WILD WEST TASMANIA - Roothy

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The first few times I went off road in Tasmania's wild west I couldn't believe just how much adventure there was to be had. Don't know why, I mean this is the country that turned convicts into cannibals, country that swallowed up men as quick as the quick sand on a western beach swallowed trucks.
This footage comes from an early trip with 4WD Monthly, in the days when I still had hair. Don't know if that made it any hairier, but it was an incredible adventure. A couple of local mates of mine had found a network of old tracks that'd been plunged through the big tree forests by a small bulldozer out prospecting for gold. That's how they pioneered this country, driving off into the unknown and letting the blade cut a path. It was the only way.

But that little D3 had cut through maybe fifty years before the lads fired up their quad bikes and followed where they could. In this sort of rain forest trees grow almost overnight. We had to deal with massive logs wider than a man was tall, growth across the tracks and most of all, thick, gooey rain forest mud that allowed the first vehicle through and then churned up with each following truck until it was so greasy traction stopped all together.

There's a ton of memories here but also a bunch of mates and products that handled the test of time. A young Allan Gray checking out Milo at Terrain Tamer HQ, the original TT shorty 40 V8, Terry 'Mr Smooth' Smith from Cooper tyres, Glenn Wright, a fearless rally driver, and of course, Brian, Cozzie and Pete, my Tassie bushmen mates. And there's me using Lanotec twenty years ago as the best waterproofing on earth! Enjoy - I know I did! cheers, Roothy.

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