Happens only when you are in a hurry

[Donlin Stud]

I know some of the USA has been flooded but we here on the South East Coast of Oz have had record rains for near 3 months now.

Our property has a natural water course running through it in several places.
Two areas we have had to build up the road with pipes underneath just so we can enter and exit the propoerty.

Well one weekend we had a very unusual rain event - heavy, consistent which caused water to suddenly build up and of course, come straight through our place with a force we havent seen before.

Water gushed over the driveway blowing out near most of it in two spots. 

Well we just bought a new ute. Two days before it was due to go in to replace town tyres with all terrains: This happens





It was 5am when the front wheel just dropped into nowhere.
The town-tyres became slicks stopping the 4WD drive from doing its thing.

It was 5.45am when my daughter came to the rescue (I dont walk around in the dark; fighting kangaroos and territorial wombats and no moon saw me sit in the car until I could find a phone signal to text said daughter who was back at the house.)

A bit of digging in minus 3 degrees celsius warmed the bones (just a bit), and a pull out was achieved by 10am

Needless to say I didnt make it into work with the next day seeing me pull a 13 hour day

Was not impressed at any point.

[genebo]

Sorry about the bad luck. Bummer!

I'm intrigued by the vehicle. What kind is it?

[Donlin Stud]

2016 Toyota Hilux SR5 Dualcab Gene
We have been Toyota for many a decade now.

Not the same as the ones sold in the USA though - ours are a little smaller *S*

We do an aftermarket bullbar being from ARB, not Toyota.

We moved from ARB to the Toyota bullbars as they looked better on the vehicles until hubby hits a Wallaby at 100kms in the other car and the Toyota bullbar dented inwards.

I rarely hit them but he is like a magnet
So we went back to the ARB bullbar for this one. Stronger.

My favourite Toyota is my still going strong 2007 Hilux SR5 Extra cab.
Its never missed a heartbeat and yet has only been serviced about 5 times in its life - and its now over 290,000kms.
Best car ever. Yearly shock change and generally a windscreen but thats it - love that car!

[genebo]

You are right about that vehicle not being sold in the US. That's why I asked.

I drive a '98 Toyota, 4 cyl, 2WD. 270,000 miles and going strong. I use it to tow a mini stock trailer. It takes some doing to make it work, but the result is worth it. Very good mileage when towing. Lets me deliver sometimes when a bigger truck would cost too much.

[Blessings Farms]

We could use some of your rain in Ohio . 4.6 in. below normal and started out below normal too .
At that temp. it could have been snow in Ohio . Here we hit deer , racoon .
Gene that 4 cyl. pulls OK ? I pulled the hay wagon home once with my 99 S10 never again .
Never tried the stock trailer .

[lonecowhand]

Donna, does your Hilux SR5 have a "bull bar" as well?

[Donlin Stud]

Hi Lonecowhand

Yes only after hubby started to drive it every now and then. Toyota bullbar went on three years after we bought it.

If he has hit anything while driving it, there has been no damage and he wouldnt tell me anyways - unless he had too

He has a terrible history:
2003 - Vehicle booked in to Toyota for bullbar. # days out, kangaroo hits front passenger panel and rolls down past the passenger door in extra cab. In being repaired for 3 weeks. Then bullbar

2005 - 2 days out from extra cab going to ARB for bullbar. Hits roo front on. In repariers for 4 weeks. Then bullbar

2010 - Had only picked up dualcab 6 days before from car yard. Swerves to miss roo on slippery wet road in Canberra, the city of all places. Looses control, spins it 360 degrees and stops after he and parked car hit donw the drivers sides. Deploys all 6 air bags. In being repaired for 6 months as we had to wait for airbags 3-6 to be manufactured and brought over from Japan. Model was too knew for parts to be available. Repairer puts on Toyota bullbar before pick up.

2013: Picks up car from caryard. Driving it home 45mins away. Huge male roo bounces out from group of trees on slippery wet road as hubby was coming out of a bend in the road. Roo was in mid bounce when hit straight on. radiator damaged, motor pushed back and motor oil everywhere. As roo hit the bonnet pushed up and back which stopped large roo from hitting windscreen in the process. Too much damage. Car written off.

2015: Car was not leaving car yard until Toyota had fitted bullbar. At least it took him 4 months until he hits a wallaby at 100kms that only dented the bullbar inwards at the number plate. No damage to car itself.

I dont know what to do with him..................

Below is my fav car: picture left is how it looks 11 months of the year. Cant help it when it drives on 52kms of dirt road a day.

Picture right is the rare occasion that I have it cleaned (hence the photos as noone believed me that it idoes get cleaned once in a while *L*)

Sadly though this one is about to be put up for sale  



BTW: The hole in rear light was caused by a Dexter butt - Miss Indi's butt to be precise. Since replaced

[lonecowhand]

Wow Donna , thats quite a run! Wallabies and Roos must be like Americas Prairie dogs, in a competition to see who can make it across the road, regardless of traffic! I swear they wait til the last second, and sometimes for them it is....
I'd say the bull bars work tho!

Bummer mud bog you got there!

[lakeportfarms]

The Roos sound worse than our white tail deer. Clearly your hubby didn't play enough video games as a child (Frogger...remember that one?)
We could use some rain here...We've barely had a drop of it for 2 months.

[Deleted]

that picture looks like you drove right through the only mud hole in sight. 
I have luckily never hit a deer had plenty of close calls. I have known some people who hit a deer every year. I maintain that if you are hitting deer that often it is your own fault for not paying attention. Roos maybe a different story never seen one. Although if I hit a roo in Iowa I would say it was my own fault for driving though a zoo .

[Donlin Stud]

Aug 4, 2016 10:03:56 GMT lakeportfarms said:

The Roos sound worse than our white tail deer. Clearly your hubby didn't play enough video games as a child (Frogger...remember that one?)
We could use some rain here...We've barely had a drop of it for 2 months.

The roos have a flight response and yes, lonecowhand, they appear to wait until the very last moment and then dash right in front of you. The Wallabies however generally dont have that flight response so its rare to hit them - but Hubby manages it

The thing is lakeport, hubby can see a pimple on a camel's butt 3 miles away - I cant. But he still hits them. I think he day dreams or something. 

[Donlin Stud]

Aug 4, 2016 14:30:20 GMT @dexterfarm said:

that picture looks like you drove right through the only mud hole in sight. 
I have luckily never hit a deer had plenty of close calls. I have known some people who hit a deer every year. I maintain that if you are hitting deer that often it is your own fault for not paying attention. Roos maybe a different story never seen one. Although if I hit a roo in Iowa I would say it was my own fault for driving though a zoo .

Yes in a way. It is the only mud hole around (except further down the road where there is another one from us going around the other hole in the driveway)

We may live on over 100 acres but I hate anyone driving on my grass........the moos' food.

The driveway had blown out just on the otherside of the car - and we couldnt get the machinery down there to fix it.

Thank goodness though the drive is now back to normal.

Still having constant rain events. One after the other but nothing significant as the one that caused the damage before.
I cant remember such a wet winter.

All this water now is putting us on edge though. With that much moisture in the ground, as soon as it starts to warm up - everything is going to go feral creating a larger than normal bushfire hazard come summer. Especially if the rains suddenly stop as it warms.

[jamshundred]

Wow!  And I have been feeling frustrated by my washed out road in WV.     Bet that stopped the heart for a second.

[wvdexters]

Wow Donna! Not a fun way to spend the day. I believe I'd have stayed in the car too. Fighting Kangaroos does not sound like something fun to run in to. Glad you were able to get dug out.

The deer are terrible around here. Especially if you drive alot in the early morning or late at night. They like the grass along the roads and cross at a full run.

It was so dry here too, but last week we had a huge rain. 4 1/4 inches in just a little over 1hr and then another 1 in or so a few hrs later. I've never seen it rain so hard and steady like that here. Thankfully we are high up so just a mess to clean up, and water everywhere. Lower down it looked like rivers crossing the roads and lots of flooding. Interestingly though only a very small area got hit. Just a few miles from here only got a shower.

[genebo]

Paradise Farm's pastures started out as a go-kart track and a borrow pit from where the pond dam was built. Hard clay and gritty dirt. No topsoil. Over the years, the land has improved. Every year the topsoil has covered more of the land. This year it began to have some depth to it.

Then it rained. Not as much as Karrie got, but enough to make rivulets of runoff. The cattle trails were beginning to grow grass, but not now. The bare hardpan has been exposed. Thank goodness for the lush grass that held the topsoil in place everywhere else. We still have contented cows grazing the summer grass.

Looking at Donna's dilemma amazes me that there is so much depth to her soil that it could be muddy that deep.

[Donlin Stud]

Hi Gene



Muddy at that depth - yep.



We are on Sandy loam for about 40cm then there is a layer of clay/top soil of about 30cms before it returns to near pure sand.

That area where bogged has layers of top soil from the neighbouring properties.



The water just flows like a creek over that area hence why it is piped under a built up road.

We have a dam on the otherside of the road and you can see it fill up with just as little as a few mls of rain



We tried to have a bore put in soon after arriving on the property.



The operator tried several areas around the property telling us we have water galour but even at 110 metres down, we are all sand and do not have opening/solid/rocky shelf areas to enable us to draw the water up.


This is one area where the water comes from next door




And this isone part of the road before it was built up with pipe under. Car was bogged on the right hand side of photo