Axled Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By OldSaint on 04-Dec-09. Waypoint GA1700

This geocache listing no longer follows the guidelines required for a Locationless cache. https://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Locationless_cache As such we will archive it and encourage the CO to place a locationless cache that meets the new guidelines.

Hello OldSaint thank you for the cache.


Many years ago a friend and I went for a drive along Jeffries Track.
In one of the holes my friend got a bit stuck for a little while.
He wasn't there for too long but long enough I think.

This was a goodie kinda day
We were out exploring with some friends who have a brand new 4x4.
We were in front and went down to check out the Bow River, near Horrocks, WA, to see if the mouth of the river had started to flw after the winter rains.
Down on the soft beach sand, we kept everything going, nowing the sand was really soft, but the others just didn't have what it takes, 'parked' they said 'parked' lol
Rather stressd out as he did't know what all the electronics where saying in the car, we got the straps out, lowered the tyre pressure on both cars and hitched the tow rope on, didn't nee the max tracks - to easy (for us lol) up the car came
At least to say, we don't think that car will ever be going on he beach again in it's entire life
Ours will - too much fun to miss out on otherwise

-28.407407°, 114.447925°

Thanks for the eventful Locationless Cache OldSaint

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Coordinates approximate. In Kowen Forest, ACT.
I was out geocaching with a friend (who shall remain nameless) in Kowen Forest. We had taken two cars for safety. I decided not to drive further after chickening out, but my friend thought he could drive through the mud and could not be dissuaded otherwise, so I hopped in his car. The photographs give the result. That certainly put a dent in our afternoon's caching . It took him about 1 to 2 hours to hand winch his car out. Then he almost got bogged again .
It was a rough drive, and apparently for a short (scary) stretch my car was witnessed to be on three wheels. Probably just as well I didn't know at the time, and my car didn't falter luckily. There was no way my car could have got through that mud; the reason I stopped. (Correctly as it turned out.)

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We saw this car being pulled out of soft sand today. His wheels were just spinning and he was going nowhere. Luckily for him there were lots of 4WDs around to help him out.
It happened on The Spit, Gold Coast.

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'Leura Fairways'
Fitzroy Road
Leura, NSW

Haven't seen an example for this Locationless for some years now, but spotted a sad truck in the front garden of the local 'over 55s' retirement centre while driving home today.

Photo seems to show a gardening or landscaping truck that progressed too far into the 'unimproved' part of the very wet garden until . . . well . . . it was in up to the axles!

Don't know if it's still there. Will be driving by later today and will check it out.

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Heading around the 50 series near Nurioopta in SA when the road wasn't as solid it looked. Took 10 minutes, but managed to get out....

Thanks OldSaint...hopefully the only time I need to log this one.

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Was out in the far west to find the Louth cache north west of Cobar. wot a fun trip and Ute Dog II loved the river and the swim. Well when I came home just turning into the home stretch and 'crunch, grunch' and lets stop and see what it is. Oh! that's a very strong oily smell???
Acko

Got stuck in the snow near Mt. Hood in Oregon.

Details here: http://debaere.blogspot.com/2012/10/geocaching-nostalgia-my-firstonly-911.html

On the way back from placing my cache at the top of Pelverata Falls we got bogged in a big puddle and needed a short tow to get out. It was all good fun, and we got very dirty!

I had just found a cache nearby and was heading back to our camp for the night, when a young guy stopped me and asked for help. He had driven his grandmother out onto the beach to get a closer look at the surf as she could not walk that far from the road. He was in a front wheel 2wd corolla and it got stuck in the sand, and the tide was coming in. You can see how close the tide is in the photo. A quick snatch trap application and they were on their way again. Grandma was very appreciative and I was rewarded nicely for the assistance (by Grandma, the young driver and his mate had no money).

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Had been out to "Beryls" GC1WCPE, near Hyland Park, Nambucca when on the way out I took the wrong side of the split in the road. Some 4wders had been having great fun getting the hole as deep as possible, and got themselves stuck. So it is not surprising that the Mazda Metro met it's match!
Luckily a fisherman came past in the morning, and I was able to get a tow backwards, then on my way safely. Thanks to Ken, an unlikely looking angel
(Sorry, I wouldn't say the cache is worth stopping for - LOL)

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I only discovered this cache last night, but hope a story from 18 months ago qualifies me. I was "bogged" attempting to get to the "Hidden Lake" geocache (GCPER8 - now sadly archived). But it from complete lack of traction on clay not deep mud - although if things had gone badly mud and water was my next destination...

"Well this one turned into more of an adventure than I planned! I took the road on the wrong side of the lake at first (that was OK despite the greenery growing in the track). Then I found the correct road, passed the GZ so I thought I'd do a U-turn at the pumping station as it was the first/only place big enough to do so and the road ahead was blocked by a fallen tree. BIG MISTAKE!! The surface off-road is extremely slippery after the rains and I spent more than an hour getting to the top of the slope foot by foot before my automatic overheated and wanted a rest..." (actually it was more literally inch by inch...)

"If you come to this cache, *do not leave the road surface*, or take a 4x4!...

I managed to get out with the help of a helpful worker and his 4x4 ute who came to assist a helicopter pilot who was also having mechanical issues (I saw him swoop around and heard him land nearby - more excitement!...) The nearby forestry workers where all very friendly though, and I at least got to find out a bit about what they were doing in their tree "nursery" - and what the awful noise was too (a hi-tech cockatoo scarer to keep them from eating the Eucalypt seeds they've spent so much effort pollinating to make hybrid plants for the plantations) Sadly, the rotunda - if it's the same one referred to in the cache notes - has been removed (the worker pointed the site out to me on the way through) and I never got a chance to locate the cache with all the drama of getting unstuck That was the end of the day for me, so I have a return visit to make some time to tackle all the others I'd planned on trying to visit..."

we got to Innaminka and our plan was to travel to the Birdsville track by going west,but the road was closed by floods.So next choice was Cordillo Downs road but again no go so back into Qld and up to Haddon Corner via the Arrubury rd. we were merrily tooting along (now here is the relevant bit)with me at the back! the day was warm low 30's and the beer cold, in the fridge. My mates up ahead were chatting over the radio, all was well with the world.
Then I saw the shimmer of water in the distance, was this water in that creek up ahead. Oh, Colin, lets get off the formed track and head off on the two bit,bucked tooth, yes tooth, 'u'orl leev ma sister alone' tyre track. It's OK i'll just radio the blokes to come back and 'found a nice place to hav........'
OH the track is a little moist ...better put it in 4X4 OH the wheel just sunk.. a bit! OK 4X4 willget me back..oops Diff lock that'll work oops Quick radio. This is where you find how far 5Watt radios can reach on the flat earth surface out this way. you also find how far vehicles can travel on the FLAT, SMOOTH FAST roads out here.
'Hey Pete,--,Pete-- can you hear me?'" " Ah, well i gotta winch i'll just ah No tree, what about, Ah no big rocks. well i'll bury the shovel after digging out the tyres.
So that done i dig the shovel in and attach the winch and-- Nuttin.
By Jingoes its gettin warm, man i hate these flies; why did we come out here again??????
Oh Bother that means unhook the spare, oh bother i gotta dig it out from under the ute and the mud!
Now is the funny part, and didn't i LAUGH. I get under the ute dig out the mud lower the wheel, did i mention the heat-yes? drag the- what about the flies? wheel out; started to feel a little DESERTED by now when 'Hey Col, u there?'wafts out of the cabin. i would rather not tell you what happened next as crying rescued men tend to make people a little embarrassed.
Anyways with the winch now attached to a proper anchor point, Petes, car, we were soon laughing and thumping each other in the arms being all manly and stuff.
What a fun day wouldn't give it up for less than 10cents.
Thanks Acko

This one happened during a work trip up in the Hunter Valley. We had no hope of getting this one out so we had to enlist the help of a passing Tank for a bit of a tow.

It took an hour jacking the car up, putting rocks and limbs under the wheels but the mud was to slippery. I had to wave down a farmer in his truck and he helped us get out.

Well, this morning on the bus, the bus driver was pulling out onto the road, we went to far into mud and drifted side-ways into small sludge . Apparently another bus had to pull it out.

This one bogged to the axle, lucky there was a tree nearby to winch out

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WanderingAus wandered by on day 128 of our annual Climatic Refugee trip, hunting down GC24Y7X The Rapides by thekingclan, and found the area of the cache all fenced in, so I couldn't get to the cache. The consolation was seeing this excavator bogged up to the top of it's tracks. I tried to catch a shot of the spray from the spinning tracks, but he stopped every time I got a focus, and he wasn't moving much anyway. I'd say he's "In Deep DooDoo".



*Recommended* *Overall Experience: 2*

T4TC OldSaint
Keith

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Out checking a few caches when almost along side one of them was this courier van as it turned out we new the driver and the photo will make its way to the CFA

This is one that happened to me a few years ago now while gaining my 6WD licence code.
It just proves that 6 wheels are not better than four.

The vehicle wasn't stuck for too long but we had to winch it out in the end.

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This is actually a photograph from a friend in a sandy country that has a few australians visiting at the moment.

It is a Nissan Terrano that the driver thought would be able to manage the 'puddle'.
Turned out that the puddle was a little bit deeper than he thought and he needed to be pulled out by a Mercedes Benz truck.

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I found this very sad scene while searching (successfully) for the 'Daniel's Decoy Duck' GC multi-cache around Norwest, not far from Castle Hill in Sydney.

No-one was around. There wasn't a soul even close to the bogging tragedy. The whole area was completely deserted in the middle of the day. This made the picture even sadder, in some way.

I guess the lawnmower guy had simply had enough! He just couldn't take it! He left the damn thing where it was and walked off.

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This is my car - hubby was driving to the Jamestown long weekend event when we got bogged not once but twice in the same street.
We were bogged at 6:30, RAA couldnt find us to help us, thankfully some other cachers were coming to help but a local drove past and pulled us out at 10:30 - 4 hours later

These photos were taken just outside the Geoscience Australia building in Symonston. I actually took them in 2007, when I was taking my son to a Monster Truck show that was being held nearby.

People were parking everywhere!!!

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Saw this sight on Malimup Beach a few years back.
They got a bit stuck!

This truck had got itself in a real right jam when attempting to go over a narrow bridge on a tight curve. It wasn't bogged but it sure was axled. Would have needed a heavy duty crane to life the trailer back on to the road.

While doing the beach drive along the Coorong with the Scouts - I had to give them a chance to dig out a car.

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Goldenwattle

This happened to me. I have been having a struggle with a krook Knee and back so took off for a bit of a look around in the ute. Crossed a difficult creek then fell into a soft hole. Front wheel on the other side was off the ground. I had no winch only a jack and took 3 hours to get out.
Thanks Old saint

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here are some bogged bikes from years ago

Ive got so many of these I should stop logging them now, This was done while setting out a Tassie Challenge 4wd comp near Railton, lucky we had another vehicle with us and with one strategic winch pull sat her back on her feet and drove home

Even with locked diffs front and rear you need more than one wheel on the ground to get any benefit. Not sure of coords, somewhere in the Vic high country on a hill called the widowmaker funilly enough

This is why I dont borrow anyones gear anymore, got a friend who is a better digger driver than myself to dig himself out, cleaned up the digger but got found out when the owner found tadpoles inside the engine bay

I bought a shipping container and the simple task of having a crane move it from the front yard to the backyard turned into a catastrophe.
We HAD a beautiful lawn with an underground sprinkler system and within an afternoon it was all but ruined.
The worst part was Mr red tag was away on a fishing trip and didn't know about any of it.
I consumed more than one glass of Southern Comfort that evening and pondered the dilemma of the day. The next morning I woke and glanced out the window in the hope it was all a bad dream - it wasn't!
Thanks for ache Oldsaint.

On my way to getting lost, looking for a cache.
The laptop was running moving map in OziExplorer and froze, unnoticed by me. Overshot the mapped turn and was on the wrong track heading for an Axled.
It was way after midnight and I wasn't going anywhere, so the rest of the night was spent inside after checking the water levels....
It took a few phone calls in a dodgy reception area and some driving around in another vehicle to finally meet up with the winch equipped 4WD to get me out.
In all, the van was stuck for around 10 hours.
Funny thing is...... Cached came along some weeks later and got stuck in the same hole, but from the opposite direction. There was a cache placed here called "Stuck In A Hole" (GC1K41E) but I think its gone....

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Please publish so that we can all enjoy our own or someone elses dilema.

Now this was the first time. Ah the fond memories!! Now the gloss has worn off a bit( not completely).
I had only just recently got rid of Ackomobile No 2> Ackomobile No1 was a 1950 Austin A30, would be a shoe in for the Locationless Noddy Cars. My first car; Acko because i had bad Acne, now just the scars. But that was MY NICKNAME at school ,the seniors could call me Ack! Definately not the Juniors, although one tried and 'Harbour' (after bridge, his name was Sydney), and 'Yella'(yellowy blond)soon put him on the path respecting his Elders!!!
Anyways the next Ackomobile was named by She who Must be Obeyed when i took up Geocaching, she, in her wisdom said your Jeep deserves a name, and knowing the history of my nickname and that the BOYS called my little Austin the Ackomobile said 'Their you have it!!!'
So my Jeep TJ,an awesome beast got to be a little too little to do any real off road touring eg Simpson and any real work at home. I needed a Ute; so Ackomobile III was born. So to test its 2inch lift its winch its front and back Diff locks---- if anybody in the distant future decides to creat a Locationless cache called?????say??>? AXLED i wouldn't have to bother taking any notice of it!
Acko