Old Telegraph Track Cape York Northern Section
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- The Misadventure Crew tackle the Northern Section of Cape York from Scrubby Creek to Nolans Brook.
This was one of our most popular videos and hasn't been viewable on youtube for more than 3 years due to a youtube technical issue.
We've finally been able to recover it and re-upload it.
Enjoy!
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man I LOVED these videos back in the day. Some of personal favorites!
thanx Tex - we are dying to get back and do some more but that won't happen until late next year at the earliest, unfortunately. Glad you enjoyed them. We loved making them.
I remember the first time this video was published way back when. Still terrific stuff - you were my favourite channel back then.
Thanks Charles - very kind of you to say mate. Let's hope we can get back to making some new content for you next year sometime.
Fantastic, thanks for sharing.
Our pleasure mate - just glad we were able to get it back. Now just need to find a way to upres to HD as we could only get SD format.
What the heck where ya been lads?
ah - that's a tale for another time but the short version is that the collapse of our main NAS drives with ALL of our videos on them including raw and edits died and couldn't be recovered.
10 years of footage gooone. So much for latency backup systems.
Any plans for a comeback?
We did have a Grenadier on order mate but cancelled it after issues with parts avails and ongoing technical updates were apparent. Just couldn't justify the risk with a brand new vehicle from a brand new manufacturer for remotes travel in Oz.
In the meantime, we are waiting on replacing a motor in our D4 but also looking around for alternatives as a stop gap for the next 3 years.
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I hope you’re following LR Time.
Ta very mucha.
What do you feel was your biggest challenge on this trip?
Do you mean the entire Cape Trip for that year or just this section of the Tele mate?
@@Misadventure4WD The entire trip.
@@kevinslifeonthefarm2463 It was pretty much as expected really. We went there looking for adventure and we found it. We'd done tonnes of research so we knew what to expect and had good plans plus good back-up plans. We weren't expecting to drown a vehicle where we did but we recovered it safely and everyone was able to continue the trip.
It's always hard juggling lots of competing priorities and traveling styles but everyone had signed off on the trip plan beforehand and we'd done a few test trips with that specific group so we knew everyone would get on reasonably well.
We got pretty lucky with the weather and did almost everything we planned to do which was a blessing.
The most unexpected thing was having a wheel bearing seize on the camper coming back down from the Tip and having a wheel come off destroying the axle. We ended up being stuck for 5 days in Bamaga.
Managed to get creative with the insurance and lodged the claim via phone but got permission to do the repairs ourselves and submit the full claim later. While that meant paying for everything up front, it was the only way to get back on the road quickly.
Contacted the camper manufacturer and found out that they got their shafts from a supplier in QLD. Called that supplier and paid them extra to make one up next day and ship it. Had it airfreighted to Bamaga and installed 4 days after the accident.
The guy who used to own and operate Bamaga spares (Andy) was a lovely guy and did everything he could to help but had told me it would take two weeks to get parts organised, sent and installed. I told him I'd have it sorted in less than a week and he bet me a case of beer I couldn't do it so ended up with a nice case of coldies for the next leg ;) Andy also used to run a local shipping service and told me if I ever wanted a job to call 😂
The Old Coach Road was more challenging than expected and pretty stressful towing a camper. We did the western leg which is now closed. It's very hard going and there's no option but to go slow and steady or you'll just destroy your car and camper.
We had to skull drag the camper off a few big ledges on that leg snapping our jockey wheel off and damaging the support legs but we got through and managed to find work arounds.
The bigger shock was getting back to Cairns to find out the ABS module had burned out due to the brake line breakage and they wanted $5k to replace it. That a story for another time though :)
@@Misadventure4WD thank you for taking a few moments to answer me. I appreciate it.