- So we've done ziplines.
We've done ramps on tinnies.
We've done Swampy.
Now I've got a new idea, and we're gonna have a crack at that.
- [Simon on phone] Hello.
- Yeah, hey mate. How you goin'?
- [Simon] Yeah, good, buddy. Yourself?
- Yeah, no, good. Are you around? Are you in town?
- [Simon] I just found a dirtbike. I'm just on my way home actually. I'm just going through town.
- Oh, okay, did you want to call in? I want to show you something.
- [Simon] What do you got? Your new truck?
- Yeah, no, that's it. But that's not what I want to show you.
I've got something else I've got to show you.
- [Simon] Oh okay. Yeah, no, I can pop in.
- All right, cool. See you shortly.
- [Simon] See ya, mate.
- See ya.
- Oi.
- There he is.
- What's going on?
Hey, that's a bit flash.
Ha, you shouldn't have.
- Nearly finished, mate.
Come up all right?
- Very nice.
- Yeah, I just whacked a few extra bits on it.
- Yep.
- Stuff like that. See how it goes.
- Big tow rig.
- Yeah, it looks pretty good, hey?
- It's awesome.
- But this is not what I was on about.
I gotta show you something.
- Show me what's being towed by the tow vehicle.
- Come check it out, mate.
- I'm not seeing any fancy toys over in here.
[Jase laughs]
Oh it's on paper.
- It's on paper.
- Hang on, hang on.
Gotta get these, mate, or I aint' gonna see shit. Old age.
- There we go, mate. Check her out.
- So you've got the barge going on.
Have a go at it.
- Look at that. - What have you got?
- It says '9'.
- 9 metres.
- And look. Look at the shape.
So I've pulled the shape around.
So I've changed all this shape.
This transome shape.
See that? So I put some shape in it.
A bit of a raise in the bow, so a raised bow there along the gunwale-line.
- It's got a 'v' to it, so we can go offshore.
- Yeah, yeah, it's forwards. So if you have a look here.
You can see the profile of the hull.
And so the load has to go in the front, and so yeah, they came up with this 9-metre hull...
- That's a big boat.
-...in length. But here's the other problem.
That number there, that's the beam.
- Yeah, right.
- So that's well over 2 and a half metres.
- So 'oversize' signs, the whole 9 yards.
- Oh, the whole shooting match.
Because we've got to have it on a trailer.
- Yep. Oh yeah, absolutely.
- It's gotta be trailered.
It can't be in the water.
- Is your truck gonna be big enough?
That's a big boat.
That's proper.
- And yeah, look, you just said that, and literally I was thinking it.
And I was thinking about it last night before I rang you this morning.
I was thinking about it and thinking about it, and I'm going, 'oh my god, have I jumped
in too quick and bought the wrong truck.'
- Yeah, okay.
- A truck that's not big enough.
- I'll take that one off your hands.
- You roll that one out.
- You just get another one.
- So yeah, what do you think?
- Oh, it looks awesome, buddy.
- You remember the last time we tried the old barge concept.
What happened there?
- Yeah, yeah, we've always wanted to put quadbikes in and go where we can't go.
Where we haven't been able to go.
- But trying to keep the quadbikes in the boat.
- [Jase] ****. Where's the quadbike?
Oh no!
- At the bottom of the river up there somewhere.
It's gone.
- You know what I mean?
- Yeah, that one.
Never happened. Never happened.
- We want to try and keep them in the boat this time.
- Yeah, 100%.
- So I got an engineer this time.
A marine engineer.
And he done the calcs.
He did proper calculations.
- Our calculations on that trip, we're talking when the tinny went over, they were really bad.
That looks good. So when's this all happening?
Where are you at with it?
- So yeah, I pushed the green light 12 months ago, mate.
- Excellent. Well, that's pretty exciting, mate.
Hell, yeah. - That's what I reckon.
- That's awesome. Awesome. Good job.
[rock music]
- [Simon] Bloody beautiful. Look at that.
A monster from the deep.
- Cheers, mate. - Cheers, buddy.
- So I've showed Simon the plans of the barge, and he's taken one look at it, and he's gone,
'uhh, this thing's huge.'
Like on paper, it looks huge.
Imagine when you see it in real life.
So he's thinking like maybe the 150 isn't going to cut it.
Maybe that needs something a lot bigger, and I'm beginning to think the same thing.
It's around here somewhere.