G'day.
Has anyone done this track recently?
The club used to run a We hate Footy trip a while ago.
Is it still opened to 4WDers?
I remember other track names like DOM DOM road
Strickland Spur Track etc
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Strickland Spur Track etc
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Re: Strickland Spur Track etc
The top area of Strickland is overgrown.
The undergrowth around Narby is thicker now than it was before the fires, which proves the old Aboriginal theory that fires help the bush, but the greenies don't know what they're talking about.
When you get up towards the top, there's undergrowth in the middle of the track up to your bonnet in places and thick undergrowth sticking out.
The last 2 times I've done it in my 80, I've stuffed my genuine electric diff lock wires under the car, so I take the zook now.
If you do it in the first week after snow, the undergrowth is bent over and you struggle to get trail bikes through.
There's one section where a tree came down after the fires and DSE didn't clear it and people have had nightmares getting around it and that's probably the hardest spot in there at the moment. In my 80 with KM2's at 10 with beadlocks and diff locks on and 2nd gear, I drive up smoothly with 90% traction, so we should all do it.
Strickland link on the way down is the same and there's a rocky section half way down. My zook walks it and Vitara's will do it to. My 80 I have to watch out for my running boards and things.
Dom Dom Rd is verrrry boggy. I've lost count of the number of rescues I've had to do in there where people get stuck and walk out to the hotel for help. The bridge beside Nissan Hut is broken. The creek washed it away a few months ago and the hut itself got burnt in the fires.
The reason why this hasn't been bulldozed is because this boggy section is technically private property, but the track is named and on the maps and the local owner and DSE are always debating over who's got to maintain it and it's years overdue.
People block radiators here and even GQ's with 36 Simex's and diff locks and chevs can't get through.
Dom Dom Ck Rd is perfect for a trip. A couple of hills that are fun and we could all do. DSE has done a crap job of a water run off mound and it's turned a little sloppy with a nasty exit. This water and slop is below your axles and bearings and things, and it's the exit that kills you. My Sierra can do it, but my 80 can't. There's a chicken track.
Fisher Ck Rd is very boggy half way. My 80 is useless here and my Sierra can get through the easier way, but it's very off camber and I need a wide track for this one. There was a chicken track, but that got chopped up in the few weeks.
Fisher Ck Tk got closed after the fires. They had DSE working flat out around Dom Dom Ck Rd and Fisher Ck Rd and Tk during the fires making containment lines out of them. Fisher Ck Tk was going to be perfect. The original track was there and there was a fire break all the way through running beside it and you could get a Falcon through it and the original track just the way it used to be.
A couple of months after the fires, the greenies got through to them to turn the containment lines back into bush again. The brought excavators in and dragged logs and things back over where they'd bulldozed and while they were at it, they put logs and things over the track as well and closed it.
All the trees they've pushed over and all the erosion they've caused closing it, they've done more enviromental damage than we would in 20 years.
A fair few locals were pushing for it to be closed saying that it ruined the water in the creek, possibly one reason why it was closed. Even a couple of local horse riders campaigned for it to be closed saying it ruined the water, and tomorrow they go riding groups of 100 horses through the same creek only 100 metres up from the hotel and highway and make the water filthy for a few hours, hipocrites. I told them that it's because of people doing what they're doing the bush users don't get along and the greenies are beating us.
Local friends of mine in Marysville DSE have said that last summer, they were flat out in Big River and the rain slowed things down and now they're behind with Narby and they're really going to be working hard this spring and summer.
They're going to be taking slashers into the overgrown tracks like Strickland too.
The undergrowth around Narby is thicker now than it was before the fires, which proves the old Aboriginal theory that fires help the bush, but the greenies don't know what they're talking about.
When you get up towards the top, there's undergrowth in the middle of the track up to your bonnet in places and thick undergrowth sticking out.
The last 2 times I've done it in my 80, I've stuffed my genuine electric diff lock wires under the car, so I take the zook now.
If you do it in the first week after snow, the undergrowth is bent over and you struggle to get trail bikes through.
There's one section where a tree came down after the fires and DSE didn't clear it and people have had nightmares getting around it and that's probably the hardest spot in there at the moment. In my 80 with KM2's at 10 with beadlocks and diff locks on and 2nd gear, I drive up smoothly with 90% traction, so we should all do it.
Strickland link on the way down is the same and there's a rocky section half way down. My zook walks it and Vitara's will do it to. My 80 I have to watch out for my running boards and things.
Dom Dom Rd is verrrry boggy. I've lost count of the number of rescues I've had to do in there where people get stuck and walk out to the hotel for help. The bridge beside Nissan Hut is broken. The creek washed it away a few months ago and the hut itself got burnt in the fires.
The reason why this hasn't been bulldozed is because this boggy section is technically private property, but the track is named and on the maps and the local owner and DSE are always debating over who's got to maintain it and it's years overdue.
People block radiators here and even GQ's with 36 Simex's and diff locks and chevs can't get through.
Dom Dom Ck Rd is perfect for a trip. A couple of hills that are fun and we could all do. DSE has done a crap job of a water run off mound and it's turned a little sloppy with a nasty exit. This water and slop is below your axles and bearings and things, and it's the exit that kills you. My Sierra can do it, but my 80 can't. There's a chicken track.
Fisher Ck Rd is very boggy half way. My 80 is useless here and my Sierra can get through the easier way, but it's very off camber and I need a wide track for this one. There was a chicken track, but that got chopped up in the few weeks.
Fisher Ck Tk got closed after the fires. They had DSE working flat out around Dom Dom Ck Rd and Fisher Ck Rd and Tk during the fires making containment lines out of them. Fisher Ck Tk was going to be perfect. The original track was there and there was a fire break all the way through running beside it and you could get a Falcon through it and the original track just the way it used to be.
A couple of months after the fires, the greenies got through to them to turn the containment lines back into bush again. The brought excavators in and dragged logs and things back over where they'd bulldozed and while they were at it, they put logs and things over the track as well and closed it.
All the trees they've pushed over and all the erosion they've caused closing it, they've done more enviromental damage than we would in 20 years.
A fair few locals were pushing for it to be closed saying that it ruined the water in the creek, possibly one reason why it was closed. Even a couple of local horse riders campaigned for it to be closed saying it ruined the water, and tomorrow they go riding groups of 100 horses through the same creek only 100 metres up from the hotel and highway and make the water filthy for a few hours, hipocrites. I told them that it's because of people doing what they're doing the bush users don't get along and the greenies are beating us.
Local friends of mine in Marysville DSE have said that last summer, they were flat out in Big River and the rain slowed things down and now they're behind with Narby and they're really going to be working hard this spring and summer.
They're going to be taking slashers into the overgrown tracks like Strickland too.
Re: Strickland Spur Track etc
If only they had three winches, they'd be fine.narby pub publican wrote:
People block radiators here and even GQ's with 36 Simex's and diff locks and chevs can't get through
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narby pub publican
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Re: Strickland Spur Track etc
A few mates of mine have come out of this track with blocked radiators and overheating and I've had to get the pressure cleaner out for them so they can get home.Gallagags wrote:If only they had three winches, they'd be fine.narby pub publican wrote:
People block radiators here and even GQ's with 36 Simex's and diff locks and chevs can't get through
I had to get a group of bogged plumbers out of there one night.
They went out in the middle of the week at about 8:00pm and got stuck in this bog and it took me ages to get them out and I stuffed my winch doing it.
It was midnight and we were out and it was time for the money and all these plumbers put together said they only had ten bucks in their wollets.
Some reckon I should've got them to clean out my gutters
A group of muslims got stuck in this track in the middle of the night during the week and didn't even have a glass of water with them and they were walking around the bush lost all night.
They stumbled across the hotel in the morning and asked for me to go and get them out.
It was a turbo diesel Prado stuck all night top of the headlights.
It was in the combustion chamber. I told them that the time it will take to pull the glow plugs out, we can tow it out the short distance to a main road. They're with total care. Everything will be full of water, even their fuel, so get a tow truck to take it to a 4wd specialist and do a full service and checkover of it and get it working.
They didn't listen to me and they tried to start it and bent their rods on a turbo diesel Prado.
When towing them out, they kept trying to start it thinking it would work.
They then asked for tools so they could fix it in half an hour and drive home.
Derrrrr
The only time I do this track is when I'm walking the dog