Had a pig rush out at us on the Bruce Hwy just south of Townsville yesterday. Not fully grown thank heavens, but not a baby either, sort of a teenaged pig. It suddenly appeared from the bushes on the other side of the road and charged straight at us, there was absolutely nothing I could do to avoid it, especially not with the van on the back. He hit into the a-frame, I could see black stuff (which turned out to be the foot pad on the bottom of the stabiliser) go flying, then a big bump as we went over him. Don't think he'll be rushing out anywhere again.
When we found somewhere to stop a bit further along to inspect the damage we found that the water tap had come off the a-frame, an easy job to screw it back on and luckily there seems to be no damage to the pipe as it isn't leaking. It certainly could have been a lot worse, if he'd hit into the wheels not sure what the result would have been. Certainly shook us up though.
Well I've never heard of that happening before, glad you are both safe and the van relatively unscathed! Worth story for our GN Newsletter, hope Cindy reads your post.
It could have been worse though, you could have hit a.....a......a.......Wombat!
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Well done, thank you for ridding us of another feral pest Nicholstones! I can understand how you feel though, as I hit a suicidal emu North of Coober Pedy, got such a fright. But you are right, theres nothing you could have done, might have been much worse damage if you'd tried to swerve or brake. We had a nice cuppa at our next rest stop and felt better. Hope you did too.
Vic I think if a wombat had come rushing out from the other side of the road, we would have been long gone before it reached our side - they're not known for their speed!
I hit a cow with my hilux. luckily it hit the bullbar, and bounced off back into the bush at the side of the road. I was quite chuffed as I made the bullbar, and all the collision did was mark the paint. And the cow dissapeared , too.Hit a few roos over the years, also. A good bullbar is just about essential in the bush.Bill
Vic I think if a wombat had come rushing out from the other side of the road, we would have been long gone before it reached our side - they're not known for their speed!
Yeh, I was more thinking about a certain forum Wombat, but agree he would be too slow too, unless he was asleep on the road etc.......Just glad it all ended well for you both and the van, RIP the Pig, obviously hadn't been taught that you don't take on traffic, lol !
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I hit a cow with my hilux. luckily it hit the bullbar, and bounced off back into the bush at the side of the road. I was quite chuffed as I made the bullbar, and all the collision did was mark the paint. And the cow dissapeared , too.Hit a few roos over the years, also. A good bullbar is just about essential in the bush.Bill
Sounds like you made a good bullbar Bill, I had a cow bolt out of the bushes at the side of the road in front of the Harley I was riding, me and the bike went up in the air, me landing on my head splitting my helmet in two, a deep stab wound in the back from something (horn?) and a few scrapes and bruises, but survived ok.
Other than the battery ripped out of the bike and landing alongside me, and the handle bars twisted sideways, when I put the battery back in and wired it up, the bike kicked over and I rode it home with the handle bars crab wise.
A few stitches and a headache for me, so was very lucky.....
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You need a bullbar on your Harley!I hit a pig on a trail bike , once and slid down the road on my back for 20m. The worst damage was on my posterior and I couldn,t sit down for a week.Now I stick to cars........
Seeing dead cattle beside the road has made me wonder about people/vehicles who hit them, but never thought of it being a motorbike. Vic, you were very lucky! Motorbikes need bull-bars too!
I've been in a few vehicles that have hit a roo, but never while I was driving.
But I was driving, heading east towards Mt Isa, when I came around a bend and there was a dead cow in the middle of the road...as opposed to skunk......on the crestof a hill!! Doing 90 in the old Land Rover, I had to make the split second desicion to go around it..onto the wrong side of the road!! EEEKK!
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Cows.back in 1970s I bought a new datsun 120y......had it 2 weeks..driving at sunrise when it got flattened by a cow that fell off a cutting....right on to my car...while I was travelling at 60kph........I never hit an animal..but one hit me..LOL
Geez Beth and Dave, that would have been scary, cows dropping from the sky, have heard that happening after Tornado's in the US.
Hmmm......the toad is probably better looking than I am Beth, but then anything is better looking than a Wombat!!!
This Toad was found in Bayswater (WA not Vic) a suburb of Perth just recently, said he was looking for Wombats to poison or something.....I gave him the right address
-- Edited by Vic on Tuesday 1st of November 2011 07:55:39 PM
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Geez Beth and Dave, that would have been scary, cows dropping from the sky, have heard that happening after Tornado's in the US.
Hmmm......the toad is probably better looking than I am Beth, but then anything is better looking than a Wombat!!!
This Toad was found in Bayswater (WA not Vic) a suburb of Perth just recently, said he was looking for Wombats to poison or something.....I gave him the right address
-- Edited by Vic on Tuesday 1st of November 2011 07:55:39 PM
i am amazed at the storyof the cow falling onto a car geesh thats amazing ,im gonna have to tell that story to others ive hit a cat ,couldnt do a thing about it, was driving at night on the highway to byron bay from port mcq and it just came out in front of my car if i would of swerved i would of hit another car ,so the cat it had to be.
im not a fan of cats at all but it wasnt nice to run one over though, ive never hit anything on a motorbike, in my younger days i got round on the back of a kwaka nine and have come off of it on an oil slick at the lights at ultimo in sydney that was pretty scary stuff.
I reckon that the Nicolstones pig story and Smokies are worthy of being repeated in the GN News, can I suggest you both send your stories to Cindy in case she missed the thread? Both amazing stories !!
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My mother used to tell me how after my Birth, my father came to visit her in Hospital one night, [Brisbane] covered in Cow S***. He had borrowed a friends' Motor-bike to come down, and hit a Cow on the way, and hadn't bothered to clean-up before he came in.
I can just imagine the reaction of staff at the time.
I was driving up a steep narrow road near where I live (in a rural area) admittedly I was too far to the centre of the road, when A woman coming down the hill waved her arm at me and yelled "PIG"
Me being me I just yelled back ****ing COW
Feeling pleased with myself I went around the next curve and ran into a pig in the middle of the road
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I was driving up a steep narrow road near where I live (in a rural area) admittedly I was too far to the centre of the road, when A woman coming down the hill waved her arm at me and yelled "PIG"
Me being me I just yelled back ****ing COW
Feeling pleased with myself I went around the next curve and ran into a pig in the middle of the road
i hit a large dog on my z900 at 90km with a grey hound bus up my rear didnt feel a thing just wasnt my turn to go to the pearly gates. is it ture about wombats there stuborn if they sit in the middle of the road they wont moveor am i thinging of moose
...on the crest of a hill!! Doing 90 in the old Land Rover, I had to make the split second desicion to go around it..onto the wrong side of the road!! EEEKK!
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