Anyone been towed out of the Simpson Desert this year?

there was a fella on 4wd Action forum who had one of their crews vehicles need recovering this year i think. from memory they used a Sat. phone and called Mt. Dare.
i can double check that info. for you if you want.
out of curiosity, why do you ask?

You're not going to change your name to:

"Bored in Beaudesert" are you Ruth??

I came across two. A Suzuki being towed towards Mount Dare. As far as I could make out the tow was from other travellers who helped out. The second was a vehicle that was part of a group that I met several times. Can't remember what it was now. One of those mid range utes, Bravo or Rodeo or something. Suffered from a burnt out clutch that happened when he was assisting someone else. I think he was towed to Birdsville by his mates where he had to wait a few days for parts.

Commercial recoveries are undertaken from either end for a price. Depending on location CB, Satphone or HF could be used to contact either Birdsville or Mount Dare. CB would only work over a short distance of course.

Flynnie

Hiya Ruth! Long time no see!

You naughty girl, your post apparently seems to imply that you might be planning something, and the "newer' members on ExplorOz wouldn't know your background! LOL... Little would they know how much knowledge you and Ian have of the Simpson Desert!!!

We spent an absolutely wonderful 5 days in Birdsville, the last week of July/first couple of days in August, Barnsey replaced the alternator on Dusty, our beloved Patrol, Teresa was selling us enough curried camel pies and beaut cappuccino's that I reckon I gained about 5" girth, Dave showed us the Tom Kruse DVD's, the list goes on!! Gayleen and I walked out to the cemetery, not that we're into cemeteries, but Dave suggested we take a look at it, and indeed it is a special place.

I have to admit that against your advice to us two years ago, this year we DID tow our trailer across the desert, but our trip had taken us around the Simpson to the Territory, and we couldn't just leave it there and Australia Post don't have an overnight satchel big enough. I wouldn't have towed our older Cavalier trailer through, but we had upgraded to a Track Tvan for this trip and it handled it well.
We traveled the Rig Rd, the Erabena Track and the French Line. It was awesome! The wild flowers! The beautiful red sand! The Dingo's! The list goes on! We camped one night on the French Line not far from the Erabena Track junction, and whilst sitting by the fire later in the evening, there were owls hooting around us! I kid you not, they were in trees surrounding our fire and appeared to be hooting in a 360° arc around our camp! Magic! The next morning we were fogged in for a few hours, personally I hoped it would last a day or two! LOL....

Anyways, I have hi-jacked your thread here, so I'd better answer your question and say no..... we weren't towed from the Simpson!!

Good to see you here on EO Ruth, take care and stay well!

Regards

Brian

Hi Ruth

Hope you and Ian are keeping well. Guess you are settled into the house by now and everything is finally finished

Are you both thinking of returning to live in Birdsville and operate a recovery business.

Dick

Hi Ruth
If you call a snatch from complete strangers, well than I will put my hand up. When Fiona and I were Solo in August, we took the advise of a group of Victorians - I know I should have known better, which resulted in calling up a group at Lake Poeppel to snatch me out after a two and a half hour bog.

Fiona wanted lunch and a piddle stop, on the other side of the crossing at 12.15pm. You know me, I said, not just yet we will have it at Poeppel Corner, we will be there in 5 minutes.....well we did get there at 3pm.


Regards to Ian and your boys..


Cheers

Stephen and Fiona

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Hi Ruth, how are you? to answer your question, we didn't see any one recovered from the Simpson but when we were at Mt Dare there was a vehicle, (thought I took a pic but didn't, damn) on the back of a truck which had to be recovered but not sure on details.

Cheers

Deanna

Thanks everyone for your replies - no, we are not going into the business of towing people out of the Simpson Desert are there are plenty of people doing it legally and otherwise.
We are going back into business in Birdsville - but that's another story.

Hi Ruth, Dave says gerday!

We have towed numerous vehicles out of the Simpson this year, some with broken suspension, some with broken gearbox's, & at least one roll over!

Quite a few were towed in by their mates or passers by.

I don't know the exact numbers but there were enough to keep Dave busy.

We also did a lot of local recoveries, mainly bogged vehicles, but some breakdowns as well.

And, we also repaired a lot of broken trailers, some from the desert, as well as passing travellers.