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[marauder]

Did this BS artist from Fairbanks ever build anything or did he just waste everybody's time flapping his gums trying to impress you all?

[allwheeldrive]

“just waste everybody's time” is a bit harsh you say that like anyone on here is using some sort of valuable time. I would think this never left gleeful fantasy stage. I see this kind of thing a lot. People get very excited about “inventing” something new. The problem is you aren’t an inventor just because you can think of the ultimate solution to every problem that’s easy. It’s call magic. The difficulty is designing something that can somehow improve upon something else and somehow cost less. That is extremely hard. The way I think of it: Pick something you want to gain, chose something you can give up, work till they meet half way. A do everything machine is either A: Impossible, or B. Relatively already exists, it’s just someone else can do it cheaper. From the stand point of an 1890’s trapper any Argo or Max with a steady supply of spare parts and gas would be the holy grail of transportation in the great wilderness. The only reason we today strive to do better is because there must be better. IE SxS, and purpose built tracked vehicles, etc. The 6x6 and 8x8 clearly is of an obsolete design to some degree, it is fun though (-:

Outside of utility the 6x6 has no place besides an item of amusement like using a vintage Phonograph. It’s only neat because it’s different and more challenging. A contemporary “pleasure” model ATV will utterly dominate any 6x6 in the “racing around and having fun while not getting stuck department”. We are simply enthusiast of a bygone era.

[ARGOJIM]

“just waste everybody's time” is a bit harsh you say that like anyone on here is using some sort of valuable time. I would think this never left gleeful fantasy stage. I see this kind of thing a lot. People get very excited about “inventing” something new. The problem is you aren’t an inventor just because you can think of the ultimate solution to every problem that’s easy. It’s call magic. The difficulty is designing something that can somehow improve upon something else and somehow cost less. That is extremely hard. The way I think of it: Pick something you want to gain, chose something you can give up, work till they meet half way. A do everything machine is either A: Impossible, or B. Relatively already exists, it’s just someone else can do it cheaper. From the stand point of an 1890’s trapper any Argo or Max with a steady supply of spare parts and gas would be the holy grail of transportation in the great wilderness. The only reason we today strive to do better is because there must be better. IE SxS, and purpose built tracked vehicles, etc. The 6x6 and 8x8 clearly is of an obsolete design to some degree, it is fun though (-:

Outside of utility the 6x6 has no place besides an item of amusement like using a vintage Phonograph. It’s only neat because it’s different and more challenging. A contemporary “pleasure” model ATV will utterly dominate any 6x6 in the “racing around and having fun while not getting stuck department”. We are simply enthusiast of a bygone era.

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