foosh wrote:Hey Brendan you should be writing with capititals for one thing...
We didn't end up going to Wharton, for time reasons. We went to GSP Exit 74, where its a public access road that leads to private land. A friend knows the owner well and lets it be used for quading and offroading.
And man you really didn't get any pics...
For the real story, I learned the hard way my 4x4 wasn't working and ended up in way deep ruts so deep my axle was grounded and my tires were free spinning. Brendan didn't actually do anything. We ended up using the high lift to get it out of the ruts, and onto the land inbetween where I was able to drive out.
After I got stuck Brendan was driving around in the sand trying to get a feel, and did managed to get stuck 3 times in the sand. Once again the high-lift came in handy.
Later when all the shennangians were over, we went for a trail ride out to a quary. It was a few miles long and was pit after pit of mud, sharp turns, whoops, and tight sqeezes through quad trails. We got out the quary just as the sun fell and decided to head back so it wasn't pitch black out (but who cares when you have plenty of lighting) and mad it out nice and speedy. The only problem was i went to the wrong side of a mud pit into another, and it was one of the duece pits, so needless to say I got stuck once again. And finally Brendan's truck performed a rescue by yanking me back out, and for some reason my 4x4 worked again...
The Roadie wrote:Yah, yah. Great fun. Great mud. Great extraction practice. I'm too old for that sort of shit on a regular basis.
Anybody aired down? Doesn't look like it.
One trick I read about and haven't used in a couple of years because I avoid the unknown depth mud holes now is the steering wheel wiggle. If you're about to get bogged down and losing momentum and you're about to get stuck if you do nothing else, is to wiggle the steering wheel from side to side to get some side lug traction, assuming you have some side lugs. At least you might get some fresh non-rutted bottom terrain and it can't hurt.
But I can't stress enough about airing down. A miracle tactic that almost never lets me down in sand or on washboards or on rocky hills.
The Roadie wrote:Yah, yah. Great fun. Great mud. Great extraction practice. I'm too old for that sort of shit on a regular basis.
Anybody aired down? Doesn't look like it.
One trick I read about and haven't used in a couple of years because I avoid the unknown depth mud holes now is the steering wheel wiggle. If you're about to get bogged down and losing momentum and you're about to get stuck if you do nothing else, is to wiggle the steering wheel from side to side to get some side lug traction, assuming you have some side lugs. At least you might get some fresh non-rutted bottom terrain and it can't hurt.
But I can't stress enough about airing down. A miracle tactic that almost never lets me down in sand or on washboards or on rocky hills.
Only Scott Brady would use an Overland Journal as a strap dowel.JamesDowning wrote:The magazine acts as a dowel...