Bikeralw
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During our six month tour of the backroads of New Zealand we got the little Mazda stuck on several occasions. The most memorable was when we attempted to spend the night on the floodplain of an almost dry river. We'd stayed on these sort of places on several occasions before without problems. After deciding on our spot on the vast pebbled area I decided to point the other way so as to get a good view of the setting sun. I should've backed onto the track, but instead chose to do a loop out into the area nearer the river... About 30 yards out the van just sank into the pebbles, all four wheels, it was resting on it's underside...
No phone signal in the Badlands of the south of the South Island, and 30 miles from the nearest settlement, or half-horse towns as we called them...
By chance we spotted a sheep farmer mending his fences about half a mile away, and he had a 'ute', a 4WD pick-up truck to us.
My wife hiked over to him and used her charm explaining our predicament. No doubt he thought what a pair of d**kheads, but he drove over and spent an hour helping me dig the wheels out before hitching us up to his ute with his towrope, which promptly broke... He drove off back to his farm and returned an hour later with a massive chain. This worked, but still took ten minutes of back and forward before the van was towed to firmer ground...
A great bloke who refused any reward other than two cold beers from our fridge..
Al.
No phone signal in the Badlands of the south of the South Island, and 30 miles from the nearest settlement, or half-horse towns as we called them...
By chance we spotted a sheep farmer mending his fences about half a mile away, and he had a 'ute', a 4WD pick-up truck to us.
My wife hiked over to him and used her charm explaining our predicament. No doubt he thought what a pair of d**kheads, but he drove over and spent an hour helping me dig the wheels out before hitching us up to his ute with his towrope, which promptly broke... He drove off back to his farm and returned an hour later with a massive chain. This worked, but still took ten minutes of back and forward before the van was towed to firmer ground...
A great bloke who refused any reward other than two cold beers from our fridge..
Al.
