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I was just talking to a guy who took a wrong turn somewhere in Brisbane and had to tow his van through the main area of Bisbane in peak hour. He reckons he's never been so s**t scared in his life.
Driving from Sydney RV out through Penrith and over the Blue Mountains at 445pm on a Monday afternoon was the worst for me. ;D
What's the scariest place you guys and gals have had to tow in or through ;D
:cheers:
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Not scary, but challenging :D
Lost the hydraulics on the clutch coming into Esk one night with a CUB camper in tow. Was stuck in 4th gear and had to drive the Esk-Hampton rd up the range in 4th gear. The T intersection and stop sign at the top of the range was interesting with no clutch ;D
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...and had to tow his van through the main area of Bisbane in peak hour. He reckons he's never been so s**t scared in his life.
surely not?
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Towing along the M1 one day at 120 k/ph ( true GPS speed ) and a B double appeared right up my ar*e....had to speed up to 130 to get rid of him !!! ???
Don't think his speed limiter was working properly !! ;D
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Okay - so I guess this qualifies...
Collect my LCT AT11 (sub 2tn) van on a Friday...
I had never towed anything before in my life - ever.. >:D
John, (the owner of LCT) kindly takes me on a crash course (pun intended) - through the bowels of Springwood and Slacks Creek etc for approx an hour...
Then its me solo off down the M1 - slamming into BNE peak hour; inbound Friday avro traffic chaos...
Through the ICB; (Lang Park restricted access gridlock; and angst)... and then out to the Ashgrove Caravan Park - where I had arranged to park tug and van (all connected together) overnight ... so we could have a successful 5.30am escape to the caravan trainer course up at Gympie the next morning...
SWMBO collects me from the Ashgrove Caravan Park and takes me home... But I was wondering whether I should be telling her to bring me a fresh pair of undies ;D
I was just talking to a guy who took a wrong turn somewhere in Brisbane and had to tow his van through the main area of Bisbane in peak hour. He reckons he's never been so s**t scared in his life.
Driving from Sydney RV out through Penrith and over the Blue Mountains at 445pm on a Monday afternoon was the worst for me. ;D
What's the scariest place you guys and gals have had to tow in or through ;D
:cheers:
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Anywhere in NSW. They are weird down there >:D
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Wilcannia
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Wilcannia
Hope you didn't have to use the toilet. We stopped to fill up there once and my wife and friend ventured to the toilet, interesting to say the least.
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Wilcannia
Hope you didn't have to use the toilet. We stopped to fill up there once and my wife and friend ventured to the toilet, interesting to say the least.
Nope, filled up and got out of town. Wife stayed in the car. Long range tank now, won't need to stop there again
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Through Sydney.
With all the morons and brain dead down there they have no idea..............really
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Right after picking up our patriot on the Gold Coast I headed to Northern side of brisbane to a mates. Followed the GPS that took me peak hour through brisbane. I've towed a lot before but I was more worried about my precious new camper in heavy traffic getting damaged.
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Old coach road on the cape trip. More challenging than scary, although some parts had my heart racing.
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From Oberon to Jenolan Caves, very steep and windy.
To cap it off, I parked in the middle of a large, empty car park.
When we returned a few hours later, the car park was absolutely full and I was right in the middle.
If anyone has ever tried driving out of a car park they will know that you need to swing wide when towing. This was not possible.
Some masterful reversing with the attendant stopping traffic and 20 minutes later I was out!! ;D
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Franskton in Melbourne, thought I was going to get carjacked :)
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A McCrappers car park on doll Day........
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Deddick trail in the Snowy River area.
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Anywhere in NSW. They are weird down there >:D
Haha, yeah.. we know how to use roundabouts.. ;D
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Davies Plains track Vic High Country, in the rain, never again!!!!
Cheers,
Disco teddy.
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Two memories come to mind. 20 years ago I was towing a friend's old wind up camper trailer across the great dividing range towards Coff's Harbour. I didn't realize that the trailer brakes were not properly adjusted and my vehicle brakes were fried as I navigated the steepest downhill sections coming into Dorrigo. The other experience was traveling south on the Silver City Hwy from Tibooburra some years ago when the heavens opened. I was towing a Tambo camper trailer and it was a handful in the slushie conditions, sometimes swinging widely to one side and then the other. I guess I should have pulled over but I was scared of sinking into the mire on the roadside so I kept going. Upon arriving at Broken Hill we discovered (for good reason) that the road north was closed. Both scary experiences :o
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Tomahawk Spur descending into the King Valley.
Was a bit steeper than anticipated and it was the first time I had the camper in the high country...
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Bunnings carpark on a Saturday morning to do a gas bottle swap.....
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Bunnings carpark on a Saturday morning to do a gas bottle swap.....
I just remove the gas bottle from camper to get it filled >:D
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Any thing North , West or East of the Vic Border . There Mad Out There , Stark Raving Bonkers Mad
l know as they are represented on this forum , just watch Um roll in .
& they just Don't Know lt :o :o :-X :cheers: But We Do :cheers:
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I just remove the gas bottle from camper to get it filled >:D
boring. Live a bit more dangerously
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boring. Live a bit more dangerously
Well in that case, Scarps place >:D
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Not so much scary, but a bit 'how ya goin'
From Wollondilly River Station to Wombeyan Caves
Quite narrow in a lot of places with sharp bends. Had the grader working that day, with a couple of water tankers running...don't think I got out've 2nd gear till near the end lol
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Pascoe river crossing on frenchmans.....few nervous pees before tackling it.....turned out to be piss easy!
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I've got two, when I had the 80 and trackabout I went up through candole state forest and got a little bit lost.. Some pretty hair tracks in there..
Not really scary but last year I towed my 16 foot caravan up to orchid beach (fraser Island)
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Not a camper trailer but.......
Got my HC licence 20 years ago. Drive a couple of empty rigid trucks soon after (with roadranger gearboxes).
Got my b double licence about 10 years ago, in an automated manual gearbox Scania. First time I had driven a loaded "proper" truck since I got my HC licence. Then nothing but light vehicles and the local cfa fire truck.
Have driven a couple of empty, folded up log trucks in the last 6 months.
Yesterday I bit the bullet and jumped in one of these, in the dark, at 3am.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJR8-djKOrc (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJR8-djKOrc)
Except Kenworth T650, not a Mack.
With the regular driver asleep in passenger seat, hour and 1/2 out to the coupe, back it down the dozed in coupe track (1 foot clearance each side to the table drain where I nearly got the Hilux bogged a few days before). Still in the dark. At least that bit was still fairly straight.
Load up to 68t. Strap up. Power divider and cross locks in. Drive tyre pressures dropped from 100 down to 40psi, and ease the clutch out. Don't break traction!!
Out the coupe track, a few tight corners, and a km or so along a fire break because it was less boggy than the actual track, then a hard 120 degree corner onto the single lane bitumen road, across a single lane bridge, on a blind bend, on a hill. 15km to the highway hoping I don't meet anyone coming the other way.
Through a few towns with multiple round a bouts etc and back to the yard where the regular driver woke up and jumped in the drivers seat and headed off to Geelong to deliver and I headed to office to catch up on 20 missed phone calls etc of my normal job.
4 hour round trip and i didn't hit any kerbs or cars, although the gearbox will probably never been the same😁😁
Peter
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Through mt druitt
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Through a school zone at home time. School kids and parents everywhere.
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What's the scariest place you guys and gals have had to tow in or through ;D
Drove into a town with The Big Golden Gum Boot one day......Scary place that one !!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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What's the scariest place you guys and gals have had to tow in or through ;D
Drove into a town with The Big Golden Gum Boot one day......Scary place that one !!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
It was worth it when you met the good looking guy for a coffee mate. ;D ;D ;D
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Drove into a town with The Big Golden Gum Boot one day......Scary place that one !!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Banjo music in the air was the icing on the cake. ;D
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Banjo music in the air was the icing on the cake. ;D
Qld??....... ;D
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Qld??....... ;D
Yes.......................full of whinging Victorian Grey Nomads. ;D
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What's the scariest place you guys and gals have had to tow in or through ;D
Drove into a town with The Big Golden Gum Boot one day......Scary place that one !!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Lol, they don't even allow dogs in the Main Street at that place! ;D
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Yes.......................full of whinging Victorian Grey Nomads. ;D
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Yes.......................full of whinging Victorian Grey Nomads. ;D
l resemble that comment :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :cheers:
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Well.......thanks to the recommendation of a local we ended up on the road from Legerwood to Pyengana in Tassie.....also known as the Ralph Falls [4wd] Track.......in this:
(http://i653.photobucket.com/albums/uu258/peterthegreek007/Family%20Events/Tasmania%202015%20Holiday/150207%20VW%20Rig%20Tooktook_zpsqa6ppcr5.jpg) (http://s653.photobucket.com/user/peterthegreek007/media/Family%20Events/Tasmania%202015%20Holiday/150207%20VW%20Rig%20Tooktook_zpsqa6ppcr5.jpg.html)
One of the more stressful driving experiences of my life
If things work out we're going back next year in a real 4x4 with a propper offroad trailer
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Banjo music in the air was the icing on the cake. ;D
;D ;D that was coming from down on the creek bank mate.
I'm sure I've heard it a few times ;D
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Yes.......................full of whinging Victorian Grey Nomads. ;D
;D ;D ;D :cup:
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Lol, they don't even allow dogs in the Main Street at that place! ;D
O yes they do mate. ;D
A couple of them got taken away this morning after smashing 3 shop windows and s**ting on the floor in front of the shops. Human version. >:(
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Actually come to think of it, the local music shop sells a few banjos here. ;D
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Through mt druitt
You could easily expand that to be pretty much anywhere west of Mascot Airport..
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Lol, they don't even allow dogs in the Main Street at that place! ;D
Hehhhheheheeh.....Oppppps.... :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup:
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l resemble that comment :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :cheers:
Ohh Dear...number plates read " The Place To Be " .......Im just wondering... >:D >:D >:D :angel:
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Ohh Dear...number plates read " The Place To Be " .......Im just wondering... >:D >:D >:D :angel:
The plate on my Patrol read "On the move"......rather appropriate, I think.... ;D
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First trip in our camper took us up the side of a very steep mountain. I swear it was a 90 degree slope, ok, it wasn't. ..but it felt like it... I nearly bailed out when we almost went backwards. ..
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When I was not old enough to have any sense, I took a full width caravan down the Bridle Trail from Hill End to Bathurst. Thank God no-one was coming the other way.
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I was just talking to a guy who took a wrong turn somewhere in Brisbane and had to tow his van through the main area of Bisbane in peak hour. He reckons he's never been so s**t scared in his life.
Driving from Sydney RV out through Penrith and over the Blue Mountains at 445pm on a Monday afternoon was the worst for me. ;D
What's the scariest place you guys and gals have had to tow in or through ;D
:cheers:
To the mother-inlaws
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Wilcannia
Wilcannia is a great place unless your talking over 15 years ago they are nice, it is the kids at Menindee that are trouble.
Worst place my secret camping spot back of Goulburn where you lock brakes on car and camper driving down gravel decline then have to release car brakes and manually activate trailer brakes to keep both straight. Getting out is another story altogether
Also for anyone trying to drive through Sydney towing treat others the same way they treat you, indicate and turn don't give a second thought, it works for me
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You are being sarcastic about Wilcannia surely ???
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I went to Wilcannia for one night last year and spent 4, it was great, and when I ask people why they think its bad about the place they usually say that a mates, cousin three removed was told by a prison guard who wife was related to a person who read about it in the paper,,,, well you know what I mean. There is too many out dates stories that just keep getting handed down.
Its a great place with a lot of riverboat history and the council is restoring the old buildings back to almost what they looked like over 100 years ago. I feel sorry for the hard workers of the town while there are attitudes like this.
Its a good place and I stay there every time I go through that way.
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Wilcannia is a great place unless your talking over 15 years ago they are nice, it is the kids at Menindee that are trouble
Not 15 years, 2013, stopped for fuel and was happy that was all.
Main Street had a bad vibe, pub had bars on the windows. Long range tanks now, won't be back
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Not the CT but took a 4.5 tonne Mercedes diesel motorhome all over Tassie for my honeymoon.
Loved every piece of Tassie but up and down Mt Wellington between Christmas and newyear was an interesting drive. This motorhome was flat out at 80 and could only pull about 20 up these hills.
Very slow trip around the island
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Griffith NSW. >:D
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okay I admit, Wilcannia wasn't the scariest but by far the worst on that particular trip and that was 2013 also.
Good to hear they are cleaning it up.
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Home.
The first time from the showroom, all shiny and new.
Not anymore though. :-)
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Years ago took the wrong turn off leading into a camp ground as the road/track I took turned out to be horse trail into camp.
Problem was once I worked out something was wrong the track narrowed with no place to turn around. To top things off it started to rain, track getting narrower, a couple of steep and slippery dry creek crossing where I had to hit much faster than I would have liked as my 4WD wheel track didn’t line up with the single file horse track in and out of these creeks plus 2 crying kids in the back because they thought we would never get out of the forest.
After about 30 minutes finally managed to find a spot I could do a 20 point turn with the camper and had to do it all over again. Broke the handle off my jockey wheel, small dent in trailer mud guard and lots and lots of bush pin striping.
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Years ago took the wrong turn off leading into a camp ground as the road/track I took turned out to be horse trail into camp.
Problem was once I worked out something was wrong the track narrowed with no place to turn around. To top things off it started to rain, track getting narrower, a couple of steep and slippery dry creek crossing where I had to hit much faster than I would have liked as my 4WD wheel track didn’t line up with the single file horse track in and out of these creeks plus 2 crying kids in the back because they thought we would never get out of the forest.
After about 30 minutes finally managed to find a spot I could do a 20 point turn with the camper and had to do it all over again. Broke the handle off my jockey wheel, small dent in trailer mud guard and lots and lots of bush pin striping.
Sounds more like a great adventure to me. :cheers:
Real soul building stuff. Great experience for the kids. Once they can handle a "bush" track detour they can then start handling the real scary stuff, like peak hr in the city.
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Looking back it was an adventure, but at the time I wasn’t so sure. I must be weird as towing campers or boats in peak hour traffic doesn’t phase me.