MudRunnerTD doing the Madigan Line 2012

[Maxhead]

Yep, can't wait for the pics and vids mate...c'mon get your arse into gear hahah

[MudRunnerTD]

Stay safe,enjoy, 4x4 Australia mag just did article on your very trip, couldn't find 1 camp but
amazing trip. look forward to the pics

Wow I will have to and buy the mag and have a look. I can claim success finding Every Camp other than camp 3 and 4 where ther is no Public Access.

We found Camp 1 and there had not been anyone there for many many years with no foot prints or any wheel tracks to speak of. Awesome.

Given each camp now only consists of a gold painted Star Picket with a small plaque smaller than the palm of my hand! To find a couple of them by driving through unmarked bush to a dot on the gps. Zoomed in to 1000% and the dot on the GPS is a square Km! Finding the star picket at camp 1 was a big deal!

[taslucas]

Did you lock in the co-ordinates? You could probably sell them lol!

[MudRunnerTD]

I have jumped onto Tappa Tap so I can post a couple of pics from my phone. I used the phone for the first few days then pulled the big cam out . I should have gone the good cam earlier but oh well, I had a bit going on

Here are a couple of pics of the car loaded and showing the roof load.

On the roof went an RV4 oz tent, 3 Jerry cans of diesel, 2 max trax, roof bag with a bare spare tyre and tyre changing gear and a heap of "just in case" spares ( belts and hoses) for the mighty TD42 and a work bench I used to safely load the roof each day and it came in super handy as part of the kitchen when cooking each night.

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The 25lt drum you can see at the back was the washing machine . Fill it with 5 or 6lt of water, some front loader powder and your washing and go driving! Ring out the washing when you get to your destination. Worked a treat.

So the call came early from our fellow traveller in the Hilux (Kevin) that he had a broken a front strut on his Hilux on the Oodnadatta TK damn it so time to find some parts for him.

We pulled into the wrecker in Mildura and were happy to hear that he had a front rack off a hilux in his lot and could help with what we needed.

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Loaded with the parts we needed we hit the road again, we headed North West and got through Renmark to find the sky open up and the rain came down.

We pulled into a wayside stop and pitched the first night camp as quick as we could. All good though as the rain left us and the sky cleared to let the warmth of the day float away.

Cold! It got real cold!

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We went to bed with a wet car and woke to a car covered in frozen rain drops and thick ice on the tent!

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[NissanGQ4.2]

Here are a couple of pics of the car loaded and showing the roof load.

Darren, you are aware you can get solar panels these days that should take care of your power needs while out in the bush......................no need to carry that big power pole around with you *LMAO*

[MudRunnerTD]

Darren, you are aware you can get solar panels these days that should take care of your power needs while out in the bush......................no need to carry that big power pole around with you *LMAO*

Damn ! It did feel a little top heavy and all! Wish i'd known that damn it!

Nah she travelled soo well and true. Solid as a rock!

[MudRunnerTD]

So i ripped out the drivers side back seat and replaced it with a box made from 10mm ply that finished at the same height as the Black Widow Drawers and gave me a flat floor down the drivers side which was a real winner.

It turned out that in the box would fit standing on their side 3 x 20lt jerry cans that i filled with water. I screwed down the lid and went there only when i needed to refill the water.

I had another 10lt jerry with a tap that i used for day to day water and had that in the back beside the fridge. So 70lt of tap water in all. I then bought another 3 x 10lt casks of water for drinking as i drink bottled water at home and my boy only drinks water also so 30lts would be a winner. Total of 100lts on board.

I hunted for a long range tank for the GU in the weeks leading up to the trip and I scored one off ebay for a song out of a GQ that bolted straight up and enjoyed 147lt in the back and 30 in the Sub tank and ran with another 3x 20lt jerries on the roof for a total of 237lt of diesel on board.

I used the tubs out of my camper trailer and put clothes in 1, food in another and pantry / cooking utensils in the third. I scored factory tie downs out of a Benz Van off ebay and fitted them strategically to allow for a tie down over each of the tubs with close fitting lids to hold the load well when the going got tough. Very pleased i went to this effort as it got hammered.

I moved the drop down fridge slide with the 45lt Engel to the passenger side on top of the drawers allowing for enough space for the 10lt of water to go down the side. I packed most of the food into the left side black widow drawer and the right side carried all my Tools and recovery gear. I have a fold down table on the big rear door so the fridge and the food drawer could be accessed while the table was down making a meal

All in All it worked a treat.

[MudRunnerTD]

give me a day or so and i will upload all my pics to Photo Bucket and see if i can get some of these AVIs to Photobucket too and will post up some great pics for you all.

Cheers guys

[macca]

Good read to wake up to, sounds like you were well sorted and it payed of.

[taslucas]

Looking forward to seeing more pics MR. The washing machine is a great idea! i would never had thought of that