What is the worst trail carnage you have ever seen?
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I watched a feller drop a wheel on dry pavement once......
I may still have pictures, and I wasn't the only witness
Say it ain't so. Damn ducks!
gasiorv
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I have seen some carnage, some I laughed at and some shook me and I don't understand how they walked away from it. I have seen stuff rolled, flipped, broke, crushed, and ripped out. I watched a Honda Pioneer take a nose dive off a 10 ft drop, roll over forward end over end with beer cans flying everywhere, only to be flipped back over and continue on. I have recovered roll overs, including my own. I have left my jeep in the middle of the desert winched to a rock teetering on a hilift to come back and fix it the next day. I have seen highspeed crashes that left red marks and black and blue from harnesses and low speed tumbles where people tried to stick their arms out. Been caught off guard by heavy rain resulting in flash floods and water over my hood trying to escape and witnessed a vehicle floating down stream. I have hooked up a winch to a jeep falling off the trailer in the parking lot and another barely hanging by a root on a cliff side. After all of this, my only question, the question that lingers in the back of my mind while I lay in bed at night, my only want, is: What is the best long arm for my TJ?
Lots of places, in fact, that sort of spot the rig is in we typically use when a tire has to be swapped. Run the diff up on a rock, scoop the sand and gravel out from under the tire, swap, back off the rock and never get the jack out. But, there are only a few times you need to get under the rig. I've only had to a few times to do stuff like repair holes in oil pans when silly owners didn't have engine skids.
It is not in that pic, but it can be. The temp at the time of that repair was low 60's.
Almost never.
I've actually watched something similar happen. Not one of our more fun days, not because the repair is bad but the trails are very unforgiving.
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Picture. Guy hung the front diff hard. Left rear was on a large rock with a steep slope to the front. He tried to push the front diff, tire walked down the rock, hit the end of the shock, kept going, yanked the end of the shock out of the frame mount, broke the rear driveshaft, and stopped just short of tearing up much more. The issue was made worse by the fact the shocks were way too long.
I, ahhhh, need to stop wheelin' with you...
How’s your Pioneer doing?
I blew the motor on an obstacle in my old Toyota. That wasn’t fun.
Worst break since owning the jeep was a front joint. What made this one worse was we were running late and it was now dark on an easy trail because ice close the exit road. Ride was on New Year’s Day. Midway through the repair, headlamp out, stuff everywhere, my daughter, 2 at the time, walks up to me and whispers in my ear, “I pooped”. One axle and Diaper change later we were back moving.
Long and eventful night but memories were made!
Worst break since owning the jeep was a front joint. What made this one worse was we were running late and it was now dark on an easy trail because ice close the exit road. Ride was on New Year’s Day. Midway through the repair, headlamp out, stuff everywhere, my daughter, 2 at the time, walks up to me and whispers in my ear, “I pooped”. One axle and Diaper change later we were back moving.
Long and eventful night but memories were made!
gasiorv
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That was a trip! AMS417 was with me to verify the story. We were standing at the bottom of SMORR copperhead climb at night having a few cocktails and watching people try to climb the ledge. We start to notice headlights coming down the trail from above (and it is a very hard trail), it finally gets close enough that we see it is a utility based SxS (it had a roof and pop open windshield slightly open) and we are like WTF, then the guy just launches it off the ledge, no hesitation whatsoever. It lands nose down, flips onto its roof, the guy and his passenger get out, are OK, the crowd flips the UTV back onto its wheels and throw all the empties into the bed of the UTV, the guys jump in, fire it up and keep on keeping on. I was first like "Did I just see that?" and then I was like "how much does one of those Pioneers cost? I may have to get one".
gasiorv
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Here is the samurai floating down stream at Iron Gap after the flash flood. Suzuki folks doing Zuk things.
Toyota? This one incinerated at the trail head. Cheap Amazon pod lights below each A pillar indictive of questionable wiring.
And then they did the class act thing and walked away leaving a discharged fire extinguisher next to the rig. No VIN left so we can't find anyone.
-Mac
And then they did the class act thing and walked away leaving a discharged fire extinguisher next to the rig. No VIN left so we can't find anyone.
-Mac
Oh man we had a 4Runner do the same thing at Rausch creek. Fuel line ruptured and it looked like a movie where it slowly caught a trail of fuel on fire that moved backwards through the group! Lucky we were all on an access road so everyone scattered but the 4Runner was toast. We didn’t leave it though.
It was the guys birthday and his tow rig keys were in the glovebox… long day but we still ate the cake they made when we got back to camp
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I, ahhhh, need to stop wheelin' with you...
I was thinking the same thing and I don’t even wheel with him.
I’m done. He is gonna destroy my rig.
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but we still ate the cake they made when we got back to camp
Did they bake the cake in the 4 runner?
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