Attention Bush Tyre Experts

Hi Stephen

By the looks of it you all had a great trip this year. some of these places will be on the list for next years trip all going well.

I'm looking forward to be reading your Blogs and Trek notes soon..

Cheers
Richard

Do you think it wrapped around a tyre or like a skid steer loader?

Hey Stephen,

Gotta love that western myall country, eh??
I was in it July last year - skirted around the top of the Nullarbor plain after visiting Grt Vic Spring. A very attractive and seldom visited region. We came out at Forrest and thence down to the blacktop at Eucla. Those we travelled with all remarked on the un-expected appeal of that fusion of landforms & vegetation types.

I have been on the plain & its verges quite a few times - first in 1970, when we went as far north as Neale Junction. We were so bloody hungry we ate roos & crows for meat on that trip. Built a spinifex shelter at Neale Junction - is it still standing??

Have you heard of Twilight Cove? - it really is magnificent, at the western end of those mallee plains south of the plain escarpment, below the bitumen highway which leads to the west.

All the best from down south (well, south of Clare).

PS - Had a nice trip down the CSR, and then 5 weeks in Europe since we last spoke. Such is life

RM

Hi Stephen,
The tracks are an interesting find aren’t they? I have been to the spot a number of times and have always been fascinated by them. So much so that I have tried to find out more.

On one trip I was told they were used and left there by a Nissan driver because he kept getting punctures! I’m not sure about that explanation.

I prefer this explanation. Hunt Oil, from Texas, in 1966 had permits to explore 126,650 square miles from the Tropic of Capricorn down through the Great Vic to SA border. They created numerous roads, cut lines and drilled many wells and bores. Including presumably Parallel No 2 Road, although I can’t find any official record of how it’s got its name.
Hunt Oil drilled numerous bores/wells, including on track side on the Connie Sue. It’s called Lennis No1; it was 2016 ft deep and was dry.

I would say they brought the steel tracks with them from the USA probably thinking they were going to be in deserts like they had experienced elsewhere in the world. Sadly we will probably never know exactly what it was all about unless one of the now long retired workers can be found and they tell the story.
cheers
Phil

There is a guy called Mick Hutton who knows a lot about tyres in the bush and runs tours in that area. He also happens to be married to one Connie Sue Beadell. So there is a pretty good chance he will know what it is and probably the vehicle it came off and when and why.

Beadlell Tours

There is also a heap of other useful info about the area, HF, tyre info etc etc on the web site.

It could have been part of a Half-Track vehicle brought over from the USA. Maybe a WW2 relic or a tracked vehicle associated with drilling.