouthing some expletive. Gotta love living in the bush hey.
Cheers Shauno & Graham, love your work and keep at it. So glad you're doing the Kimberley and starting to venture away from the East Coast, was certainly due.
Frank
Bogged in Little Dip conservation park SA in my old mans new Prado (he still doesn't know about this) with my older brother in his '95 Patrol on New Years Eve. Both cars bogged BELOW the high tide mark up to our axels with the tide rising. Only had 2 Maxtrax and a shovel. Drove past a couple 4km back on the beach so sent the youngest brother running back to find them (38deg day) and got to work with the shovel. Poor fella came limping back 1.5hrs later, couple had said "no chance, but here is a bottle of water". Eventually dug, maxxied, pushed and pulled ourselves out maybe 20min before the tide would've caught us. Beer has never tasted so damn sweet.
Bloody beauty fella's. You keep wheelin and we'll keep watching.
Not me personally, but it was certainly my dad: the most difficult bogged time he had was up in the moore river. I cant remember everything, but i do know that on the last part of getting out, he drove slowly along the deadly soft sand, past his bogged mate, who had another mate run up behind him driving by, and attach a snatch, then legged it up the beach as dad gave it the berries to pull the car up and out of the river. That was many many years ago, yet dad can still remember how long of a night it was.
I remember being bogged at Stradbroke island, I went from the town in 2wd and continued on the sand surprisingly getting roughly a km before hitting the soft stuff.
After realising what I'd done, chucked her in 4x4 and drove off
Good luck to everyone chasing the runva haha. Worst bogged situation I've been in was night time with a mate in his bog stock petrol rodeo and he got beached on top of a hill out in wilbinga wa. Due to it being on a hill, the other cars in the convoy struggled to get close enough to stop and put the snatch straps on so it took a damn good bit of effort to 1) get a car close enough and 2) get enough traction on the recovery vehicle to pull him out of his perch on the hill. Shovels, maxtrax and the snatch was all out and all of us were pitching in to help.
Driving across what we call "Short Mountain" in Sneedville Tennessee. I was in a 1991 Chevrolet Blazer and thought "ohh this is 4wd so I can't get stuck". But I was very, very wrong. Drove straight into waist deep mud with street tires, immediately sunk to the bumpers and couldn't open the doors. After crawling out the windows, we had a hand powered come-along attached to a wrist sized tree, pulling with all our might but it wasn't meant to be. Passengers had to walk about 3 miles for help, and help came as a 80s square body Chevrolet truck and a large strap. After he pulled my front bumper into the shape of a "V" I decided to not do that again...And then I got a 2000 Land Rover Disco II
We did the Simpson solo and only met 3 other vehicles on the trip. We love exploring and it’s exciting to meet other like minded people.
Shauno is one of the reasons why I wanted 35s on my Nissan. Nothing beats big tires. And being told by others that's 35s wouldn't fit without a body lift. I've proved them wrong.
The worst I have been bogged was actually on our own property we had a few hundred acres that had a creek running through it. My old man and I were trying to access the back part of our property when we got our old 40 series Cruiser bogged in the quick sand in the creek the diffs were under the sand and it was a bad time. We ended up getting a neighbour with an old front hand loader to come pull us out after us trying with hand winches and a lot of shovelling for almost 2 days with no success. It will always be one I remember! Cheers 🤙
I remember in the mid 90s being bogged with Dad on a track around the edge of Lake Innes near Protek Macquarie. This was when you could still drive around it. We were in a Toyota Tarago Xtratrack. 4wd in theory but not so capable. We got stuck in that thick black mud that get everything bogged. After 4 hours mum decides to walk back to civilisation. We eventually came across 2 others, who also got bogged but eventually found someone to get us out. We still talk about that trip around the fire to this day.