Marengo Swamp run

[jpswift1]

I learned a little someting from everyone. Some times you got to power through, sometimes you have slow down and walk it through. Whatever the situation calls for. The more you ride AATV's the more you realize you are seldom really stuck, you just have to change your plan of attack and try something else!

Dan you said it all right there! Someone could have the biggest, baddest machine with the most aggressive tires on it, but if they absolutely no experience at all behind the sticks, they wouldn't be able to maneuver their way through a mud hole that a driver with experience and just an average machine could.

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[mightymaxIV]

Reference tires

It would be like "Ya'all stand back so ya don't get hurt" cause the mud would be flyin'. Don't get me thinking about tires, cause I want 9 of 'em and wheels too. Guess I need to get off the computer and go to work!

Roger check out these Carlise Chevrons 24x12x12 they would fit your argo and give you a good combination of water speed and mudding-when you get to this page at tires unlimited click on the picture button to see what they look like. I think these tires would be awsome on your argo with you at the sticks.
Carlisle Tires - AT101

[JACKSTAND]

Hope ya'll come out, we don't get many 6 wheelers at this ride. There is one guy that brings his almost every year, and seems to do good. Although I've never seen him try the Suicide hole.

The Marengo swamp ride is 13 miles of Louisian gumbo mud. Pictures do not do it justice. There were almost 3500 people there, and it raised about $100,000 last year to grant wishes for termanily ill children.

Prerigistration is $15.00 it will be $20.00 at the gate. You will also need La. hunting or fishing license, or you can get a wildlife managment one day pass.

You can check Wish I Could of NELA for more info. Wish I Could of NorthEast Louisiana

I almost forgot the ride is June 7. Most people get there the day before and set up camp.

Abadoned bikes at mile the Y.http://www.wishicould.org/gallery/al...ay_morning.wmv

Video of 2007 ride. (It's a large file 101MB)http://www.wishicould.org/gallery/al...007Marengo.wmv

[mudbug3]

Those were some great video,s of the coming Marengo Swamp run . Keep em coiming , because I know you have plenty more good ones to post . This event is worthy of any ones time to come there , because it helps make wishes come true for terminal chidren . Every one that can go,, please do !

[Roger S]

Roger check out these Carlise Chevrons 24x12x12 they would fit your argo

I just recently noticed they made a 24.. I knew they made a 22x8. They look like a copy of the goodyear rawhide(pre III) that swims so good. I have 9" wheels though, not 12, so would have to get k rims in 12. There are two tires I'd love to have, this one, and a Titan tru power AT 23x12. Looks like a terra grip.

[JACKSTAND]

My computer crashed the other day and I lost all of my vids. I'm jsut digging these up from other sites.

Here's another from the Suicide hole.http://www.shoalsatvriders.com/PICS/...eandMyGang.wmv

[mudbug3]

JACKSTAND ,

Thats some really SERIOUS mud in the suicide hole . I can see now how it got that name . Does any one ever make it to the end , with out any help from their friends ?

[rdr]

after watching the vid .i'll neaver understand why 4 wheels even try . to get off and push it. thats a bunch of bull.. it ought to be like a truck when it stops thats it . if you can't make it with out getting off to push it stay out of the way .

[boncrshr]

I was thinking the same thing....maybe once, but after that it would be back to the drawing board.

[JACKSTAND]

after watching the vid .i'll neaver understand why 4 wheels even try . to get off and push it. thats a bunch of bull.. it ought to be like a truck when it stops thats it . if you can't make it with out getting off to push it stay out of the way .

This hole is all about bragging rights. Everyone knows going in that they probably won't make it, but you won't know unless you try. In the 4 wheeler community, once you need help you are officially stuck. But, in the suicide hole once you're in it's the point of no return, you have to go the distance even if it means you need help. The bragging is in how far someone made it. With that said, I won't even try it. I need mine to be running at the end of the day, since I'm on the trail crew and have to make sure everbody gets out of the swamp OK.

I hope noone's gets offended by the 4 wheeler videos, but since we never have 6 wheelers show up, that's really all there is. Hopefully some of you guys will show up and we'll have something new to watch. Nothing would make me happier than to see a 6 wheeler out do one of the Gorrilla bikes.

[mudbug3]

This hole is all about bragging rights. Everyone knows going in that they probably won't make it, but you won't know unless you try. In the 4 wheeler community, once you need help you are officially stuck. But, in the suicide hole once you're in it's the point of no return, you have to go the distance even if it means you need help. The bragging is in how far someone made it. With that said, I won't even try it. I need mine to be running at the end of the day, since I'm on the trail crew and have to make sure everbody gets out of the swamp OK.

I hope noone's gets offended by the 4 wheeler videos, but since we never have 6 wheelers show up, that's really all there is. Hopefully some of you guys will show up and we'll have something new to watch. Nothing would make me happier than to see a 6 wheeler out do one of the Gorrilla bikes.

JACKSTAND ,

The problem my friends and I have , is the large crowds that show up for this event . I,m sure it would take hours of waiting just to ride through the suicide hole , because so my ATV riders are waiting their turn at it .

[mudbug3]

JACKSTAND ,

This is my friend Dan ( MightyMaxIV ) showing what a 6x6 amphib will do through a long mud pit . These were high ground clearance , big tire ATV,s . The ATV directly in front of Dans 6x6 , had 32 inch , Gorrilla tires on it , with an 8 inch lift , and the other ATV in front of that one had 29.9 High Lifter Outlaws . Dan told me he had to wait about 45 minutes on the two big tire ATV,s , just to drive to the end of the mud pit . Look how easy he does it compared to the big tire ATV,s .

[mightymaxIV]

mud pit video

Both of those quads had to be winched out of the mud pit. It took most of the high lifted quads about 1/2 hour to get through this hole. It took me about 3 minutes and I did it with even breaking a sweat! Seems there is a very big advantage for the 6x6 in the soft soupy mud! That video looks like the same soupy watery mud that a 6x6 makes short work of! Won't know for sure until I try it!

[Roger S]

Let's thank Jackstand for his videos and not label him as the enemy, hehe. Lots of us have 4x4's or had them. Getting muddy seems to be the objective sometimes, and if they don't get muddy enough riding, they jump into a hole on purpose. There's something grounding, earthy, about the experience The bottomless holes are something amphibs are good at, though.

[mightymaxIV]

Roger don't forget I've got a quad to. Jackstand wants to see a few 6x6's for this run. I hope to be there Jackstand.