+Team_Farmers Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 It all began... a very short, short time ago: < *bring* - turn page > With only 8 cache finds to go for our first centenary, we decided to take it pretty slow while touring the lovely province of Mpumulanga over this past (enjoyable) long weekend... * bring * After travelling over a 1000 kilometres, visiting Barberton, the Sudwala Caves, Blyde River Canyon, White River and finally passing through Nelspruit for the last 2, we thought this would be a breeze... Then suddenly... gearing became a problem with the car suddenly stalling! "Oh no!" the little Team Farmers cried, "what could be wrong?" Slowly getting out the car, one little Team Farmer said: "Hmmm... I think it could the the pressure pad on the clutch which is preventing the clutch from disengaging". "Oh", the other little Team Farmers said. So with just 2 finds to go, we had to abandon our quest (for now), and travel back home to Joburg very slowly in 4th gear... The End * bring * Anybody have a similiar story? - or do you guys have Rolls Royce's? Quote Link to comment
Guineafowl Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 do you guys have Rolls Royce's? [/i] I was thinking today as I was driving my little Tazz up a small two track road (off road) to get closer to a cache, what do other people use for geocache hunts? Luckily I did not have a break down yet, so maybe you must invest a little money in a Toyota Tazz - I found 88 caches in mine! If you want to read a similar story, read Mount Carmel - Broken but not beaten by GPS storm - they've hidden a cache at the spot where thier vehicle broke down. Quote Link to comment
+anlufu Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 We had a similar experience. We took our new (to us) 4X4 up to Spitzkop in Knysna. Road was rough and steep. Driver engaged 4X4 and engine died! Driver tried serveral times to re-start, but 4X4 would not budge. No noise came from engine, just the clicking of the key! So 2 of us left driver and walked up the hill to find the cache, thinking that 4X4 would eventually start. We found the cache, and walked back, by then it was raining.To cut a long story short we had a very precarious free wheel down the hill backwards (no place to turn around) and then we had to try and find a recovery service in Knysna late on a Sunday. And we had 3 dogs with us. Great fun!! And then we had to call somebody to come from George to take us home. We (3 people & 3 dogs) ended up riding home on the back of a bakkie in the rain! But the cache was worth it! Quote Link to comment
+bear&fox Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 We had a similar experience driving our 4X4 up Papegaaiberg in Stellenbosch. Parked at the top, admired the 360° views and found the cache. It was just getting dark when we hopped back inside and turned the key... nothing. Sunday evening, up on a mountain, rain approaching, two dogs. Hmmm. Eventually pushed the 2 tons far enough to have it roll down the hill, hopped in and roll started. It's not even funny in retrospect! Hey! Perhaps we should leave some tools in caches! ;-) Quote Link to comment
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