Saw this on the main road today,casually holding onto it out the windows:wtfsmilie:
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Saw this on the main road today,casually holding onto it out the windows:wtfsmilie:
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Cuzzybro rope,get it at warehouse/mega 10.
I saw a car load of people tie a queen bed base and mattress to the roof of a Nissan x-trail outside the warehouse. They tied it through the interior of the car and they all had to climb through the boot and windowsQuote:
Originally Posted by PillowDribbler
Best I saw was a number of years ago and did not involve a car. Seven skinheads were moving into a flat around the back of a converted Villa across the road from us. The all moved into a ONE ROOM BEDSIT and when they carried the Queen bed in they put it over their heads and carried it they could stay dry in the rain....by all accounts the wet smell took 6 months to get rid of AFTER they left. Smart move....Lets use a queen bed as an umbrella as we move, it will dry out in the cold easy....Quote:
Originally Posted by MSL
https://youtu.be/pQ4c8Srl6uIQuote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
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The other day we were tagging our heifers in the stockyards and these two cows came limping down the road all battered and bruised and missing a bit of skin, we were thinking "wtf happened to them? And where did they come from?"
Went for a drive and around the corner there's the neighbors truck in a ditch with trailer on its side in the middle of the road....
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Bugger.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
Luckily it was the farm manager and not me!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...eb4c8736cc.jpg
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Got to ask how? slid in or trying to cross?
Doesn’t even look stuck
not even up over the counter weight
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.
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Shame the cows got hurt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by sako75
Looks like it's come straight from the battlefields of Passchendaele.
Bloody hell Sideshow:wtfsmilie:
Wasn’t my car:ORLY: 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 :XD:
@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?
Ohooo shit my bad sorry guys:XD:
https://mobile.twitter.com/PhoenixHe...688001/video/1
This now might make more sense ;)
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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.
Not that like a good yarn, over a beer, or two :thumbsup:
Now that sounds like.......
Bloody autocorrect
@FlyblownQuote:
Originally Posted by 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:pissed off: boss wasn’t to happy last one I stitched repaired with some old tire and wire which held till Addis :)
The Wife looked at the post above and reminded me, sternly, that other than taking photos of me struggling, she was glassing the surrounds for the shifta bandits that roamed the desert looking for numpties just like us. She’s also reminded me of a couple of other minor issues on that part of the trip.
We had had to wait in Isiolo before making the journey north to Ethiopia, as civilians weren’t allowed to cross the desert alone, you could only travel with the military convoy. So we waited a couple of days, reported to the check point at dawn on the allotted day, and left with the convoy. Which took off at an insane speed we couldn’t possibly keep up with, soldiers grinning and waving at us in a cloud of dust as they disappeared into the distance. So we crossed the desert alone, hoping a lot.
On the return journey, which was also characterised by disappearing a convoy, a steel jerry can in the canopy actually managed to rattle the lid open - that’s the tried and tested rattle proof lid design on jerry cans since WW2 or whenever. We smelt the fuel (petrol 4Y Hilux) which had sloshed all over our gear in the back. Easily our biggest ever brown trousers moment in 20 years of overland travel, and it just about finished me off nerves wise, that was a tough trip the Chalbi Desert alone.
After we’d cleaned it up and decided the risk of explosion was acceptably low, we took off and drove into the dusk, chancing upon two desert cheetahs chasing down a small antelope and making the kill, which completely blew us away and to this day is one of our top 3 wildlife experiences anywhere in the world.
Well after dark that night, we were trucking along avoiding rocks and bandits, hoping to make the safety of an upcoming nomad settlement we’d driven through a couple of months earlier. Out of nowhere we stumbled upon a most welcome and highly unexpected sight - a British Army (BATUK) squad on desert exercise, camped up with their Bedfords and Land Rovers at the end of a long exercise and about to go on R&R, complete with a great many crates of chilled Fullers London Pride. They were as surprised to see us as we were them, a pom and his jaapie chick covered in dust, stinking of petrol and looking like they were 2 clicks away from a nervous breakdown. We joined the boys (all completely unhinged) in an unholy beer drinking session which resulted in a couple of other stories for another time, we got that shit faced well into the next morning that Captain Thompson gave everyone the morning off and we only left mid-afternoon the next day.
Fun time yesterday on the Kaimais, had a stop/go in place at the Old Kaimais road near the summit. Took us an hour of crawling up on the Tauranga side! They had decided to lift a truck out of the Ditch on a Friday afternoon FFS. Was a fatality that had happened on Wedsday. Why can’t the prepared the lift and do the final crank onto the tow truck at night? Once through the que was about two lanes down the Waikato side, those poor old truckies in loaded trucks sitting waiting, crawling a couple of hundred metres, stop and then repeat. One of Porters truck and trailers had flagged it near the top!
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Originally Posted by Flyblown
Perhaps its too dodgy a job to do in the dark? I have no idea when the best time of day would be to do that job, all I know is they are going to upset a lot of people no matter when they do it, sounds like you (and many others) got unlucky and you have my sympathy, nothing worse when you need to somewhere else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sideshow
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.
Only one way to get from Kenya to Ethiopia, and we really wanted to go to Ethiopia. That’s pretty much all there is to it! Ethiopia and Sudan were very different and quite challenging, culture wise, much more so than the rest of bantu Africa. Very rewarding, despite a dose of malaria and amebic dysentery along the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fawls
We got caught up in the Ethiopia - Eritrea border war which was a totally dumb thing to do but all it takes is one wrong turn. I blame the blind deaf non-English speaking amputee octogenarian we asked for directions. Got “rescued” (more like arrested) by the Ethiopian army and handed over with much amusement to the UN blue helmets who put us in lockdown in Adigrat. This resulted in us making friends with a Canadian Captain and a Swedish Lt-Col, friendships that we hold very dear to this day and have resulted in some fantastic trips in their home countries, and vice versa.
Had a similar story coming through the Caprivi Strip in northern Namibia. Convoy took off we could only get to around 75kmph head wind had us stuffed. Some guy waited said what’s the issue. I’m like this is as fast as she goes buddy. He’s like ok don’t run over any elephant shit that’s where they plant the mines. Place looked like a cow race im like thanks. :O_O: but then that’s Africa Baby!Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyblown
Strange rear tyre set up on that truck.
Retractable?
It's called a lazy or drop axle.
very common in Europe. its lifted when not carrying a load.Quote:
Originally Posted by PillowDribbler
Probably bump the price up in the vehicles. Convertibles, very limited run!.
