Steep point quickie

 First up sorry for the lack of photos just done a quick two day spearfishing trip to steep so we were pretty stoked had been a couple of few years since i or mates had been there place especially the cliffs from a boat spectacular to say the least  oh i left the camera on the beach each day. Anyway we spent most of our two six hours in the water trying for mackerel and even had a hard time trying to get sharks into the berly trail water was clean enough in places mainly the fault line surf point area we fished but 21 degs and probably colder at depth so only 2 macks seen  still we  got some good baldies and a few over bits and pieces 10 keg mulla fish ot the trip not mine unfortunately. Am curious as to how you line fisherman go this time of year as we seen the balloons on the point  it seemed really quite fish wise for anywhere then alone steep .on another note and not a good one when we left denham after leaving the car and trailer at the ramp overnight  5ks up the road we lost a tyre at speed off the trailer all six nuts on one wheel came off at once  they were within 10 meters of each other on a dual axel trailer gaurd and tyre fu#ked could have been worse  oh and a hour looking for tyre would like to think accident but hard to think it wasn't deliberate has anyone ever had a issue denham or anywhere else like this can't think how else it could happen. 


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Regarding losing a wheel,

Fri, 2019-09-27 07:59

Regarding losing a wheel, don't fully understand what you are saying in terms of the nuts being 10 meters apart (big wheel!) were the studs damaged? ie did it strip the threads?

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Regarding losing a wheel,

Fri, 2019-09-27 07:59

Regarding losing a wheel, don't fully understand what you are saying in terms of the nuts being 10 meters apart (big wheel!) were the studs damaged? ie did it strip the threads?

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 The ten meters apart was

Fri, 2019-09-27 10:25

 The ten meters apart was meaning where they were found on the road so doing 100ks hr meant they all came off at once and with no real damage to the nuts or studs left us thinking something wasn't right considering we just traveled a 1000ks and the other 3 tyres were tight as maybe someone thought it would be funny if it fell off in the carpark or on the  ramp .

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 No damage to the

Fri, 2019-09-27 12:14

 No damage to the studs?....righto.....sounds a bit odd then?

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 I would guess at

Fri, 2019-09-27 08:44

 I would guess at accident......6 loose wheel nut all doing the same distance, on the same roads, under the same conditions, all come off at the same time?

They quite often all work loose and the wheel floggs around buggering the studs and when one lets go its enough to pop them all off.

If it was someone trying to rip a wheel off youd think they would undo 1 nut at a time???