Project Road Drive Melbourne
Submitted: Friday, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:31
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Robin Miller
If you find yourself with little to do this sunday , we will
be doing a short drive down Project Rd north of the Black spur
sunday 10am.
Leaving from
Buxton Igloo roadhouse north side of
Buxton.
While road is flat its guaranteed to be very muddy and bog-holy.
The extracted will be required to supply the extractee one cappicino
per extraction.
Robin Miller (off email from 4pm today)
White GU 4800 patrol
0429 963-122
Reply By: Footloose - Friday, Jun 08, 2007 at 14:44
Friday, Jun 08, 2007 at 14:44
Robin, hope you get a crew together so that you sail
home from all those cuppas :))
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Follow Up By: Robin Miller - Friday, Jun 08, 2007 at 14:51
Friday, Jun 08, 2007 at 14:51
I have a secret plan to fund this drive from extractions , however only 2 Nissans are coming so far so I might have to pack my own coffee !
Robin Miller
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Follow Up By: Footloose - Friday, Jun 08, 2007 at 15:06
Friday, Jun 08, 2007 at 15:06
I just hope that you're not the one shelling out for coffee...very embarrasskin :))
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Reply By: allanmac856 - Friday, Jun 08, 2007 at 20:35
Friday, Jun 08, 2007 at 20:35
Project Rd, or 'Project Bog' as it was known has been recently graded & all bog holes now gone.
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Follow Up By: Member - Jiarna (NT) - Friday, Jun 08, 2007 at 22:16
Friday, Jun 08, 2007 at 22:16
At least you waited until after he left at 4pm, before bursting his bubble.
On a similar note, I once told a friend that a particular road was in good condition, based on my travels a month previously. She came back rather annoyed with me, and suggested that I must work for the Highways Dept if I thought the road was "good condition". Seems the corrugations had grown in the preceding month LOL. I also neglected to mention that I ran 24psi in my tyres compared to her 38psi. Ah the joys of 4WDing.
Cheers
John
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Reply By: Robin Miller - Monday, Jun 11, 2007 at 19:52
Monday, Jun 11, 2007 at 19:52
Your certainly correct there AllanMac - its like a real but narrow highway now with several inches of soil and crushed
rock of a completely different colour laid on top and not even a corrugation left.
Not to worry , there is plenty of other material in the area , and we soon wandered around to what use to be a favorite track of ours called Anderson track.
The
forrest and track leading into this was destroyed 2 or 3 years ago by pine plantation operations which made access hard to the lovely
creek crossing however now the
young pines are about 2 m tall and the track was never restored properly and has very rough entrance , we bottomed out on every one of the 6 large drainage bumps. Looks like you really need 35 inch tyres now for this one.
However the
creek crossing was as good as ever and I managed to get up the other side whereas another GU with me did not.
It was all down to our different tyres and it was amazing to see the difference.
We completed Anderson track , however at the top it no longer goes to Mt Murrindindi , and cuts out to the Yellowdindi/Black range.
Quite a cute drive in the damp red clay, and
well worth the effort.
Tried unsucessfully to claim on my free cappicino however the other driver got up via a chicken track and reckons he didn't have to deliver as he wasn't technically extracted.
So my question is - should he provide free coffee's or not ?
(or do I shame him with the video's )
Robin Miller
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