Wowza, sorry to offend! I get that people have issues for access in the UK with people going off track with green lanes etc., and no way do I condone that! However, you've gotta understand, in Canterbury our access issues are different. While you guys have pay and play sites, we have areas of riverbed where the council promote offroading to take part, to keep people away from areas where there are nesting birds etc. I realise
@GrumpyGel is a fellow local (kia ora!), however as for my 'appalling driving' from
@gstuart, how many times have you driven in a braided riverbed??? I think you'll soon realise that I do know what I'm doing. I've been driving in the Selwyn (which most Canterbury 4wders recognise as having the softest pea gravel that you can't drive around) since I was 13, and bought the truck you see in the video when I was 14, so have had plenty of time to figure out what works and what doesn't. At "9:15", yep, I sure did reverse, and give it huge amounts of loud pedal, because thats the way you do least damage to the riverbed. Sure I could have locked it in first low and chugged through at walking speed, however all this does is wreck the base for anyone who wants to go through in the future. It churns it up causing super soft ruts running through the river, which makes it all the harder for the next bloke wanting to come through. Seeing as you're a local
@GrumpyGel, feel free to come out with us at some stage, I'd be more than happy to cut some nice soft ruts in a section of river people won't be driving through, and let you follow through and compare it to following me after "giving it lots of loud pedal." The momentum makes you glide over the pea gravel, not cutting it up. Obviously you loose momentum and in parts you do churn your way through, which is fine, however there's no point making it harder for ourselves! As for the CRC, I don't get why using CRC is such a big deal! Normally my truck is fine in water as it's had hours spent waterproofing it, but I recently lost one on the shields on the dizzy, which is why it got wet, and I used CRC! Big deal! It fixed my problem, and meant I could go and have a great arvo down the river! I'm really not sure where you get the idea that I'm going to roll or sink the vehicle from, as that's the last thing I intend on doing!!! I'm assuming you say this because you reckon I'm going to just randomly drive of and crash into a waterhole, which I agree, would be a pretty stupid thing to do, which is why you'll find I don't plan on doing it. You are correct regarding the algal bloom, however with the recent flood as mentioned in the video, there is far less this year. We only bumped into a few people, each time idling past and saying hello etc. as you do, and for one gentleman I turned the truck off, jumped out and checked he was okay with us coming past, offering to turn around if he didn't want to be disturbed. I am well aware many people don't like us off-roaders so I'm very conscious of doing my best to not antagonise people! Apparently I'm not very good at it on this particular site tho! I think you'll find plenty people die offroading, not just New Zealand too. In the latest LRO I read about an event being put on to remember a bloke that passed away whilst trials driving. Also, I think you'll find that it was the council who locked the gates, not any farmers! My guess is due to the river recently being in flood, to stop people accessing the flooded river by vehicle. It is regularly open. And for
@gstuart, um, really???? I'd be very interested to know how you know that I "didn't even test the depth of the water." No it's not included in the video, because a video of people testing water is blimin boring, however for the "deep water", of course I checked it first!!!! I can also read the river pretty well, as I say, I've been driving it since I was 13 and Dad has taken me on countless trips in the Selwyn as a kid! I know that river better than the back of my hand! Not to mention that over my years driving braided rivers, you learn to read the river. I can tell you if it's going to be deep or not before I've jumped outta my truck to look at it. A quick glance and I have a pretty good idea of what's ahead. Any good 4wder in Canterbury can! As for you "at least" getting to dislike the video, far out man, that's childish. I put 10-12 hours into editing alone, so people can enjoy a nicely edited video (for free!). I posted here because I thought people may be interested, not to ask to be flamed!!!! As for me fingers through the wheel, well done, you got me. I hope someone gives you a cookie! As for driving lessons, I think you'll find I've done more training days than I can count. I do agree with you on that it's a good job there were no walkers around, as they'd be getting quite wet feet walking through there! As explained, we are more than welcome to offroad here, "ripping up the tracks" I presume you meant the rutted section I initially got stuck in. Only a couple weeks earlier this section of track was under a good metre of water (I'd know, because I had to turn around), which does far more damage than me going through with open diffs Spinning the unweighted tyres a bit will not cause major deterioration! And as I say, we are allowed to offroad these tracks! If there are no challenged areas where people can go, they start going places they aren't allowed to go!!! If you'd like to expand on where this "appalling driving" actually happened (now armed with this knowledge of how it is recommended to drive soft pea gravel riverbeds), I would be more than happy to hear you.
Unfortunately with me being the new guy on this forum, it is unlikely I will be listened to, which is why I have removed the video from this page. I am trying to grow my channel and the last thing I need is people disliking my video because "lol', it serves him right for trying to make quality content for us. I'lll keep it to this because I would like to attack the subject, not the person.
