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Prohike Australia Trackmate
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Sat 25 Jun, 2016 1:29 pmby Drifting
Does anyone have experience with the Prohike Australia Trackmate? It's sort of a travois-based pack carrier. I was wondering how it would go on the Overland Track during summer, and in muddy conditions.
Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
Posted:
Sat 25 Jun, 2016 5:11 pmby Moondog55
http://www.prohikeaustralia.com.au/>>??
Looks like a solution searching for a problem
First glance and I'm thinking the wheel is too skinny and too small
I'm wondering tho if there is a ski foot attachment for the wheel
Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
Posted:
Sat 25 Jun, 2016 6:56 pmby Tyreless
It's not a new idea. See the article on page 15 of the SBW magazine from June 1952 titled "Trundling down the Cox".
http://sbw.ozultimate.com/1952/195206.pdf
Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
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Sat 25 Jun, 2016 9:24 pmby CasualNerd
Last December we actually met a family with two young girls who took a homemade one wheeled contraption all the way into Lake Tahune hut. It was kind of a wheelbarrow / pram / luggage rack based around a 30" unicycle wheel. Impressive project, and I guess it allowed him to take the family camping !
Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
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Sat 25 Jun, 2016 9:27 pmby Strider
CasualNerd wrote:Last December we actually met a family with two young girls who took a homemade one wheeled contraption all the way into Lake Tahune hut. It was kind of a wheelbarrow / pram / luggage rack based around a 30" unicycle wheel. Impressive project, and I guess it allowed him to take the family camping !
Would have been quite a job getting it up that ladder!
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Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
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Sat 25 Jun, 2016 9:42 pmby CasualNerd
Strider wrote:CasualNerd wrote:Last December we actually met a family with two young girls who took a homemade one wheeled contraption all the way into Lake Tahune hut. It was kind of a wheelbarrow / pram / luggage rack based around a 30" unicycle wheel. Impressive project, and I guess it allowed him to take the family camping !
Would have been quite a job getting it up that ladder!
He admitted he'd forgotten about the last section of the track
Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
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Sat 25 Jun, 2016 11:46 pmby Mark F
Has its place but every fallen tree across the track would be pure pain.
Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
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Sun 26 Jun, 2016 9:54 amby DaveNoble
You may need to check with the managers if such a carriage is permissible on the Overland Track. Also - I think you would have trouble on the sections of longitudinal duckboard - the wheel may slip into the gap between the two planks. Also - some section are littered with rocks and others have lots of tree roots.