October 23 - River run park amphib ride in TX

[mightymaxIV]

Great videos guys, looks like a great place to ride for our type machines. Lets see more of these! Tracks looked pretty effective in the mud also.

Great guys and show some more!

Thanks Lewis, your machine would have fit right in here. Would have loved to see it!

[mightymaxIV]

Wow, This has been an interesting experience trying to post a reply.

I just wanted to say that I LOVE that Argo, Roger. Not used to seeing you Flat Landing. But the way you zipped thru that mud, I knew it could only be you.

Bridget

I can't tell you how much fun I had watching Roger.

[tinman]

Great videos and great looking mud!!! Those Adair tracks really seem to be mud eaters. Did you have to run any extenders on the Mudd Ox Mudbug3? Looks like everyone had a good time. Must admit it looks strange to see people riding in shirt sleeves and shorts this time of year. looking forward to more videos.

[mightymaxIV]

Great videos and great looking mud!!! Those Adair tracks really seem to be mud eaters. Did you have to run any extenders on the Mudd Ox Mudbug3? Looks like everyone had a good time. Must admit it looks strange to see people riding in shirt sleeves and shorts this time of year. looking forward to more videos.

Tinman, it was pretty warm, in fact my face got sunburned. The Adair tracks on the Mudd Ox had 5" wheel extensions but that was because Tim wanted to get them on in time for this event and that was all he had. Tim is sure the Ox will get by with the 2" extension which will give it about a 62" wide stance. Let me be the first to say that that Ox with tracks was impressive! I followed that machine down some very tight trails and Tim put that machine into places where I thought is would never go. The videos speak for the mud performance but it is more impressive to watch in person. On one occasion a high lifted quad was badly stuck in a mud lane with no way around, Tim spun the Ox, came out of the mud hole when around the machine, then came back through, passed the stuck machine, went through the mud hole side ways and drove the Ox up a 45 degree bank covered with brush that I thought was unclimbable. There were about 6 quads and 12 people watching this show. A minute before the quads were saying they could follow us anywhere. Two minutes latter and the quads disappeared and we never saw them again. We went through impossible stuff and the Ox never came close to getting stuck!

[mightymaxIV]

Some high Light video from the River Run ride on the 24th of October

A lot of video of Noels awesome MaxII with 25" Mud Bugs, Davids Mudd Ox with the Adair swimming tracks, The Argo Bigfoot of Robert and Kathy, The Argo Bigfoot with Adair swimming tracks, and my Argo 650 HD with the Admiral transmission and the swimming tracks, none of the tracked machines got stuck all day through the most awful conditions you can imagine. I saw the Ox in mud to the top of the tracks that you couldn't walk in, move through without a problem. My 650 HD is an awesome mud machine that can run 25 mph on the trails with the tracks, nothing stopped it. I am so pleased with the 650 HD that I can't even describe how well the machine performed. The quads didn't even try after the Mudd Ox went around a stuck high lifted quad in a mud lane, climbed out sideways and walked up a 45 degree hill covered with brush. After that the quads just simply disappeared. That Mudd Ox of Davids is some machine to watch and the one everyone waited for when they were stuck. The Ox would pull up, hook them up and pull them out. You got to have an Ox like this at every AATV event. Man what a work horse! I got to see Roger do some things with his old Argo 8x8 that I didn't know could be done with an AATV. Man what a driver and showman he is. Hope you enjoy.

[Joe M]

What can I say? Everyone has already said it...

[Mike]

That looks like a fun place to ride with lots of cool machines. You guys had a great turnout. Is this going to be an annual thing? I haven't watched all of the videos yet but I couldn't stop laughing when I saw/heard Roger coming in that next to last one. I was into the slow, crawl through the mud, technical pace, and then here comes this crazy man with a vengeance for mud holes. I felt sorry for that clump of grass he mowed down near the end of his out of control ride.

[mightymaxIV]

That looks like a fun place to ride with lots of cool machines. You guys had a great turnout. Is this going to be an annual thing? I haven't watched all of the videos yet but I couldn't stop laughing when I saw/heard Roger coming in that next to last one. I was into the slow, crawl through the mud, technical pace, and then here comes this crazy man with a vengeance for mud holes. I felt sorry for that clump of grass he mowed down near the end of his out of control ride.

I would have loved to see Jennifers MaxIV in this awful mud, I bet that max could have worked all day with out getting stuck.

[Matt O.]

Hi Guys,

I really enjoyed the videos!!! I wish I was there. You guys had a blast!!!

Matt

[Brant]

Did any of the tracked vehicles get stuck? It didn't seem much of a challange to them.

Brant

[mudbug3]

Brant

I can,t remember any time that any of the amphibs that had Tim Adair,s tracks on them getting stuck. His track design is made for the kind of mudding we like to do.

[Roger S]

Mudbug/Dave and I stayed through tuesday and putzed around.. he brought his maxIV, and Tim brought his mudd ox down to him, so he had two machines there. I got home at 5 AM this morning.

I arrived @ River Run late.. I apologise for the long lunch hour+ that you guys waited for me. DON'T do that again! Never wait on me, it might be a long time I don't have a cell phone, and the pay phone took 30 minutes off my calling card for the one call to Dave earlier in the day, so I had no easy way to keep you guys updated. I arrived Sunday afternoon, so I missed riding with the untracked maxII and Bigfoot vehicles that morning. They left, then the three tracked machines, mudd ox, frontier, and bigfoot and I took an afternoon ride. They went immediately into that 1/4 mile long reed filled swamp, and I struggled, inch by inch sometimes to get through that silt/mud filled trail. Phew! After that we got to areas where I could bypass the deep stuff.

That video of me blasting through the mud.. it had just rained the night before after a long drought.. we all thought it was soft, but as it turned out the ground hadn't absorbed and got soft yet.. that's why I could play in it. There were other areas I didn't get in, or got buried in if I tried.

Tim delivered Dan's Frontier, which was like a kid on Christmas morning.. also Dave's Mudd Ox which was a dealer demo, and Tim also sold the tracked Bigfoot he brought, so his long heavy trip from Iowa was a lot lighter going back.

Tim's tracks.. I was impressed. I thought they were strips of conveyor belt.. but each section between cleats is 4 peices, steel and "poly" I guess, all cnc machined and locking the chain in place. It looked very sophisicated and like a LOT of time and R&D went into it. Those tracks are perfect for a runamuk equipped machine.. I don't know if axle bearing extensions are mandatory or not for Tim's tracks. Of course he also has the wider cleats for the 12" wide tires.

Although I've been around Matt's Ox since it's inception, I hadn't really looked at the finished product. The thing is built like a brick outhouse. A full size 700 amp hour battery, a 100 amp alternator, double 60 chain throughout, details like three 12 volt accessory plug ins, good wheels that hold a bead that argo should have had decades ago.

River Run Park: East Texas woodlands/river lowlands. No helmet/roll bar/seat belt rules. Will be a great winter season area, being that far south. Hot showers, only port a potties at this time, which was my worst complaint. Very friendly owners, operators. Wild pigs everywhere.. and the biggest water moccasins I've ever seen! in the swamps. All the ones I saw had been chewed up by tires/tracks, so I guess we're more of a threat to them than vice versa..

I have a little video footage that will eventually get posted, from a Flip cam that Dave gave me. Nothing spectacular, just he and I roaming the park by ourselves.

[mudbug3]

[Noel Woods]

What a great time we had at River Run. We had a good showing of buggies too. I can't wait until the next ride.
Those Adair tracks are certainly a revolutionary advance for our machines. I must admit that I was accustomed to setting the performance curve with my Max2. However those tracked machines performed so much better than the wheeled vehicles that I can't wait until Tim prototypes the tracks for a max2.
For anyone interested, the next ride at River Run is the weekend before Thanksgiving. Thanks to all who showed up.

[Mike]

Watching the Super Swamp Fox was cool. Your wave battle looked fun too. Do you know how many people showed up total? It looks like at least 10 ATVs? That's a heck of a turnout for the first group ride at an offroad park. Great job.