The "TACO WAGON" has arrived

[oosik]

deserteagle71 Maybe when things settle down and warm up you will have an abundance of desert wildflowers. The bottom picture - there must be a temporary lake forming somewhere out there on the desert floor.

Well - first time I really tried the BestStep. I can easily get my right knee up on the tailgate. Then both knees - then grunt to a standing position. It's gonna work just fine. No ladder or folding step stool required.

Darn - here, again, at 9:30am and it's total overcast and raining.

 

[BigBlue1]

deserteagle71 Maybe when things settle down and warm up you will have an abundance of desert wildflowers. The bottom picture - there must be a temporary lake forming somewhere out there on the desert floor.

Well - first time I really tried the BestStep. I can easily get my right knee up on the tailgate. Then both knees - then grunt to a standing position. It's gonna work just fine. No ladder or folding step stool required.

Darn - here, again, at 9:30am and it's total overcast and raining.

Glad the Bedstep is working for you. When I use mine I no longer need to use my knees. I step on the Bedstep and then the bumper and then onto the tailgate. No crawling involved. Sooooooo much better than getting into the truck bed before I got the step.

Rob

 

[oosik]

First real road trip today. Down south - up on Steptoe Butte - back up thru northern Idaho - home. Rain or shine - I'll get pictures.

 

[Alien]

Safe trip mate.

 

[oosik]

Going down onto Steptoe Butte is no safety issue. Unless you aren't paying attention as you navigate the road that circles the Butte - to the top. On top you are some 3612 feet above the surrounding wheat fields of the Palouse. I don't think we could have picked a worse day to be up on the Butte. Winds steady at 45mph - gusting to 60mph. And rain - but with the wind it was all horizontal. And the temp - 40.

And my son, the designated navigator. Took us thru every unmaintained wheat field road he could find. I've only been up "on top" about forty times - I should have gone the way I knew best. It was a true test of the Power Wagon in water saturated loam/silt covered roads. And to think - I went to the car wash to make sure the Taco Wagon looked nice.

We DID have a good time. Got to see/navigate roads I've never been on before.

If you look far down into the flat land - you can see one of the giant wind farms that are sprouting up all over this part of the country. What you can't see - how windy and cold it was up there on top. There will be better days.


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A picture of Steptoe Butte from about ten miles away.

 

[Jstpssng]

It sounds like your navigator wanted to test the PW's abilities.
We have those wind towers all over the state, Massive structures created by deforestation of hundreds of acres of former timberland, generating miniscule amounts of power to send down hundreds of miles of power lines blasted through the forest so that Massachusetts can have "green" energy.

 

[oosik]

Ah, yes, the navigator. Well, lacking the ability to tempt me into impossible situations - out there in the wheat fields. His mood turned somewhat sour. This all changed when I bought his lunch at burger joint in one of the many small "wheat towns" in the area.

Accidentally driving off a "wheat field road" and out into a field will have serious consequences. First - there is ABSOLUTELY nothing to attach a winch line to and pull yourself out. Second - you make deep ruts in the field which will soon become massive erosion channels.

This time of year - not even the lightest of ATV ventures out into the fields.

Can you envision this scenario. Your Power Wagon has ventured out about 150 feet into the wheat field and become impossibly mired down. The vehicle is now resting on its frame. There is nothing to attach your winch line to.

Sooo...... you must find this farmer who owns the field - convince him that it was "all a mistake" - convince him to fire up his huge tractor - drive miles to where your PW is stuck and pull it out.

I don't envision this as a friendly encounter nor a very productive encounter. Believe me - there is no towing company that will get involved in this hypothetical scenario - for ANY amount of money. They are local and must remain friends with the farmer. Further destruction of the wheat field - by towing out the PW - is not the way. Best plant flowers and wait for a summer day.

 

[oosik]

BTW - all the current wind farms, in this part of the country, are in the wheat fields. Not a single tree is ever touched. There are no trees in the wheat fields.

When all is said and done - a small plot around the unit might be fenced off with mesh fencing. The land returns to wheat farming and never misses a stroke. Most I have seen don't even have a protective fence around the base of the unit.

 

[oosik]

So, today, I wait for the afternoon warmth to wash yesterday痴 mud off. It痴 36 right now. I wish a good coat of 都omething would make it not stick. The heavy layer of LineX, that is currently under there is NOT the answer.

 

[ZTMAN]

Try some Fluid Film