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how many days will it take ben to do the 4000ks

seven days
6 (18.8%)
10 days
8 (25%)
15 days
4 (12.5%)
he wont make it and his good arm will hitch home
14 (43.8%)

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Voting closed: April 30, 2010, 01:20:23 AM

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Offline jimsvan

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Re: bens road trip
« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2010, 10:02:11 PM »
what where ya doing there blackbedford
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Re: bens road trip
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2010, 09:13:02 PM »
hey ben ----are we there yet!!
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Re: bens road trip
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2010, 08:37:08 AM »
dont tell me the one armed bandit is missing in action, hope he did'nt fall out of the plane. lol  ;D
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Re: bens road trip
« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2010, 01:31:19 PM »
maybe he's hanging out with ilean or kneel  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: bens road trip
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2010, 01:56:09 PM »
Quote from: jimsvan on April 16, 2010, 10:02:11 PM
what where ya doing there blackbedford

G'day

I was working, putting in new printers around the area.
Last week week I did over 2000kms going to places like
Lightning Ridge and Bourke dodging kangaroos, emus, camels and plague locusts.



As you can see a lot of roads are long and flat.

On Thursday night I skidded through a mob of cattle that were on the road between Brewarrina and Coolabah.

How I didn't hit any was a sort of miracle. In a wider van I most certainly would have.

We have been in drought for the best part of 10 years but we now have flood waters coming out of Queensland that are the size of Great Britain. Dry creeks are now 50kms wide. It has been a game getting around flooded roads and washed away bridges. I drove into Brewarrina only to find out the road to Bourke had just been closed due to bridge failure. I had to take a 240km diversion.

The old bridge at Bourke:


My van does a LOT of miles and works HARD.
A couple of shots of the van with loads on:



 
Most of those loads involved trips of well over 100kms. I am very happy with the Carry. It is cheap to run and very reliable. Gotta get a Bedford back on the road though.
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Re: bens road trip
« Reply #15 on: April 18, 2010, 04:19:45 PM »
The boys are still going strong. They left my place just a few hours ago.
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« Reply #16 on: April 18, 2010, 05:26:27 PM »
good on ya boys keep it up
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Re: bens road trip
« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2010, 01:17:22 PM »
Hey all,  well Ben the one armed bandit has just left my place, and he could not wait to get his hands on my angle grinder, just as well i have 000 on the alarm system. Well  he is headed south bound now after working on one of the vans, in my wokshop. Take a look at the Pics.
George.
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Re: bens road trip
« Reply #18 on: April 19, 2010, 01:26:16 PM »
atleast he was wearing safety boots....



 ::) ;D
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Re: bens road trip
« Reply #19 on: April 19, 2010, 02:37:23 PM »
Hey that's my sweet ass van with all the problems haha
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