Just an update on this post.
I drove in last Friday night to attempt Tor from the Western side. I had planned to do a loop utilising half of the northern route and the western route.
Big drive in their from Launceston through loongana and on through maxfields rd.
Plenty of warnings that a locked gate was coming up, to find the boom gates wide open. A lot of forestry activity going on in there, not sure you'd get a green light on request from Forico.
Managed to squeeze my Ranger right down to the old picnic shelter (though worrying that i might not get it back out if a couple of fallen trees collapsed.
Woke up at 5am to find that the old logs across the river were long gone and river to fast to ford, so i opted for a drive over to do St Valentines peak instead.
Drove out through the Guildford Rd exit - a large manned weigh bridge.
Going back to do this in summer from the Northen route...