Thread: Lets See The Transport havn a Oops moment

This one is stuck. 20 tonne fell off the road on our boundary. Lucky it didn't go the other way through the deer fence.

Not an Oops but was brought in as the previous one with standard tracks kept getting stuck
Think this one came from the Naki

Originally Posted by sako75

Not an Oops but was brought in as the previous one with standard tracks kept getting stuck
Think this one came from the Naki

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Is it digging a chanell in a estuary?

Looks like it's come straight from the battlefields of Passchendaele.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqr1...ature=youtu.be

Bloody hell Sideshow

Wasn’t my car can you imagine telling that one to the insurance company.
Well first a flip it on a gravel road, then this good bugger called @Dundee came and put it back on its wheels when it ran off and got eaten by these nasty pine trees, do you know that they hunt in packs! No really

@Sideshow you do realise that the clip has nothing to do with a car and its the same one as on another thread?
Mix up maybe?

Good he more or less OK,might be a cheap lesson.

Ohooo shit my bad sorry guys

https://mobile.twitter.com/PhoenixHe...688001/video/1
This now might make more sense

North of Marsabit in the Chalbi Desert, on the “main road” to Ethiopia, September 2000.

The alternator bearings had had enough of rock and dust. Luckily, I was carrying a spare. The spare shat itself about 200km further on when it rained for the first time in about 80 years and the “road” turned into a raging torrent of liquid rock and dust which flowed through the engine bay as we waded our way up to higher ground.

We made into Moyale and through the border on the juice the auxiliary batteries could conjure up. How we fixed the alternator is a long story but a good one, one that cemented my faith in Koyo Bearings, Italians, colonialism and the goodwill of Ethiopian peasants.

Not that like a good yarn, over a beer, or two

Originally Posted by Flyblown

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North of Marsabit in the Chalbi Desert, on the “main road” to Ethiopia, September 2000.

The alternator bearings had had enough of rock and dust. Luckily, I was carrying a spare. The spare shat itself about 200km further on when it rained for the first time in about 80 years and the “road” turned into a raging torrent of liquid rock and dust which flowed through the engine bay as we waded our way up to higher ground.

We made into Moyale and through the border on the juice the auxiliary batteries could conjure up. How we fixed the alternator is a long story but a good one, one that cemented my faith in Koyo Bearings, Italians, colonialism and the goodwill of Ethiopian peasants.

@Flyblown
Prick of a road was there around the same time. How many tires did you get through? I did two on it total trashed then four more in Ethiopia boss wasn’t to happy last one I stitched repaired with some old tire and wire which held till Addis

Originally Posted by Sideshow

@Flyblown. Prick of a road was there around the same time. How many tires did you get through? I did two on it total trashed then four more in Ethiopia boss wasn’t to happy last one I stitched repaired with some old tire and wire which held till Addis

Small world eh. We had one puncture on the entire 14 month Southern / Eastern Africa trip, somewhere in Tanzania I think. At 30,000km in Nairobi we replaced four tyres, which will have been the ones in the photo. The volcanic rock in Namibia was really tough on them.

Dunlop Universal cross-ply tyres, 7.00x16, tubed of course, on HJ45 split rims. “Biscuit” tyres we called them. I was asking @madmaori for something similar recently, they are very unfashionable these days, rubbish on the bitumen but you get used to them, but off road they are amazing. Anyway as you know there wasn’t exactly much in the way bitumen around eh, in that part of the world, and what bitumen there was usually looked like it had been bombed by a squadron of A-10 Warthogs.