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North Brisbane

4wd Club Inc.

January 2018

Swan Valley 4X4 Park Trip

Table of Contents

About us 4

President’s Page 5

Show Your Colours 7

Raffle Prize Winners 8

The Shafted Award 9

Committee 10

Trip Rating 11

Trip Calendar 2018 12

Trip Essentials and Minimum Kit 14

Club Trip Guidelines 15

Club Driver Safety Induction / Visitor Info 16

Financial Report 17

General Meeting Minutes 18

Trip Reports 20

Kids Section 22

ARB 24

KM Diesel Service 25

Harts 26

North Pine Auto Repair Centre 27

DT Rustproofing 28

Meatland 29

Order Form 30

Trip Photo’s 31

North Brisbane 4wd Club Inc.

Welcome New Members!

About North Brisbane 4wd Club

Our club was formed from a group of like minded 4wd enthusiasts who saw an

opportunity to develop a four wheel drive club within the fast growing Northlakes

region, and with a dedicated committee, North Brisbane 4wd Club was born.

All of the founding members have children who share the love of four wheel

driving, camping and social activities. The club maintains a family focus and

aims to offer a range of events to suit all members, with mild, wild and social

trips.

We encourage everyone to come along a be a part of our trips; whether you

have just purchased your first four wheel drive, or you are an experienced driver

bringing new track knowledge to the club.

So please feel free to grab a magazine, drop into a meeting to say ‘hi’, or come

along on one of our trips to check us out!

CLUB MEETING DATES

JANUARY 5th JULY 6th

FEBRUARY 2nd AUGUST 3rd

MARCH 2nd SEPTEMBER 7th

APRIL 6th OCTOBER 5th

MAY 4th NOVEMBER 2nd

JUNE 1st DECEMBER 7th

Presidents Page By Greg Facey

Welcome to the January magazine and Happy New Year! Bring on 2018 NB4WDC. Now I don’t want everyone to think I’ve gone all deep and meaningful, but I am certainly reflective on the year that was. We started from a small group on Facebook some years back, and earlier in 2017 we became an incorporated club, and we grew. When I think how lucky I was to make new friends, reconnect with old friends and have some amazing trips throughout the year, I

can sum it up in one word, unbelievable! What we have is a genuine four wheel drive club that is member and trip focused. We keep it simple and it works. We finished the year off strong with a BBQ fundraiser at Meatland Northlakes (thanks Jamie and the team). Big thanks to Peter Borg, Ben and Bradleigh Foster, Troy Window, Tom Elliot, Jake Kenyon and Whitey for your help on the day, and special thanks to Sharon Pyyvaara to organising the event. The guys did a terrific job. Rose and I had to go early to help Ashleigh from hospital (she’s ok) and the message back from everyone was when I checked how it was going was “We are fine, just look after your family and don’t stress”. This is the essence of what we are about! We help each other. The BBQ was a good opportunity to raise some funds for the club, but also raise the clubs profile in the Northlakes area and we have more events to come this year. We also had Presidents Trip to Swan Gully Adventure Park after rain cancelled my forestry trip, but hang onto your hat, it will be on early this year! Swan Gully has many hills, great views and some challenging tracks, but was a great day to somewhere the club hadn’t been too, we love checking out new places! Now, what will 2018 bring us? I see lots of trips and socials, BBQ breakfast by the beach, Rover Park, forestry trips to Bellthorpe, Kenilworth, Benarkin, I see Crow’s Nest trips, Fraser Clean up, Sundown, Witta, Clean Up Australia events just to name a few……...looks like a very full on year, and I haven’t even mentioned recces yet! Remember if you want to go to the Fraser Clean Up 18-21st May you need to add your name to the trip sheet, pay the club directly and reference FICU 2018. Yes it’s a way off, but registrations close 1st March. I also want to welcome Jake Kenyon to the committee as the clubs Webmaster. Jake is a great young guy that has been very enthusiastic and active in the club. Thank you for your help. We had a lot of new members to the NB4WDC family in December. It gives me great pleasure to welcome Daniel and Rebecca Jones, Brendan and Vanessa Botha, Richard Krenn, Bruce Cresswell and his partner Narelle Kerr, Andrew and Irene Coventry, Christian Coventry, Stephen and Katrina Howe, Hamid Nia and his wife Elaheh Jafari. I can’t wait to see you out on the tracks in 2018.

Presidents Page By Greg Facey

We also have a new major sponsor for the club in ARB Northlakes. Andrew, Lyndon, Paul and Macca have already helped a number of members in the club and we appreciate their support. Please make sure you drop in and say hi to the guys. I have personally known Lyndon for many years who is a great guy and very helpful as is the rest of the ARB team. Please join me in making them welcome. Well, there’s a great start to 2018 and a lot to look forward to, but we seem to have the same problem as last year, just too many trips and just not enough weekends……….. Be safe, have fun and I look forward to seeing you out on tracks! President Greg

Show your Colours

Raffle Prize Winners

The Shafted Award

The Contender

December 2017 Winner

Committee Crew

LEE WHITE PETER BORG

EDITOR

SHARON PYYVAARA

GENERAL COMMITTEE MERCHANDISE

GLEN KEIGHLEY

GREG FACEY

PRESIDENT

BEN FOSTER

VICE PRESIDENT

SARAH FOSTER

SECRETARY

TRIP CO & CARE

MELISSA SCHROFFEL

TREASURER

MEMBERSHIP

ROSE FACEY TROY WINDOW

PROPERTY CANTEEN

KERRI CROSS

LEE WHITE

DRIVER TRAINER

Trip Rating EASY MEDIUM DIFFICULT VERY DIFFI-

CULT

Description All wheel drive and high range. Novice drivers.

Mainly high range 4WD but low range required. Some 4WD expe-rience or training required.

Significant low range 4WD with standard ground clearance. Should have 4WD driver train-ing.

Low range 4WD with high ground clearance. Expe-rienced drivers.

Advisory Symbol

Expected terrain and track condi-tions

Mostly unsealed roads with no obstacles and minor gradients

Tracks with some steep and/or rocky, slippery, sandy sections. May have shallow water crossings.

Tracks with fre-quent steep and/or rock, slippery, sandy track sec-tions. Possible water crossings.

Tracks with fre-quent very steep and/or rocky, slippery, sandy track sections. May have difficult river crossings.

Vehicle Suitability All wheel drive and high range 4WD. Can be low clearance with single range and road tyres.

Suitable for medi-um clearance vehicles with dual range and all terrain or road tyres.

Suitable for medi-um to high clear-ance vehicles with dual range and all terrain tyres.

Suitable for high clearance vehi-cles with dual range and tyres suitable for the terrain.

Recovery Equip-ment

As per club standards.



Winch / recovery equipment re-quired.

Driver Training & Experience

Suitable for nov-ice drivers.

Recommended that drivers have experience or 4WD training. Recommended to be done in groups of vehi-cles.

Recommended for drivers with reasonable expe-rience or 4WD training. To be done in groups of vehicles.

Drivers with extensive experi-ence and ad-vanced training should only at-tempt as there are several tech-nical challenges. Recommended to be done in groups of four or more vehicles.

Weather effects May be more difficult in wet conditions.

Will be more difficult in wet conditions.



Recommended numbers

<= 15 <= 15 <= 10 <= 6

SOCIAL Social trips are open for all members and their guests to attend. There is no requirement for driving experience or driver training. Heck, you may not even need a 4x4 – best check with the trip leader though.

North Brisbane 2018 Trip Calendar

Month Trip Name Date Time and Place Trip Leader

January Rover Park 26th - 28th Nundah McDonalds 0700 Greg Facey

February Bellthorpe 3rd CJ's Bakery Woodford 0800 Glen Keighly

Kinkuna/Woodgate/ Mon Repos

10th - 11th BP North bound Hwy 0700 Ross Brown

March Clean up Australia Day 4th BP North bound Hwy 0800 Ross Brown

Coffs Harbour 30th - 2nd Nundah McDonalds 0700 Greg Facey

April Double Island Point 8th BP North bound Hwy 0700 Jake Kenyon

Scenic Rim Adventure Park 21st - 22nd Nundah McDonalds 0700 Tony Collins

May Amamoor State Forest – Brooyar State Forest

5th BP North bound Hwy 0730 Ken Scaroni

Fraser Island Clean up 18th - 21st BP North bound Hwy 0700

June QPWS Working Bee 2nd Ross Brown

Nerang National Park 23rd - 24th Nundah McDonalds 0800 Tony Collins

July Beerwah 8th BP North bound Hwy 0800 Glen Keighly

Crows Nest 21st -22nd CJ's Bakery Woodford 0800 Greg Facey

August Witta 5th CJ's Bakery Woodford 0800 Ben Foster

Manor Park 18th - 19th Shannon Hayes

September President's Mystery Trip 1st Carpark at the Clubhouse 0800

President

Sundown 8th - 9th McDonalds Redbank. Redbank Plains Road 4pm

Glen Keighly

Levuka 29th - 1st Carpark at the Clubhouse 0730

Ben Foster

October

Leader Leap Frog 7th BP North bound Hwy 0700 Ross Brown

November Breakfast at the beach 4th Nichole Faulkner

Condamine River/ Queen Mary Falls

17th - 18th McDonalds Ripley. Ripley Road

Greg Facey

December Christmas Party 1st - 2nd

North Brisbane 2018 Trip Calendar

Contact Grade Notes

0431 256 144 All

0415 390123 M

0429 302 281 E/M/S

0429 302 281 All HQ Plantations have asked for our help

0431 256 144 All Easter Long Weekend

0406 128 384 E/M BBQ Lunch on the beach and swim and a fish

0400 362 713 All Maybe a chainsaw course as well

0412 125 040 E Easy day trip including site seeing, three lookouts, one good hill climb

E/M Clean ups, Removal of abandoned cars,

0429 302 281 E/M Erecting signs, Track building, Planting trees, Removal of lantana..... As per QPWS request

0400 362 713 E/M

Day trip or camp at the Springs Gully Canungra (a great spot). Need to book in advance. Not advisable in summer (as there is a bush fire risk, with limited tracks out, and if storms hit, trees come down. Take a chainsaw, ranger doesn't mind clearing tracks for him). Tracks are Easy/ Medium –

0415 390123 E/M

0431 256 144 E/M Camping Trip

0428 388 579 M Witta/ Connondale/ Jimna

0459 995 017 All Brass Monkeys Weekend

TBA E/M TBA

0415 390123 M

0428 388 579 All Queens Birthday Weekend

0429 302 281 E

Several (new) trip leaders each lead a section of the trip. Predetermined Start/ Finish points. Each leader only knows their own section. (Wongi, Janowan, Landcruiser).

E

0431 256 144 E Glow worms Nov – Dec. Camp sites at Queen Mary Falls or Koreelah Creek. Back road out for scenic drive. Back road not recommended for caravans.

E/M/S

Trip Essentials WHAT TO BRING Day Trip:

Recovery + first aid gear Spares and tools Water and food Full tank of fuel Anything special mentioned in the trip

notes

Camping Trip: As per day trip plus Camping gear – tent, bedding etc. Anything special mentioned in the trip

notes

Minimum Kit To Be Carried

First Aid Kit Fire Extinguisher Rated Recovery Point

Snatch Strap Rated Bow Shackle UHF Radio

Lubricant (INOX or similar) Shovel Strap Dampener

Club Trip Guidelines

CLUB TRIPS AND CAMPING

1. All drivers must be licenced. 2. Vehicles must be registered and in road worthy condition. 3. All vehicles attending trips must have approved recovery points front and

rear. 4. Vehicles may be inspected by trip leaders prior to commencing the trip. 5. All vehicles must carry basic recovery equipment. 6. All vehicles must be fuelled before departure. 7. All vehicles are driven at the owners risk. It is up to the individual to have

adequate off road and camping insurance. 8. All trips are subject to weather conditions. If a trip is cancelled or details

are changed, the trip leader will contact those on the trip sheet the evening before the trip.

9. The trip leader will advise of the route and all vehicles must follow convoy procedure.

10. All members and guests must conduct themselves in a responsible manner.

11. All camping sites must be left free of rubbish and kept tidy. 12. Pets are not permitted on trips.

CLUB CONVOY PROCEDURE:

1. The trip leader should remind all drivers before moving off that the con-voy procedure is to be followed.

2. The convoy is to have a nominated TAIL END CHARLIE. In the event of a breakdown, Tail End Charlie will wait and organise assistance. The trip leader is to be informed of breakdowns and holdups.

3. When turns are made, make sure that the following vehicles have identified the correct route.

4. On difficult tracks, make sure that the following vehicle has negotiated each obstacle before proceeding. Always maintain visual contact with the following vehicle.

5. Maintain position in the convoy except in unavoidable circumstances. When travelling on busy roads, leave room for other vehicles to overtake safely.

6. At river and creek crossings, wait until the vehicle ahead is through before proceeding.

7. Avoid travelling too close to the vehicle in front when ascending and descending steep hills.

8. Always leave gates and property as they were found. Always keep to formed tracks.

9. Seat belts shall be worn by all participants in club activities. 10. Please keep radio conversations short and relevant. In general, use

channel 15 UHF for club activities.

Club Driver Safety Inductions

DATE MEETING POINT

TRAINING LOCATION

TRAINER

Saturday 13/01/18

CJ’s Bakery Woodford 0730

Bellthorpe National Park

Whitey

The safety induction is broken up into 2 main parts.

Part 1: Basic theory on:- --care of the environment --Difference between 2wd and 4wd --Driving procedure

Part 2: Practical:- --Pre departure checks --driving up and down hills --Wheel placement --Hill stall stop/start procedure --Snatch strap recoveries --Use of Maxtrax or treds Plus a drive to try out some of your new skills .

The North Brisbane 4wd Club meets on the first Friday of every month. Check out the trip sheets earlier in this magazine— the club meeting dates are in a table under the trip calendar. Feel free come along on a trip or two to check us out. We encourage you to do a couple of trips as a visitor before joining us.

Once you become a member, you’ll be required to do a club induction before going on any trips rated above medium. At the induction you’ll learn about operating a four wheel drive, recovery techniques and safety. The induction dates are on the Club Driver Safety Induction page.

Club Membership Fees

Joining Fee: None Membership Fee: $100 (pro-rata by month for new members only)

Club Merchandise (Contact Merchandise Officer)

All Club Shirts: $35 Club Sticker: $5

Club Jumper: $50 Club Banner: $5

Club Account Details

Bank: Bank of Queensland

BSB: 124-185 ACCOUNT No.: 22572376

Visitor Information

Financial Report as of November 2017

Cash Book Details Amount Bank A/c

Opening balance as per bank state- $1,015.46

Income

Direct Credits:

Raffle $110.00

Bugga Box $9.40

Merchandise $45.00

Canteen $111.00

Fundraising $0

Advertising $0

Trips/Functions & $740.00

Membership $20.00

Insurance Fees $30.00

Training $0

Dontations $0.40

Bank interest received $0.12

Total Income:

Expenditure $1065.92

Cheques Drawn:

Direct Debits:

Assoication/Insurance $0

Hall Hire $80.00

Canteen $21.70

Raffles $50.00

Merchandise $0

Property Purchases $0

Magazines/Printing $129.78

Trainings $0

Trips/Functions & $700.00

Misc Expenses $27.90

Total Expenditure: $1009.38

Net Profit & Loss: $56.54

Closing balance as of $1072.00

Unpresented Cheques

Financial Status at End of Month

Bank A/c: $1072.00

Petty cash on hand: $130.00

Total: $1202.00

General Meeting Minutes General meetings are held at The Space, Northlakes

Held Friday 1st December 2017

MEETING OPENED: 8.10pm Apologies:. Present: As per attendance book. Visitors: As per attendance book. Welcome: President welcomed everyone to the meeting. Minutes: Can we please read and move the minutes from the November 2017 meeting as printed in the December 2017 magazine pg 18/19 are a true and accurate record of proceedings and they be adopted accordingly. Moved: Alistair Seconded: Chloe ,All in favour: Carried. Business arising from minutes: NTR. President: Greg Facey - Jake Kenyon as our webmaster, general members to vote.- General Members voted and passed. Inner-urban break survey-survey will be sent out to general members via FB for you to complete. Xmas Party-Big thank you to all members for your help, it was a great weekend. Vice President: Ben Foster - Raffle tickets are still available. Secretary: Sarah Foster - Mail In: BOQ Sat, Election mail. Mail Out: Magazines to prospective members, advertisers. Email in: 4wd QLD road closure, Rapkins Road 20-26

th November, notification of

4wd GMs, Inner-urban break survey.

Email out: Mail out to prospective members. Treasurer: Mel Schroffel – Absent. Can we please read and move the Treasurers financial report is a true and accurate record of the Club’s financial position as at the end of November 2017 be accepted as printed in the magazine on page 16 Moved: Chloe Seconded: Alistair All in favour: Carried. Membership: Rose Facey – Absent-Greg Facey Membership prices are pro rata, currently $50 until the renewal. Mail & E-mail out to prospective members, advertisers and members not attended previous meeting. Membership drive in Northlake to be held. Welcome new members Daniel Jones and Richard Krenn. Trip Coordinator: Lee White – 2

nd Dec, Meatland BBQ fundraiser-numbers needed please help, 8-2pm

10th Dec, Presidents Mystery Trip, Greg Facey- food, torch and sleeping bag. Med trip.

9th Dec, Induction, Lee White, Belthorpe.-driver training is recommended for new

members. Trip sheet for next year is up on FB and in this month’s magazine. Recce’s happening over the Xmas period to Crow’s Nest, Benarkin, Jimna-

Conondale-Amamoor.

General Meeting Minutes Continued…

Editor: Peter Borg - Is there any more children colouring competitions from last month’s magazine. Winner is Amy Foster, prize is colouring book and pencils, well done Amy. Thank you Peter for a great magazine and all your hard work. Driver Training Coordinator: Lee White – Driver training is available for financial members. Please see Lee or Greg for information. Property Officer: Troy Window - BBQ, tables, banners available. Sharron to source recovery kit, first aid kit. Canteen Coordinator: Kerri Cross—All good mate. Merchandising: Glen Keighley - Hats, stickers, shirts and wheel tyres available. Payments must be made before the order can be made. Discounted wheel tires available the more we order. Are wide brimmed hats available? Glen to look into. PR Officer: Sharon Pyyvaara - Sent e-mails to Anaconda, BCF, Supercheap, Dobinson, Grilled are interested in the club. Austral talks are continuing regarding a gazebo donation. General Business: A Bugger award was made by Ken for Whitey for the Xmas trip drive for the Pigs per-formance. Tamara White has created a 2017 keepsake for the club, wine with logo, date and all the trips listed over the back of the bottle. Cost is $10.00 with $7 donated to next year’s Xmas party. Bugger Box fines: Bradleigh for forgetting his log, Tom for picking his own Secret Santa prize, Alistair for the Kiwi shuffle, Ken for reversing into a post. Shafted Award: White form the Xmas drive and the Pig stuck in 4wd. Raffle winners: Raffles run by- Ben Foster Raffle Prizes Donations approximate dollar amount:- Bike x2 @$100-Gabriell Boys and Girls Bike Scooter @ $80-Carley Air bed @ $80 -Troy Tyre Cover $140-Tro Opposite Lock Voucher @ $50-Will Bob Jane TMart Voucher x3 @ $300-sarah,Christian,Greg Caps, stubbies, keyrings x2 $100-Zoe,Ken Meatland Voucher $50-Andrew Approx. Total $900 Next Meeting: 5

th January 2018, 8 pm The Space, 75 Lakefield Drive, North lakes.

Meeting Closed: 9.00pm. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT THIS YEAR.

Trip Report

Presidents Trip Written by Greg Facey

Swan Gully 4wd Trip – Well it was meant to be the Presidents Mystery Trip (Amamoor), but the rain played havoc with my original plans, so let’s do Plan B. Plan B involved a 4wd Park, so I had to let everyone know as there was park entry fees, but it was a mystery as the club hadn’t been there before. Many years ago it was part of Swan Gully is the Old City View 4wd Park, but I hadn’t been there for many years, so it was still a bit of a mystery…….and as our namesake says, where the adventure begins! Great turn out for the trip with 9 cars with Glen, Mike, Daniel, Hamid, Richard, Bretto, Ben and Peter. Swan Gully is just out near Beaudesert, so not too far to go for a day drive, probably took us about 80 mins to get there from the clubhouse with my expert navigational skills (cough cough). There had been rain around, so we were a bit worried about how slippery the tracks would be as its very hilly terrain. Luckily with some wind and sunshine it dried out pretty good. It wasn’t long before we were aired down and ready to hit the tracks.

There are some challenging hills out here, I took one group around the main route and Ben took the rest of the group up some harder hills. We knew they were having fun from the conversations on the radio. My group found a great spot on top of a ridge where it was green, a great breeze (it was such a hot day) and some shade and we waited for the rest of the group to catch up. I did find a spare 80 series mud flap that was on the side of the track, so more spare parts for Ben. We headed down the rest of the ridge back onto the main track.

Some of the fellas were having a play in the gullies in the play area which was pretty good fun, until I found out the rear locker wasn’t working as a wire had broken off, bugger and I was sentenced to wear the hat of shame…but don’t let that stop us! We played on a couple of really short, steep and rutted tracks that we tried and got up, I struggled a bit with an open diff in the rear, but we made it to the top.

After lunch we headed back up on a ridge on the other side of the park. Richard had gone ahead to the very top and got some great pictures of the cars coming along the mountain ridge line. Spectacular views all the way out to Brisbane city, and we found some great little camping spots. The hills were very steep with side angles going back down, which was ok in the dry. In the wet it would

have been a toboggan ride to hell. We had no dramas as it was dry and eventually back out onto the main track. There were plenty of side tracks to explore, so we will be back to check them out, it’s what we do! We found a nice shady spot to air up, but my compressor died on the last trip and forgot to buy one (yes I will be around the ARB soon for an upgrade, Peter and I have already been in there). Anyway thank to Richard and his twin compressor set up in the back of the Ranger which twin hoses, I was aired up in no time. Great day out with great mates and some new friends. And the best part was that even though I forgot the compressor and the rear locker wasn’t working, as it’s the president’s trip I read somewhere that I can’t get fined………..I’m sure that’s correct isn’t it? Thanks again to everyone for making it a great day out.

Kids Section

Glen Keighley

$20

$5

Spare Wheel Cover $185 Cheaper with group bulk order eg. 5x covers = $110+postage

Trip Photos

Meeting @ The Space Northlakes Endeavour Blvd & Lakefield Drive Every 1st Friday of Every Month 7:30pm to 9:00pm

Postal Address PO Box 337 Northlakes Qld 4509

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