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I found this particularly interesting

Very powerful.

I'm headed to Europe in September again and I told my wife and kids that I'm going to Normandy and they are coming too because of the price that was paid for our freedoms. None of them even peeped about not wanting to go. I get emotional just typing this. I am so excited to go I can't wait.

Best example of fishplating I've ever seen.

Stuff just seems to happen to us.












- DAA

And did I mention rattlesnakes? Twice while attempting to set rigging on that steep loose slope I had rattlesnakes getting pissed at me. I can't hear them anymore. Not even a little bit.

First one, I was climbing with heavy chain draped around my shoulders and anchor stakes in one hand and a sledge hammer in the other, using those as trekking poles. Just doing my best to make any progress up that steep loose slope without falling or sliding all the way back down. And all the sudden, I notice a pretty good sized rattler coiled up and shaking his tail about five feet from me. I really couldn't even move, just too precarious of a slope with the burden I was carrying. Thankfully, the snake moved off down the slope. And I found it quite interesting to note that even the snake more or less half fell and tumbled once he started downhill.

Awhile later, while attempting to reset the rigging for a pull from another direction, I was again attempting to traverse the slope with chains and anchors and the hammer. My buddy Steve who was 100 feet away suddenly yells at me to STOP!!! Like I said, I can't hear rattlers at all. But every time I tried to move at all from that spot he was yelling at me to not move. I guess every time I moved at all the snake started rattling. I couldn't hear it, or see it. Eventually, I backed up and came back down and had to go back up again by a different route. And climbing that slope was no joke.

Sure felt good to finally drive away from that spot.

- DAA

We’re missing the back story on these pics

DAA said:

Stuff just seems to happen to us.

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I'm sensing a pattern.

What’s the wrap all over the front fender @DAA ?

STAG said:

What’s the wrap all over the front fender @DAA ?

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I saw that too, looking at it closer, it’s down the entire side, and from the rear pic, looks like on drivers side also.

STAG said:

What’s the wrap all over the front fender @DAA ?

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It's a combination of wreck wrap type products that Steve has perfected over the years. You absolutely would not believe the level of scratch contact he drives that thing through. Peel off the wrap at the end of the trip and no scratches and damned if the rig isn't actually fairly clean too. It's a PITA for him, I think. But it does work very, very well.

He wheels the wee out of that F-150. Takes it all kind of places that make me tense while riding shotgun. Most of the time, I'm just surprised by how capable it actually is when driven very hard just for the fun of driving it very hard and seeing what it can do.

I mean it, you just would have a hard time believing the shit we drive that in.

This time, it was pretty steep off camber shelf road. That was quite loose. As soon as we lost some traction in that loose scree and cobble that is the road, we started crabbing towards where gravity wanted us to die. Forward or back, didn't matter. Any throttle just took us farther towards a tumble into the river.

Pulled first the rear and then the front. But pulling either end was causing the opposite end to let gravity take over and that was giving us a sick feeling in our stomach. In the end we rigged it to pull from both ends at the same time and that worked a treat.

- DAA

Interesting ride. Looks familiar but can't quite place it

The_Lobbster said:

I saw that too, looking at it closer, it’s down the entire side, and from the rear pic, looks like on drivers side also.

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I zoomed in to see it on the doors, now even zoomed out I can’t unsee it 😅🙃

At one point in this last outing, we were driving through a long tunnel of green willow. Overgrown on both sides and above. Pretty much anywhere on that truck that a slender branch could get caught had willow branches with green leaves stuck. Under the ditch lights, the windshield wipers, the space between the bumper and the grill etc.

I commented that the truck was making itself a ghillie suit.

- DAA

These Toyota boys must party hard in central America. The put snorkels on everything, including this bus.

Grande.... this is a standard burrito

Utah State Truckdriving Competition was today. I’m not allowed to compete any more, but I do get to help on the courses by shuttling trucks and trailers around and staging them for the competitors. A good 12 hours on my feet on hot concrete today, but our team took home a ton of trophies including Team Champion and Grand Champion.

Stand up for a few minutes (we were a host sire for the Tooele Valley Garden Tour) and my chair was quickly converted unto a bunk bed.

This thing has been started less than five times in the last 20 years and it fired right up with fresh gas.

Sweet 😎

Rot Box said:

This thing has been started less than five times in the last 20 years and it fired right up with fresh gas.

Sweet 😎

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I've been lusting after one of those (or a 250R) for the past 6-8 years