I'm all for cool engines with tons of HP, and awesome wheeling rigs...but anybody can hop in and just floor it towards the obstacle. I like seeing some technique here and there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhaiawe5rSk
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Crawling is for babies
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I'm all for cool engines with tons of HP, and awesome wheeling rigs...but anybody can hop in and just floor it towards the obstacle. I like seeing some technique here and there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhaiawe5rSk
Jesus...Do you guys really think there is no 'technique' involved in what the drivers of those rigs do? The above video was great.... but those Tennessee style buggies would have blown through every one of those obstacles like a fart in the wind, minus the 5' deep water holes of course.
You guys are boring.
I've run all the obsticles at Hollister Hills...tank trap, mini rubicon, frame twister etc, I've run all the Hammers trails, The Rubicon, and Fordyce. My old ride was a truggy with 465/203/205, welded 14b, detroit'd 60, 5.13 gears and grooved 42's. 134:1 crawl ratio. While all that technical/crawling stuff is certainly fun, it's boring in comparison to the stuff in the first video.
Just after the committee crossing on Fordyce-
Winch Hill 1, Fordyce-
Jack Hammer (I think, Jack or Sledge)
Dozer (rip) in the foreground, me in the back.
Having done the crawling thing, I don't think I'd do it again. Yawn.
You guys are boring.
I've run all the obsticles at Hollister Hills...tank trap, mini rubicon, frame twister etc, I've run all the Hammers trails, The Rubicon, and Fordyce. My old ride was a truggy with 465/203/205, welded 14b, detroit'd 60, 5.13 gears and grooved 42's. 134:1 crawl ratio. While all that technical/crawling stuff is certainly fun, it's boring in comparison to the stuff in the first video.
Just after the committee crossing on Fordyce-
Winch Hill 1, Fordyce-
Jack Hammer (I think, Jack or Sledge)
Dozer (rip) in the foreground, me in the back.
Having done the crawling thing, I don't think I'd do it again. Yawn.
To get back to some real entertainment...
This is the coolest buggy ever....hands down my favorite. 755hp 454 small block, 14b's front and rear...
More pics/vids thread-
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=946206&highlight=john+deere+buggy
$160k!!
This is the coolest buggy ever....hands down my favorite. 755hp 454 small block, 14b's front and rear...
More pics/vids thread-
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=946206&highlight=john+deere+buggy
$160k!!
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I love the JD buggy. 
I am amazed at that much detail and MONEY but no rear steer. 
I am amazed at that much detail and MONEY but no rear steer. 
Not my thing but it's all perspective.
I know guys who think anything but driving through a big mud hole is for wusses and a trick truck is super tall on Rockwells turning tractor tires.
Not everyone goes for that and a truck like that would probably fall over in the parking lot of a place I've been to here. Half the trails were going up such a steep hill that you couldn't really stand still on them without grabbing a tree for support.
You aren't going to crawl up some of the hills and ground around here. No rock to get traction on.
I know guys who think anything but driving through a big mud hole is for wusses and a trick truck is super tall on Rockwells turning tractor tires.
Not everyone goes for that and a truck like that would probably fall over in the parking lot of a place I've been to here. Half the trails were going up such a steep hill that you couldn't really stand still on them without grabbing a tree for support.
You aren't going to crawl up some of the hills and ground around here. No rock to get traction on.
Why can't I stop watching this video?!?!? I would have to wear a helment/neck brace...those guys are crazy!!! It's awesome!
I'm amazed that these guys drive with no face protection....
The amount of rocks and debris flying off those front tires will absolutely kill you dead if it were to hit you in the face.
My only beef with the Tim Cameron videos is the editing..... A four minute video is usually 3:30 minutes of him lining up to the obstacle and backing up a zillion times. (and blipping the throttle incessantly) The last 30 seconds of video is all you really need to watch to see him "gettin' it"
The amount of rocks and debris flying off those front tires will absolutely kill you dead if it were to hit you in the face.
My only beef with the Tim Cameron videos is the editing..... A four minute video is usually 3:30 minutes of him lining up to the obstacle and backing up a zillion times. (and blipping the throttle incessantly) The last 30 seconds of video is all you really need to watch to see him "gettin' it"
x2 on the Tim Cameron videos. I think he is a good driver but I get bored pretty easily watching him line it up over and over and over and just when Im about to click on something else he finally goes.
I think my favorite one of his videos is the one at Morris Mountain where he ramps the rock.
I think my favorite one of his videos is the one at Morris Mountain where he ramps the rock.
I can see your point there, it does make sense. And I love the environment and want to protect the resources, however, I don't think they should stop just because the tree huggers don't like it. I'm all about freedom. It's their land, their rigs, their trees, if they want to wheel like that, that's their fun to have. If we stop one thing just because we are afraid the tree huggers might use it against us, they have already won.
BINGO.
AMEN.
X2!
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