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Last weekend I decided that it was time to attempt something different, thus I loaded up the wife, the two Jack Russel dogs Jenna and Scott and of course my Minelab Soverein GT, not forgetting the paw paw and coca cola and ice. First had to go and fill the tank up with some fuel, no use going venturing off into the countryside with a half tank of gas, we then left Queenstown and travelled towards Sterkstroon that is +- 70km from Queenstown, just phoned the farmer in advance to tell him that we were going hunting on his farm again, he was not even there, another reason why he does not mind us going to his farm is because it helps to prevent stock theft if there is movement on his farm, his farm is over 3000 hectars in size, consisting of mountains, valleys and beautiful scenary.
Thus we eventually arrived at the gate to enter his farm, luckily this time round it was open, he did not have any sheep stock in this section, thus we just drove through, this is when I switched on the ARB air locker compressor that I have installed in my truck, this compressor pumps up a small cylinder which fills up with air, this air is used to activate the front and rear diff locks that I have on my truck, when the tank is fill, the compressor will switch off automatically. We then took a route towards this small mountian that we could see in the far distance, when we had closed another gate, I asked my wife to lock the front wheel hubs, you have to do this in some 4x4 vehicle's so that you can get direct 4x4 mode when you select the gears in the cab, my truck also has a Marlin Crawler kit fitted, for thoughs of you who do not know what this is, it is basically a unit that I bought from America, a sort of special adapter plate and a few gears, a person then takes another transfer case and seperates it and used a section of it with the adapter plate to join my existing transfer box to this extra section, with this modification it gives my truck a super low range gearing which is very suitable for off-road conditions. Now inside my cab I now have four gear levers, two are known as Twin sticks, I then selected the correct gears, high range for now and we then took the best route across this valley and eventually arrived at the foot of this mountain that we had to climb, now to just give you a brief idea, there used to be a track that lead to the top of this mountain, however it was built over 100 years ago and due to soil erosion, time and a boundry fence that has been erected half way up the mountain across the existing track, it was not possible to even attempt to even try and use it, at the foot of the mounatin, this section of the track was completely washed away. Thus after looking at the mountain slope for a while, I then selected lwo range 4x4, activated both lockers front and rear and slowly made my way up the mountain slope, basically in a straight line, driving up slopes at side angles is scary, but it sure gets your blood flowing.
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Thus we eventually arrived at the gate to enter his farm, luckily this time round it was open, he did not have any sheep stock in this section, thus we just drove through, this is when I switched on the ARB air locker compressor that I have installed in my truck, this compressor pumps up a small cylinder which fills up with air, this air is used to activate the front and rear diff locks that I have on my truck, when the tank is fill, the compressor will switch off automatically. We then took a route towards this small mountian that we could see in the far distance, when we had closed another gate, I asked my wife to lock the front wheel hubs, you have to do this in some 4x4 vehicle's so that you can get direct 4x4 mode when you select the gears in the cab, my truck also has a Marlin Crawler kit fitted, for thoughs of you who do not know what this is, it is basically a unit that I bought from America, a sort of special adapter plate and a few gears, a person then takes another transfer case and seperates it and used a section of it with the adapter plate to join my existing transfer box to this extra section, with this modification it gives my truck a super low range gearing which is very suitable for off-road conditions. Now inside my cab I now have four gear levers, two are known as Twin sticks, I then selected the correct gears, high range for now and we then took the best route across this valley and eventually arrived at the foot of this mountain that we had to climb, now to just give you a brief idea, there used to be a track that lead to the top of this mountain, however it was built over 100 years ago and due to soil erosion, time and a boundry fence that has been erected half way up the mountain across the existing track, it was not possible to even attempt to even try and use it, at the foot of the mounatin, this section of the track was completely washed away. Thus after looking at the mountain slope for a while, I then selected lwo range 4x4, activated both lockers front and rear and slowly made my way up the mountain slope, basically in a straight line, driving up slopes at side angles is scary, but it sure gets your blood flowing.
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Well like I said in the beginning of this article (true story) we were going hunting.
and to bed
