A mob of accidents waiing to happen

Horrible!!

Look at these ones:
http://www.tuff4wd.com/~spudda/gallery/index.php?imgdir=19-06-05%20Kwinana%20Hack

And then we all ask ourselves why do 4wdrivers have a bad name and why do they close tracks....

Their recovery techniques may lead to an improvement in the gene pool. Pretty high price to pay though.

Shows how bright they are, they scrub out the rego number on all the shots from the back, but the one from the front shows it plain as day..............

Looks like the guy in the 80 series was taking the pics or he did not want to be in them. I will keep an eye out for them on the road. My son plays just like that, ....in his sand pit at 2 years old. We can only hope they grow up
Skinny

All i saw was some guys having fun in the mud with there 4 by's , Looks like a open padoc to me .

But i guess you would be happier if they were on drugs and robbing your house for crack money .

Apart from there own cars , I dont see them doing you or me any harm

Intelligence Plus!!!!!!! Did you notice the point and method of attachment for the snatch strap?

stickers on the cars from www.perth4x4.net ????

can I say from what i have seen it looks like they are in a wet land or swamp area very smart place to be when you have you rego on display as it is serious affence damage any wet area or land I also add being in any 4X4 CLUB that is the biggest no no even explor Oz would agree

Ok when the trip was planned, and i wasn't the leader at all..

It was clearly expressed that both front and rear rated points were required..
Yes maybe each vehicle needed to be inspected but you kinda think you can rely on each owner to comply.
The recovery Vehicle refused many times to recover the stuck Patrol, the owner wanted to use the tow hitch..
So we tried to use the axle but couldn't get to it because of way to much mud..
Next we searched the vehilce for a decent spot.. we spent more than 20 mins trying from the front recovery point, we tried air jacks.

Basically there was nothing left to do.. Yes i posted the pictures on the internet but until now you never seen any of the other ones. They were intended to show what happend and why, and to be viewed by those on the trip.. Not for someone from Perth4x4 to go and tell the world so that he can feel important. I know who you are but unlike you i'm not going to name you and make something of it..

I learnt a lesson just like the owner of the patrol.........

Even in the 4wding community there are way to many people too quick to judge too quick to point out something to everyone else, just cause they don't like getting there School Bus Dirty........

My 2 cents

Well Rod if you remeber the amount of crap that started because people believed that the Trip Organiser was too strict in what he set as the minimum for the trip..

that blew out to 2 pages of crap and was very unfair..

The whole reason behind me not taking my vehicle was that i was not running mud terrains tyres.. I had everything else. I guess we just relyed on people being able to take care of there own requirements..

It definetly is a better outcome than trying to explain a death and that was why we took the precautions while the recovery was in progress..
There is no way i would have allowed a strap to be attached to anything other than the chassis its just s pitty that the strap had to wrap around the step too..

I'm not going to jusify the reason why the Person brought the patrol without recovery points but that is not my concern anymore, now my concern runs deeper into the fact that people just found it apon themselves to spread this around many forums and not really understand what happened

Hats off to ya Spudda , I was a little surprised that it took so many replies to get it through to some of these people that have an interest in 4wding , as in " Offroading " that the unexpected does happen and that some situations need a different approach . As for the author of this post , Is your forum a little quiet ??? , felt the need to sling a little mud on our forum ??? . The 4wd community have enough slapping from the media etc , piss taking among friends while out in the blue yonder is acceptable , publicly on open forums is another thing , what hope do we have if this sort of crap continues

Andy . W

Unfortunitly in this case the Tow ball and the reece was rusted into place..

We tried using an axe head to bash it loose but to no avail..

Was not the ideal recovery and yes we have all learnt something, in a worst case senario such a recovery is not advisable nor desirable but can at least save a 4wd