I hate roofracks but...

In my case that isn't possible as there's no rear mounting spare. Series 80. I've even tied them to the bullbar before , but they don't ride too well there.

If your current spare is underslung you could compress the extra carcass between the chassis and the normal spare.

Gramps now there's a novel approach. Then I could have twice as much fun lying under the vehicle at the side of the track :))

hahahaha life was'nt meant to be easy mate. It'd be a damn good reason to sit down for a cuppa before starting all that knuckle scraping and commencing your dissertation on the parentage, or lack thereof, of all and sundry LOLOL

hahahah..not wrong. And AFIK the correct quotation is "life wasn't meant to be easy, but take heart my child. It can be delightful".
Trust Paul baby to only tell us what he wanted...
Rekkon I might have to go roofrack and not bars after all. Now that should be interesting with crook legs...climbing around..hmm....maybe have another look at bars...

Keep Post 30596 in mind as well. Good luck.

Yep, I know what you mean . Unfortunatly most of the racks I see wouldnt get past first base on heavy washouts and corros. In the old days I could tell where the washaways were on a track by the amount of roofracks and abandoned gear on the side of the road.
Ah well, I'll take another peek and see how I go.

Jeff, thats more like I wanted to hear:))))))) How difficult is it to access stuff on top ? How difficult is it to set the system up in the first place ?

Pfft, corrugations and washouts. Been through plenty, even had the wires that were siliconed up above the windscreen fall down because of corrugations and never had a problem with the roof bars and basket... Perhaps in the days of un-educated people driving leaf sprung vehicles with too higher PSI in their tyres...

Yeah it's easy to get to the stuff on top, I'm fairly tall 6'3" so I spose that helps, but I finally found a use for side steps!!! LOL

I normally stand on the side steps to take the oky straps off (that's all that ties the bag down and works a treat as you have 7 oky's, one for each strap, it saves ties and undoing loops all the time). When I'm unloading gear, I quite often step up off the side step and onto the back tyre which give's me just that little bit more height. It's hard yaka if you unload the whole load by yourself because of the getting up getting down factory. If you have one of the kids, a mate or your missus stand on the ground to just grab the gear as you pass it down, it's not a drama at all.
Climb Step, un do okys and unzip bag.
Step up onto tyre.
Pass ooodles of crap down to waiting helper.
Drink beer while they set it all up. (in my dreams!!) LOL

The basket I quite often just leave on the vehicle because the garage is to messy to fit the car into anyway! :-) But when I want to get it into the garage, I can remove the basket by myself because it's so light, even with the annexe poles and long handled shovel still attached! I bought some better U Bolt's for it, they only have one thread on each U bolt and the other end has a little hook that just clips around the basket, makes the doing up and undoing of the bolt's half as much of a choire. I think they were $15 from "The 4wd Shop" in Perth.

Had a mate who decided to do that, hang the rack from the rafters. Spent all weekend making up a pully syetem to lift it on and off.

The first time he put the rack on, he could'nt get the vehicle out of the shed, to bloody high.

Good one, I almost got caught too!
Store on the floor joists under the hose, but couldn't drive the car in the gargae door to put it on, so that stopped me from doing something stupid.

My dad's 4BY will only fit in his garage if he puts 200 litres of water in the back first.

I'm in a similar boat, but not even the missus will travel with me now. She says she's done her time in tents :) (and she still works so cant get away too easily)
Last trip lashed the carcass to the cargo barrier. Easy and effective, but it took up a lot of space. The soft goodies and fridge (with seatbelt) sat in the back with extra water containers etc Passenger side taken up with laptop etc etc.
Now it all fits in and travels well, but making camp is a matter of a lot of mucking around. But there again I slept in the car a bit on the last trip, didnt want to camp in the mud :((

We have ended up buying a camper trailer. She reckoned I am getting too old to be climbing up and down to the roof rack. It is most probably one of the things that keeps me fit enough to do it!
It was a nice quite
Now I have a new toy to upgrade and spend money on, getting the packing right. Only took me 5 years to work out the best way to pack the rack and back of the car. Bulit a shelf and all those types of things.
Now I am allowed to buy a fridge slide for the back of the car. If I plan it right and make it myself, that gives me extra money to spend on something else :-).
Of course with a camping trailer the idea is we will be more adventurous, so I will need to upgrade recovery gear etc.
This was all discussed and allowed in the purchase price of the trailer.

I'm curious as to what people do when they get into a national park with their c/t and the camp area is fenced off so that you can't take vehicles inside the area. Kinda defeats the purpose ?
I towed a trailer yonks ago. It gave me more strife than it was worth. There again it was a h/d road trailer on some pretty awful tracks. Still, the memory remains.

"I'm curious as to what people do when they get into a national park with their c/t and the camp area is fenced off so that you can't take vehicles inside the area. Kinda defeats the purpose ?"

Personally I'd just set up there in the car park....... we wouldn't DREAM of parting with our CT now!!!!!!!