Hi Jeff @ Mt Dare

Jeff, if you used the Forum using the Mt Dare Business Member login, this post would provide an opportunity for readers to click through to the Mt Dare profile page to view contact details, etc as all Business Member posts logged under their profile automatically include a promo footer. It is preferable if you are a representative/staff member of Mt Dare that you used their profile - check with Dave if he is ok with that first of course.
If you're not sure, contact Michelle for guidance as she manages the business members and advertisers.

Not a problem, I'll talk to Dave about it.

I see nothing wrong with having this topic on the forum or the content in it.

It is informative to all of us that this sort of support and recognition for the support exists in the outback.

Good on you Brian for raising it and recognising the help you received from Jeff and Mt Dare.

Good on you Jeff for taking the time to help out travellers in need.


Bill.

That may be true Sandman, but we see here two very supportive, polite, friendly responses from the ModSquad.

Let's not jump down their throats. It's not as if their response has been an instant deletion, is it?

This post has been read by the moderation team and has been moderated due to a breach of The Moderation Complaints Rule .

Forum Moderation Team

I fully agree with Sand Man & Gone Bush
now hope it does not get outa hand :-)

This way we at least we all get to learn something about the guys who choose to enjoy living in what city slickers call in 'the stiks'

Maîneÿ . . .

Public acknowledgement of a deed well done-doesnt seem to be an unreasonable action to put it up here?

good on you Jeff-kudos 2 u

Bill, we didn't say we had a problem with the topic in the Forum, far from it!! We are addressing the fact that Brian's post title is a call out to an individual and assume that means he is attempting to find a way to reach him. We only want to help people understand how to do that.

Thank you for the reply and for not simply deleting this post, which I think is important in the way different people interpret things.

I believe Brian was acknowledging the support he experienced from a remote area and wished to publicly thank the Mt Dare folk and Jeff in particular for the help they received.

If Brian did in fact send a member message to Jeff, or anyone else at Mt Dare Station, no one else would have been aware of this good old Aussie act of support.

In my opinion, this is an area that ExplorOz and the Moderators need to take heed of if they wish to acknowledge the greater good of the forum to all parties, whether members, registered visitors, or anyone else viewing these posts.

This is a very important issue that the forum provides in general community information that is definitely on topic and I would hate to see this sort of communication "hidden" in member messages.


Cheers,
Bill.

Gerday Brian,

How did your mate go with the Jayco?

Those upside down U-bolts were a bit of a worry! I'm not really surprised that he ended up breaking a spring.

Hi Jeff,
Yeah, it was a worry all right! Not being a mechanic myself, I don't know much about vehicles, but am "mechanically-minded" enough that I can get my head around a lot of stuff, and I could see your point about the upside down U bolts. You suggested to them that they shouldn't take it in the Simpson, but they were dead set serious about doing it. (I was rather annoyed when they carried on about the price of the Desert Pass, we had told them on two ocassions during the months of planning what that pass was and how much it would cost!. They're a funny pair!) I have a Cavalier trailer at home, I would NEVER have contemplated a crossing in it, as good as it is! For me, the Tvan proved itself, I hardly knew it was on the back of the Patrol most of the time. Tyre pressures and momentum...... the golden rule of sand driving!

It broke just down the first section of the Rig Road. Cresting a small dune and the leafs snapped in half where the locator goes through. I suggested we use a log, and provided a lump of firewood from the Tvan wood rack, and chainsawed it to the shape that Ian, the Jayco owner, wanted. We used fence wire and ratchet straps to hold it in place, removed the shock absorber and used my drag chain between the upper and lower shock mounts and the rear "recovery(?)" point of the trailer. This held the axle in place for front and rear movement, with the log made that whole side solid. It made some horrible noises for the next 4 days! But that log didn't move, and also didn't get damaged apart from some very slight scarring on the top where the chassis was sitting on it. However, the trailer suffered a bend in the chassis where the log was! Gidyea versus metal box chassis and the gidyea won! Peter Barnes in Birdsville happened to have a leaf assembly that fitted, so they were sorted out just a couple of hours after we arrived in town.

To me it was all part of the adventure, and later in the trip I've had to apply that philosophy to our own rig, as I burnt my alternator out near the dog fence on the QAA. Still got it to Birdsville though and Peter Barnes organized a new alternator for us, and we're now at Quilpie I have a buggered set of brake pads that didn't like the Simpson mud either! LOL......
But it is all part of the adventure, isn't it? Nearly 7 weeks since we set out, and I can honestly say that I have had the BEST time! The outback is a truly wonderful place in my opinion, and I can't wait for the next trip out there!

Cheers

Brian

Hi Brian- I don't suppose you have any photos?. doc.

Hi doc.... I do have photo's, but they're in a external hard drive in a folder with about 4000 other photo's from this trip.... LOL... but when we get home and I get 'em sorted, I'll put some up!
Scout's Honour!

Cheers

Brian