We Should Have Turned Back!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- By far the hardest track we've ever done.
Lots of panel damage
Lots of digging
Lots of track repairs
Red Series 1 with Dan and Rachelle / rachelle.chch
Green Series 2a with Cam
White Defender with Ben / the_series_shed
And my Series 2a / hayden_jones_series2a
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I have no idea why TH-cam recommended this video to me - but I am so glad it did. What an amazing adventure, what amazing old vehicles and what amazing skill of the drivers. Really enjoyed it. All the best from the UK.
TH-cam got it right !! Glad you enjoyed the video and stick around for more to come.
Here’s a video in a slightly different vein, but it was the reason this video was recommended to me today: th-cam.com/video/2W1kKXMKzfA/w-d-xo.html
Fantastic to see Landies doing what they are meant to do (and maybe a little beyond that!). Some stunning scenery there too. Great video.
Appreciate the comment Mitch 🙏🏽
Glad you enjoyed it
I was about to write the same! Absolutely cool to use this cars like this!
Very nice ride,, I wish I was there with you guys.. I love this stunning
I thought they were made to go to malls in .
@@mohandhanoa4797 🤣🤣
I'll tell you what. I am a Canadian guy that likes Jeep TJ's, Boy would I have loved to have drove that track with you guys. Absolutely wonderful vehicles you guys have. I love the old defenders. I ran into a guy with a 92 he had imported, It was in incredible shape, We talked for a while. They are almost majestic in person. Great video.
Thanks for the amazing comment Joe. I'd love to get a defender one day
Great to see the old Series 1 just bumbing along and taking it in its stride!
Thanks (-:
I give you all down under alot of credit for getting as far as you do in essentially stock rigs. In America we put lifts, giant mudders, winches and lockers on our trucks.
That's the thing about them. Landies always did it straight out of the showroom!
@Clovis Point you only snap axles if you are driving them wrongly. I trialled a series2 and a Range Rover special with a Range Rover 86" chassis and only ever broke a tooth from a diff pinion once and that was when the front end slammed down after a failed 60 degree to the vertical climb. And also the Mercedes' Unimog is an awesome vehicle no question about it, but compare the price of a brand new Unimog, with a brand new series 2a Land Rover in the late 1960's. You get what you pay for my friend.
Christ, when that drone went up I thought "Well this ain't bleedin Kansas, Toto!"
That is one hell of a track and its good to see the old Land Rovers being used for what they were built for.
Hahaha yeah it was a big day !!!
Wow what a trip, good thing you guys all made it out. Great to ride along in Ben’s quiet defender!
Haha yeah it's crazy how quiet his defender is compared to my noisy old thing. Haha. Glad you enjoyed the video.
What a great reminder of just how capable a landie in fine fettle can be, even without lockers and big knobblers on, they'll get you where you're going eventually. Great vid mate, algorithm finally turned up a stonker.
Appreciate it mate. Yeah the video has been pumping out the views 🙂
Bloody hell ladies and gents, that filming was epic.
What a diff bashing, half shaft snapping, panel bender that track was!
I wonder what's been using that track previously? Farm tractor? Logging skidder?
It's a beaut.
Never mind Camel Trophy - how about Kiwi Trophy!!
Hahaha thanks Geoff. I think the track was originally used for logging. Pretty crazy.
@@hayden_jones Best off roading Landy video I've seen in a long time. Good work all you drivers and camera people. Looks like everyone made it home!
So good to see these old Landy's still having such fun and proving their worth in such nasty 4 x 4 conditions -- well done
Thanks Roderick. 🙏🏽
Way better content than a lot of aussie 4wd videos--shilling boring rubbish that includes obsessive spending or rubbish reviews on new junk. Ah, the Tirfor, yes, I was wondering if someone had one, and wondering when it would show up. 😅Enjoyed this very much! Loved the old stuff--hope you can get it all fixed up again--they are just brilliant! Glad no one rolled! Subbed. G'day from Australia!
Fantastic video work! Showing Landies in all their coolness and brilliance. I love it!
Thanks so much. 🙂🙂
That was an absolute shocker of a track. You would have to think that no authority uses it at all for it to be like that but those wheel ruts show that many vehicles have used it. Most modern 4x4 vehicles would have been to wide for it in many places. Could you imagine Dad taking Mum and the three kids down it for a sunday drive in the Landcruiser Prado with the side steps and chrome tow mirrors and the sun glinting off of the pearl iridescent white duco? The old Landies are incredible really but the first 8mm news reels shot at the start of the Snowy River Hydro scheme show them in situations just like this. I was told of situations where single operators would get through flat bog holes using the PTO driven capstan winch and heavy hemp rope with them being outside the vehicle altering the tension on the rope drum. What a very hard trip you had.
Have been on the same trip on this track 22 years ago (it wasn't as wet as this at that time)... with a 4wd club also from Christchurch that had an 80 Series Landcruiser driven by a husband and wife team as one of the participant vehicles.
They said they bought their vehicle to do these trips and panel damage or paint damage didn't worry them......
They had good fun...
but we always made sure they were in the middle of the pack so they could be tandem-towed forwards or backwards...come what may....
Really beautiful place and vehicles!!! What a cool trip!!!
Nice. This is my style. No bullshit wide mud tyres, massive lifts etc etc. I have a defer Td5 130, 2a 88, 2a 109, 2 109 and a 3 109. Of course in all different states of repair!!
I used crossed steel wires to protect the windshield, I don't know the technical name for it but they were very useful LAND ROVER DEFENDER 110 // 1996
This landed on my homepage and boy did I enjoy that!!
The green Landy is identical to one I had. Ex British Army 11A, 88'. FFR (fitted for radio) override bumpers, double fan belts, dual fuel tanks. I fitted a capstan winch to mine that came in very handy
The whole purpose of going down that Trac was to experience all of those difficulties . Great fun, thanks for the video.I wish I could have followed on my motorcycle .
I used to own a series one - actually reliable and a slow but steady beast. I didnt go off-roading in it, but I loved it! Had to sell it in the end and was gutted.
Holy sh*t ! That was epic. Looked like a massive day.
Keep up the videos, they're amazing.
`Had the exact same S11a ! 1969 ex AOR . Same headlights, bumperettes front and rear, softtop, no heater or demisters. Bought it in 1983, sold in 1996. Still miss my first car :)
Enjoying this, the only 4 wheel driving i ever did when i was with the army and we traversed tank tracks in Waiouru in V8 Landrovers for our cross country familiarisation courses, nothing as extreme as this, great to see like minded people having an adventure and some fun.
Unos autos pura sangre nobles y fiables. Exelente! Land Rover, un gran compañero de aventura.
Absolutely awesome. One of my favourite videos on TH-cam. Very authentic.
Thanks Ross. It was an incredible day.
Brilliant. What a great bunch you are helping each other out and finding a way through. Awesome track. Great video.
Thanks so much 🙏🏼
Epic guys. Love seeing what old landies are capable of. Stellar effort.
Thanks so much 🙏🏽
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen
Thanks so much 👍🏼😊
Takes me back 30 years ago when I had a series 3 - bit of a bucket but great fun exploring off road around Wales at a time when places weren't so closed off as they are today... Recently bought an old Disco 2, so looking to find some new adventures.
Oh oh ! Disco2 mnnn! Some depending on traction control there, a disco 1 can just do it !
Oh oh ! Disco2 mnnn! Some depending on traction control there, a disco 1 can just do it !
Great fun guys. Takes me back to when I use to own a Land Rover FC 2A a while back - Fantastic beast, I think its now floating around down there on the Mainland.
Wow that takes me back a bit, such trusty vehicles I’d like to some the latest models try, really impressed guys
Thanks Jan 🙂
Holy shite, this was awesome. What a massive day
thanks for sharing your brilliant day at the tracks! Impressive how the landies did so well with normal tyres. skillful driving by all of you guys.
would love to see more!
Wow!
What a Bitchin adventure!
Fantastic camera work.
Love how you guys do so much in cab view stuff.
I could smell the muddy water cooking on the hot exhaust!
You know the smell..
I could feel the yanks on the steering wheel.
I was almost pitching side to side....on the couch.
I was grabbing couch cushion with my cheeks at times, while I used many colorful metaphors to express myself, as I watched.
Being in the little Landies is something different...
Lotsa folks are used to Jeeps around here, but Land Rovers are a little scarce.
Not like chicken's teeth but harder to find than an old Willys.
I have done decades of four wheeling up here and understand so many of the "surprises" that unknown trails can chuck your way.
Hell, as you guys know, even familiar trails will toss strange things atcha.
Not quite the Darien Gap, but what an adventure!
That is something to have done...and recorded, and shared with us...
I have to admit though, that most of my wheeling has been done in bigger trucks..
1/2 ton and 3/4 tons mainly, all though I have owned two deuce and a halfs, as well as a 5 ton International 4x4...my main grocery getter at the time.
I have owned 4 1940s Power Wagons over the course of years.
One point I had 11 Willys pick up trucks...
A Series 2, 5 door that my Rottweiler and I lived in for a few months...that had a Mitsubishi turbo diesel in it, with an adapter plate onto the stock box, and an overdrive.
Thanks so much for putting this up here...
You are showing us what we are going to be doing when we get there...awesome!
Fans in Canada..
Thanks a bunch mate. Your comments are awesome !! Be sure to share the video's with all your Canadian buddies !!
@@hayden_jones Oh, I will.
A friend of mine just sold a 1961 5 door that I did a bunch of work on..
I upgraded the wheel cylinders and brakes on all four corners to Series 2 stuff. He had the shoes re-lined, as new were unavailable here...(wrong ones).
I adapted the backing plates to accept the new components..minor but detailed...
He is going to get all of the videos I watch.
I have a bunch of offroad type friends who will be glad to watch.
Is there any way to get photos to you?
Would love to share some shate back with you.
Instagram: hayden_jones_series2a
Or my email (found on my TH-cam home page)
I have a 1970 hardtop petrol 4 cyl 109 very original. 3rd owner. The landy is a tractor and I swear it will climb a wall.
Great to see some classic Landies showing their stuff, got me itching to finish the IIA and go wheeling on the tracks! 😊
Do it !!!!!
Ah I get it now crazy Kiwis now it makes sense. We are on NZ third island trying to learn a thing or two from you guys. Love your work great effort from you all on the old trucks showing us that they still can handle the track as good as any new truck.
👍🏼😁😁😁😁
Makes me feel so proud of my Series 3. But - I’ve never tried anything like this. Great to watch 👍🔥😊🐺
Oh my goodness. What a great job you ladies and blokes did taking the well preserved landies along that track. Goes to show all those young tradies you don’t need big tyres and every piece of equipment to have a good time. A club trip with Land Rovers got me started in 4wheeling almost 30 years ago. Cheers
Great to see some old Landies being used for what they were built for.
Good work team - top video and great to see Landies in the their natural state!
The old Land Rover ya can’t beat them best ever great video
I think so. Cheers 🍻
Has to be the most original and authentic offroad video on TH-cam now
Thanks Remmy. Appreciate the comment 🙏🏽 👍🏽
@@hayden_jones You're welcome. I appreciate the effort 🙏
Makes me almost want a classic Land Rover again. Almost.
Do it !!!!
Love watching the old landies in action, I had a series 3 n my son put a diesel engine in it, and he restores old landies, and great show guys.
Series Landys doing what they were built for. Good to see you are not to precious about them.to many folks forget what they are capable of and are scared of bending them.Have had my series 2 nearly 30years and has had some right hammer,Seems to bloody love it.....greetings from UK.💣
Cheers. Appreciate the comments.
I absolutely love taking my old landy out and seeing how far I can get.
Things like traction control take away the skill in driving these tracks.
This is very fun to watch! I was at a track, or a meeting for Norwegian or other country's but it is set in Norway, and there, we camp, with our military vehicles. And we can offroad there, in muddy and sandy terrain. We have a Volvo C304, from the Swedish Army, but then the Swedish people then, sold it to Estonia and then to Norway to a used military truck shop, but today we took the 1986 Mercedes Geändewagen for a spin, its such fun to drive, crawls slowely up nearly every obsticale. The terrain is like the terrain in the video. Although beside from that, great video.
I subscribed because i saw these legendary machines .Thank you
Old landrovers. As good today as they always were
Out of all them Land Rovers, I bet the old series 1 would out do all of them!. Very cool.....
Looks like some of the tracks up in Wgtn with the high sides. I’m looking for some front and back bar work at the moment to help with panel protection.
Wicked video bro
Thanks mate. We were all exhausted at the end of the day.
The video doesn't capture how much digging we had to do.
Although, as i know the classic Mercedes Geländewagen people in Norway, i gotta say, they are very nice to drive around with, or just ride with. As the guy we bought our's from drives with us and everything. Offroading is great, even more if you have people to drive with you!
Awesome video, Series I, Series IIA and Defender, a tip always wadding with lights off the water shutter the hot glass.
Thanks George 👍🏽 glad you enjoyed it.
When I heard the accents, I knew we were in for some good fun.
😁😁😁 🥝 🇳🇿
I'm glad TH-cam recommended me ur channel mate, instant subscribe - also glad to see you guys still appreciate Landies as much as we do, as unreliable as they are. Much love from the UK!
Thanks Oliver, appreciate it. My channel was made to show how much fun you can have in these old vehicles, and show off some of the south islands scenery. 😊
speak for yourself.
Awesome video. Love the old Landies seeing driven offroad
Thanks Marco 👍🏽 😊
A land rover with out a dent or scrape, has only been used for the shopping run, i really enjoyed this vid, thanks Guys
I agree !! Thanks
seeing a series 1 with a massive bullbar is interesting to say the least... love it!
Top effort team! Good too see the pick axe come into play...Old school all the way!
Cheers Gordon.
Yeah the pick axe came in very handy!
Older 4x4's were more practical than what is made now, You just would not take a very expensive new one down a track like that, I used to have an old BJ40 Landcruiser and it got me to lots of crazy places, (Possibly some that i shouldn't have), But it got me there and home and what an achievement it felt like afterwards, SWB 4x4's are the best, Wish i could have been there with ya👍
Cheers John
Enjoying the content fella. We're building two Landys. SIII 2.6l 109".
And a 2A Forward Control 2.6l.
Your vids are good motivation.
Thanks so much. Glad I can help.
Hey Deane,
Where are you living ?
I also have a Series iii 109" five door Station wagon as well as a 110" FC iib, both with 2,6lt semi side valve engines.
Purrs like kittens, but very thirsty...
About same fuel consumption as my 101 V8 FC Ambulance body.
Never know that there was a 109" FC iia with 2,6lt engines.
The ones that was CKD and shipped to South Africa was all 2,25lt engines....
Nice to know, going to Google right away
😂.
Regards from Hermanus, RSA 🇿🇦
Ooops, Deane, message wrong spot, sorry... 😬😳
@@alwynvanwyk1851 Bottom of New Zealand. Most of the FCs that came to NZ had the 2.6l side valve. And most were removed. Too thirsty.
Yes a very nice smooth engine when valves are adjusted right.
We have 4 engines. And will end up 3 running.
First road is solders rd and the second one is sawpit rd or slab hut creek rd depending on who you ask. We done the same trip but in the opposite direction. Awesome day out
What an enjoyable video. A small Camel Trophy. And this is why we love our Landies so much. But also a great community! I am so happy to be part of it. Did you guys have a winch?
Thanks Ray. We had a tirfor (hand winch) which we needed on one part of the track. Yeah it's a great little community 😀
Hectic!! I would have been so scared of rolling! Some of those side inclines were touch and go!!
There were times where I thought "oh sh*t I'm going to roll" but was saved by the bank or a tree !
Landrovers were sidled a 45 degree angle in testing at Landrover,they take a lot to tip offrd..!
Brilliant video, great Land Rovers!.... No tracks like this back in the Landy homeland 😢
Thanks 😊
Yeah we're lucky here.
Sweet video. Thanks for sharing. I might hit that track up next time I'm over there. Looks a bit more fun than the drive into Big River.
Definitely more of a challenge
Good job putting the old rigs down there. Done that track a few times and to be fair the camera flattened it out, its even steeper in real life than it looks in the video.
Cheers Steve. Yeah it's hard showing how steep it is.
Didn't see any issues at all, Stig stayed strong and you reimagined landrovers aerodynamics
The landys got a good beating on that one. Good video though. Next video will be a repair one I reckon. 🙂👍
We did this track a few months ago in the other direction. It was good fun
Yes good stuff. It looks like a typical lane here in Wales UK
Hahaha things must be rough in Wales !!
Just amazes me how those old Land Rovers go, tiny little tires, tiny motor, and no ground clearance. But yet they just make it through the trails. Maybe it's because the steering wheels on the wrong side of the jeep. haha, Great video.
Haha thanks Jack 😊
It's always great fun out in the old landy's.
Awesome channel guys 🤙😎. Chur
im glad to see your adventure! i have land rover series too 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Thanks Dimas 👍🏽 😊
Just one comment from Spain... WOW!
What an amazing Land Rover trip
Thanks Harry. Happy New Year
@@hayden_jones Happy New Year @everyone
Popped up in my feed and what a great way to demo old school wheeling. Nice work boys and girls. 👍🇦🇺
Thanks Jimmy
Offroad track i really like, amazing video, I watched this video on an overlanding trip, finally I found a place with the same track Hahahaha.
Awesome. Thanks 🙏🏽
very nice I Love Landrover.
greetings from the north island, great video, great track and I have a soft spot for an old landy, a well deserved like, cheers
Cheers man. Glad you enjoyed it. It was definitely our hardest trip ever.
Had a 109 s2a with perking 4236 , raised air intake , loads of batteries 3 tanks , 4 inch lift on 900 x 16s... and front capstan, on crashbars with 3k watta of light...
Was the dogs bollox.. should never of swapped it for a v8 90...
Hi Hayden, great video👍😍. A little work and cleaning on the Land and all should be ok 😊. I like the différent countryside of your country👌. Joan
Appreciate that Joan. Yeah NZ has some beautiful scenes
awesome bro. love seeing the landy living its best life !
Thanks man 🙏
Quality!! Hello from Ireland.
👍🏼 thanks Dave
Brilliant video Hayden. I'll have to see if I can find that track next time I am in the Big River area.
Thanks 👍
Hey guys those tracks are really awesome in those little landies l couldn’t drive down anything like that l have a H1 hummer 6 litre turbo diesel slightly modified xtra high lift specially made rims, a winch front and rear. I travel in Victoria high country and also desert driving in the mallee north western Victoria. It’s road registered,but we put it on a tandem trailer and tow to where we are base camp. There is 4 of us that do extreme 4x4 ing . Guys liked your vid and to go down tracks like that with no winch well done .
Cheers Neil. Appreciate it.
An H1 hummer would get destroyed on a track like that. Some parts are very narrow.
It was a bit stressful at the time,but now we look back and think, "Sh*t that was awesome" 😁
WOW! Looks like a pile of fun!
during 80s were "The Olympics of 4x4" with Land rovers called Camel Thophy...
Really enjoying your channel. You have some really great Series Land Rover action. These old trucks prove you don't need massive tyres, waffle boards, jerry cans on the roof, bead lockers and LSDs... just some technique. I have a Series 2a 88 but here in Switzerland, anything like this is absolutely forbidden. There's many other nice things to do here but a bit of green laning is not on the menu. Looking forwards to the next adventure. Littel Green Landy
Thanks for the comment Andy 👍🏽 😀
Yeah we're very lucky here in NZ
Great job mate, love the vids. Definitely a great day out and so good to have a record of it 😃
Thanks Dan. Was so impressed with your series 1.
Shame about the massive dent on your exhaust pipe 😆
@@hayden_jones haha, yeah totally gutting🤣🤣
loved every bit of this video... landies mud and good spirit!
Thanks so much. Was a great day.... stressful at times
Looks to be a great track. Makes for terrific video. Those poor drum brakes probably need a good flush now. I hope cam made it back OK in the dark.
Cheers Jim, Yeah Cam made it back to Reefton / camp ground where he managed to fix the issue.
Incredible clear footage, great edit... Pleasure to watch.
Cheers Adam 😊
I'm sorry for the damage, but as a viewer I'm glad you didn't turn back. 😉
Great video!
good ride! love d90
Yeah that things awesome 👌
Good old landys doing what they we meant to do and still doing it. Thank you guys
Cheers 😁
I am absolutely speechless!! It's plenty of fun, skilled mates and lovely Land Rover Series (including the Defender). Luckily you didn't turn back. I just love it from top to bottom (and your Series looks awesome "mudflapless")
personally, i am glad you didnt turn back.
Cheers for sharing.
Looks like a fun, if not hard, trip. Makes me want to go out for a run in my old 300TDI, it’s been a while
Just do it !! You'll love it