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mbullism 
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Damn! Looks like this is going to take multiple trips (whoo-hoo!
 ).  . gratuitous co-pilot pic... she helps guide me back  .  . . I'm going to have to have a little talk with my co-pilot    .  Edited by mbullism - 15 Nov. 2019 at 9:57pm |
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Continuing work on the trails on my son's property. The only way to get from my property to my son's on far back of our lots is to cross a "wash" or "big ditch" (not sure what to call it). I decided to take a dry run to see if Wilson and Bantam could cross. Next up will be to see if it can pull a load of wood across.
  Glad to have pintle hitch. Not sure a regular hitch would survive this angle.   Pictures never do justice to severity of trail. The rear license plate got tweeked. :-(   The rig made it thru with no spinning tires, but I wonder what will happen with load of wood? .
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Bruce W
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Posted: 16 Nov. 2019 at 1:35am |
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The load of wood will be going downhill, pushing the Jeep uphill. When the load gets to the bottom, that’s when the test starts. BW
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JeepFever
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Posted: 16 Nov. 2019 at 1:48am |
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Bruce, I was thinking same thing
. . Not obvious in photos, but there is still a slope after exiting ditch, so about the time the trailer wheels get to bottom of ditch, the '2A will still be climbing.
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Posted: 16 Nov. 2019 at 3:01am |
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I wouldn’t stack the wood to high in the trailer, might end up in the jeeps bed! Lol
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I would have a backup plan. In my experience I can stack all the wood I can tie down in a jeep and come out of about anywhere the jeep will go empty but pulling the same size load on a trailer with an empty jeep is a different story. Good luck and let us know.
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What you need to do is build a bridge
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Mike F
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Good idea you got wood right
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My son said the same thing. I reality though, we will not be carrying much wood across this end of property. (there are better exits). I am just doing it for the fun of it.
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Build the bridge and use the Jeep and Bantam to haul the materials to the site. What a cool project this would be.
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Epic fail getting out of the woods at the end of the day
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Oh NO! What happened? Hope all are okay.
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x2! Edited to remove a letter. Hope you're ok.
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Ouch! Major bummer. Looks like she’ll cut through the wind with ease now.
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Lol... I didn't consider the increased aerodynamics. Hmmm... maybe I should weld it up as is.
Seriously, I wasn't in any real danger. No roll over or anything like that. The windshield frame cleared a large tree branch but the right side top bow didn't. So the canvas ended up pulling the windshield frame back and it broke at a previous failure point. Jpet makes very tuff canvas tops... tuffer than steel!! Hopefully my repair will be more robust than the PO's repair. |
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mbullism
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That's actually a designed in "fuse" to save the canvas
(they did away with it with the 3A windshield after too many complaints of broken cigars ) |
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Joe, I have done that very thing more than once. One time it pulled the windshield back far enough to break the glass on the steering wheel
 . Since then, I have remedied the problem. If you like how strong my canvas is, you should try one of my windshield frames
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