Looks like a great place and a good time.
Looks like a great place and a good time.
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Thanks Dan for setting up the vids right.
The HDI does have a big advantage with the high center issue,much easier to slide over obstacles. It does help to have the extra weight and the ability to "rock the boat."
As far as the tranny goes, we never used "low" gear exept to pull people out. The low gear will give you the ability to stop one side, and actually runs the one side in reverse,creating an extremly aggressive gearing. Lots of times we were already stuck,where some of this couldn't come into play.
Also, technique had a lot to do with some of the situations where our units were getting stuck.The ruts were so deep,that if you followed them in the hole,it was almost inevitable that you would have an issue getting out, as you were high centered.Running a track on either side of the rut,and letting the other side run the rut would help from getting high centered. This also can create a different situation,but I believe it is easier to get out this way.
Last edited by mudbug3; 04-05-2014 at 03:40 PM.
This is a helicopter view of the 2014, atv mud national event. This let's you see how big this event was.
I wish I had an area that! big close to home. Very cool view for a change gives insight and perspective.
You've got off road sites bigger than our country ???
Thanks Mudbug, that's really cheered me up
Its a Panasonic HC-V201. Next time the videos will actually be better because I'll have the optical image stabilizer on. That feature smooths out the video and it's the main reason I bought that camcorder. It somehow got turned off and I didn't know it until the ride was over and I was home. Oh well better next time.
Everybody dies, but not everybody lives.
I cut my amphib teeth on a MaxII that I bought new from Brandon in 2003, and when I upgraded to my 2011 Frontier 8x8 from Tim @ Adair Argo I got some sound advice from him before he built it.
My primary goal was to be able to access the most remote swamps and marshes for waterfowl hunting, with little worry about getting stuck in the mud. I also wanted it to swim well, including areas with sunken logs and stumps. Tim recommended the 8x8 Frontier with the 3.3 low geared transmission and his Adair tracks. It is lighter than the HDI, swims great, and as mentioned the transmission allows me to easily cut power to one side to facilitate easier navigation over sunken obstacles under the water that the tracks will try to climb. I love the longer wheelbase for general offroading, fording ditches and climbing logs. The extra cargo capacity for decoys, people and gear is just a bonus. I got the 4k winch just to look like a badass. I have yet to need the winch for any self recovery.