k0ua
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Man, that is one tough looking truck..
The "TACO WAGON" has arrived
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Man, that is one tough looking truck..
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oosik
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K0UA - it RIDES like a tough vehicle also. My mile long driveway is a maze of snow/ice in the shaded areas - the short muddy area is all frozen ruts & ice and the few "speed bump = potholes" areas can each be felt thru the PW's off-road suspension. Like any true off-road vehicle it rides real nice on smooth asphalt.
This winter is just like the last half dozen winters. Never enough snow to plow. Just enough snow to create ice due to our warm/freezing weather.
It sounds tough - the exhaust note is easily detectable for any level of acceleration beyond the most gentile.
The current difficult entry/exit situation keeps me here at home, more or less, admiring it and taking pics. This will DEFINITELY end when the steps are installed. I plan on winter exploration of those areas normally visited only in the summer.
This winter is just like the last half dozen winters. Never enough snow to plow. Just enough snow to create ice due to our warm/freezing weather.
It sounds tough - the exhaust note is easily detectable for any level of acceleration beyond the most gentile.
The current difficult entry/exit situation keeps me here at home, more or less, admiring it and taking pics. This will DEFINITELY end when the steps are installed. I plan on winter exploration of those areas normally visited only in the summer.
k0ua
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Yeah, my driveway/road is pretty rough at times too. We have some pretty good rains lately and some bunching up of the gravel and then with the "polar vortex" cold snap we had, that of course froze and you have instant ridges to high center cars. Well it isn't all bad, it keeps some of the wayward road traffic from coming to my place (the dead end) and turning around. But it is a bit rough in the 4wd pickup, and the minivan scrapes in a couple of places. I just need another warm day and I will go out with the blade and smooth it out. Sounds like a good project for tomorrow.
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oosik
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Gotta laugh. There is only one place on my driveway to turn around. Even in the dead of summer - you have to come all the way and then make your turn in my yard. So when the muddy spot is at its worst - folks will try to turn around. They get stuck - some must spend hours - grunting, pushing, pulling, etc, etc. I've run into a few over the years - still stuck and trying to turn around.
If I can get around them - I'll help by pulling them back on the driveway. If I can't get around - to H**L with them. I'll just leave them to their own fun.
Over the 37 years here I've only had one person come "exploring" in the winter and get stuck. I think the "word" has spread.
If I can get around them - I'll help by pulling them back on the driveway. If I can't get around - to H**L with them. I'll just leave them to their own fun.
Over the 37 years here I've only had one person come "exploring" in the winter and get stuck. I think the "word" has spread.
I've never seen anybody stuck on my road, but I see more traffic in springtime when the road is marginal than at any other time of year except hunting season. One day during mud season I had parked on one end of my property and was walking the 1/4 mile to my house when somebody stopped and asked if the road always got that bad. I had to bite my tongue to keep from saying "it wouldn't if you idiots would stay off it!"
Sigarms
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That's a season you forget about when you live down south LOL
Also don't miss fly season.
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oosik
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Jstpssng - you passed up on a golden opportunity. You know it and now you STILL regret it. Situations such as you described can be great frustration relievers. I often wonder why so many uninformed still wander the face of this earth. Mother Nature and her prime directive - "only the strong shall survive" slacks off at times. OR perhaps, its that the human population is no longer "the strong".
My thoughts tend to wander.
It rained all night - things are tending to get soggy. It's going to be another spring of smoothing the ruts & bumps. Snow has become somewhat of a thing of past times here.
I enjoy exploring on the cycle. My concern is alway, remaining upright. Those concerns will no longer exist with the PW. I will now be able to go places and at times when I know for a fact- it would be no pleasure on the cycle.
My thoughts tend to wander.
It rained all night - things are tending to get soggy. It's going to be another spring of smoothing the ruts & bumps. Snow has become somewhat of a thing of past times here.
I enjoy exploring on the cycle. My concern is alway, remaining upright. Those concerns will no longer exist with the PW. I will now be able to go places and at times when I know for a fact- it would be no pleasure on the cycle.
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A very, very nice looking truck. And what a performer given the engineering!! Congrats, and bring on more pictures when you can!
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oosik
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There is a place I always like. It a very high butte in this part of the country. At 3600 feet it's well above the surrounding wheat lands. From up there - on a rare day - you can see infinity. Geologically its called a quartized island. Steptoe Butte. Recently this has become a state park. This butte has a shady history. Once the largest hotel in this part of the country was on top. The hotel didn't pan out. It became a brothel. Locals didn't approve and burned it down. Now the top has multiple cluster of transmission antennae and a parking lot. A spiral road leads to the top and the parking lot.
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