If you enjoyed the film please drop me a comment of encouragement? If you hated the film, please feel free to share it with everybody you don't like! ;-)

Good to see you back...

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate, I'm enjoying picking it up again... :-)

Hey Darrin, dropped over from Overland Bound-nice video and looks like a great trip!

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for accepting the invite - I hope you enjoy them...? I'm very much just getting started, I have 25 Terrabytes of 4K footage to edit my way through.... :-)

Here in the states we have a saying for off-roaders. Four wheel drive will get you stuck 10 ft farther than two wheel drive! Great show Big D!

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

I've found the biggest cause of getting stuck is driver ego or laziness 😂🤣🤣🤣🤪😜

great story telling. loved it

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate :-) !! Hoping you enjoy the rest just as much...

Awesome video n interesting to watch. Waiting for more and don't take too long this time around

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Emma - the next one is well under way.... :-)

Great content Darrin, this reminds me of getting stuck on a muddy beach for two days in Spain, got rescued by a road crew with a jcb.

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Is there any better place to get stuck than a beach in Spain?! Fire up the bbq ;-)

@martinqualters608

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately it was mid winter and really cold and wet. It took me hours to get the clay mud out of my waffle boards HAHA, happy days.

Loved this video!! Nerve wrecking to say the least! 😳

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

I'm never ever going to drive off-road or into a river again ;-p See you in Pretoria again soon :-p

Well done, Darrin! Looking forward to the next episode to find out, how you made it out ;-)

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

Fantastic video and story telling, congrats! 👏

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Merci pour vos encouragements et votre soutien continus - un gros câlin Kiwi pour vous la prochaine fois que nous nous rencontrerons !

Bit of a bugger ! Desert rivers and flash 'flooding' can play havoc with your plans. Upside is that only very rarely is there a vehicle fatality, although I know of Unimogs who did not make it. Nevertheless, you have the right approach, no panicking - cup of tea (I prefer a beer) and 99% of the time a way out is at hand. Best !!

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Henry! Please see Episode #7 for when the real flooding arrived a few days later.... kzread.info/dash/bejne/gWdr1reEaKS1pqw.html

will do, we have a shared interest in remote places in Africa, old Land Rover Defenders and you referenced Black Sabbath as well.....

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

How does life get any better than those 3 things ;-)

Great story, I am excited to see how it all turns out.

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@raykreisel

Жыл бұрын

@@roamingyak did you think about piling rocks just on the up stream side of the Rover to stop the sand piling up and further covering the Rover

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

It would be pretty hard to make a water proof dam in the middle of a running river wouldn't it?

Just like with sand, crossing rivers with a mix of sediment and lots of small rocks and pebbles, deflate tyres to get more floatation on the pebbles. Btw, know the kaokoveld very well,spend almost a year at Ses fontein

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Or in other words, don't be a lazy sod like I was on that day ;-p Not the worst place to be for a year...

@desertchild3550

Жыл бұрын

Another tip when stuck. Do not try and lift the body of the car, if like in the landrover case with solid rims, tie a loop with good size rope, to fit around about quarter of the tire, put vehicle in 4x4 and apply handbrake to prevent tires from turning when lifting it up with the loop fitted around them and lift the axle with the high lift jack, then place the sand boards under the tire. Do this with both sides or all four if you have 4 and try to drive it out slowly. If not, do this with each tire, place good size rocks under the tires to lift the chassis out of the mud, then pull with another vehicle.

It doesn't seem like two decades plus since you first put her together....damn.

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I have owned her for 22 years now :-)

So you are stuck in the desert all by yourself, waiting for the flood to come and yet you still seem so relaxed?? 😮 cool video! Makes me want to drive back to Africa again!

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment and kind words Michiel - it's also really nice to hear what people take away from my films as well. After 7 years driving around Africa not much surprises you anymore to be honest... another day on the road, another situation to get through, around or over. Good, bad or indifferent, something will happen to change things... That said, a little bit of controlled panic is good, it gets you focused on a solution ;-)

Amazing vidéo Darin when you will comeback to Tata

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

One day I will my friend!!

no disrespect, but I see you have road tires, maybe BF Goodrich AT would have faired better. As they say, "if you want to go to the bush, take a landy, if u want to come back, dont take a landy" - LOL - only kidding! landy is one of the best cars made, 2/3 ever built r still running and I saw loads of series landy's in the Ngorongoro area doing what they do best - haul massive loads about.

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Hi mate, thanks for dropping by. Yes, I had some Michelin hybrid gravel/road tyres on from running around in Europe, they were due to be replaced, but I was forced out of Windhoek by the LD, so I couldn't change them. I literally ran around on the last morning trying to see what was in stock and ended up having to had to buy a truck tyre as a spare in the end... I now have AT's, but doubt they would have made much difference in the sand of the river. Kind regards, Darrin

Darren, enjoyed your video, so how did you get unstuck?

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate! By getting stuck where there are good people to help me ;-) Please see the beginning of the next episode... kzread.info/dash/bejne/kaKkmpihday9mZM.html

No followup on how you got out?

@roamingyak

6 ай бұрын

Hi Diana, the story continues in the next episode, please find it here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kaKkmpihday9mZM.html Kind regards, Darrin

How did you get out in the end? Or was she lost to the river forever? 😮

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Stay tuned...!

u need a higher/longer hi-lift, 5ft, and a better technique. been there!

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

Whats your number Mike - I'll give you a call when I'm stuck in the DRC tomorrow?! :-)

What happened next???

@roamingyak

Жыл бұрын

I'm working on the next episode now... you'll have to wait for it ;)