Crikey! Take a "whiff" of this detour!

[Sean Hamilton]

Not that I need much convincing to do this trip - it's that good! I wanted to share. And hey, perfect Targa-off weather too. But I should've taken the bloody ute!!

I decided to try a different route up thru Crossover and then back down into Nilma/Warragul.
Wow. It's actually a better way to go so I'm glad I did it and it extends the drive by ten minutes.

Seeing I was lucky in discovering that little detour I decided I'd risk another little turn-off along Grand Ridge road and see where IT took me. Fantastic ......... while it was sealed, then ........ oh oh!! .......... DIRT!?! Hmmm, will I? Oh what the heck? I'll risk it, for a bit. BIG MISTAKE !!!! Once on it I was committed - thinking surely it will return to sealed again,...... just round the next bend? Or maybe the next?
This is in the heart of Gippsland's dairy country.
The road was loose/sandy and suddenly without warning I hit a stock crossing - a patch of about 300 metres in length. The morning's milking cows had been there less than an hour before. 300 m kerbside to kerbside sea of still WET cow paddies!!!! I could hear it all, under there!! Green slime cow dung, sloshed up by the tyres under the wheel guards ...... and then, I could smell IT - all thru the air vents!!!! Ugh! Putrid!

The road did eventfully come good back onto bitumen and so I then headed home - 2 hours away. I used to work on a dairy when I was kid over the school holidays, so I knew I was in for it. There's good reason why we used to hose down immediately after milking!

I got home, got out for a reluctant look at what I dreaded - sure enough, the entire underside of the car was plastered in now baked-on HARD green cow dung!!!! Gawd, at the front the oil cooler grille was clogged solid and on the other side the AC plumbing completely buried in in it. Down the back it was baked on crispy to the exhaust, rocker covers and oil tank. The entire underneath was "muck stipple coated"! So, I spent the next 2 hours high pressure hosing it to soften and loosen the gunk initially and another hour scrubbing it off, as much as I could anyway - changing the bucket "green" water four times!

The driveway stunk like a diary! My German Shepard went nuts running round and round the car searching and snorting for the intruders. She copped the hosed-off overspray, all over her!! Tho "she" didn't mind but do you reckon the wife was impressed!
Guess I wont be taking that route again!!
Imagine if you blokes were following?! The tyre spray!?! The windscreen wipers -smearing to a deep dark green halt on an empty washer bottle?
Gees I'd be popular, eh?

Moral - Stay on the Black Stuff - for fear of the Green Stuff!

[Kevin Stewart]

Sean you crack me up man, Kevin

[bell]

that was pretty funny

[WydRyd]

Shiiiiiiiit Sean! Lucky I opted to stay home with the 3 ladies!

Quite an ammusing story tho

[5axis]

At least the S*** was not truly deep enough to hit the fan

I do know the smell and can sympathise. My grandfather was a dariy inspector.

[Adam]

Sean,

I spent all day Sunday dreaming about what you guys would be up to. Now I feel a little better that I wasn't there!

[Dutchie]

**** Happens

[k9handler]

And I would be willing to bet you would not even seen a Cayenne owner try to follow you through that one!

I smell what you are stepping in!

Great Story

[Sean Hamilton]

Originally posted by Adam Chaplin
.........better that I wasn't there!........

C'mon fella's! Where's ya sense of adventure ?!?

5axis - "hittin' the fan" at least, keeps the blowies off it's tail!

Anyway, it now appears that I've "fertilised" my gravel driveway!
So, am I gunna be "mowing" it too now, in a couple of weeks........?

[johncj8989]

I did that once............. but I didnt mind. I drove 20 miles for once and smelled something other than an oil leak and gas fumes.

[scg]

Now you're ready for a drive through Vermont Dairy Country!