Full Bore July August 2008

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TOYOTA HILUX 4WD CLUB OF VICTORIA

2 Toyota Hilux Club of Victoria

Inside this issue

of Full Bore...

Club Calendar _____________________________________________ 3

July General Meeting Minutes_________________________________ 4

July Committee meeting minutes ______________________________ 5

Mt Skene Snow Run Trip Report_______________________________ 7

Club Clothing Order Form ___________________________________ 10

Member Profile ___________________________________________ 13

Mt Sunday Snow Run Trip Report_____________________________ 14

August Committee Meeting Minutes ___________________________ 19

Club Contact Details Toyota Hilux Four Wheel Drive Club of Victoria Inc. P.O. Box 6070 Collingwood North VIC 3066. www.hiluxclub.org.au

Club Meetings The third Wednesday of the month at The Leinster Arms Hotel 66 Gold St, Collingwood 3066 Starting time 8:00pm.

Magazine Contributions Any contributions to the magazine are welcome! The deadline for inclusion is the end of the month. Email to: [email protected] Snail mail to: 11 Mordaunt Drive, Hillside 3037 Views expressed in this magazine are not necessar-ily those of the Toyota HiLux Four Wheel Drive Club of Victoria Inc.

Committee Contact Details President: Craig Fearn 0418 389 685 Vice President: Stephan Etienne 0411 335 855 Secretary: Helen McEachern 0417 344 222 Treasurer: Rob Gardner 0408 646 728 Public Property Officer & Sergeant at Arms: Mathew Anderson 0413 256 551 Trip Coordinator: Stephen Bickerdike 0419 108 019 Association Delegate: Troy Garner 0409 407 031 Media Editor: Gary Fisher 0409 404 230 Editor: Paul Crossley 0404 294 302 Assistant Editor:Dale Foulkes 0417 389 679

Club Calendar

www.hiluxclub.org.au 3

Club Calendar

August 4th Committee Meeting - Troys House

9th-10th Mt Sunday Snow Run -- Rowdy

20th General Meeting

24th Day Run - TBA

27th Committee Meeting - Father Flannagans

September

13th-14th Churchill - Rowdy

17th General Meeting - Father Flannagans Hotel

21st Day Run—TBA

October

6th Committee Meeting - TBA

Long Term September Birdsville Races—Contact Rowdy if you are interested.

ATTENTION ALL! ATTENTION ALL! ATTENTION ALL! ATTENTION ALL! ---- THE NEXT GENERAL MEETING WILL

THE NEXT GENERAL MEETING WILL



BE HELD AT THE NEW PUB



BE HELD AT THE NEW PUB ----

FATHER FLANNAGANS HOTEL



FATHER FLANNAGANS HOTEL ----

CNR SMITH ST AND ALEXANDRA PDE





Meeting open at 8.05pm, 16 July, 2008 Location: The Pub

Apologies Dale, Rob G, Griffo

Present Danny W, Pete, Humph, Steve B, Helen, Plumber, Sam, Rowdy, Matt, Steve P, Dave F, Phil, Steph

Visitors None

Minutes of Last Meeting Accepted: Steph Seconded: Steve

Business Arising None

Secretary’s Report Incoming mail: Track Watch, 4WD Victoria Invoices, Land Rover Owners Club Mag

Outgoing Mail None

President’s Report Rowdy and Troy went to Assoc. meeting and spoke about fee raise. CEO said fee raise will be voted on August AGM. If this goes through the raise will be for next financial year. In future April Assoc. meeting will be for voting on annual fee increase.

All club equipment MUST go on every trip. MUST’s are: Turfer, 1st Aid Kit, Recovery Bag. Items may go in different vehicles, they do not need to go in Trip Leaders car – as long as these items go on trip.

Treasurer’s Report Rob not present at meeting. We have approx $280 in petty cash. Approx over $2000 in bank.

Assoc. fees are due.

Member fees are due now.

Equipment Officer’s Report Plumber new Equipment Officer so arrange to obtain items from him.

2 new chains have been purchased for chainsaw. Bar oil, spark plug and sprocket have also been purchased.

Association Delegate Report Assoc. is putting fourth a motion to reduce the size of the board. Licola area is re-opening Melbourne Cup weekend. There will be training on the Track Classification Procedure. Not sure when. Parks Victoria is putting out a Travel Companion Handbook. This is aimed at 4WD persons who are not in clubs. They want to place this handbook into all new 4WD vehicles sold in Australia. Trying to obtain funding from Sports and Recreation Department from the Government. There is a new forum on the Assoc. website. You must use your real name to register – nicknames will not be permitted. Meeting went to 11.15pm

Editor’s Report The magazine is looking good. Still haven’t received information from Paul yet, possible next week. There will be a July/August Magazine.

Media Officer’s Report Easter 2007 video completed. List of DVD’s available on website. Let Paul know if you would like one.

Trip Co-ordinator’s Report Snow Trip over Mt Skene is being ran by Steve B. Next committee meeting being held at Plumbers house on 4th August, 2008. Rowdy running Mt Sunday snow trip on 8th, 9th and 10th August, 2008. General meeting 20th August, 2008.

General Business Waeco showbags available from Matt. Which is a better fridge? Waeco or Engel. We are now the caretakers of King River Hut. We are hoping to get someone out from the Huts Assoc. to better inform us of what is required. Possibility of an Aussie Disposals Store Night. Paul to find out full details.

Trip reports Willow Grove trip report by Steve P.

Broken Vehicle Award Rob Gardner/Steve P - 10 votes

Plumber – Broken door and shovel – 7 votes.

Pull Award Rob Gardner

Next Meeting Details Committee meeting: Plumber’s House 4th August, 2008. General meeting: 20th August 2008.

Meeting Closed 8:50pm

July Gen

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July Committee Meeting

Meeting open at 8:20pm Date 7th July 2008 Location: Rowdy’s House

Apologies: Dave, Gary

Present: Rowdy, Dale, Steve, Stephen, Rob, Matt, Helen, Steph, Paul, Troy, Plumber.

Minutes of last meeting: Accepted: Paul

Seconded: Matt

Secretary’s report: Incoming mail: Aussie Disposal’s cheque, Dargo Miner’s Cottage for sale, Review mag, Trackwatch, Joe Sabo’s membership.

President’s report: Thank you to the previous committee for all their hard work over the last twelve months, and wel come to the new 08/09 committee.

There was an association meeting two weeks ago, and the issue of fee increases was raised. This will be decided upon at the AGM in August.

Treasurer’s report: $2800 approx. Memberships to come out for association.

Equipment Officer’s report: First aid kit at Matt’s, everything else pretty much at Rowdy’s. Spit was delivered by Doc to Humph for running repairs. Rowdy purchased a recovery bag and winch extension strap, and also so more gear for the chainsaw.

Association Delegate report: There will be a Licola Re-Opening Festival on Melbourne Cup Weekend.

The association is looking for clubs to volunteer to classify tracks in a given location. Clubs will be reimbursed.

Editor’s report: Last mag has been emailed. There are about 4 or 5 previous mag’s to be printed and distributed. Only one or two trip reports owed. Bimonthly newsletter to come into effect shortly.

Media Officer’s report: Rowdy has the camera, and footage of the last few trips. We have ordered an external hard drive for data to be stored.

Trip Co-ordinator’s report: Stephen’s snow trip 26/27th July – limited to 10 people

Rowdy’s snow trip 9/10th August

13/14th Sept Churchill – Rowdy

Christmas is at O’Tooles 6/7th Dec

General Business: Huts association have come back with a hut option – King Hut. Getting speaker from Huts to come to next meeting.

Finding out about the discount club members will receive from Aussie Disposals.

Annual return needs to be filled in, in regards what our assets are worth.

Rob to go over details from last year’s return and discuss at next meeting.

Social night was raised – possible location Mrs. Parma’s?

Meeting location raised again – do we need a new pub? All club members are welcome to source a suitable location and bring it to the committee’s attention. A decision would be made after a visit. Criteria for a great location include: ample parking, great food, large room, close to CBD.

Next meeting details: Committee meeting at Plumber’s house 4th August

General meeting July 16th

Meeting closed at: 10:25pm



The trip began Friday

night at the Black Spur pub

in Narbethong for dinner. As

Stephen and I rocked up last,

I am writing the trip report.

Our trip companions in-

cluded Rowdy and his mate

Ange, Plumber and Humph,

Matt, and us. After dinner

we headed to our camp for

the night, Frenchmans

Creek. Cold night, and as we

had no fire an early one at

that.

We were up bright and early

the next day, and had left

camp by 8:30am! As we left

camp, we took Cambarville

logging road up to Corn Hill,

where we were in snow by

9:15 and lots of photos were

taken.

From Corn Hill we went

down Frenchman’s creek,

and across Mansfield Woods

Point road. It was then on to

Old Coach road and Webber

spur which were pretty easy

going, until we got to Black

River track which proved to

be more interesting than we

though. As our gallant trip

leader crossed the Goulburn

River onto Black spur we ran

into some slight trouble. The

other side of the track was

slippery and rutted, and we

got to try out our new

winch. We were the only

ones who had to winch up

that section. After some

hard work we were out and

moving again, until we found

Rowdy having some trouble

up another slippery section.

After a little bit more winch-

ing for Rowdy and ourselves,

we made it to the helipad

only a few hundred metres

up Black spur.

We decided to plow on and

make it to the hut on Lazari-

nis Spur track for lunch. Af-

ter lunch we continued up

Lazarinis and on to the Hey-

field Jamieson road and up

to Mount Skene. It wasn’t

long before we cam across

some lovely snow to play in…

and play we did! We got

crossed up in the drain, but

after some good work got (Continued on page 10)

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MT SKENE SNOWRUN




ourselves going again.

Plumber however landed

himself into the bank further

up the road, requiring at-

tempts by Rowdy to pull him

out. After Rowdy got himself

stuck trying to recover

Plumber, the winches came

out. It didn’t take long, and

we were traveling up to the

top of Skene.

Unfortunately, we weren’t

the only ones who had de-

cided to venture to Skene

that Saturday. We found a

place to pull over and have

some snow ball fights, and

photo opportunities. After

our fun, we kept heading

down the road and turned

off at Mt Sunday road, and

headed for our camp of

Silverwater Hut.

This hut was a

great find:

down the end

of a dead end

road and with

a hut big

enough for all

our swags to

be set up for

the night (except Matt who

preferred the al fresco op-

tion). We dragged a log

down from the road and

started our first fire of the

weekend: glo-

rious to be

warm! An un-

eventful night

of drinks,

good food and

good com-

pany. We

awoke the

next day to

fair weather and some over-

night rain.

After some de-

bate, we headed

back to the top of

Mt Skene to see if

our rain had pro-

duced snow on

the top. We fol-

lowed some other

people’s tracks

for part of the

way, but soon we were

breaking fresh ground in the

new snow. As we passed one

of the lookouts, a man

jumped out in front of

Rowdy’s car. He and his son

were stuck in the snow, and

could we please help them

(by themselves – not a great

idea). As always, our club is

there to help, and they were

soon off on their way again.

It was then up to the top for

more photos and snow ball

fights. As we turned around

and headed back down the

mountain, we came across a

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group of 7 or so. It is very

hard to forge new tracks in

metre deep snow to allow

other cars to pass. After

some effort and a few rescue

operations, we were clear

and on our way.

It’s here that we parted

ways. Stephen and I contin-

ued on to Jamieson and

home. The others traveled

down Snake Edwards track

and onwards. Judging by

some of the photos on the

website, they encountered a

mighty river crossing on their

way. All in all, a fantastic

trip. Great to see so much

snow and wonderful scenery.

Thanks to all who came, and

see you all in the next out-

ing.

Cheers,

Helen and Stephen.



Name Stephan Etienne

Location Bacchus Maersh

Occupation Lawn Mower Man

Current vehicle ’96 80 series Cruiser

Previous vehicle ’85 4Runner / ’82 Hilux

Other toys 2000 ZX9R / 06 VZ Ute

Years as a Club member 6.5

First 4wd experience 1985–Trentham in a G60 Patrol

Most memorable moment Having the 4Runner so airborne it nearly stopped

on the landing

Most embarrassing moment Showing off on a YZ 85 - Xmas 05

Worst breakage 4.5Lt engine / Right shoulder rotor cup

Favourite camp meal Bangers and Mash (not the instant mah)

Favourite 4wd area Vic Deserts

Most worthwhile modification Decent tyres

Future modifications Steps/Slides………. Lockers?

Best thing about the club Rob Deane?

Member Profile


Who went :-

Stef and Claude -

80 Cruiser

Rowdy and Simmo -

GQ ute

Phil, Carly and Matt

- GQ wagon

Mattt - GQ shorty

Troy - dual cab lux

I headed of Friday

arvo picking up

Simmo on the way

and met up with Matt

on the road, a quick

stop for fuel and a pie

in Mansfield and we

continued on to Wrens Flat.

A camp site was found and

cans cracked as an erection

was had (tarp ) with Stef

and Claude turning up

shortly after, some fire

wood gathered and a fire lit

and a few cans latter Troy

arrived with Phil’s crew

turning up some time latter.

More merriment was had

by all until the early hours

of the morning.

With the rain falling all

night and finally stoping as

we got up troy whipped up

some delicious breaky san-

gas as camp was packed.

The tracks where slippery

to start with then turning to

snow covered as we turned

up to Mt Sunday. The going

soon became slow with me

dropping to the doors in

fresh snow, the winch cable

was run out and as I was


winding the cable in under

full load the cable snapped

with the dampener doing its

job. Phil tried to go around

to a similar fate, with a bit

of digging and some anger

of the right boot he was out

with Stef getting stuck and

winching out using the

back of my rig as an

anchor, a snatch

strap strung between

Stef and myself and I

was free. With my

winch out of action

Stef went up front of

the group to soon be

stuck again, with phil

pulling him back out

the decision was made

to turn around with

this I was turning around

and lost my clutch and had

to start the car in gear to

move. Matt and myself con-

tinued on down the hill

while Phil recovered

Troy who had be-

come stuck in the

snow with all 4

wheels of the ground

spinning freely, with

every one at the bot-

tom the call was

made to head to Silverwater

hut for the night. With a

stop along the way to play

on a hill we got to the hut

had some late lunch, Claude

showed his

fire skills

with swags

being

rolled out

and camp

was set as

we sat in

for a night

of jocular-

ity.

With the

rain falling on the roof of

the hut we arose with Troy

whipping up a pot of por-

ridge that hit the spot as the

rain turned to snow eventu-

ally it cleared and Troy

Matt Simmo and myself

cleared out and headed to

Jamieson with Phil and Stef

not far behind. With a small

issue on the way we got to

Jamieson were I called the

RACV and organized a tow

truck to get the ute home.

Everyone caught up at the

Mansfield bakery and then

it was home ward bound.

Rowdy.


Club Clothing Order FormClub Clothing Order FormClub Clothing Order FormClub Clothing Order Form

Name:

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Ladies 3/4 sleeve T-shirt $ 15.00

$

Mens short sleeve T-shirt $ 15.00

$

Needle out Polo shirt $ 25.00

$

Lightweight Pique Polo shirt $ 25.00

$

Poly fleece Vest $ 25.00

$

Contrast 1/2 zip Polyfleece Top $ 30.00

$

Splice 1/2 zip Microfleece Top $ 30.00

$

Contrast Panel Polyfleece Jacket $ 35.00

$

Chambray Long sleeve shirt $ 25.00

$

Hooded Jumper $ 35.00

$

Beanie $ 10.00

$

Trekka Waterproof Jacket $ 70.00

$

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Meeting open: 8.10pm Date: 4/08/08 Location: Troy’s

Present: Rob G, Craig, Troy, Dale, Steve P, Steph, Matt.

Apologies: Paul C, Rob H, Dave F.

Visitors: Peter P.

Presidents Report: Craig and Troy attended FWDV’s 4WD Show planning meeting.

Really poor attendance of club reps – 4 clubs 5 people

Candice reigned from FWDV

Minutes of Previous Meeting: Proposed: Troy Seconded: Matt

Secretary’s Report: Troys Membership form is in the mail (just like the cheque)

Treasurers Report: $2251.00 in bank, $343 in petty cash

Association fees Due $19.80 + $7.50 per member

Equipment Officers Report: Equipment out at the moment, due to be returned after weekends trip.

Association News: September is the AGM

New forum on their website

Email about track classification

MVO access

Hawthorn Bridge rebuild has been prioritized thanks to FWDV.

Editors Report: Steph picked up all Mag material from Croz and had a quick tutorial on MS Publisher.

Trip Reports and material needed for Mag.

Media Officer: 2 DVD’s available at next meeting

1 DVD with 1 trip and 1 DVD with 3 trips on it.

Trip Coordinators Report: As per Website.

General Business: 4WD show 23rd – 26th Oct. – cost last year was $132. Should be approx the same this year? – Is the

club interested in setting up and effectively manning the stand this year?

Guest Speaker for September, Rod McCarthy from Bullivants.

Discussion – Discounted Membership for Committee Members.

Thanks Again to Ken Goods from Waeco for supplying the WAECO Showbags.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FORSYTHE FAMILY ON THE BIRTH OF THEIR SECOND CHILD

FLYNN ALEXANDER FORSYTHE

Meeting Closed: 9.30pm

Next Meeting: Moved forward due to Birdsville Races

Wed 27th August at Father Flannagans Irish Pub 8.00 pm

Cnr Alexandra Pde + Smith St Collingwood

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