Anybody out there in Nomad land see or heard from Road Ranger? Miss his very witty posts. Cheers, Greg
Escape said
10:36 PM Jun 12, 2009
I heard from him on the 10th June ( 2 days ago)
Cruising Granny said
02:20 PM Jun 13, 2009
He was heading west last time we communicated.
He may be out of range.
I'm sure he'll get back to us if the mood takes him.
Thunda said
04:01 PM Jun 14, 2020
The Road Ranger is dead.
Some dingo shooter shot him
by mistake while he was having a crap on the side of the track just north of Kallgoolie.
Fer Christ sake don't camp there, the place is haunted.
He was eating a quince at the time and didn't know what hit im, the bloody blowies are still hangin round the spot where they burnt the carcus, an that was about 11 years ago.
But he had a good innings.
An the Gnome fell by the wayside too l hear, he just finished eatin a tin of dog food (pensioner tucker some say it was pal) an sittin in the gutter lickin his nuts an a road train got im.
I tried ta warn im about eatin that stuff years ago when he started barking at cars an chasin em.
Ahr well, all them ol fellas either git fleas an distemper an karc it or some shella gits em in a head lock.
Their probably better off now.
yobarr said
04:08 PM Jun 14, 2020
Thunda wrote:
The Road Ranger is dead.
Some dingo shooter shot him
by mistake while he was having a crap on the side of the track just north of Kallgoolie.
Fer Christ sake don't camp there, the place is haunted.
He was eating a quince at the time and didn't know what hit im, the bloody blowies are still hangin round the spot where they burnt the carcus, an that was about 11 years ago.
But he had a good innings.
An the Gnome fell by the wayside too l hear, he just finished eatin a tin of dog food (pensioner tucker some say it was pal) an sittin in the gutter lickin his nuts an a road train got im.
I tried ta warn im about eatin that stuff years ago when he started barking at cars an chasin em.
Ahr well, all them ol fellas either git fleas an distemper an karc it or some shella gits em in a head lock.
Their probably better off now.
?
dogbox said
04:23 PM Jun 14, 2020
maybe confusing the road runner with road ranger but if someone has been missing for 11 years what are their chances
yobarr said
04:32 PM Jun 14, 2020
dogbox wrote:
maybe confusing the road runner with road ranger but if someone has been missing for 11 years what are their chances
Yeah,the only Road Ranger I know about is an 18 speed,although in the old days we had 9 speed,10 speed,two versions of the 13 speed,plus the invincible old 15 speed.Cheers
Thunda said
04:40 PM Jun 14, 2020
Road Ranger was a member here around 11 years ago, he was an old road train operator, had a KW SAR, with an 18 speed double overdrive road ranger box, he started driving trucks for his old man when he was 12 and got his first truck (a Mack Flintstone with a maxidye in front of a quad box when he was 14)
dogbox said
08:13 AM Jun 15, 2020
Thunda wrote:
Road Ranger was a member here around 11 years ago, he was an old road train operator, had a KW SAR, with an 18 speed double overdrive road ranger box, he started driving trucks for his old man when he was 12 and got his first truck (a Mack Flintstone with a maxidye in front of a quad box when he was 14)
maybe wrong but i can't remember the maxidyne having a quad box any old mack drivers care to enlighten .
yobarr said
08:54 AM Jun 15, 2020
dogbox wrote:
Thunda wrote:
Road Ranger was a member here around 11 years ago, he was an old road train operator, had a KW SAR, with an 18 speed double overdrive road ranger box, he started driving trucks for his old man when he was 12 and got his first truck (a Mack Flintstone with a maxidye in front of a quad box when he was 14)
maybe wrong but i can't remember the maxidyne having a quad box any old mack drivers care to enlighten .
Used to drive an old R600 Maxidyne that had a quad box.Once worked for company that had an old Scammell Contractor with 3 gear levers! Big gear in its day.Cheers
-- Edited by yobarr on Monday 15th of June 2020 08:57:14 AM
Thunda said
08:56 AM Jun 15, 2020
G'day Dog box.
You sound like you've been across the corrugations.
Maxie or Thermo a lot of Flintstone's were spec'd for the job they were needed for, especially by blokes that salvaged whatever parts they could to get the job done.
Some people don't know or remember what a dog box actually was.
I didn't haul much live stock so didn't need a dog, but l had a lot of ropes, chains an dog's, blocks of wood for that sandy country to fit in my dog box
I didn't have a sleeper, the air con was vents on the side of the cab and in front of the windscreen an a water bag strapped on the bull bar.
All the loads were gates an tarps, bogies an cap's, hand loaded and unloaded.
Spiders an 10-00-20's in the carriers.
R600 or B61 they were the best for the back of beyond, and l believe still are, also the old Benz 1418 and a lot of others that are just rusted out old heaps now, but we were proud to operate them because we didn't know any better at the time.
We could fix em on the side of the track, now you need a tech with a computer and a big fancy box of Snap on's.
Now a lot of readers are thinkin what's he talkin about?
But just because they haven't heard about any of it don't mean it never was.
Thunda said
09:18 AM Jun 15, 2020
Yobarr.
l bet you loved it when you first learnt your rev range to Jake shift and didn't need the clutch anymore.
An how proud you were when you mastered it.
An when you didn't feel the shunt of the second trailer in the ring feeder.
And you still dream about that whine of the quad box and the sound of the louvrs made when they opened an closed.
Don't lie, l know you do, we all still remember and re live it.
The stinkin heat, dust, flys, sleepin over the wheel, fly blown tucker, backaches, crap money, the drugs to keep goin, busted gear, bogged to the springs.
But we had mates that would always stop an help, share a warm long neck or a Darwin stubby at a road side camp with a fire and great company.
And ain't this what all the Grey Nomads are all about now?
Anybody out there in Nomad land see or heard from Road Ranger? Miss his very witty posts.
Cheers,
Greg
The Road Ranger is dead.
Some dingo shooter shot him
by mistake while he was having a crap on the side of the track just north of Kallgoolie.
Fer Christ sake don't camp there, the place is haunted.
He was eating a quince at the time and didn't know what hit im, the bloody blowies are still hangin round the spot where they burnt the carcus, an that was about 11 years ago.
But he had a good innings.
An the Gnome fell by the wayside too l hear, he just finished eatin a tin of dog food (pensioner tucker some say it was pal) an sittin in the gutter lickin his nuts an a road train got im.
I tried ta warn im about eatin that stuff years ago when he started barking at cars an chasin em.
Ahr well, all them ol fellas either git fleas an distemper an karc it or some shella gits em in a head lock.
Their probably better off now.
?
Yeah,the only Road Ranger I know about is an 18 speed,although in the old days we had 9 speed,10 speed,two versions of the 13 speed,plus the invincible old 15 speed.Cheers
maybe wrong but i can't remember the maxidyne having a quad box any old mack drivers care to enlighten .
Used to drive an old R600 Maxidyne that had a quad box.Once worked for company that had an old Scammell Contractor with 3 gear levers! Big gear in its day.Cheers
-- Edited by yobarr on Monday 15th of June 2020 08:57:14 AM