I lived in Tenterfield and Walcha. Picked straight away it was either Glen to Grafton or Walcha to Waughope. It was along time ago but watching this it feels like just yesterday
Great Interesting Highway, Travelled along it from Moree to Grafton on a motorcycle and I enjoyed the ride. Respect to you Shane for helping out the Farmers. Cheers and stay safe...
Just gotta say, Thanks! Love watching your videos and as someone who lives in central vic.. It's fantastic to see you helping the farmers and their stock! You're awesome 👍💪 Oh FYI, we're bloody dry out here, that scenery was lucious! Where's our rain? 🤣🤣 To all truckers, (the good ones especially) I Thankyou for the Gr8 job you're doing 💪👍❤️
You did well choosing the Gwydir Shane as it is the best way up and down the range. I have done them all towing a 24 foot van and the Gwydir is my choice every time unless I am going south From Kempsey that is. The Gwydir is picturesque and it is over and done with quicker than the Oxley or the Bruxner I can tell you, having traveled the Oxley more times than I can remember. Anyway you did a good job coming down the range mate. One time I was listening to the 2 way going up the Gwydir towing the van and I heard them bringing down a wide load with a police escort. I had pulled off before the copper got to me. I told him I knew he was coming from the chatter on the radio. I would have thought coming from Central Vic that you would have traveled the Newell Highway. Better than dealing with that shamozzle called Sydney. Keep up the good work mate and keep safe.
Love this part of the world, mate. Please keep it secret for all of us, and our kids, so future generations can enjoy the ride down the hill as much as you did. And as others have said, I'm a Mountain Man, and I love.....drivin down the mountain.
Love the video! Was a train driver and used to work freight over the Blue Mountains! Beautiful scenery, but when snowing or raining, wheelslip was a big problem! We had to constantly use the sand button on floor to try to maintain enough traction!
The things that pop up on TH-cam are crazy and and there was Shane going down the Gibraltar Range. Live near Woolgoolga, son lives in Stanthorpe so travel that way two or three times a year. Shane is spot on it's a great drive with awesome scenery all the way to Grafton. Keep it real and let those behind you pass as there is bugger all places to overtake. Loved the video, showed good skills on that descent Shane.
Hey Shane, awesome riding down that range with u again. So mountain hey, well i went picking blackboy grass with a couple of friends of mine up round widgee mountain in their old beat up 4 wheel drive, so off we go and they told me it gets abit hairy cause we got to go up this mountain on someones property, which is a goat track, and when we get to the top we have to turn around as its the only place we can turn around and then come back down to where they were picking on this mountain halfway down, well when we got to the top there isn't enough room to do a shit on it but my mate who knows his old 4by just rocked back and fourth (10 point turn) on this hilltop until he was pointing back down the track, as i found out, that to much this way or that way it was pretty much straight down either side, now he did say to me if things went wrong to just bail straight away, my god it was scary, but i trust that guy with my life cause im still here, hoped u liked my story, take care...
Mountain. Gwydir Highway over The Gibraltar 'Mountain' Range, 3300 ft , over 1000m, altitude at highest point. Done it heaps of times. The road was new in the 1980's, still looking good 40 yrs later. Most of the repairs are from the 2022 flood damage. Now the OLD Gwydir, with the convict built tunnel, that's not recommended!
When you asked where you were driving at first i thought it was the Oxley highway from Walcha near Mount Seaview, yeah thats a mountain LOL - Thanks for the ride along :)
top video mate,i,ve travelled the Gwydir a bit but not for years i,m from a little town on the pacific highway just north of Grafton called Ulmarra but moved to Queensland 10 years ago
I've gone the other way on that section of road in my old pocket rocket (toyota AE86) back in the day .Had as much fun as you could with a full trip ahead of me. Beautiful forest too. Muswellbrook. I prefer the New England Bris/Syd but between Muswellbrook and Newy... Yeah, I've mis-timed it and copped miners. They're all mental around there. A lot of the tippers, they're more mental than south coast jinkers. Always glad to get on the motorway and find a B double to get behind for a bit. Anyhoo, just found ya channel and enjoyed the ride. Cheers.
Done the Gwydir hwy a few times, both east and west towing a 20-foot caravan, which was a bit of a challenge. You did well, mate, getting a big Semi down there. I tell everybody on MOUNTAIN roads, take it easy, drive to the conditions, and you'll be okay.
great video mate, travelled this with a mate a couple of weeks ago…drove down from Brissy to pick up a 85 Mack super liner from Bingara. Keep up the good work
GoPro's on Mountain Roads, need to be set so 'Loop Recording' is Off, otherwise it writes over old footage. Sandisk is doing High Endurance SD cards for action cameras, dash cams and security cams, for ones that use loop recording.
Enjoying the vids Shane although missing some of the earlier content. Drove up the mountain on the Oxley Hwy. So many bloody hairpins. Gwydir Hwy certainly easier to drive.
Cheers Shane . I had actually guessed correctly , before you said it , The Gwydir Hwy . I've never driven it either . Retired Truckie , Sydney to wherever . Just guessed from the Terrain and Altitude . Gwydir first guess or Bruxner as the alternate . Motorcycle Road rather than Truck . Hmmmm . Mountain . I 've been , " Mountain " the Girlfriend , quite a lot lately . How's that ?
@colinfullford8630 0 seconds ago I towed a caravan through Dorrigo 2 weeks back and it looks exactly the same, except for the pouring rain, fog and single lane bridges we had to contend with.
Shane… Mate, driving up the top of a mountain IN THE CLOUDS was insane & I’m surprised you weren’t provided with an oxygen mask being that high up!!! Scenic & informative… WAY TO GO CHAMP 👍😁👍. Stay safe big fella.
@@KevinD_33x150 … I can just imagine the big unit (Shane) doing the voice with an Indian pilot’s accent & distinctive “head wobble”, saying something like “oh my goodness gracious me!!! Please be grabbing your oxygen masks like you’re grabbing your papadams & pray to whatever god you know for our safety please!!” 😂😂😂
I do this drive every few weeks for work, much prefer east to west, bit more fun in the work car, but certainly a nice drive, expecially if you have a car that can handle 😉😉
Dorrigo way above Coffs Harbor perhaps.(edit) think it perhaps the Gibralter range as per below , the mist threw me off initial as that can be bad around Dorrigo
Ahh! The Gibraltar range. Brings back memories. I used to always stop at Jackadgery for an ice cream. They had 30 flavours. Don't know whether it's still there. Regarding the mountain. " I'm a mountain man and I like mountain women".😂😂 Subbed.
Never driven this one. So many roads like this from top of the Great Dividing Range down to the coast in NSW. Fun to drive in a car, not as much fun in a truck. Plenty of people have taken the short route down; most regretfully.
how would you go without a jake/engine brake like back in the day? or with just a single lane of bitumen ; no bitumen at all ? or drop the horse power down to say 300 ? but that road was driven with far less than asked above . Sometimes we forgot ; or have no idea how it was once upon a time . But that's a nice drive in a car --- beautiful area imo Thanks for the videos
Your comment about ‘I don’t plan on anything’ reminded me of heath ledgers joker character… ‘I’m like a dog chasing a car, I wouldn’t know what to do with it I caught it!’ 😂
Try driving log trucks in Tassie, there are roads there you wouldn't want to ride a bike down. Mountain passes are always a road to respect. I think the drive up Mount Wellington in Hobart is spectacular if you get good weather but all of Tasmania is just hills and valleys and 4 seasons in 1 day.
Not Brown Mountain then on the Snowy Mountains Highway. Similar vegetation, road, low speed for trucks , plenty of logging trucks as well, in the clouds. Have done the Gwydir but long time ago, more familiar with SMH
Done Gwydir Hwy in a semi, late at night. Took forever (seemingly); thought it was going to be a short cut (to Casino) -;LOL. Also done Alpine Way, Nowra - Mossvale, Sbowy Mountain Hwy amongst others.
Hey Mate just watched this video & great on what you're all doing for the Farmig community. Have you ever done Cambewarra & Barrengarry Mountain from Nowra to say Moss Vale.
Gwydir is a nice easy run even loaded you should have gone thunderbolts way if you really want to go on a steep hill that is very scenic lots of horror stories on that hill as well
Could have also gone back along the New England to Uralla then to Walcha and over the mountain along Thunderbolts way to Gloucester then Stroud and along to Newcastle
Looks like a nice run, and the condition of the surface, could run Gravity Races down that Mountain Road. Hadn't Been There Before is more then enough reason to go there :) Does the advent of the GPS maps on the phone make the job easier to know what's coming up ahead?
I know where you are Shane. As you know the New England is a shit show particularly after Murrurundi where every mongrel doesnt want you in front of them and will accelerate to a dollar five, them merge and brake lights come on. You know it so well. Plus its nice sometimes to suss a different road. Also then send you mental till Scone. Fckd
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total respect for all the drivers doing the hay run.
I live down the bottom of Cunninghams gap and some of the clouds we see hanging over that is unreal props to the truckies that do that trek every week
Its a cracking road on the motorbike in good weather!
I drove down that highway about 2 weeks ago. One of my favourite roads for the scenery. That unpretty bit looks like a washout from the floods.
Nice one Shane, I was going to say it looked like the road from Walcha to Wauhope/Port Macquarie. Seeya Rob
Great footage Shane. Maybe you can do a series of “big hills that give you thrills”. Be cool to see you do Macquarie Pass from a truckie’s perspective
I lived in Tenterfield and Walcha. Picked straight away it was either Glen to Grafton or Walcha to Waughope. It was along time ago but watching this it feels like just yesterday
Great Interesting Highway, Travelled along it from Moree to Grafton on a motorcycle and I enjoyed the ride. Respect to you Shane for helping out the Farmers. Cheers and stay safe...
Brilliant motorcycle road, ridden it frequently
Just gotta say, Thanks! Love watching your videos and as someone who lives in central vic.. It's fantastic to see you helping the farmers and their stock! You're awesome 👍💪
Oh FYI, we're bloody dry out here, that scenery was lucious! Where's our rain? 🤣🤣
To all truckers, (the good ones especially)
I Thankyou for the Gr8 job you're doing 💪👍❤️
You did well choosing the Gwydir Shane as it is the best way up and down the range. I have done them all towing a 24 foot van and the Gwydir is my choice every time unless I am going south From Kempsey that is. The Gwydir is picturesque and it is over and done with quicker than the Oxley or the Bruxner I can tell you, having traveled the Oxley more times than I can remember. Anyway you did a good job coming down the range mate. One time I was listening to the 2 way going up the Gwydir towing the van and I heard them bringing down a wide load with a police escort. I had pulled off before the copper got to me. I told him I knew he was coming from the chatter on the radio. I would have thought coming from Central Vic that you would have traveled the Newell Highway. Better than dealing with that shamozzle called Sydney. Keep up the good work mate and keep safe.
Loved the view from the mountain.
you sure you werent in a sports car? you were carving those corners up like you were in one! 😎
Love this part of the world, mate. Please keep it secret for all of us, and our kids, so future generations can enjoy the ride down the hill as much as you did. And as others have said, I'm a Mountain Man, and I love.....drivin down the mountain.
Love the video! Was a train driver and used to work freight over the Blue Mountains! Beautiful scenery, but when snowing or raining, wheelslip was a big problem! We had to constantly use the sand button on floor to try to maintain enough traction!
The things that pop up on TH-cam are crazy and and there was Shane going down the Gibraltar Range. Live near Woolgoolga, son lives in Stanthorpe so travel that way two or three times a year. Shane is spot on it's a great drive with awesome scenery all the way to Grafton. Keep it real and let those behind you pass as there is bugger all places to overtake. Loved the video, showed good skills on that descent Shane.
First thought Blue Mountains. 2nd thought going down to Queenstown Tasmania.
Then I saw lots of trees & vegetation, so had to be first thought!
Hey Shane, awesome riding down that range with u again. So mountain hey, well i went picking blackboy grass with a couple of friends of mine up round widgee mountain in their old beat up 4 wheel drive, so off we go and they told me it gets abit hairy cause we got to go up this mountain on someones property, which is a goat track, and when we get to the top we have to turn around as its the only place we can turn around and then come back down to where they were picking on this mountain halfway down, well when we got to the top there isn't enough room to do a shit on it but my mate who knows his old 4by just rocked back and fourth (10 point turn) on this hilltop until he was pointing back down the track, as i found out, that to much this way or that way it was pretty much straight down either side, now he did say to me if things went wrong to just bail straight away, my god it was scary, but i trust that guy with my life cause im still here, hoped u liked my story, take care...
When we went up to Yangang QLD back in late 70s and early 80s, we would stop at the road house at Glen Innes for raison toast and hot chocolate at 4am
Glen Innes to Grafton, also been down the old Grafton Rd
picked it mate
Mountain. Gwydir Highway over The Gibraltar 'Mountain' Range, 3300 ft , over 1000m, altitude at highest point. Done it heaps of times. The road was new in the 1980's, still looking good 40 yrs later. Most of the repairs are from the 2022 flood damage. Now the OLD Gwydir, with the convict built tunnel, that's not recommended!
Very pretty area that Gibralter range area
Never driven that highway mate!!! Up top of the MOUNTAIN in particular looked awesome!
Cheers for another bid Shane!
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When you asked where you were driving at first i thought it was the Oxley highway from Walcha near Mount Seaview, yeah thats a mountain LOL - Thanks for the ride along :)
top video mate,i,ve travelled the Gwydir a bit but not for years i,m from a little town on the pacific highway just north of Grafton called Ulmarra but moved to Queensland 10 years ago
Thanks for your footage Shane, really enjoyed it.
Awesome stuff Shane love your work
I've gone the other way on that section of road in my old pocket rocket (toyota AE86) back in the day .Had as much fun as you could with a full trip ahead of me. Beautiful forest too.
Muswellbrook. I prefer the New England Bris/Syd but between Muswellbrook and Newy... Yeah, I've mis-timed it and copped miners. They're all mental around there. A lot of the tippers, they're more mental than south coast jinkers. Always glad to get on the motorway and find a B double to get behind for a bit.
Anyhoo, just found ya channel and enjoyed the ride. Cheers.
Just goes to show the diversity of NSW, one second you're in a dense urban area; next second you've got tree's all around you scaling a huge mountain.
Done the Gwydir hwy a few times, both east and west towing a 20-foot caravan, which was a bit of a challenge. You did well, mate, getting a big Semi down there. I tell everybody on MOUNTAIN roads, take it easy, drive to the conditions, and you'll be okay.
great video mate, travelled this with a mate a couple of weeks ago…drove down from Brissy to pick up a 85 Mack super liner from Bingara. Keep up the good work
Ok I’m a Mountain Man and l like Mountain Women , thanks for sharing another video 👍
Seems like alot of interesting roads around north nsw and the track at coffs. Think I might look into moving their
there.
A rode this rode passenger in a bus. Was a lovely run doing 60-80 kph all the way.
GoPro's on Mountain Roads, need to be set so 'Loop Recording' is Off, otherwise it writes over old footage.
Sandisk is doing High Endurance SD cards for action cameras, dash cams and security cams, for ones that use loop recording.
Enjoying the vids Shane although missing some of the earlier content.
Drove up the mountain on the Oxley Hwy. So many bloody hairpins. Gwydir Hwy certainly easier to drive.
Highway to heaven!!!!!!
Did that road about twenty years ago or more, very scenic
Cheers Shane . I had actually guessed correctly , before you said it , The Gwydir Hwy . I've never driven it either . Retired Truckie , Sydney to wherever .
Just guessed from the Terrain and Altitude . Gwydir first guess or Bruxner as the alternate . Motorcycle Road rather than Truck .
Hmmmm . Mountain . I 've been , " Mountain " the Girlfriend , quite a lot lately . How's that ?
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I towed a caravan through Dorrigo 2 weeks back and it looks exactly the same, except for the pouring rain, fog and single lane bridges we had to contend with.
Shane… Mate, driving up the top of a mountain IN THE CLOUDS was insane & I’m surprised you weren’t provided with an oxygen mask being that high up!!! Scenic & informative… WAY TO GO CHAMP 👍😁👍. Stay safe big fella.
... oxygen mask falls from the ceiling... 🤣🤣
@@KevinD_33x150… In Shane’s truck, that would be less than that from the roof of a plane.
@@gerardroll6468 🤣🤣 Yes! That would make for a quick deployment!
@@KevinD_33x150 … I can just imagine the big unit (Shane) doing the voice with an Indian pilot’s accent & distinctive “head wobble”, saying something like “oh my goodness gracious me!!! Please be grabbing your oxygen masks like you’re grabbing your papadams & pray to whatever god you know for our safety please!!” 😂😂😂
@@gerardroll6468 I had a disturbing vision of that! It's so ridiculous, I can't unsee it! 🤣🤣🤣
Fcken that mountain road has more hairpins than me poor old mum!!!
I do this drive every few weeks for work, much prefer east to west, bit more fun in the work car, but certainly a nice drive, expecially if you have a car that can handle 😉😉
Dorrigo way above Coffs Harbor perhaps.(edit) think it perhaps the Gibralter range as per below , the mist threw me off initial as that can be bad around Dorrigo
I've been down there once in s b double a few years ago haven't been there since
It reminds me a bit of the Mount Hotham Rd. That was pretty shocking. Especially with fog. And snow. Gawd.
Ahh! The Gibraltar range. Brings back memories. I used to always stop at Jackadgery for an ice cream. They had 30 flavours. Don't know whether it's still there. Regarding the mountain. " I'm a mountain man and I like mountain women".😂😂 Subbed.
welcome mate
Never driven this one.
So many roads like this from top of the Great Dividing Range down to the coast in NSW. Fun to drive in a car, not as much fun in a truck.
Plenty of people have taken the short route down; most regretfully.
Like Macquarie Pass? Brilliant in something small and zippy.
For a moment I thought it was the Oxley Hwy from Walcha to Port Macquarie. I have done the Gwydir as well but I reckon over Seaview is even better!
Still far better than most of the so called "highways" here in Tas.
There's always the Thunderbolt way from Guyra to Glouster, unless the have put a weight limit on it now.
if you can lip read look at the truckers going uphill they be saying one dollar one dollar one dollar one dollar
how would you go without a jake/engine brake like back in the day?
or with just a single lane of bitumen ; no bitumen at all ?
or drop the horse power down to say 300 ?
but that road was driven with far less than asked above .
Sometimes we forgot ; or have no idea how it was once upon a time .
But that's a nice drive in a car --- beautiful area imo
Thanks for the videos
Thanks mate 👍
Without the trucks, Australia stops.
Aint that a fact. We'd all be stuffed mate.
Your comment about ‘I don’t plan on anything’ reminded me of heath ledgers joker character… ‘I’m like a dog chasing a car, I wouldn’t know what to do with it I caught it!’ 😂
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Up near cairns there's a couple of good ones.The Gilles is one ya havnt lived till yav tried.
Croydon MOUNTAIN from Capella to St Lawrence hadn’t been graded in 60 years 😜😜😜
Try driving log trucks in Tassie, there are roads there you wouldn't want to ride a bike down. Mountain passes are always a road to respect. I think the drive up Mount Wellington in Hobart is spectacular if you get good weather but all of Tasmania is just hills and valleys and 4 seasons in 1 day.
Not Brown Mountain then on the Snowy Mountains Highway. Similar vegetation, road, low speed for trucks , plenty of logging trucks as well, in the clouds. Have done the Gwydir but long time ago, more familiar with SMH
Done Gwydir Hwy in a semi, late at night. Took forever (seemingly); thought it was going to be a short cut (to Casino) -;LOL. Also done Alpine Way, Nowra - Mossvale, Sbowy Mountain Hwy amongst others.
Thought it might have been the Gwydir Highway
Live at Grafton
Hell yeah bro i could drift the living fck out of that rd 🤙
goon.
Hey Mate just watched this video & great on what you're all doing for the Farmig community. Have you ever done Cambewarra & Barrengarry Mountain from Nowra to say Moss Vale.
I haven't mate, but getting sent all over, who knows where I'll pop up next
Gwyder Highway at one stage it was a daily comute.
I'm a Mountain man and I love Mountain women.............
You're a professional driver you should be able to do it safely
Gwydir is a nice easy run even loaded you should have gone thunderbolts way if you really want to go on a steep hill that is very scenic lots of horror stories on that hill as well
Could have also gone back along the New England to Uralla then to Walcha and over the mountain along Thunderbolts way to Gloucester then Stroud and along to Newcastle
Thunderbolts is currently weight restricted due to roadworks
Looks like a nice run, and the condition of the surface, could run Gravity Races down that Mountain Road. Hadn't Been There Before is more then enough reason to go there :)
Does the advent of the GPS maps on the phone make the job easier to know what's coming up ahead?
It's a good help but can't always "rely on them" as much as most city folk do
Try this road at night & in the rain!!
would b better in the night ol mate more chance of seeing the clowns coming towards ya ,, just saying
In 70ts for long period took cattle down there 5nights week no Jake's in those days not lot of other brakes eithereither
must be just the right metijin
I know where you are Shane. As you know the New England is a shit show particularly after Murrurundi where every mongrel doesnt want you in front of them and will accelerate to a dollar five, them merge and brake lights come on. You know it so well. Plus its nice sometimes to suss a different road. Also then send you mental till Scone. Fckd
I know one thing, i wouldn't be driving a loaded semi in the fog that fast.
Either would I, lucky I was empty right.
@@shanehastattoos Even empty i would not drive that fast in the fog, you yourself said I think we're going slow down i can't really see, right.
Drive too conditions. If you can't drive you should not drive. Id take your 6:47 licence off because of f this video 😮
Can I take off your ability to comment because even with auto spell you can't do that properly
Been over that road many times carting stock, logs & sawn timber.
Maroondah hwy?
Gwydir Hwy