People just don't listen to weather forecasts n river warnings.
Macauley river this afternoon and he s on the true right.Who s going to risk their lives n truck .People just don't f..... listen.
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People just don't listen to weather forecasts n river warnings.
Macauley river this afternoon and he s on the true right.Who s going to risk their lives n truck .People just don't f..... listen.
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Contender for a darwin award playing games with the weather like that
Some people think they know it all. Work with a guy like that and as above you just end up looking like a total muppet but they are totally oblivious to it..
No snorkel...??
And the water is running silty, can't really see the bottom.
Agree! Also, if the spare is anything to go by, the tyres are less than ideal amd should be planted firmly on tarmac..
No snorkel is diesel engine suicide, I was driving in there years ago when you could have the hut to yourself on weekends. Mostly 4wd club trucks were going in, now days it's townie vehicles etc and those tyres are the norm....and the hut can be chokka!.
I'd guess if he's on the true right then he may have already been at the hut or up the Godley and was heading out.
It's simply a case of natural selection sorting out the " have a 4WD so i can drive anywhere" mentality.
Correction,he s in the middle of the river bed facing up stream,opposite willow tree corner.Lucky they didnt have 800mm of rain up river,bank to bank 3metres deep.
Did you tow him out with the Nissan Grant?Quote:
Originally Posted by Trout
Only seen the notice at 9pm last night after getting back from chch.People need to listen to weather reports and river warnings.
Looks like that could've been winched out down stream if he had a winch and a good ground anchor, shit it aint that deep in. But if hes silly enough to try that, on road tyres, with a shit weather forecast, hes probably not clued up enough to carry some winching gear or know how to use it.
unless bellied on a big goolie....cant see why he cant just drive it out..... sure will get plurry wet moving bigger rocks from infront of wheel if that is some of the issue..but hells bells batman...its only got 3 tyres wet!!!!
Slap it in reverse,right hand down abit,use the current to push you slightly out down stream into the shellows.Dont fight the water,use it to yr advantage.In reverse you have the engine weight above yr front diff to give you better traction and the force of water to push you backwards.
If its still there tonight looks like its going to get a dusting of snow on it:o
Snow,hope not.
Yes, looks quite simple to ease it back and around to the right. Maybe the engine had a drink on the way across and it's not driving anywhere by itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trout
Exactly, slap in reverse real fast and see if you can back out. The other advantage of a vehicle going backwards downstream is that it doesnt tip over, the front wheel simply act as dolly wheels and it stays on its feet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trout
You are right,fresh snow on the tops,best place for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by XR500
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Brrrrrr!
Max temperature today about 18c,nice.
I watched three utes turn up to a camping spot this weekend. Two late model Nissan Navara’s and a Hilux. The two Navara’s had snorkels. One of the Navaras decided (against our advice) that the river was only knee deep and they could drive through it. Shortly after entering the water the Navara became a boat and started floating down the river. Luckily it caught on the bottom a short distance down, nose into the current. They had to tow it out and then tow it all the way home. The driver and owner was an early 20 year old girl who had only owned it for a week. I suspect she was egged on by her passenger who was liquored up as he was the one who mathematically measured the depth. The Ute was in the water for a while and a whole heap of water came out when the doors were opened. An expensive $50,000 lesson there I’d say.
Yep, they'll learn through experience. I've crossed the Cascade and Hope down Haast way, Wilberforce, Rakaia, Poulter, Godley, MaCaulay and other major rivers multiple times...you soon learn to read them and it's surprising what you can determine by biffing a good size rock in as well. Having said that we have a hut down the river on the South side of HH and while it's relatively shallow it's bloody unpredictable and has caught me out more than once over the years lol. That river and the soft spots constantly change after a flood, I've got a cracker photo which i'll post when I find it.
I like to see the big ripples from big stones befor i cross a river,not the smooth surface of water floor over small stoney or sandy soft river beds.Even better to be able to see the river bed in clear water first.
Now thats a sand pit(paddock) what the f were you doing in there.lols
Getting stuck by the look of it! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Trout
Those alluvial riverbeds with sand stacked up against the side of a channel....reading a riverbed 101:(
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Originally Posted by Twodiffs
Should have just mulched it :D
Grave yard.
You have that down there but some clown has dropped his large boat across 3 lanes of the Auckland Northern motorway, bet his misses is going hell for leather on him. Blocking the long weekend holiday makers.
Back in the days just after the Tongariro Power Scheme was finishing, and you could drive up the Waipakihi River a considerable distance, I was wandering on foot upstream, and was passed by 4 schoolboys in a brand new Landrover that Daddy had bought for one of them. About a kilometre above that, I noticed an oil slick coming down on the current. Turned a corner and here was the Landy, the diff. perched on a boulder the size of a dog kennel, with fluid leaking out of it. It was still there 3 days later. I'm assuming Daddy paid for a heli lift out of there.
Yep that's another pocketful of experience right there!Quote:
Originally Posted by Twodiffs
Well it was like this...we were at the hut and my wifes uncle had my son & I on the drambuie and a few other fizzies, uncle was heading up the river on his quad so son & I followed him (or tried to) to make sure he got across the river ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trout
Pitch black and long story short we knew the bloke who had the digger not far away lol.
Yep, wifey came looking for us on her quad after an hour or so..it's only 4km from the hut to a gravel road so we were late.....my boy whom was maybe 17 at the time & I had an extremely icey reception and were under instructions NOT to talk on the way back to the hut, my MIL wasn't too impressed either when we got back to the hut. As for uncle Gary..he was 70 at the time and on an 800cc Can Am, we have no idea where he went but the wife phoned his house to see where we were and he was tucked up in bed lol well before we were found. Now we all laugh about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mistral
so it was nearly one of them "hold my beer" moments LOL..... nobody died so chalk it up to learning/teaching the boy
One of Barry Crump's many wives wrote a book about her time in the hills. She was a true blue bush woman, and whilst walking the length on the North Island found herself walking down the Waipakahi river valley some time in the late 1960's. Came around a corner and found 4 x M41 Bulldog medium tanks grinding their way up the riverbed towards her. Their diff skid plates ran at about 2.5 inches of rolled homogeneous armour, so experienced no similar difficulties:omg:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger 888
Reading the hut book in the Kennedy up the Dobson has quite a few tales of woe regarding vehicles lost or stuck.
I have been up there a couple of dozen times and the best advice was from the old head Shepherd (if you cant see the bottom walk across first,stay out of the silt and if she floods give it two days after the water goes down).
Jet boats up the Waimak today while their truck n boat trailers getting towed to higher ground as the river is rising rapidly.People dont listen and they had plenty of warning on rising rivers.Bloody stupid idea going up a rapidly rising river.
Was my plan yesterday til the red alert flashed across my screen on the Ecan river flow site.Bailed.200mm on the divide and a banker.Two weekend warriors lost their boats and only to the grace of GC @ Woodstock were 3 parked up 4wd's salvaged in the nick of time with the tide lapping the sills.People don't listen.
Due to Charley Darwin's irrefutable law of inbreeding, I suspect this thread could well extend on going for many years to come.Spoze it keeps the insurance companies in paying work
