4WD Bus Gets Stuck In Daintree Rainforest

[boysveloclub]

Land Rover indeed ...

[xul12345]

That's a really nice looking Defender. Not bad barwork on it.

[lukaqota]

Long life to Range Rovers

[JasonHam41]

@lukaqota sorry to dissapoint but that it is a defender, so brilliant non the less

[1hipguitarist]

Greame, the driver of the Tour bus, is genuinely a very sincere guy. I had to laugh though at his short legged attempts at actually getting into the vehicle. Cheers Darren ex Daintree Hideaway.

[TheCheeserules2]

i ve just come back from visiting the daintree ... it was such a fantastic place. Great fun playing catch the greesy pig at alexander bay sports and social club A.B.S.S.C

we stayed at crocadylus the locals have sutch a nice community spirt

[cpwillig]

Hi, sound is of a Tdi, air intake is on right side: 300Tdi it is. (My 200Tdi: inlet on left side). In 1st Low Range 200Tdi will already pull at least its own max weight: 3000+ kg force, 300Tdi 265/255 times higher (300Tdi has 265 Nm torque). 1st Low at max engine torque puts very high strain on final drive (slightly spinning wheels of the 300Tdi)..

[militaryman2007]

anybody tell me if that a Td5 or 300 Tdi defender? cheers... looks TDi to me

[81two2door]

I agree with kbc4wd. Nice bit of Landy work but soooo lucky no-one was hurt! And that bus driver is supposed to be a professional. Probably recommended they all take a quick dip in the Daintree river too.

[militaryman2007]

Go The Mighty Land Rover

[kbc4wd]

2 bloody idiots, snatching on winch cable, why?

good example of what not to do.

even more bizarre why they didn't pull it backward - looks downhill that way.

[Way2FarGone]

That could'a been a tourist harvest. Nothing like standing next to a taut tow-line that, well, just might hold.

Wow, awesome brainpower at work; or more dollars than sense.

[deswalk]

Why does the 4x4/2x4 debate get people so worked up? It's only about transmission :)

[alwaysoffroad]

what a dickhead driver, I drove 4x4 buses for 7 months crossing creeks 5 feet deep and through hundreds of kays of black soil and never got stuck, I laugh at people calling the daintree 4x4 territory, you can go up there in a bloody old falcon and not get stuck. If they wanted some 4x4ing head up the CREB track. At least its slippery and steep in places

[ihaveairlockers]

I agree

Even the Cairns Regional Electricity Board track is tame these days.

I would have pulled the guy out from behind but i wasn't there so i can't really comment.

Anyway, tracks on the cape are mostly lame unless you want to venture into the real unknown, eg, west coast cape york

[rgblack16]

how somebody didnt get killed when the winch cable broke is beond me. this video shows what not to do when recovering a bogged vehicle

[Troopy93]

What a knobhead, snatching off a winch cable.

[pjaussiemovies]

The Sierra woulda snatched it out no probs :)

[druffski]

This should be an ad for Land Rover - pulling that bloody bus out. Agree with fattpieceofcrap - hook onto a tree nearby and try it himself.

[Showtime10101]

Nice, I love how he drove over the tarp and the bus came out of the ditch. Too funny.

[deswalk]

Could have done with someone intelligent like you there fattpieceofcrap.

[fattpieceofcrap]

the funny thing about this video is the bus had a winch. why even hook to the land rover. couldnt he have just ran it to the left side of the road to a tree and pulled himself out

[Chipmonster1983]

That's pretty cool. Well done, getting stuck is part of the fun of 4wdriving!

[AussieRob77]

Getting stuck in a ditch on the side of a road is not 4wding.... how many unsafe practices can you spot in that video??

[farqueu]

lol thats not 4wdriving

[deswalk]

Thanks for that enlightening comment jj :)

[jjphillpot]

Have any of u idiots ever actualy been to daintree i live there whatever prat was driving needs to take a driving license again, thats not 4 wheel driving, geez, its not even flooding STUPID TOURISTS

[deswalk]

The driver was a local man

[deswalk]

The driver was trying to avoid another vehicle coming the opposite direction when he went too far over to the edge of that road.

[TortFeezer]

All I've got to say is it was just bloody silly to park in that steep/deep of a ditch 4wd or not. Even less brilliant to cock the steering at such a hard angle.  Lucky no one was hurt when the cable popped loose. Go Landy.

[moey1984au]

Gotta love da fat fenda!!! get anything out of anywhere