Don't drive over mattresses on th road.

Strewth that's another worry for me. Now I'll me thinking about that at night as I toss and turn in bed.

Seriously though that would not be fun. As someone who uses a tractor to slash grass (think big lawn mower), I can vouch for the power of things that get wound around the pto and for me that's just grass and the occassional piece of fencing wire.

This mattress though is really something else. I'm wondering IF when it first happens if one reverses, would it help get it off the shaft? I suspect not as that much wire tends to lock into itself and kind of 'does a python' on the shaft.

Probably not that big a deal getting it off with an angle grinder (we all have a spare one of those when travelling).

Why the hell didnt they stop until it got that bad?
Looks like 4wd to me because of the diff size


Why did the peoples faces have to be hidden?

Hi Dick

The photos pasted in this thread now make their 3rd(or 4th) appearance on this site.

Either you find it yourself whilst surfing the www or some friend sends it to you. Then you think Ah! I must post this on ExplorOz as it must be new. Sadly it isn't new. That is the trouble with cutting and pasting.

I am sure that you have many experiences to share which are new and fresh so that we may all share in them.

I only wish that I had bothered to take a photo after I had run over an old fallen down barbed wire fence in the long grass near Wombungi Outstation NT some years back. Took about an hour lying in the wet grass cutting the wire away.


Cheers

Good morning
That is the main reason you can't take a mattress to the tip.The tip owners are responsible for the road and tipping area. It dose a lot of damage to the vehicle.
Anyway, who in their rite mind would run over a mattress on the road.?
Murray

Friend of mine drove his cruiser through spear grass that had creaper vine hidden in it..... it brought him to a complete stop within meters.... four and a half hours later with 2 people taking turns to cut it free, he was able to drive out of there.

It wasn't something he or anybody else considered as a possability.

Not a lot of fun.

Richard

If you look at my rig photograph you will see a ute parked next to the Prado. That day we were plagued by punctures and thought the worst was over.

While waiting for our support aircraft to land, the mate noticed another puncture. I also noticed wire hanging below the rear diff and crawled under to have look.

There was wire everywhere. It took us 1.5 hours to finally cut it free. At a guess I reckon he picked it up when we drove through an abandoned out station.

To make matters worse, the mate discovered his spare rim wouldn’t fit the car.

Regards

Kim

Seems this pic has been up a few times i would like to know where i can buy a pair of those black safety glasses the guys are wearing !

Thanks a lot for posting that mattress series..I have not seen it before so it has real impact. Got to watch out for drunks lying on the road also at night. Someone we know ran over one near Dalby once. Police found out he did'nt kill the vertical one as the car in front had done that trick. Makes me wonder! Why don't diesel locos have cow catchers like the steamers did.Must be some strange logic there somewhere.