Tuesday, Feb 05, 2008 at 16:39
Yep local knowlege can be great...a few blokes from work told a funny story a few years back..... at a flooded crossing they were playing the waiting game as they considered the crossing a bit deep and flowing a bit much, they were in a typical top end cruiser ute with station style bar work etc etc. They saw very new looking sahara comeing the other way, and made the typical comments to each other ("bet its never seen a gravel road" etc etc....). It was as though the bloke in the Sahara could hear then, as he drove into the crossing without stopping, drove across with the bonnet just visible, pulled up next to them, wound down the window, "you weak so and so's", wound up the window and drove off. made them fee real big!
I do prefer caution with water. Local knowlege bought 3 vehicles to an expensive stop a few years back. on the way to a favourate local
water hole there was a big puddle that you always just drive through the middle......it managed to get over 1m deep after a while, killed a couple of radiators and 1 hydrauliced engine was its tally I'm told!
Cheers Andrew
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