I made the first vehicle crossing of the Simpson Desert following Dr Cecil Madigan's camel route in a Suzuki LJ50 back in 1979. No tracks compass only a truly memorable 7 day crossing. Having now crossed the Simpson by vehicle well in excess of 70 times, walked it from west to east and also north to south without a backup vehicle, driven only by two feet and a heartbeat, and ridden across it by camel I sure do miss it all. At 89 my enjoyment of the outback now comes through videos such as yours. With great photography your journey was well presented and your love of adventure obvious. Thank you. DB
You two are such a pleasure to spend time with (even if it only YT. Always calm and polite to each other. a stress free viewing experience. Thanks for sharing
Hubby and I just recently did the Hay River Track and agree that the road north from Batton Hill is the single worst road we've ever driven on! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!
Loved watching. Chris, so nice to see you letting Ange speak freely. I follow a few travelling youtubers where the guys continually just talk over their partner. Great videos. Hope to do it one day.
I'm glad you won the fuel voucher guys, well deserved. Thanks Ange for all your running around getting those great shots. Chris, you're a trooper driving the Mog all day. Would be good to get Ange doing more of that driving so she gets more comfortable behind the wheel. Those corrugations looked like hell on earth. Take care. Marty from Perth
Congrats on conquering the mighty Simpson Guys. Its a bloody big country out there. In my day we delivered the accommodations and machinery to Plenty River mine at Jervois and man i can tell you the Plenty hwy used to be 200km of that very same stuff you found on the hay..2nd gear with the hand throttle set to 1200rpm for 10 or 12 hrs to get from the Alice Tennant road to the mine. It was kind of special to see you guys out there and it bought back some hard but awesome memories. I hope you guys take fond memories with you to pass on as well. Stay safe
This is a great trip you both have done, I loved watching it 👍 Once again fantastic camera work 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 And to see the little lady in the drivers seat 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Well done you nail it 👍 Thanks for sharing 🇦🇺
Crikey, talk about shaken to the core! I'll pop some headache tablets in the post 😂 another great one Ang and Chris, incredible colours in those drone shots. Take care both. 😊🌈
Great to see you finally came across a camel Chris also half a skull for a momento. Good to see you behind the wheel to Ange ,hope you do it more often.Great footage from you both even though you were on the Hay.Cant wait for the next video to see what your next adventure is
Another awesome video! Picking my Unimog up this Thursday. It will be my work truck for my arborist business plus a simple camping rig too! Great videos! Keep up the awesome work stay safe and enjoy your travels!
Well done on the trip and the competition. The drone footage was awesome and how good to use as a scouting tool. Fantastic to see Angie behind the wheel. Those corrugations looked rather hectic. Well done on the competition win too
Gee that footage you have taken is up there I have ever seen. Great thanks very much also thanks for explaining as you go We really enjoy watching your adventures stay safe Cheers
Great trip to the top end. Loved watching the same vehicle I used to drive, live and work around in the same conditions in the top end. They will chew the juice a bit but if you keep the revs down by changing up a gear they will idle along nicely in the right gear. Corrigation is a bitch and the cabs get very hot in the top end. I used to pop the canopy hatch to allow airflow and used to pull an 8 tonne trailor with the mog and spent many hours with my foot on the hand throttle over taking road trains. Had a few blow outs on the trailor due to the heat and was scary pulling up a fully laden trailor pushing the mog around on the highway. Great trip loved watching.
Hi guys ,love the sound of the mog purring in the opening shot ...more of the mog please.Kind regards from Wales 🏴.perhaps one day you guys could put her to test in our beautiful welsh mountains 🏔!
Great viewing guys. Did the Hay River last year and can attest to that awful 76klm out (in our case ‘in’). We actually found the area very scenic between Dingo well and Batton Hill camp. Stopped a few times to walk the river bed with beautiful Ghost Gums on either bank. This year I reckon we were a week ahead of you on the Madigan. Shame I cannot get back to hunt the prize LOL.
I’ve been watching the series with the @AllTerrainAction guys in their Holden Commodres/ Adventras doing this same trip just a few weeks back. Such different experiences is totally different vehicles. Love watching the adventure.
Loved the drone footage especially the early morning landscapes. That early light really brings out the colors and the contours of the dunes. That section between Batton Hill and Jervois Station was terrible in 2019 too - it had my Land Cruiser/Trayon rig dancing all over the place! Thanks for rewinding my memories of that trip.
The corrugations shook every fixture on my LDV we completed it in May this year, are you going to go to Chambers Piller, that is an awesome place to see
Congrats on winning the competition for the competition for best military truck conversion!!! It was a PITA to figure out how to vote, but I finally got my vote in for you guys! Awesome drone footage at the beginning of this video...such beautiful country! Keep up the awesome videos of your adventures!! Cheers :-)
The problem with some rough bits of track is the ripples are set in a spacing and frequency that causes a resonance that means your vehicle tacks up a swing or sway all of its own to match… can make you sea sick or if high enough frequency can cause mechanical damage.
In Brazil, these undulations on the road, we call 'Costela de Vaca' (cow rib). In the Jalapão region (Tocantins state) all roads have these cow rib's, something around 1000km.
Great series guys, it was quite enjoyable and it really showed how vast the middle of Australia is. Angie, you should have drove the Mog more often. Chris, I can't get over the moosestache
You guys should invest on a hand-held UHF radio (or two), for exactly the situation you had on this episode. Also handy if one of you would like to wonder slightly away from camp.
Lucky buggers. I wanted to head home from Alice Springs to Brisbane via the HRT. Sadly, I did a tyre sidewall outside Birdsville and my other spare is much smaller than the tyres on the car..... its not the desert I'm worried about, it's the 200-odd kilometres from Birdsville to Windorah on the eastern side. We leave Alice Springs Tuesday 23 Aug. 7 days via Mt Isa.
Great content guys. Love it. Suggestion: that rocking side to side of your truck looks like you have to much weight up high in your camper. If you place everything heavy, down as low down to floor level as possible (or under floor in storage), and place as much weight as possible over/around the rear axle, it should make things less "car sick". I did this in a 4-tonne truck and it made a huge difference. Good luck.
Hey thanks for your comment. We made sure there is no weight up high on our build thankfully, just the truck is very tall so some rocking going over alternating ruts offroad is inevitable. Cheers
It seems it was quite hot., And your evening cold too As we could see what you where using to wear. Cheers to you Chris and Ange., Still here watching.,
Great video again 👏, that drone footage was beautiful so remote great to see you make it without drama 😀 well done hope the mog didn't have any problems and was the inside ok with all that rocking and rolling on those corrugations, 👍👍👍😊
Loved your drone footage over the Hay River. But I didn't see any footage from Mt Winnecke or Lake Caroline or Goyders Pillar - maybe you need to go back and see these places. I love it out there and did the same trip as you in reverse last month - the last 100ks into Jervois has always been rough but about the same as most of the Anne Beadell Highway, or the Canning or the Gunbarrel, so if you plan on doing these tracks, might be worth lowering your pressures a fair bit more to smooth the ride in the Mog.
Muy bueno, esas imagenes con el dron, ver esa inmensidad de color rojizo verde, realmente espectacular. Ange a manejar mas seguido porque esos caminos son buenos para aprender a manejar en condiciones exigentes. Buenisimo. Saludos desde Cordoba Argentina.
I made the first vehicle crossing of the Simpson Desert following Dr Cecil Madigan's camel route in a Suzuki LJ50 back in 1979. No tracks compass only a truly memorable 7 day crossing. Having now crossed the Simpson by vehicle well in excess of 70 times, walked it from west to east and also north to south without a backup vehicle, driven only by two feet and a heartbeat, and ridden across it by camel I sure do miss it all. At 89 my enjoyment of the outback now comes through videos such as yours. With great photography your journey was well presented and your love of adventure obvious. Thank you. DB
You two are such a pleasure to spend time with (even if it only YT. Always calm and polite to each other. a stress free viewing experience. Thanks for sharing
Thank you so much Peter for your very nice comment, that is great feedback to hear! Thank you for watching the channel :)
Hubby and I just recently did the Hay River Track and agree that the road north from Batton Hill is the single worst road we've ever driven on! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!
Loved watching. Chris, so nice to see you letting Ange speak freely. I follow a few travelling youtubers where the guys continually just talk over their partner. Great videos. Hope to do it one day.
I'm glad you won the fuel voucher guys, well deserved. Thanks Ange for all your running around getting those great shots. Chris, you're a trooper driving the Mog all day. Would be good to get Ange doing more of that driving so she gets more comfortable behind the wheel.
Those corrugations looked like hell on earth. Take care.
Marty from Perth
Thank you very much Marty! We are glad to hear you enjoyed the Simpson series :)
It was great you saw a camel 🐫, really glad you guy’s are having a ball.👍👍
Congrats on conquering the mighty Simpson Guys. Its a bloody big country out there. In my day we delivered the accommodations and machinery to Plenty River mine at Jervois and man i can tell you the Plenty hwy used to be 200km of that very same stuff you found on the hay..2nd gear with the hand throttle set to 1200rpm for 10 or 12 hrs to get from the Alice Tennant road to the mine. It was kind of special to see you guys out there and it bought back some hard but awesome memories. I hope you guys take fond memories with you to pass on as well. Stay safe
This is a great trip you both have done, I loved watching it 👍 Once again fantastic camera work 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 And to see the little lady in the drivers seat 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Well done you nail it 👍 Thanks for sharing 🇦🇺
Haha he’s not strange with the scull Ang, it’s a bloke thing, really enjoying you vids guys, enjoy and stay safe ……cheers
Haha so it's not just me!
Now you can call yourself, officially, a Desert Nomads 😜
Thanks for sharing stunning views. I love them.
Crikey, talk about shaken to the core! I'll pop some headache tablets in the post 😂 another great one Ang and Chris, incredible colours in those drone shots. Take care both. 😊🌈
Thanks a lot Vicky, so glad you enjoyed this one too!
Great to see you finally came across a camel Chris also half a skull for a momento. Good to see you behind the wheel to Ange ,hope you do it more often.Great footage from you both even though you were on the Hay.Cant wait for the next video to see what your next adventure is
Thank you so much David as always! We are looking forward to sharing more of Central Australia with you :)
Guys you could have named this video - Rockin, Rollin and Washboardin the outback with Bouser 😜
Greetings from Miami, Florida USA 👍🇺🇸
Haha true! 🙃
Congrats on doing the Simpson and also getting 1st for the mod challenge so glad you guys won well deserved.
Thanks a lot Andrew, much appreciated!
Great vids guys, easy watching, informative and very well shot. A credit to you both
Bloody awesome drone footage, so glad you guys fixed it in time
Thanks a lot Andre! It was really enjoyable editing the drone footage, such awesome scenery :)
Another awesome video! Picking my Unimog up this Thursday. It will be my work truck for my arborist business plus a simple camping rig too! Great videos! Keep up the awesome work stay safe and enjoy your travels!
Congratulations and welcome to the Unimog club :) That sounds like a super versatile plan, all the best with it! Thank you for watching the channel 👍
Well done on the trip and the competition. The drone footage was awesome and how good to use as a scouting tool. Fantastic to see Angie behind the wheel. Those corrugations looked rather hectic. Well done on the competition win too
Thank you so much Sean for your nice comment and for watching the channel every week!
@@TheOutFit my pleasure when the content is so good
Stunning scenery..thanks for sharing.
Unfortunately outback highway tracks not as smooth as black top..fortunately
Gee that footage you have taken is up there I have ever seen.
Great thanks very much also thanks for explaining as you go
We really enjoy watching your adventures stay safe Cheers
Thank you so much Barry for the nice comment and for watching! Hope you enjoy the upcoming adventures :)
Well done guys, came across this video (TH-cam algorithm sometimes works), started watching your build. Paul from St Albans, Christchurch, NZ.
Good to have you here Paul, I'm from Tai Tapu, Christchurch
This country of ours is such an amazing country. Great footage.
Thanks for watching David!
Thanks
Great trip to the top end. Loved watching the same vehicle I used to drive, live and work around in the same conditions in the top end. They will chew the juice a bit but if you keep the revs down by changing up a gear they will idle along nicely in the right gear. Corrigation is a bitch and the cabs get very hot in the top end. I used to pop the canopy hatch to allow airflow and used to pull an 8 tonne trailor with the mog and spent many hours with my foot on the hand throttle over taking road trains. Had a few blow outs on the trailor due to the heat and was scary pulling up a fully laden trailor pushing the mog around on the highway. Great trip loved watching.
Hi guys ,love the sound of the mog purring in the opening shot ...more of the mog please.Kind regards from Wales 🏴.perhaps one day you guys could put her to test in our beautiful welsh mountains 🏔!
Great viewing guys. Did the Hay River last year and can attest to that awful 76klm out (in our case ‘in’).
We actually found the area very scenic between Dingo well and Batton Hill camp. Stopped a few times to walk the river bed with beautiful Ghost Gums on either bank.
This year I reckon we were a week ahead of you on the Madigan. Shame I cannot get back to hunt the prize LOL.
Love ❤ your content keep up the good work 👏.
Hope to see you out there one day.
Cheers Tim and Trish ♥️ 👍.
Thank you so much Tim & Trish for watching and commenting, much appreciated!
I’ve been watching the series with the @AllTerrainAction guys in their Holden Commodres/ Adventras doing this same trip just a few weeks back.
Such different experiences is totally different vehicles.
Love watching the adventure.
Loved the drone footage especially the early morning landscapes. That early light really brings out the colors and the contours of the dunes. That section between Batton Hill and Jervois Station was terrible in 2019 too - it had my Land Cruiser/Trayon rig dancing all over the place! Thanks for rewinding my memories of that trip.
Enjoy watching your videos, the track from Hay river to Jervos is the most corrugated track I ever been on
The corrugations shook every fixture on my LDV we completed it in May this year, are you going to go to Chambers Piller, that is an awesome place to see
Congrats on winning the competition for the competition for best military truck conversion!!! It was a PITA to figure out how to vote, but I finally got my vote in for you guys! Awesome drone footage at the beginning of this video...such beautiful country! Keep up the awesome videos of your adventures!! Cheers :-)
Wife and did the Madigan line about 4 years ago in a BT50 had a great trip
The problem with some rough bits of track is the ripples are set in a spacing and frequency that causes a resonance that means your vehicle tacks up a swing or sway all of its own to match… can make you sea sick or if high enough frequency can cause mechanical damage.
Great video again I would had gotten out of the truck and kissed the bitumen haha
Thanks a lot Sue! Ahah we could have done that for sure too 😆
In Brazil, these undulations on the road, we call 'Costela de Vaca' (cow rib). In the Jalapão region (Tocantins state) all roads have these cow rib's, something around 1000km.
That's insane! 1000 kms would take us days 😬
Great series guys, it was quite enjoyable and it really showed how vast the middle of Australia is. Angie, you should have drove the Mog more often. Chris, I can't get over the moosestache
Wow! You did it, well done. Loved every video, thanks!
Thank you so much Stephen for watching and commenting!
You guys should invest on a hand-held UHF radio (or two), for exactly the situation you had on this episode. Also handy if one of you would like to wonder slightly away from camp.
We have hand held and UHF, we just didn't need to use them on these instances.
Ange & Chris thanks for the great video 👍👍👍
I thought Ange was getting car sick in the last couple of minutes of track. Well done on the editing 😂
Lucky buggers. I wanted to head home from Alice Springs to Brisbane via the HRT. Sadly, I did a tyre sidewall outside Birdsville and my other spare is much smaller than the tyres on the car..... its not the desert I'm worried about, it's the 200-odd kilometres from Birdsville to Windorah on the eastern side.
We leave Alice Springs Tuesday 23 Aug. 7 days via Mt Isa.
Great content guys. Love it. Suggestion: that rocking side to side of your truck looks like you have to much weight up high in your camper. If you place everything heavy, down as low down to floor level as possible (or under floor in storage), and place as much weight as possible over/around the rear axle, it should make things less "car sick". I did this in a 4-tonne truck and it made a huge difference. Good luck.
Hey thanks for your comment. We made sure there is no weight up high on our build thankfully, just the truck is very tall so some rocking going over alternating ruts offroad is inevitable. Cheers
Yes I was quite disappointed with the Hay River track, specially after the Madigan line.
Well done guys! Awesome effort and great video! Always luv your work, keep it up 👍
Thanks so much!
It seems it was quite hot.,
And your evening cold too
As we could see what you where using to wear.
Cheers to you Chris and Ange.,
Still here watching.,
Thanks Michael for following along every week!
Well done 👍
Living It! 💪
look to have got the swing of mog a lot better now ang keep practicing your gona be great with it
Thank you so much David for the encouragement!
Absolutely love every epp guys thank you guys always full of great info thank you so much take care and enjoy!!!
Great video again 👏, that drone footage was beautiful so remote great to see you make it without drama 😀 well done hope the mog didn't have any problems and was the inside ok with all that rocking and rolling on those corrugations, 👍👍👍😊
Thanks so much, yep no damages fortunately!
Dig the camel.! Another great video.
I spy ----- Something with a "big hump" on its back ! Great video.
Hey Chris , the Moustache is looking good
What pressures did you choose for those corrugations?
Srictly speaking, Australian camels are feral, not wild. That is to say, they live in the wild but are descended entirely from domesticated animals.
Awesomeness as usual
Great video!
Thanks for watching!
Such a large vehicle. Looks so uncomfortable off road. The living quarters must make it worthwhile. Thanks.
Loved your drone footage over the Hay River. But I didn't see any footage from Mt Winnecke or Lake Caroline or Goyders Pillar - maybe you need to go back and see these places. I love it out there and did the same trip as you in reverse last month - the last 100ks into Jervois has always been rough but about the same as most of the Anne Beadell Highway, or the Canning or the Gunbarrel, so if you plan on doing these tracks, might be worth lowering your pressures a fair bit more to smooth the ride in the Mog.
Good job thank you for sharing.
Muy bueno, esas imagenes con el dron, ver esa inmensidad de color rojizo verde, realmente espectacular. Ange a manejar mas seguido porque esos caminos son buenos para aprender a manejar en condiciones exigentes. Buenisimo. Saludos desde Cordoba Argentina.
Awesome stuff.😀
Big thumbs up 👍 didn’t you collect more firewood 🪵
So Ange is sick in the morning..... Is there something to this? Welcome to Darwin.
Thumbs up done guys.
HI there , it looklike you could used hand held two-way radio
Hi Joe, we have hand held and UHF, we just didn't need to use them on these instances.
Congrats and brilliant.
We did the Madigan and Hay last year, still shaking from the corregations. Might just be the worst corregations we've ever experienced.
Glad to hear we are not the only ones!
Chris &Angee, hello, so you finally got to see a LIVE CAMEL,,this part sure is Sandy there. , stay well happy trails,,,,,,🇦🇺🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇸
what causes the road to be so much like a washboard??
good vid thanks lee
We call that a washboard road.
Cool!!!
My wife got sea sick going over the sand dunes
So you saw your first camel. A full camel skull. Would look better on the Mog.
i thought Ang was taking a photo of her self in the mirror
Wife and I did the madag
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Only compulsory in Simpson Desert Conservation Park and Simpson Desert Regional Reserve, we removed it for the Hay River track becauss of the trees.
Camp #17. Tree with a “V”! Went through my photo’s and found it as seen 29/06/22. PM via Insta 👌