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Winches

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:54:02 +0000

Superwinch have continued their support of Wildtrackers on many events by providing vehicle mounted winches that have been used to set up and clear routes prior to new vehicle launches and incentive trips and have then been used for recovery purposes throughout the events themselves. These days only Samson fibre ropes from Proclimber are used saving weight on the vehicles and being more user friendly.

Superwinch www.superwinch.com

Warn winches www.warn.com

Samson ropes www.proclimber.co.uk

Vehicles

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:52:06 +0000

The various team members were all involved with the World famous Camel Trophy for many years and the original lessons learned with the Land Rover driving team and experiences gained on subsequent Camel Trophy events has stood them in good stead ever since. Now working with models from just about every manufacturer on the planet, including keeping up with all the latest electronic stability and traction aids that most vehicles utilise these days.

Camel Trophy www.cameltrophy.co.uk

Land Rover www.landrover.co.uk

Jeep www.jeep.com

Mercedes www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk

Toyota www.toyota.com

Kelly Kettle (Volcano)

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:47:37 +0000

We are constantly amazed by the attention this humble piece of aluminium (or aloominum as some would say!) receives. Paper or cardboard and a few twigs, soon has 1.5 litres of water boiling for a ”brew”. Three or Four Volcanos have provided large incentive or driving groups with tea and coffee in some spectacular locations around the world and in some cases they seem to have been photographed more than the surrounding glaciers, troglodyte cave homes, Roman amphitheatres and Mayan temples!

Garmin GPS Units

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:37:39 +0000

Over the years, Garmin GPS units have been used exclusively by Wildtrackers. These days 276 and 278 units are found to be ideal for all applications encountered by the team. Although these units have undoubtedly been tested under lab conditions they’ve proved themselves also, in practical everyday Wildtracker conditions, either in the boiling deserts of Oman and Dubai, on boats being covered in salt spray and most recently at -20c mounted on snowmobiles, with a wind-chill that was causing frostbite to some of the expedition.

These Garmins are used with a selection of Ram mountings and the Oziexplorer mapping program has been used for years to transfer data to scanned maps in both 2D and 3D. Recently Garmin’s own Mapsource is becoming more useful by being registered to more producers of topographic maps, thereby enabling topo information to be loaded directly to the GPS units, helping with navigation on the ground.

Both Oziexplorer and Mapsource allow saved tracks and waypoints to be open and viewed in Google Earth. Now Google Earth allows waypoints and trails to be downloaded direct from the Garmin to produce stunning records of routes taken, especially in 3D!

Garmin www.garmin.com

Ram Mountings www.ram-mount.com

Oziexplorer www.oziexplorer.com

Google Earth www.earthgoogle.com

C G-Lock

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:57:33 +0000

The CG-Lock is designed to be added to ordinary three point seat belts for on or off road driving to lock the occupants lower body into the seat giving far more confidence to the driver in fast twisty road or rough off road conditions. It’s also a bonus for back pain sufferers as it stops ‘slumping’ in the seats on long or rough journeys.

C G-Locks www.cg-lock.co.uk

Bushranger

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:39:50 +0000

There are plenty of air pumps that look almost identical to Bushranger products, but having to pump up the tyres on 24 vehicles after driving in the soft sand has proved that these pumps really do have what it takes, a fact born out by Dubai locals who said that the copies “don’t last five minutes in the heat of the UAE deserts.”

Bushranger kit www.bushranger.com.au