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This is day 1, trip along the Border Track - Dog Fence.
This must be one of the best sand tracks to be found in Victoria/South Australia. It follows the border from near Pinnaroo right down to near the Melbourne - Adelaide hwy.
This track has very large sand hills to get over. Most of these hills have tracks to get around them if you are not able to get over them. Some of these hills are so extreme there's no way anyone will get over them, so this track can very easily be classed as a 'Difficult' track.
Very Important. Check with the SA National Parks and Reserves for information on when the track is closed, and what direction you need to go in.
The track is about 107km. Allow a full day to make this trip. For a more enjoyable weekend, take your time and camp anywhere along the track. Stop in or camp at Red Bluff - scenic red sandstone hill.
(This is where we stopped). Dress warm though as it gets hot in the day, freezing at night.
Make sure you pack all your recovery gear, and travel in a group with other 4wd's. (We had to recover 2 vehicles).
Check the depths of the mud holes. Some for us were over 1 meter deep. Watch out for the holes towards the end, they are really deep!
Momentum is your friend on the sand dunes. We used 15psi tyre pressures. (Try the sand dunes 3x, if you fail, take the chicken path)
We ended up getting lost around the supposed turnoff to red bluff, that according to the maps was "well signposted".
We ended up with broken eggs and bottles.
This is mostly a sandy track with dunes and provides you with a remote location for testing self and equipment without travelling deeper into the outback.
The environment is typical Victorian desert – Mallee country. Expect some scratching from Mallee scrub particularly in the Wyperfeld section and some parts of the Northern Border Track may be overgrown. Soft sand is to be found on the tracks as well as corrugations and hard gravel.
The border track is steeped in history largely due to the dispute which arose from the original survey completed between 1847 and 1850. The result is that the border is actually sighted some 3kms too far West. A fascinating account of this can be obtained from John Deckert at Westprint Heritage Maps if you manage to visit whilst in Nhill.
There is an abundance of wildlife to enjoy whilst undertaking this trip, so watch out for Emu and Kangaroo. Aboriginal rock holes can be found close to the junction with South Bore Track.
We were lucky to reach the top speed of 40 kms/hr.
This photo was taken with a Canon EOS 5D, 70-200 IS L USM 2.8 lens
2011
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The couple of four wheel drive lorries Mitsubishi Fuso Canter and Hino ZM. Scratch built scale model 1:87 scale.
This is how the Americans did it in the 1930s. This is the 4-wheel-drive Miller, powered by a thundering Offenhauser engine and typically Yank colourful livery. Unusually it's been converted to road trim, hence the mudguards and lights.
This was a fun vehicle too and was much better off-road! Pictured here at Aldershot Army Barracks (that's trespassing, kids!) I bought it locally for £800, rolled it off-road in Dorking and sold it for £400
From 1961 to 1965 the capacity limit for Formula 1 engines had been limited to 1½ litres, but in 1966 that limit was increased to 3 litres giving the potential for a massive increase in power. This was realised in the 1967 season with the introduction of the Cosworth DFV engine but the downside was that cars were finding it increasingly difficult to transfer this power to the road, particularly in wet conditions. Several teams tried their hand at building four-wheel drive cars to improve the grip, and they were joined in 1969 by Frank Costin and Keith Duckworth, the men behind the Cosworth engine. This car, photographed in the Donington Park museum in September 2014, is the Cosworth 4WD F1 prototype which was hampered by a variety of teething problems. In the meantime the F1 teams also had problems with their 4WD cars, and Colin Chapman's experiments with wings on his Lotus cars, soon taken up by other teams, and also advances in tyre technology solved the grip problem to a large extent and the 4WD revolution never took hold. Keith Duckworth shelved the Cosworth 4WD project without the car having turned a wheel in anger.
Upper Muley Twist and the related Strike Valley Overlook trails are accessible either from a lower trailhead a short ways off the Burr Trail Road or three miles further along at the upper trailhead. The drive to the upper trailhead is rated for high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles.
Naturally, this means my Subaru beater wagon is up for the challenge. It's lifted slightly on Outback struts and springs and scraped the aluminum skidplate I have jerry-rigged to the bottom on a couple of rocks. Along the way, I picked up a woman and her daughter who were headed for the overlook. It turns out the woman is a retired National Park Service archaeologist who once worked at Capitol Reef. She'd parked her truck at the lower trailhead, not wanting to risk getting stuck in some of the deep wash crossings.
At the end of the drive she thanked me and asked in slight amazement "what kind of car is this?"
Muir-Hill 4WD tractor.
Registered in May 2008.
Seen here on Cromer beach and used for hauling fishing boats in and out of the sea.
Photo courtesy of Jeremy M.
Volkswagen Museum Wolfsburg 2013 - Before the T3 Syncro appeared there already has been another Type 2 4x4!
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