El_Freddo
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- Joined
- Aug 11, 2008
- Messages
- 2,399
- Location
- Bridgewater, Vic
- Car Year
- 1988, 1990
- Car Model
- EJ22'd L series; Targa Brumby
- Transmission
- Locking FT4wd 5spd Manual, 4.111:1 diff w 1.59:1 low range & front OBX LSD ;)
G'day all!
Well it was a small turn out - Subaruby, Brrrummmbeee + mate and myself: Meet up at IGA:
I had my new camera out to give it a good test - I'm a little disappointed with the sound quality of video recordings but anyway:
We headed north east out of Baccus Marsh to the Lerderderg Rd, along Cameron Rd and into the Lerderderg State Park. First off we checked out the old quarry where we found one good short climb that we did a few times. I got a few videos of this but no photos...
After this we headed off to Blue Gum Tk and shortly after turned onto
Holts road, this was a fairly easy track, a 2 wheel drive could have done it down to the valley and dry creek crossing. This area was a bit of fun with a challenging climb to start a longer climb up Nuggerty Tk back onto Blue
Gum Tk:
At the base of Nuggerty Tk:
Subaruby climbing a section of Nuggerty Tk:
^ Once again, the images don't really depict the slope very well...
We shuttled along Blue Gum Tk to Radcliffe Tk that then followed onto fire break tk 1, this had an interesting crossing of the river in the valley, it would've been more interesting to cross if the river was flowing:
The group on the river bed:
The mud puddle in the middle of the river bed:
Brrrummmbeee and his mate checked the depth of the water and the firmness of the mud at the bottom, all checked out relatively ok.
Brrrummmbeee went first and got through ok. I thought I'd transverse the ruts for a bit of fun but came in too slow and stopped in my tracks (on my roadies). I actually stuck my head out the window to make sure the wheels where still turning!
At this point it looked like a snatch was needed - I had a go at cradling/rocking back and forth - once I got some movement it was easy to gain momentum after some spraying of dirty water, Ruby Scoo actually made it out without any trouble in the end:
This fire break tk took us up to the main track that draws the line between the Wombat forest and the Lerderderg forest. Subaruby showed off his lift:
We had a bit of a play in some muddy ruts we found near the carpark before having lunch at the bottom of Digger's Tk:
I dropped in on O'Brien's Crossing
There was a largish camp of people there with a decent setup. And there was two little pools of water there, my bad.
From here Brrrummmbeee's mate took the lead over to the wombat to an area that he'd taken some new 4wd's out for a few demo runs. Apparently it wasn't as fun due to the lack of moisture around but it was still a good area to get to know your subi and pick different lines to everyone else.
Brrrummmbeee hadn't been 4wd'n before today yet he managed to negoicate these tracks with the help of his mate (who has various 4wd experience). I took several videos from my sun visor position but unfortunatly I managed to cover the lense
We then headed over towards the powerline track I wanted to check out, we did a few different tracks along the way:
Easter Monday Track was one to note for next time:
More to come!
Well it was a small turn out - Subaruby, Brrrummmbeee + mate and myself: Meet up at IGA:
I had my new camera out to give it a good test - I'm a little disappointed with the sound quality of video recordings but anyway:
We headed north east out of Baccus Marsh to the Lerderderg Rd, along Cameron Rd and into the Lerderderg State Park. First off we checked out the old quarry where we found one good short climb that we did a few times. I got a few videos of this but no photos...
After this we headed off to Blue Gum Tk and shortly after turned onto
Holts road, this was a fairly easy track, a 2 wheel drive could have done it down to the valley and dry creek crossing. This area was a bit of fun with a challenging climb to start a longer climb up Nuggerty Tk back onto Blue
Gum Tk:
At the base of Nuggerty Tk:
Subaruby climbing a section of Nuggerty Tk:
^ Once again, the images don't really depict the slope very well...
We shuttled along Blue Gum Tk to Radcliffe Tk that then followed onto fire break tk 1, this had an interesting crossing of the river in the valley, it would've been more interesting to cross if the river was flowing:
The group on the river bed:
The mud puddle in the middle of the river bed:
Brrrummmbeee and his mate checked the depth of the water and the firmness of the mud at the bottom, all checked out relatively ok.
Brrrummmbeee went first and got through ok. I thought I'd transverse the ruts for a bit of fun but came in too slow and stopped in my tracks (on my roadies). I actually stuck my head out the window to make sure the wheels where still turning!
At this point it looked like a snatch was needed - I had a go at cradling/rocking back and forth - once I got some movement it was easy to gain momentum after some spraying of dirty water, Ruby Scoo actually made it out without any trouble in the end:
This fire break tk took us up to the main track that draws the line between the Wombat forest and the Lerderderg forest. Subaruby showed off his lift:
We had a bit of a play in some muddy ruts we found near the carpark before having lunch at the bottom of Digger's Tk:
I dropped in on O'Brien's Crossing
There was a largish camp of people there with a decent setup. And there was two little pools of water there, my bad.From here Brrrummmbeee's mate took the lead over to the wombat to an area that he'd taken some new 4wd's out for a few demo runs. Apparently it wasn't as fun due to the lack of moisture around but it was still a good area to get to know your subi and pick different lines to everyone else.
Brrrummmbeee hadn't been 4wd'n before today yet he managed to negoicate these tracks with the help of his mate (who has various 4wd experience). I took several videos from my sun visor position but unfortunatly I managed to cover the lense
We then headed over towards the powerline track I wanted to check out, we did a few different tracks along the way:
Easter Monday Track was one to note for next time:
More to come!
I'll have to mess around with it a bit more.
