We TRIED towing a trailer across the Simpson Desert... the hard way
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2023
- In this episode we tackle the infamous Simpson Desert, Australia's 4th largest desert.
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I thought the kids were with Demi but they were driving bertos rig 😂😂😂 Win win having 2 mechanics with out of the gate personalities 😂😂
gary doin it easy in the mux, tyler on icy pole duty, demi sick as a dog takin it in her stride, berto and shauny for comic relief... epic trip - cant wait for more..
Such a good episode. With the family, mates and cruising in the outback of Australia. Nothing gets better 🇦🇺🍺
Thanks mate!
Your comments about trailers neglected to mention that it is trailers that chop the dunes up the most and make it more difficult for everyone.
We done the Simpson 3 2yrs ago with camper trailer no issue what I found is people not dropping tyre pressures enough
and Burto digging holes for the camera
this episode was damn cool TT, one of ur best. nice to c Burto n Shaun joining u guys on the tracks, hopefully this is the first of many. Timmy wud have ticked the final box.
Thanks mate!
The red and green terrain in the aerial footage looks superb!
Simply . . . . EPIC! Only 10mins in but looks truly amazing with the river out there in the desert!! Love your work tylzz 👌👍😎
Love the extra ‘behind the scenes’ insights that other channels leave out. Very interesting to hear about the economy and recovery cost.
Appreciate it!
Awesome vid mate, that Lady of yours deserves a medal, tackling the Simo driving and being sick and looking after the little fella, Legend!
Awesome trip and with not one breakdown in any of those vehicles and towing a camper, fantastic
Outstanding trip Lads.
Great trip, good bunch of mates. cheers
Fantastic episode guys Demi did well driving the big GU looking forward for the rest of the series cheers legends ☺️
one of the nicest 4wd trips you can do ,i did it back in 2019 in my factory original 86 hilux manual with split rims and 4ye engine only had to back down 2 sand dunes to get a 2nd run up and over the dune big red being one of them spent 2 nights in the desert and 3 nights at dalhousie springs because of how nice it was there
Awesome trip. Love to do it. Thanks for sharing. Especially the fuel consumption. It's on the bucket list.
Really enjoyed. Thanks for the useful info (tyre pres/ fuel consumption, distances etc.
What an awesome adventure ... great team too.
Awesome vid......., thanks for sharing 🤙👍
Great Video - well done Tyler and the Gang
What an awesome trip!
killer episode mate. 🙌
Love the episode Tyler ! Worth missing one last week that’s for sure
Very nice trip and a bit different than the usual...well done mates
Bit sad last Sunday waiting for your vid to drop. Worth the wait though. Thanks for awesome content.
Cheers mate!
Brilliant episode. One of your best...really enjoyed it!
Thanks mate
SOLID effort by ALL. Demi 1000% amazing you sounded like you should be home resting. I think many of us have been waiting for you to get this type of trip done. Great crew to do it with.
Golden times . . . Only had time to watch the first 5 mins before work today but it's soooo sweet having this to watch now!!!
That rooster tail at 5:20 by Berto is . . . not only sweet but so well filmed. .. . . Just bloody awesome 👍👌😎
Thanks mate!
Congrats on your trip ! interesting experience ☀️🏜️🌄🏞️🌳🛻😎🤙📹
Awesome to see the 2 in the green gq.. thing sounds insane! Greate episode hopefully do more woth those 2
What a trip, looked amazing. Great shots too. Glad the OP2 made it
Thanks mate!
Amazing. Love the rollers.
Cheers!
Awesome video, you make some of the best content out there, well done guys. Great to see your run of a trip I plan to do in the next few years. Thanks
Appreciate it mate!
I towed a camper behind our old 92model pajero v6 auto across the Simpson a few years ago. I learned how to reverse a trailer real good on that trip, so many times i got stuck just before the crest of a dune. Great watching this vid.
Cheers mate!
Top quality production.
Great video enjoyed all thanks
FANTASTIC...TT.......😊 GREAT CREW TO......
Awesome video. Coconut wells was beautiful 😍
Very nice .Thank you.❤❤
Good one lad's. Love it
What a epic journey
Great trip Tyler! Family adventure!
Thanks mate!
Amazing content mate well done 👍🏻🏴
Went the harder way , east west 💪🏼💪🏼 awesome to see Demi doing her way in the TB 👍🏽
A great video!
Just my 2cents worth on your trip. I completed the same trip in 2022, same direction and also towing. Though I appreciate the dunes may be a bit steeper, they were a lot smoother going east to west, so you can carry a bit more momentum... which we needed as we had a stock triton (3 days old) towing my 1.2T camper as my Amarok chewed a CV.
Triton did it easily, only getting halted once and the Amarok did the crossing in 2wd.
Keep up the work!
Loved your vid guys, well done 😅😊
Cool Ep Guys
You done excellent to keep that content interesting 👍🏽.
The gq is sitting good now with that extra weight on the ass end.
🤙🏽
Top Show fellas
I was Travelling across the Pilbara and Kimberley - through the Gibb River, for the 2 weeks before this - winter was seemingly over - even around Tennant Creek - and through central Queensland, (as far South as I was camping rough ) on the way back, we never had any really cold nights - and had 31-34 degree days (not chilly at all in the daytime).. Newcastle was a bit chilly - when we rolled into town at 2am on the 25th.
Love the patrol content!
Awesome episode mate!
Thanks mate
Nice trip guys and gal. Very lucky the only water you saw was Eyre Creek. We went across last September and had so much mud and water it wasn't funny! Imagine Purni Bore to Mt Dare in 6" deep mud.
Wow well done, I’m sure it was great to finally get out and stretch the legs and back
We live in our desert here in Nevada full time. And it's also been wet the entire summer. We're coming into winter again with a green desert. Haven't seen that in the 6 years we have been out here. It's definitely made the wheeling alot more fun lol. But rain in the desert is no fun hahaha.
Those boys are good mate more trips with there attitudes and laughs 🤙 mad video
Haha that’s my car tying to get up big red at 5:43.
Great video mate.
Tyler old mate, you have ticked some boxes here and done a great track plus having a mechanical team backing you - well done mate…. I wish I had a couple of mates with mechanical knowledge to do the hard stuff !
Great vid mate!!! ❤🎉😂
Awesome video
Awesome to see birdo on more 👌👌👌
Young fella is tops on the camera👌
Awesome video mate 🤣
We were the mad bastards camping alongside you guys on the motorbikes at Dalhousie.
After heading back into Mt Dare for repairs we crossed the dessert in 2 days.
Cheers for sharing 🍻
Yeah awesome mate, glad you guys ended up making it!
God damm, was so looking forward to this crossing once you announced it but you outdone yourself with excellent coverage of it for our benefit, thankyou heaps, loved the drone footage.
Wife & I, daughter & grandsons were out in the centre when that rain event occured, bucketted down big time.
Wife & I were proceeding to Mt Dare for west/east crossing, never occured as Simpson was locked down flooded, bugga.
Even when the desert dried out, the rains from far north Qld catchment area had the Eyre crossing closed off, six weeks was estimated impassable time frame issued by Qld Parks, so we gave up on our crossing of the Simpson, hence yet to experience it, so other than your crossing images, it's as close we have got thus far.
Have to say, all that water created a very scenic experience for you and us, your followers.
Again, thanks guys.
Cheers mate! Hopefully you guys can get back out there soon!
Normally I get bored of these videos especially from channels ending in 24/7 but this was really good film making even through a desert you make it interesting. Cheers Tyler
The only advertorial here was Goodyear, but not too onerous if Gary got a free set of tyres out of it. Those 24/7 blokes are so far over the top they've become boring.
@@einfelder8262 Yep, I stopped watching them a few months ago. They just rev the rings outta the engines, chew up the track, then plug all sorts of expensive gear nobody needs. Much better to watch more down to earth channels like this one.
Nice one 🤠👍🌏 good mates, not to commercial and still the right spirit !
Really always liked your dad very much, especially his voice reminds me totally to crocodile dundee, if he would were his hat he could be easily his younger brother, so cool 🤠
Cool channel,Cool cars man..
A great video, ........my tyre pressures in all deserts in Oz are 12 psi Front, 15 psi rear, and 12 in our Camper, and will go down to 8psi if I have to.
All hot temps.
I run 10-12 psi on the big dunes, towed a Disco with a dead engine over big red with my GU Ute. Worked at the Roadhouse workshop for one season. Saw lots of carnage 🤪🇦🇺👍
With all those Nissans, it was a very smart move to bring a gun mechanic along 😅😅😅 in all seriousness the drone shots were spectacular
You'll note Demi didn't bring the Cruiser. Didn't risk it even with mechanics along.
Easy peasy is like a spell asking for trouble later. I will pray for you ...)))
I suspect that your fave mechanic and his side-kick were the gems of this show?
How good is the Simpson, now you've made me want to go back again and try it in my own GQ!!
Awesome place!
Great video Tyler, just a note it’s illegal to burn native timber. Also detours are there for a reason…….not to potentially damage the tracks for future travellers
Tyler reminds me of a young roothy😂, love the vid!
Great move you even got your own 24/7 NRMA mechanic 😂😂😂
great video looks like an epic trip, youd definlately want to put the beers in the truck rather than the camper the way it was bouncing round at times haha
That tb48 is just coasting along
As they always do, best engine in a GU
Demi is quite the driver now Tyler she should have her own channel, your dad is not scared to point that little unit where the big Nissans go
Looks amazing flies look a bugger does look as it could be very boring after a while .
Fun fact: the inner tube the kids were floating in at dalhousie was left there by myself back in July. Your welcome 😂
What an epic Trip. Even better when the experience is shared with great company like you have. Fantastic. 👍
The Boys in the Green GQ remind me of the two muppets Slater and Waldorf on the balcony on the muppet show. Maybe they are the grandchildren of those old muppets.
Looks like they had a great time.... we went thru there in July and you guys really missed some water... getting in and out of Mount Dare was unbelievable .
And to think some expeditions were only done with ca🐫el‘s
😅😮😅😅🙁 that first sand dune on virgin sand would’ve of been like 😩😤 unbelievable.
Great video m8’s 👍
Hit up Ruby Gab gorge east McDonald ranges , good drive in an not as busy as west 🤙🏼 keep up the good times bud
New TD42 fan here.
If i had the money that would be on my bucket list
The flies were stressing me out just watching! Dmax good on fuel, I don't think I get that sort of millage on the highway!
Looks like you were doing it tough in spots . Remember, as you get lighter, keep lowering the tyre pressures.
Great trip, great video!
Love all the information and tips about crossing!
It's a trip that's on my bucket list for sure!
Isn't it amazing, technology we have, back in the day you wouldn't of had a drone. Would have all drove through on to all that water. That's adventure though! Drones are awesome 👌
Well the old boy is the only one who knows how to drive.
Guess I'll have to make the trip.
You should have had a go at big red.........My last time across I did it in my 2004 Turbointercooled 4.2 GU towing a 2012 Platinum Kimberly.........most of the way towing a 2018 Jeep with his trailer as well !!.....it actually wasn't that bad......
When you're on Big Red and you're ready to start making your way across 1300 sand dunes the first one that you see in front of you is called hell's gate and it's called that for a very good reason
Tyler Thompson's learning.. always take Ur machinic with you on big trips 😂.. lov3 the content man.. also I have a stock 3L Ng pajero, what mods should I do
Great episode, very enjoyable, is the mux locked as well?
Sensational episode. ❤ This made me more excited about my own Simpson Desert crossing trip that I'm planning. Thanks for the tips at the end. 👍 So, with that burger, does this mean you're no longer a vegetarian?
I noticed that too - he also said he had meat in the freezer halfway through, which piqued my interest, then he chowed down on a meaty burger!! I believe all vegetarians eventually get sick enough that their body just screams out for meat. In my 72 years I've seen it quite a few times, the most disturbing case was my daughter's school friend - by age 17 her hair was falling out, constantly sick (not anorexic, though, ate enough lettuce leaves for a farmyard of chooks), and skinny as a rake. She eventually ate like a normal omnivore and got healthy.
Cannot believe bBerto had the balls tonta kle that river crossing .. . . .twice!! Fk me that looked so dicey!! You rcolled it very well Berto! 👍
Fantastic episode!! Loved seeing the desert with water, thats amazing. We did east to west in 2014 in the 2010 D40. Very, very simple mods & a 55L water bladder across the floor in the back. Its very doable with simple gear, and I agree, the dunes are not that bad. The flies however…pulled over for lunch and within a couple minutes u are swarmed…we didnt have fly nets…rooky error…who knows how much extra protein with had on that trip…
10:19 for the rig we are all here to see.
I thought the kids were in with Demi, but they where piloting that the green GQ.
Nick needs to start a channel, he a funny bugger.
Excellent episode. I may have missed it but what tyre pressures did each car run, average and lowest. Cheers