Wednesday, Jun 02, 2004 at 15:05
That is the essence of the objection.
I was one who advocated not taking a trailer, and I have been into the Simpson and lots of other
places too. The argument I put forward is this, I can but I chose not too. You can but I believe that you should choose not to. I can swim to tasmania but in doing so, I will possibly encourage others (less
well prepared etc) to do the same.
As a manufacturer of trailers, you have a vested interest in people using your trailers. I don't se that you have a vested interest in them being used in a particular place, especially if by their use, there is a chance that a unique and wonderful place can be ruined, or more likely that other peoples experience of that place can be ruined.
See my previous posts here and on 4WD Monthly
forum re people doing stupid stuff out there, and you will realise there are a lot of ill-prepared people doing supid things out there ( there are lots of responsible careful travellers too).
I put it this way-
Do you need a trailer to cross the Simpson- No!
Will it make the trip potentially more difficult- Yes
Will it possibly require several attempsts at dunes- Yes...I saw people having to have several attemps in a perfectly good 4wd without a trailer, yet on the same dune I idled over!! Give them a trailer and see what happens.
Is it more enjoyable in a swag- for me YES!
On our recent trip we initially were in front of an unrelated convoy (we were in a solo vehicle) and the dunes were so easy to cross, no bumps nothing. We then followed the convoy of vehicles -you should see how much their vehicles had chopped up the dunes and made our approaches so rough they were almost unbearable. I challenge everyone who goes out there to travel up a dune then walk back down and look at your tracks. The tracks from these vehicles were a mess from too high tyre pressure and an attitude of "you have to go hard". Thats not just my opinion, I passed several vehicles going the opposite way who complained of the same thing once they encountered the convoy. Yet we were doing 20 - 25 kph and had no trouble and no wheel spin.
I say buy the trailer by all means but think carefully, is the Simpson the place I want to take it- just because I can? I believe responsible manufacturers would say use our product but care for those rare
places inthe Australian outback, like the Simpson!
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