B3R55-29 the real mud grabs us and #UCH715 for the last time "Scratching our heads" what now? Bog#13
At the end of the trip as far as we get on the Gunbarrel, the next day we walked ahead about four miles to where we found the tracks in the mud made by the vehicle we heard revving in the distance today. We had met him before, John Walters, see trip notes by Mary for 8th July. He had camped about 3 miles from us, the fire was still warm.
We walked up the track to see how bad the mud was and reached the point where the Land Rover ahead had been winching along in the wheel rusts dragging his diff and axle.
He had had pulled small trees sideways in the wet off to the side and laid a corduroy of sticks in the wheel ruts to progress…
We got a gallon of water from a puddle and walked back to the others. We had been away for three hours!
We could not get John's Land Cruiser close enough to pull us out, so we used our small 7 to one hand pulley with about seven people pulling.
As we got the Kombi spinning and reversing out the people pulling had to run 7 times faster than the Kombi until they fell over backward in the mud.
The cable tied across the front on the roo bar was a stay from a yacht given to us by Bob and Anne Crowe's dad for the trip. We later wrapped it around the bumper on #Smoky60Series where it travelled #roundaustraliawithspelio for the next twenty years…
But we were out and managed to find some firm ground off the track to camp and have dinner and a rest.
The end of our trip North of Giles to Alice Springs..
shortcut #roundAustraliawithSpelio
B3R55-29 the real mud grabs us and #UCH715 for the last time "Scratching our heads" what now? Bog#13
At the end of the trip as far as we get on the Gunbarrel, the next day we walked ahead about four miles to where we found the tracks in the mud made by the vehicle we heard revving in the distance today. We had met him before, John Walters, see trip notes by Mary for 8th July. He had camped about 3 miles from us, the fire was still warm.
We walked up the track to see how bad the mud was and reached the point where the Land Rover ahead had been winching along in the wheel rusts dragging his diff and axle.
He had had pulled small trees sideways in the wet off to the side and laid a corduroy of sticks in the wheel ruts to progress…
We got a gallon of water from a puddle and walked back to the others. We had been away for three hours!
We could not get John's Land Cruiser close enough to pull us out, so we used our small 7 to one hand pulley with about seven people pulling.
As we got the Kombi spinning and reversing out the people pulling had to run 7 times faster than the Kombi until they fell over backward in the mud.
The cable tied across the front on the roo bar was a stay from a yacht given to us by Bob and Anne Crowe's dad for the trip. We later wrapped it around the bumper on #Smoky60Series where it travelled #roundaustraliawithspelio for the next twenty years…
But we were out and managed to find some firm ground off the track to camp and have dinner and a rest.
The end of our trip North of Giles to Alice Springs..
shortcut #roundAustraliawithSpelio