Thread: 36 trapped on the old bush road

Police step in to stop 4WD recovery | Otago Daily Times Online News : Otago, South Island, New Zealand & International News
Hope they dont try it. Dont think they learnt their lesson

Originally Posted by lumberjack

Police step in to stop 4WD recovery | Otago Daily Times Online News : Otago, South Island, New Zealand & International News
Hope they dont try it. Dont think they learnt their lesson

Bout says it all really.
Some people just won't learn.

Originally Posted by lumberjack

Police step in to stop 4WD recovery | Otago Daily Times Online News : Otago, South Island, New Zealand & International News
Hope they dont try it. Dont think they learnt their lesson

If they try and hit problems they should get a bill for the 'hundreds of thousands' for the first rescue plus a second one if it happens!

I do wonder if they did had enough brains to have left their vehicles in a state to minimise the chance of cracked radiators and even engine blocks.

"Frankly I'd be confident that any Police decision re allocation of costs was based on all the facts; not conjecture and opinion which so often fill our media"

This.

I read that article, and from a safety point of view, the police stopping it is sensible, but many of the comments quoted, are wrong, or coming from people, who simply put, have no idea how to re open up a road/track or access, After a blizzard.
Having spent 17 winters in the Artic, including building ice roads, the safest and very best way, to open up a road is a correctly sized, and equipped, bulldozer.
This includes ice corks, full heated cab, and a means to self recover, or a second machine for that purpose,
A warm winter spell, might happen, but a dozen vehicles, under such conditions will chew it up, worse that a frozen road, opened by tracked equipment.
Wheel tractors, are among the worst equipment to try with, and will likely end in more problems, I hope they aren't foolish enough to try.
The council wining about road damage is a joke, the spring thaw will do more damage, than will be done getting it open, for a recovery now, and they likely only maintain it, once in a blue moon, with a single swipe in each direction from a grader.

What needs to happen, is a week of fine weather,
Police to give the go, for a correctly equipment, piece of equipment, to open the road, wait overnight, or longer. once road is opened, ( this allows frost, to set into the ground, and prevents unnecessary road damage,) a small crew, to go and get as many vehicle's as possible out. There will be a vehicle or two, that wont run, most likely a land rover you take a smaller recover crew in the next day, attempt to fix or tow out using tracked equipment.
The whole mess, could have been avoided, if a weather forecast, was checked before heading out, wasn't great at all.
I hope those idiots, will work with the police, to set up a recovery, and vise versa, going it alone, could prove very costly, should it go south a second time.

@southerman speaks that rare and endearing mode -Common bloody sense.

There was also a letter published in Southland Times from a guy who'd claimed to have reported regional weather to met service for many years. He was very clear that the weather was NOT forecasted to the severity encountered.

I know we've been similarly caught out on the orchard in the past, where no weather service predicted our situation (and we monitor five services plus our own on farm system

The guys got caught out by a freak storm - and a media frenzy.

The severity of the weather may not have been totally correct.
But you have got to be nuts trying to take a vehicle above 1200m in may. Even if we have had a warm autumn.

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I certainly wouldn't have gone up there with the forecast I saw anyway!

Snow down to 300m tomorrow just saying

Anyone see if there's a 70 series in the group? I could use some free parts

Originally Posted by gimp

Anyone see if there's a 70 series in the group? I could use some free parts

You gonna walk up there and carry some parts down?

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Hope they had good antifreeze.