Do people EVER consider NOT going down into that mess? (4x4)

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Sorry your Chevama'ord family four by four is not the off road bwana god you thought it was LOLOL

 
Ya some of his other videos are certainly "diversified" as to brand LOL. And I was trying to get that across with my comment
 
My least favorites are
1) hunters stuck in the middle of the night behind locked logging gates. Desperate, they use the phone number on the no trespassing sign they failed to read on the way in to get help!
2) people that work in the woods, know better, that drive fire breaks and pipe line ROWs.
3) the handful of times i have had to call someone for a pull out.
 
Long ago friend of mine had an early CJ, had a Warn winch mounted on the REAR. I had not seen that, then, and this is long before folks were mounting them on receiver hitch stingers. I asked him about it, and he says, "Which way were you going when you got stuck? You want to go FURTHER into that?" LOLOL
 
I learned to drive off road in a dead stock 1960 Willys pickup with 7.50x16 bias plys (which I still have). Hooked a rope onto a lot of classmates with their jacked up Toyotas and Datsuns (this was mid 80's) that wanted to see how far they could go before they were stuck buried to the axles. Because they always kept spinning their wheels until they were stuck up to the axles! Something about fools boldly going where a wise man fears to tread. Maybe it was the time I got stuck, walked 5 miles downhill back to town and my dad handed me a shovel, so I walked 5 miles back uphill to dig the truck out. That's a pretty pissed-off yellow XJ them boys have.
 
The guy that runs that outfit reminds me a lot, both in appearance and manner, of an old friend, now moved away. He STILL HAS the military flat fender that he had when I first met him in ?? 75 or so. It's been through "a few" upgrades. When I first met him (got out of the Navy) it was a 327, 350 for awhile, and now I believe a Chev V6. He used to have a 5 gal can of WWII surplus olive drab.

Here is a recent shot. Looks a lot like it "used to." The seats, CB up on the bar, and the cage itself is right out of the 70/s. For awhile he had a "weak" winch made out of an aircraft prop pitch motor. Note the recessed small headlights. This is the real deal, a military, not a civilian. MB? I think. Long time, don't remember.

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Below is him and his son when young. This would have been in the time period when I first got to know them. Notice there is a bar, no cage. He built the cage later And no winch. These are the "sand tires" likely down around Moses Lake, WA. Normally back in those days we ran "Desert Dogs" which were very agressive, but only made in one size, and terrible on ice or snow

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Recent photo. Don't know who is in the background, or maybe I just don't recognize. Gary is one HELL of a driver much better than me. Which in part explains why that old Jeep has lived this long LOLOL

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I have a "what was I thinking" story. In 1998 I bought a first year Durango 4x4 SLT Plus. It was beautiful. Chili Pepper Red, leather, 3 row seating, factory oversized tires. Man, it was the ****.

Had it a few weeks and decided to take the wife and kids "4-wheeling" in central Arkansas... where it's flat. So, we go to an Army Base wooded area where they practice driving APC's and tanks. I come to a three-way fork. The left and right had deep mud holes, the middle, not so deep so off I go.

All 4700 pounds of that thing sunk to the frame! Yikes!! After thinking about it for awhile, I had the kids gather up all the limbs they could find. Thankfully, I got the traction I needed to get it out. Needless to say, my new wife was not liking my 4-wheeling.

This coming from a guy who built and used two 4x4 daily drivers before that. I was just trying to show off for my new wife.:BangHead:

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That truck wasn't worth half what they charged to recover it.
 
when i was young my buddy always drove 4 wheelers, usually mitsubishis

well, we'd go 4 wheeling, him in his truck and me on my dirtbike

one day, i managed to get the dirtbike stuck in a mud pit
so my buddy brings his truck over to pull me out, and he gets stuck


now, the only option is to call my dad, who drives a landrover, to come pull us out

i explain the whole thing, and tell him where we are
he says no problem, ill be there as soon as im done with dinner
ok, thanks dad...are you almost done?

he says, nope, your mom is just about to serve the soup
 
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