Who actually wheels??

[mkpecor]

im out every weekend, saturday or sunday, see were trails go,got to put the swompers to use cant let them go to waste on the street.

 

[dogboy]

I picked once a month. I usually go wheeling every couple weeks.
Some months I'll go 3 times, mojority of the time 1-2 times a month, but sometimes, not at all.


My truck is by no means a "street queen". It only has 2" lift and 33's, but I'm not afriad to take it places it can go.


It is abusive to a lifted truck to not take it on the trails... Would you own a dog and never take it outside??
Wow, that analogy came out of nowhere...

 

[crbnunit]

Dedicated wheeler. Weekend warrior duty only.

This trail was a "bit overgrown"

 

[Thumper113]

I'm a weekend wheeler since I work Mon-Fri & an occasional Saturday & use it as a daily driver during the week.

as soon as the new engine goes in the Ranger(I won't say what it is yet), I will start on the SAS and it should be a mostly trail pig..........

C'mon Mark.........Git it dun!
I'll start counting until it's done, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.................

 

[97BlackBetty]

C'mon Mark.........Git it dun!
I'll start counting until it's done, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.................

Wait so hes putting a 347 in it? That would be awesome.

 

[Loanranger]

I'd say I'm a pretty dedicated wheeler, I've got the Ranger which is the daily driver, that's seen just as many trails as the zuk. Then there's the zuk, which was built strictly for trails, so I could continue getting to work in the ranger. And I've got the quad and the trials bike, which don't see much use since the zuks been finished. I'm out every weekend, at least one day, and in the summer I'm out camping and wheeling every weekend. Most weeknights I'm out in the garage working on one of the trucks to get it ready for the following weekend. Some might say my life revolves around wheeling.

 

[Hahnsb2]

Wait so hes putting a 347 in it? That would be awesome.

 

[merc2dogs]

don't wheel as often as I used to, but every chance I get whether it's just an unused powerline or an interesting track I catch on the way home I do it.

I used to live in sparta, and a friend lived about fifteen miles away, during early spring and late fall the most direct roads between us were closed because parts became the most impressive mud runs you can imagine, at the time I had a '46 willys with a 225 v6, 5.38 gears and 33x12.50 mudders on it. Got to be a challenge, "I can get to your house faster than you can get to my house taking the same route'
Don't know how many times I didn't make it home till after midnight because I found a trail on the way home from work. I work construction so I can work anywhere from next door to a thousand miles away at any time, and realy hate freeway driving so practice 'holistic' driving (I want to go here, this road heads in the right general direction, so....) and find a lot of indicators that there is a trail nearby (muddy tire tracks etc)

Have found a couple -ROADS- that have been a real challenge, one because I had to take a leak. Stopped, walked out to the trees and peed, then noticed that that the 'skinny tree' that I peed on was actually a stop sign turned out to be a ROAD that hadn't een used in over 40 years,(evidenced by trees over 8" diameter) checked the maps available and they all showed as passable streets. first attempt was unfinished in a dodge ramcharger with a 440 and 38" ground hawgs, second attempt in a cj7 with 32's took ten hours, third attempt with a B2 was pretty much uneventfull.

Current ambition is to follow a road that has a sign "road is impassable" I ran across on the way home from work a while ago.

only chance to wheel I turned down was a long time ago when I found a "road closed' sign at the top of a very long sand hill near wayland, my passenger was my 7.5 month pregnant girlfriend, and I was driving an old 77 opal kadette station wagon. (amazingly capable offroad I might say) so I turned it down because I didn't feel like delivering a baby if push came to shove!

Ken.

 

[dangeranger01]

I beat the shit outta mine, lol. It gets wheeled about 2-3 times a week. I put probly 50-100 off road miles a week on it. But I have two other vehicles incase it breaks something.

 

[Ranger44]

I only get out to an actual trail a few times a year, but kinda use it off road quite a bit more than that.

 

[4x4junkie]

For me it's probably more than a "few times a year", but not quite once a month.

I need to move. There ain't shit around here within 40 miles now to even put a goddammed tire off pavement anymore.

 

[metalmacguyver]

What we really need is more activity in the regional forums so that we can find more of the people in our area.

The two biggest problems i have seen mentioned in this thread repeatedly have been:

No one to wheel with.

Lame places to wheel.

At least we can fix one of them.

 

[mhughes165]

What we really need is more activity in the regional forums so that we can find more of the people in our area.

The two biggest problems i have seen mentioned in this thread repeatedly have been:

No one to wheel with.

Lame places to wheel.

At least we can fix one of them.

my problem is more so the latter then the previous, i got plenty of people togo wheeling with, but no place togo, cause NJ is shutting down anyplace where wheelers like togo

 

[bobbywalter]

dont know how to respond.


broke my truck 3 times in the course of work last year but only had @ 22 days off..so outside of hollister i only went on two other big runs if you could call them runs.. i drill oil and do exteriors/roofing ect not to mention the wrenching. so time was/is tight..4days drill 4 days off lately so that has been nice...but dont pay


since i moved up north i run at least a few hours each day days off logging my old stomping grounds....my daughter logged @ 40 miles or so sunday, which took @ 5 hrs. half slopped froze icy/snowy sled trails. i am about 10% done in 16 days of driving.

one thing about it is with open diffs the basic trails are actually almost fun when covered in goo and snow. i need to let up and quit wasting that little bit of time and money so i can upgrade shit sooner. now the trails are drying up and the snow is about gone except for areas in the woods.


so the construction work and the drilling work have required my truck to get there and work done. and will at times always demand that, so the capacities and reasons behind my rig will always be needed and used at least a few times per month, whether its pulling a crazy youngun/or oldun from some mudhole/field at 2 am or sloggin down a lease road sidways hoping to make the other side without having to get out and get muddy for a 1/2 mile....or running at an event....my shit is getting used.