Thread: Health and Safety clarification for Recreational hunters

Yeah I've seen those spreader boys in action, balls of steel some of them. I wasn't comfortable driving up some of the faces they were spreading across!

I cocked up a while back and missed my turn off in a Courier ute - the old High Country pack version of the Xtra Cab. Had an ali tray on it, real light, could damn near go anywhere and on that day I was too lazy (well had too many things on at once as per) and took the ute up to sort out the water tank and get the water down to the plant running. On the way down I turned downhill one rise too early and realised my mistake too damn late. I ended up in a situation where I couldn't get out of the ute as it was too steep, the park brake wouldn't hold it and I couldn't reverse up to safety because the damn cattle had ripped the slope up. Ended up having to ride the 40 or so meter dropoff all the way down, one cattle track at a time while facing the ground out of the windscreen. I learned after that and never tried that again, the pluck mark out of the center of the driver's seat was spectacular. And I have a hell of a lot more respect for those Courier/Bountys from the end of the model run - surprisingly capable little utes.