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welcome to botches off -road today is it's kind

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of like a rap but it's only about poker run and

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the weekend of poker run because other stuff

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happened that weekend too yep uh so yeah uh gavin

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how's your poker run good uh since you you got

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more poker run than i got yeah i guess uh pretty

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much i mean I don't know. Pretty much it went

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really good. We actually had Sienna's dad join

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us this time, which he doesn't really come out

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to these. I've been begging him and begging him

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to come out to one, and I'm like, you've got

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to come to Poker Run. It's fun, dude. And so

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he finally agreed the night before, and I'm like,

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oh, shit, I didn't make any room for you. So

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I had to go move some stuff around, and Sienna

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got the back seat, though. She got out a nav.

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And I was like, well, Alex is going to nav anyway,

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so no big deal. Foreshadowing. And so we get

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all loaded up, get the kid loaded up, and we

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start heading out. And, you know, we meet up

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with Alex and the rest of the group. And we take

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a couple stops. And, yeah, I think that was all

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pretty smooth. I don't think anything happened

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on the way. It was pretty much the only times

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we stopped was to clear my window because I kept

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getting behind slow cars throwing salt, and I

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don't have a reservoir. Yeah, so we had to stop

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and do that, but it felt like we stopped a lot

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for some reason. I don't know. Dude, every time

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we stopped, I'm like, fuck. It's because every

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time we stopped, everyone got out of every truck.

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Yeah, well, when you did that, when you had to

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do your windshield, I had to knock the ice off

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of my wipers. Yeah. And then I had to pee a lot.

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I was drinking a lot of water that day. And I

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had to buy Imodium and snacks. So I should have

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had all that stuff done the day before, but whatever.

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Beggars can't be choosers. So we got up to the

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starting point, and right before we got there

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on the road, there was a big truck sitting in

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the right side of the road. And we're like, what

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the fuck's going on here? And that was Yamber

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and his two -wheel drive Dodge that's having

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a hard time going up the hill. Nah, it's an inability

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to drive. Yeah. Well, so he was getting towed,

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and we went around him. We got into the park.

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Everybody was there staging. And when I mean

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everybody, I mean that whole parking area and

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then the parts to drive through it were full.

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We got in, and we just pretty much stopped right

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in the middle. There were probably 30 -some cars

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there. Not people. Yeah, it was pretty crowded.

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A lot more people. Yeah. Yeah. But it was really

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cool. We all kind of sat around and bullshitted

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a little bit while we let out air on the tires,

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and then we tried to make some room for everybody.

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That's when Leo understood the scale of it. He's

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like, holy shit, there's a lot of people here.

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I'm like, yeah. I said, last time I think we

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were late, so we ended up kind of. missing all

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this next time we'll have to be either earlier

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what just so just so we're not in the in the

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group i would have liked to be early and if the

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chords ever if they always stay the same i want

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to be early and start earlier yeah um just because

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it's going to be it'd just be easier to get first

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like get through everything next time i want

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to do it backwards I will say we could technically,

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we got there early, we could have us stage at

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the campsite and wait for the corn to drop and

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then leave from there. That's the opening there.

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Backwards wouldn't be bad, actually. I took a

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road out. We ended up getting out, and the trail

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out was just pretty nice. Anyway, we started

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that, and it was... Kind of the perfect day for

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winter wheeling. It wasn't, like, super snowy.

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We just got a few inches of powder the night

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before, so everything was covered in snow. We

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all got really good traction. Well, some of us

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did. And, yeah, everything went pretty good after

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we had aired down. All the obstacles, surprisingly,

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last year were all watery and shitty, and I think

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we hit one puddle. like one mud spot the whole

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whole poker run and last time we were hitting

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them everywhere like it was yeah it was almost

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every uh part of the trail so yep that was really

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uh unexpected that it was all pretty iced over

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and frozen really cool though it made for a lot

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easier poker run honestly i yeah and I'm trying

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to think of what the first obstacle we did. Oh,

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first we did that loop that we had to cut that

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tree out of. Yeah, and we started out with that

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one. And I don't know. We must have been the

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first group to it. Yeah. We were the only group

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that went through that trail. Yeah. No one else

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went through there. So we got out. Or bypassed

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for the whole event, I think. I think no one

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wanted to do the loops. Yeah, I think it was

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just us. It was kind of annoying, too, because

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I was trying to keep it just what we have. Me,

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Gavin, my little brother was with us, Mark, Shane,

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and then Busted DeBilt was supposed to be with

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us. Yeah. Yeah. So I was trying to keep it just

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that group so we could just get through obstacles.

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And everyone kept following us. So everywhere

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we went, it was just this long convoy. And part

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of that was because we were the first group to

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leave, too. Because once we got aired down and

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we were like, all right, everybody good? Yep.

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Okay, we're leaving. And as soon as we did that,

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everybody else started getting in their trucks

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and following. So, like I said, I think next

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year, and maybe I should talk to Derek about

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this, that we should do staged. No, don't. Just.

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We'll go backwards. If you talk to him about

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it, he's going to set someone else with us, and

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it's going to be crowded again. Either way. I

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mean, I didn't mind. The people that we did have

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that we had throughout the whole one were cool

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people. Sorry, I can't remember their names,

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but we had a Gladiator. We had a Wrangler. We

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had a safety Chevy. It was like a 1500. Full

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size. Yeah, it was like a full size 2017 Silverado.

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Yeah. It was a 2017. No, you were like 2017 100.

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Yeah. I know. He was trying to make two things

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there. It was like a safety construction orange.

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So I was like, who is that? And Derek mentioned

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it over the radio for a second, and I thought

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it was like a road worker. And then he started

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doing the same shit we were, and I'm like, oh,

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he must be with us. And then we had a really

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old CJ, right? CJ7? Yeah, CJ5. CJ5, sorry. And

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that guy was really cool. I got some pretty cool

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video of him rolling around, and he pretty much

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just walked through everything. I'm sure he was

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probably a little cold. That thing just. Oh,

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no, he was not cold. No? They were all wrapped

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up in that. Hell no. They were cold. They had

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no reason to be cold unless the heat didn't work.

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The heaters on them things will smoke you the

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fuck out. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I know when

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they got out, they were, like, fully dressed.

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As opposed to not dressed at all, but you know

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what I mean? Like, they had their car hearts

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and stuff on. Well, it's inconvenient to have

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to take your car heart off in a small space like

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that. Small. But I'll tell you. I'll tell you

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that that thing would smoke you the fuck out,

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dude. That thing is. My CJ7, I ran that thing

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with, like, just a bikini top and doors on it

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in the winter, and I was hot. Yeah. No, that

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thing was cool. So, we had a few guys, and then

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we had a couple of the Colorados. pop in and

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out we had a the land rover that shane used to

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have that popped in and out so we had a few guys

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that popped in that popped out so he only did

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one one loop yeah he just did the one loop so

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yeah we had a few um he did help pull the tree

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out of the way so when we finally got to that

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first obstacle and there were two probably about

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20 inch 20s trees something about that size yep

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um and so we decided to cut those out So, man,

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that's something. I don't think I checked my

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bar fluid. I think I needed some bar oil. And

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my batteries I left in there overnight, so they

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were kind of cold, and I don't know if that's

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what affected it, along with the tree being frozen.

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But it was struggling to get through that, and

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it never has struggled before. Not like that

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anyway. So I have to look at that. I got to get

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a chain sharpener too because I haven't sharpened

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my chain since I bought it either. So that could

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be part of it. I got one of those over on a shelf

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in my room if you want to borrow it. Yep. So.

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Don't ask me how to use it. I've never used it.

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I just put a new chain on whenever I need it.

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Yeah. No, I know how to use them. Like, when

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I did logging and stuff, I had a bunch. But once

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I stopped, I sold all that stuff with the chainsaw.

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I wish I would have kept it. That MS310 was a

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beast. I got it for a really good deal. Then

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I sold it like a chump. So, like most things.

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Yeah, then we. Then we kind of, after that loop,

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we worked our way up to that first hill climb

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there. That was, I'm still bummed that no one

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got a video of me going up that because everybody

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was there. Yeah, nobody got a video of me doing

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it either, dude. Which is, like, I'm sitting

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there getting videos of everybody else going

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up. Except me. Well, I don't know where you were

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when you went up. Because I missed it. You were

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standing right there when I went up. I must have

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been talking or doing video with something else

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because I didn't get, I didn't even see you go

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up. I really didn't. So, like, I don't know what

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happened. I never even saw you go up. I think

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you just was like, were you gone? And I think

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I saw you pull back in. I was like, oh, he went.

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And that was all I was like. But, yeah, no, it

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was. I actually recorded my success actually

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after, like, nine tries. I'll have to look. I

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know I got your fails. I do know that. There

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were so many fails. I had to edit out some of

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them because I can't. I won't lie, Mark. I was

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like, what is he doing? Because when you, like,

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hit the gas and he was, like, he was sending

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that shit. And then for some reason he just,

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like, pulled into the trees. Yeah. And I was

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like, what is he doing? Two times I just got

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off track. I'm like, why am I over here? Yeah,

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and that was the second time I said that, and

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I was like, okay, what the hell? I'm like, what's

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going on here? That's foreshadowing again, I

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guess, Mark, and going off the trail. I just

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put it in four low and pressed the pedal and

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went up the hill. There was no drama. Everyone

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did differently, so it was hard to gauge what

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was working for people there. Yeah, and I did

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four high. I usually go for the wheel speed,

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and I don't like to over RPM my truck. I know

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that sounds weird because mechanically I'm sure

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it's fine, but I just didn't want to fuck with

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the rear diff and stuff, throw it into low. I

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felt like that was more stress. Probably not,

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but that was just my feeling in the moment, and

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I was just like, throw it in four high. I don't

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think it's going to be a problem. It never usually

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is. And, yeah, I just went right up at four high.

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Didn't have to do anything else. Just gave it

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a little bean. I was impressed with my little

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brother's first hill climb in his manual. Not

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just in his manual Tacoma, his first hill climb,

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period. Yep. But he did it. He put it in four

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low. Well, he tried four high first, threw it

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in second, and made it, you know. Oh, no, he

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put it in first, made it halfway up, and then

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reached for second and realized that he had to

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back back down. And then I told him to just put

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it in second and four low and go, and then he

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went right up. Yeah, that made me nervous when

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he backed back down because he was coming down

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pretty quick. I was like, dude. Well, it's because

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he pressed the clutch in. It's not like an automatic.

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You're not supposed to try and shift in the middle

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of a hill like that. No, I know. I'm just saying

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when he did start backing up, it was like he

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didn't even press the brakes. He just was like

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rolling fast. If he had what I had, my brakes

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were locked and I was still sliding back. No,

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no. He pressed the clutch and started to zoom

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backwards and then threw it in reverse to try

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and control it. Yeah, because I was like, oh,

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man, he's rolling fast. I'm like, he's going

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to – you know roll off the trail yeah roll but

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like no like he was gonna lose control i'll go

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off the trail but yeah he did good that was that

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was a hundred percent clutch i mean he came zooming

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down i was like man but no he did good um yeah

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and he already has a list of things he wants

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to do the tacoma so it's usually how you find

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out what you want so yeah i think everyone really

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did fine i think mark just struggled and i'm

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not sure I'm not sure why. To be honest, it was

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the first time actually driving in snow while

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doing a hill climb like that. Every time we've

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done that hill climb, it's been sand, no snow.

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So I was just used to the sand gearing where

00:14:01.889 --> 00:14:05.370
we put in low and then whatever, like two or

00:14:05.370 --> 00:14:07.610
three, depending on how the truck acts. Right.

00:14:07.830 --> 00:14:11.830
Yeah, it was just weird because I almost was

00:14:11.830 --> 00:14:14.029
like, maybe it's just his tires. Maybe your tires

00:14:14.029 --> 00:14:15.509
are just getting to the point where they're burning

00:14:15.509 --> 00:14:18.950
you. It could be that too. They are two years,

00:14:19.029 --> 00:14:21.789
almost three years, actually, strong now being

00:14:21.789 --> 00:14:25.289
used. Yeah, subtle foreshadowing again. But anyway,

00:14:25.429 --> 00:14:30.789
we kept moving, and we got past that. We started

00:14:30.789 --> 00:14:33.570
going again, and everyone started bunching up.

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So we went and grabbed our card, ran back to

00:14:37.690 --> 00:14:40.149
our cars, and went and did another loop. And

00:14:40.149 --> 00:14:43.389
that one, I was... We were sitting there doing

00:14:43.389 --> 00:14:45.090
it and I'm looking at Leo and I'm like, dude,

00:14:45.090 --> 00:14:47.610
in the summer, this is way bumpier. Like the

00:14:47.610 --> 00:14:52.230
snow flattened this trail out so good. It was

00:14:52.230 --> 00:14:54.769
just like doing a regular dirt road. But when

00:14:54.769 --> 00:14:57.990
you're going up that hill in the summer, there's

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some like four or five inch rocks that you're

00:15:00.210 --> 00:15:03.250
kind of clumping around in to get up there. But

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that was pretty easy, honestly. I don't think

00:15:06.570 --> 00:15:08.740
I took it out of. I don't think I put it in a

00:15:08.740 --> 00:15:10.879
four -wheel drive for much of anything other

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than the hill and, oh, what else? Something else,

00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:19.759
something later, I think. Yeah, then we came

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up to where the next cards were going to be,

00:15:22.059 --> 00:15:27.500
and there was the, oh, shoot, not the Cybertruck.

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What's the other one? Rivian. Yeah, the Rivian

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was sideways inside one of the ruts and like

00:15:34.210 --> 00:15:37.269
blocking our way in there. So we as a group decided

00:15:37.269 --> 00:15:39.889
just bypass that section, which sucks because

00:15:39.889 --> 00:15:43.850
the Sugar Bowl is really fun. Yeah, and that's

00:15:43.850 --> 00:15:46.730
okay. I mean, honestly, I just wanted to go at

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that point. Like the amount of driving we did

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to get there, like it was like a good hour or

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so. And I didn't want to stop and wait for other

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people. And plus poker, your poker hand only

00:16:01.850 --> 00:16:03.889
needed to be five cards so we could afford to

00:16:03.889 --> 00:16:09.389
skip one obstacle. And I was like, yep, you know

00:16:09.389 --> 00:16:11.549
what? If that means we don't have to do the other

00:16:11.549 --> 00:16:14.090
bowl, that's fine. Like we already did one hill

00:16:14.090 --> 00:16:18.690
climb. I'm okay for this. So, yeah, we skipped

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that. We kept going. And I think we got to the

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third one. Yep. Yeah. No, on the way there, Mark.

00:16:31.940 --> 00:16:35.940
On the way to the bowl, actually. Yeah, you're

00:16:35.940 --> 00:16:39.519
right. On the way to the bowl, where Gavin makes

00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:42.620
a note over the phone, we all have pretty good

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traction. I'm pretty impressed. And then we just

00:16:45.220 --> 00:16:48.000
hear, Mark might need help. He's in the ditch.

00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:53.360
Yeah. So we were the only group out there. There

00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.100
was a bunch of side -by -sides, which is usual

00:16:55.100 --> 00:16:58.279
forever. But that was a pretty big group from

00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:02.139
Everett. And so we all got over so they can get

00:17:02.139 --> 00:17:05.640
by. And, of course, we're, like, bottom of the

00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:10.160
hillside of the road. So we have this going downhill

00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:14.339
on the right side of the road for us. I got over

00:17:14.339 --> 00:17:16.720
thinking I was not going to have any issues getting

00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:20.079
back out. They all took off. And I proceeded

00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:22.400
to try to climb out. And all of a sudden I realized

00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:24.759
I'm sliding further into the ditch and not climbing

00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:30.390
out of it. Yeah, so Mark gets out of the car,

00:17:30.430 --> 00:17:32.869
I think, because Alan's on the mic after. And

00:17:32.869 --> 00:17:36.009
I'm like, well, do you guys need help? And Alan's

00:17:36.009 --> 00:17:39.269
just kind of like, I don't know. Like, Mark's

00:17:39.269 --> 00:17:42.430
going to try. And I'm like, okay. They didn't

00:17:42.430 --> 00:17:44.069
hear anything. He's like, yeah, Mark might need

00:17:44.069 --> 00:17:47.630
help. So I turned around, drove to them. And

00:17:47.630 --> 00:17:50.069
by the time I got to them, Mark was already winching

00:17:50.069 --> 00:17:52.490
in his cable. And I was like, all right, well.

00:17:53.069 --> 00:17:56.339
So Mark got out. But, yeah, he did go off the

00:17:56.339 --> 00:17:59.099
road a little bit, and that's why we were foreshadowing

00:17:59.099 --> 00:18:00.960
because, I don't know, I think it might be tires.

00:18:01.859 --> 00:18:04.940
No, there was a patch of ice underneath the snow

00:18:04.940 --> 00:18:08.140
where I was losing grip at, so it wasn't even

00:18:08.140 --> 00:18:11.220
because of grip on the tire. There was just fucking

00:18:11.220 --> 00:18:14.279
ice right where I was at. Perfect. Luckily, there

00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:16.440
was a tree that was the right angle to get me

00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:19.599
pulled out and not me scraping my whole side

00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.259
of my truck up on trees trying to get out of

00:18:22.259 --> 00:18:25.859
it. Right. So, yeah, we got them out of there,

00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:29.880
and we got back with the group, and then we went

00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:33.019
to technically it would be the fourth card, I

00:18:33.019 --> 00:18:37.700
think. Yep. Yep. And that one is before you do

00:18:37.700 --> 00:18:40.279
the obstacle, so we opted out of it because last

00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:44.740
year it was just muddy, and it was chunky already,

00:18:44.819 --> 00:18:48.180
and this year with as cold as it had been, we

00:18:48.180 --> 00:18:50.019
figured that ice in there would be even worse,

00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:54.160
and it was. Which we didn't go through it. I

00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:57.160
don't think anyone went down that trail. I think

00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:58.740
they did. Everyone came in and grabbed a card

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and left. No one actually went around the loop.

00:19:01.579 --> 00:19:03.339
I think some of the later people did because

00:19:03.339 --> 00:19:07.500
I thought someone got stuck in it. Yeah, so then.

00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:11.259
We had lunch. Yeah, we set up for lunch. We had

00:19:11.259 --> 00:19:13.920
our trail chili, which was delicious. Yeah, it

00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:17.339
was pretty good. And then Mark tells me. I think

00:19:17.339 --> 00:19:19.559
when I winched it out, I ran my battery pretty

00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:23.140
low because my truck's only at 11 .9. And I'm

00:19:23.140 --> 00:19:26.420
like, that's not really how that works. But I

00:19:26.420 --> 00:19:28.259
don't want to hurry up and get out of here. So

00:19:28.259 --> 00:19:31.700
if it's still at 11 .9 in five minutes, we'll

00:19:31.700 --> 00:19:34.440
go into town and change your alternator. So we

00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:36.200
left the truck running an entire lunch break.

00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:40.400
It's okay. So did I. We went back 10 minutes

00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:45.059
later and his truck was at 11 .6. Six. I don't

00:19:45.059 --> 00:19:48.000
know, seven. Either way. Whatever. It wasn't.

00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:50.380
And I'm like, all right, man. I'm like, all right,

00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:52.319
man, we got to go change your fucking alternator.

00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:57.700
So me and Mark split off. And so I was parked

00:19:57.700 --> 00:19:59.660
in a spot where I couldn't back out where we'd

00:19:59.660 --> 00:20:02.000
already been. I had to go around through deeper

00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:04.880
snow. What I didn't realize is that section I

00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:07.420
was about to go through was at least a foot and

00:20:07.420 --> 00:20:09.799
a half deep. Like it was drifted right there.

00:20:10.019 --> 00:20:13.799
So I pull in and the truck just goes, zoom, almost

00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:17.360
to the frame. Yeah, and then I hear him. just

00:20:17.360 --> 00:20:20.980
flooring it, getting out of it. And I'm like,

00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:25.099
okay, well, cool. So now I have to figure out

00:20:25.099 --> 00:20:27.140
nav because I didn't have any of that pulled

00:20:27.140 --> 00:20:30.519
up. And I'm like, all right, Sienna, you're going

00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:33.160
to have to get back on nav a little bit. So we

00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:35.140
started that back up, and then we go down the

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trail probably a couple miles towards the next

00:20:38.819 --> 00:20:41.859
card, and I get on the walkie. and i'm talking

00:20:41.859 --> 00:20:44.039
to them they're like and someone gets back and

00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:46.099
they're like so which way did you guys turn out

00:20:46.099 --> 00:20:48.980
of there and i'm like oh my god like i asked

00:20:48.980 --> 00:20:51.660
if everybody was there everybody said yes and

00:20:51.660 --> 00:20:55.759
apparently the uh safety chevy uh did not get

00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:58.160
the memo and was still hanging out over there

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and so by the time we had already gotten a couple

00:21:01.660 --> 00:21:04.480
miles down the trail already closer to the next

00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:07.220
card he was trying to ask for directions and

00:21:07.220 --> 00:21:10.029
i'm like dude we're already like I can't turn

00:21:10.029 --> 00:21:12.470
around for the entire group and come and get

00:21:12.470 --> 00:21:14.910
you. Right. I'm like, just follow the other guys.

00:21:15.890 --> 00:21:17.710
We'll try and meet back up, and then you can

00:21:17.710 --> 00:21:21.210
meet back up with us. I'm sorry. And so we got

00:21:21.210 --> 00:21:28.730
in. We did the next card, which was pretty easy

00:21:28.730 --> 00:21:31.730
too, if I remember right. And then we took the

00:21:31.730 --> 00:21:35.710
– yeah, it was. It was super easy. And then we

00:21:35.710 --> 00:21:40.859
took a loop. that was on the right um and nobody

00:21:40.859 --> 00:21:42.839
had gone down it so i thought we were you know

00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:45.859
pretty safe obviously going down that one and

00:21:45.859 --> 00:21:49.640
as soon as we pulled in there are branches like

00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:53.339
at the hood at our headlights like there there

00:21:53.339 --> 00:21:55.779
are these like small bushes that you could tell

00:21:55.779 --> 00:21:58.380
in the summer they go straight up maybe kind

00:21:58.380 --> 00:22:00.240
of bow down a little bit, but with the snow and

00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.480
ice we've got in a couple days, they just went

00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:05.420
in almost like a heart, like the top part of

00:22:05.420 --> 00:22:08.160
a heart, and they were just crowding over the

00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:11.980
middle of the hood, and they were pushed down

00:22:11.980 --> 00:22:17.680
so low that they were below hood level. That's

00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:23.000
how that first trail was, and I was just bumping

00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:25.039
it and waiting for him to spring up, and then

00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:27.799
bumping it, waiting for it to spring up. There

00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:29.660
were a few times I had to get out and shake them.

00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:32.900
Yeah, so that trail, we couldn't even see in

00:22:32.900 --> 00:22:37.220
front of us. And there's like a ravine to our

00:22:37.220 --> 00:22:40.940
right. And you couldn't tell with the snow where

00:22:40.940 --> 00:22:44.859
it started and where it stopped. And then there's

00:22:44.859 --> 00:22:49.400
a wall to our left where it goes up. And I couldn't

00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:52.460
see a goddamn thing in front of me with all the

00:22:52.460 --> 00:22:54.539
branches and stuff down. So I'm like, all right,

00:22:54.539 --> 00:22:57.500
guys. Full notice for any of you dudes behind

00:22:57.500 --> 00:22:59.480
me, like, we're going to get some scratch paint.

00:22:59.940 --> 00:23:03.160
Like, maybe with the ice, maybe not. But I was

00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:04.900
just kind of trying to let everyone know, like,

00:23:04.900 --> 00:23:08.319
hey, this is going to be tight. So I start plowing

00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:12.119
through it. And what are you doing over there?

00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:16.119
Alex. I was checking a notification. My phone

00:23:16.119 --> 00:23:19.859
started playing video. I'm so sorry. So it's

00:23:19.859 --> 00:23:24.779
an amateur hour. Yeah. So we start pushing through

00:23:24.779 --> 00:23:28.759
it, and I got my windshield wipers going because

00:23:28.759 --> 00:23:31.660
every time I touch a branch, I have a complete

00:23:31.660 --> 00:23:34.920
full windshield full of snow, and I can't see

00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:37.500
in front of me at all. And we're going, and we're

00:23:37.500 --> 00:23:40.700
going, and Leo, seeing his dad's like, holy shit,

00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:43.380
like, this is rough. And you could just hear

00:23:43.380 --> 00:23:47.259
us scraping everything. And you could see trees,

00:23:47.319 --> 00:23:50.259
like, moving behind me, and you could see him

00:23:50.259 --> 00:23:51.920
whipping around. I'm like, everyone make some

00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:54.200
space just in case you whip the guy behind you.

00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:56.220
You don't want to smack any windshields with

00:23:56.220 --> 00:24:00.579
the ice branches. And I get probably three -quarters,

00:24:00.859 --> 00:24:04.660
well, probably halfway through it. And Leo goes,

00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:07.359
I see headlights. I'm like, ah, they're probably

00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:11.119
on the other loop because this was kind of a

00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:15.980
Y loop. Yeah. And so I was like, yeah, they're

00:24:15.980 --> 00:24:17.500
probably on the other loop going the other way.

00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:20.640
We get going a little closer. Nope, headlights

00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:22.799
coming right down our fucking trail. And we're

00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:25.359
like, oh, great. And it was Derek and the other

00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:28.039
guys, they were taking it backwards. And I was

00:24:28.039 --> 00:24:30.440
like, fuck. And he's like, can you back up? Do

00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:32.789
you have anywhere to back up? And I'm like. right

00:24:32.789 --> 00:24:38.289
now no like and to Derek's credit because he

00:24:38.289 --> 00:24:43.529
was right they're like 150 yards back there was

00:24:43.529 --> 00:24:45.329
a really big opening that we could have backed

00:24:45.329 --> 00:24:49.210
up in but I had three brand new people that have

00:24:49.210 --> 00:24:51.650
never wheeled in a group like this and never

00:24:51.650 --> 00:24:56.109
done this type of wheeling uh with like the foliage

00:24:56.109 --> 00:24:59.150
and having a ravine on our side and I just just

00:25:00.060 --> 00:25:03.200
not confident that they could do it without potentially

00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:07.680
slipping off the side of the road or doing something.

00:25:07.779 --> 00:25:10.119
Like, I just, I really honestly didn't want to

00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:12.380
risk it. And I made the judgment call, probably

00:25:12.380 --> 00:25:14.339
the wrong call. I'm sure they probably would

00:25:14.339 --> 00:25:17.079
have been able to do it. And I was like, Derek,

00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:19.759
you guys got to back up. And they were all, you

00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:21.440
know, they were all upset because they were like,

00:25:21.460 --> 00:25:23.640
no, we got more people. And I'm like, I don't

00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:26.740
trust, you know, that these guys can do it safely.

00:25:27.589 --> 00:25:31.289
And they're like, oh, okay. So Derek's group

00:25:31.289 --> 00:25:33.910
just started fiddling around and trying to find

00:25:33.910 --> 00:25:37.009
ways to back up. And to be fair, they were in

00:25:37.009 --> 00:25:39.750
a really bad position too. Where they had to

00:25:39.750 --> 00:25:43.490
back up to was all mud. That was a trail like

00:25:43.490 --> 00:25:46.109
when you start to get to that next card and the

00:25:46.109 --> 00:25:48.150
bypasses were mud pits. Yeah, the vagina trail

00:25:48.150 --> 00:25:51.549
used to be. Yeah, yeah. So the bypasses were

00:25:51.549 --> 00:25:54.619
all mud that they had to go into. And so they

00:25:54.619 --> 00:25:58.380
really didn't have very many places. And so hindsight's

00:25:58.380 --> 00:26:01.059
20 -20. Maybe we should have backed up. It probably

00:26:01.059 --> 00:26:04.339
would have been easier. But again, whatever.

00:26:05.299 --> 00:26:08.819
Everyone lived. Nobody got stuck. So they finally

00:26:08.819 --> 00:26:11.700
got backed up. We drove through. They warned

00:26:11.700 --> 00:26:14.400
us that there was a pretty big mud pit that someone

00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:17.440
got stuck in. And we're all like, oh, yay. After

00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:19.759
that, we weren't really too enthused about it.

00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:22.700
And we got to the mud pit, and you could see

00:26:22.700 --> 00:26:25.039
there's like two -foot ruts going down where

00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:27.279
they broke through the ice. And I was like, yeah,

00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:29.680
we're not going to hit that. And so I stayed

00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:31.559
to the right, and sure as shit, I slid right

00:26:31.559 --> 00:26:33.900
down into the – my back wheel slid right down

00:26:33.900 --> 00:26:36.539
into the rut, and I hit it. And I just fucking

00:26:36.539 --> 00:26:39.359
hit the gas and went through it. No problem.

00:26:39.539 --> 00:26:41.759
Got through it. Warned everyone else. When in

00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:44.640
doubt, throttle up. And when I hit – I warned

00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:46.700
everyone else. I'm sitting there watching my

00:26:46.700 --> 00:26:49.619
rear camera. Everybody else took – Took the good

00:26:49.619 --> 00:26:51.480
line. They didn't slide in. They just drove right

00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:52.819
through it. I'm like, all right, well, fuck it,

00:26:52.839 --> 00:27:01.480
whatever. So we got to the next card. Oh, okay,

00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:04.579
sorry. My wife is locking the door so the kid

00:27:04.579 --> 00:27:08.000
doesn't come in and try to bother me. But we

00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:11.319
like the Jasper interruptions. Yeah, something

00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:15.940
like that. It brings me off my game. But, yeah,

00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:18.539
I think, and I lost count. I think going towards

00:27:18.539 --> 00:27:25.819
the last one. Hold on. Okay. Yeah, it should

00:27:25.819 --> 00:27:28.559
be the last. You were. Sorry, mate. At the off

00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:30.519
-camera section. So I thought I lost you guys.

00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:35.519
So, yeah, you know, internet errors. But, yeah,

00:27:35.539 --> 00:27:37.319
so we get to the last section. There's a bunch

00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:38.920
of people grouped up down there, and they're

00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:41.279
all kind of like, oh, we don't know if we should

00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:45.589
do this. I don't know. They're all like, well,

00:27:45.690 --> 00:27:47.410
we're going to take the bypass. There's a bypass

00:27:47.410 --> 00:27:50.089
there. And I'm like, bypass? And then I remember

00:27:50.089 --> 00:27:54.509
last year when we made a bypass. We didn't make

00:27:54.509 --> 00:27:56.769
it. We didn't make that bypass. It was already

00:27:56.769 --> 00:27:59.549
there. Immediately went to correct it. We didn't

00:27:59.549 --> 00:28:03.269
make it. It was there. It just wasn't well -traveled.

00:28:04.210 --> 00:28:06.970
Like, we were the ones that re -traveled it.

00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:13.400
Yes. It was a new bypass. So anyway, everyone

00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:15.619
else is sitting there like, yeah, we're going

00:28:15.619 --> 00:28:18.140
to try and take this. And you can't even, don't

00:28:18.140 --> 00:28:22.440
even try that one. It's not worth it. And here's

00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:25.019
a guy with a super duty. And to be fair, he couldn't.

00:28:25.019 --> 00:28:27.579
But he's like, yeah, there's no way anyone here

00:28:27.579 --> 00:28:29.900
is going to be able to make it. The articulation,

00:28:30.019 --> 00:28:33.019
it's crazy. You'd need a buggy to do it. And

00:28:33.019 --> 00:28:35.359
I'm like, we just did this two months, three

00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:38.470
months ago. I did it without any problems. And

00:28:38.470 --> 00:28:42.009
he's like, no, it's worse now. Whenever you did

00:28:42.009 --> 00:28:43.789
it, it's way worse. There's a big rut on the

00:28:43.789 --> 00:28:47.750
left. I'm like, yeah, I know. That's how they

00:28:47.750 --> 00:28:50.269
are. This is like the third time I've done it.

00:28:51.470 --> 00:28:54.690
So he's telling me that a couple other guys come

00:28:54.690 --> 00:28:57.089
in that did it last year. And they're like, yeah,

00:28:57.089 --> 00:28:58.950
no, it looks way worse. And I'm like, does it?

00:28:59.690 --> 00:29:02.450
They're like, yeah. I'm like, oh, man. And I'm

00:29:02.450 --> 00:29:03.930
sitting there talking to the group, and I'm like,

00:29:03.950 --> 00:29:06.609
maybe we don't do this one. And they're all like,

00:29:06.630 --> 00:29:08.529
well, is anybody going to try? And I'm like,

00:29:08.569 --> 00:29:12.730
I'll creep up. I'll try it. You know, worst comes

00:29:12.730 --> 00:29:15.109
to worst, I could just back out. And I get up,

00:29:15.130 --> 00:29:17.609
and, you know, I just throw it in four high.

00:29:17.950 --> 00:29:20.910
I don't even have it in four low yet. I creep

00:29:20.910 --> 00:29:22.410
pretty much through the whole thing, get about

00:29:22.410 --> 00:29:24.390
halfway through, and I get some articulation

00:29:24.390 --> 00:29:26.630
wheels start spinning. Throw it in four low,

00:29:26.849 --> 00:29:30.809
lock the... Keep crawling through everything.

00:29:30.930 --> 00:29:33.089
And we get up to the end where the people at

00:29:33.089 --> 00:29:35.970
the top of the bypass are grabbing cards. And

00:29:35.970 --> 00:29:37.849
there's two Colorados right up at the top by

00:29:37.849 --> 00:29:41.549
the cards. And we get to that last part where

00:29:41.549 --> 00:29:43.670
we get that real deep rut that you went into

00:29:43.670 --> 00:29:47.190
last year. And I'm trying to hug the right like

00:29:47.190 --> 00:29:50.569
I did last time to stay out of from doing body

00:29:50.569 --> 00:29:54.230
damage or whatever. And I do pretty good. I'm

00:29:54.230 --> 00:29:57.940
doing it. And then, boom, slide in. And I'm like,

00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:02.400
all right, well, fuck. And Leo was taking video

00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:05.539
with both cameras, phones. He had one going vertical,

00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:08.359
one going horizontal like this. And then he went

00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:10.619
from that to dropping both and grabbing the old

00:30:10.619 --> 00:30:13.299
shit handle because all of a sudden he was like

00:30:13.299 --> 00:30:17.039
in my seat. Yep. Nope. And I'm sitting there,

00:30:17.059 --> 00:30:21.019
my elbows touching the snow outside of the window

00:30:21.019 --> 00:30:24.289
because. That's, you know, people don't understand,

00:30:24.369 --> 00:30:27.490
like, how much that really throws you on, like,

00:30:27.490 --> 00:30:31.410
your side. Like, we weren't on our body, but

00:30:31.410 --> 00:30:34.150
I was touching snow with my elbow that was, you

00:30:34.150 --> 00:30:36.450
know, on the ground. Like, I could reach out

00:30:36.450 --> 00:30:43.029
on the ground and grab dirt. I so wish that I

00:30:43.029 --> 00:30:44.809
had been there when them guys were saying that

00:30:44.809 --> 00:30:46.390
because I'd have been like, all right, just got

00:30:46.390 --> 00:30:49.150
it and went up it. So that's what I did, and

00:30:49.150 --> 00:30:51.950
then I got to that, and I was like, well. And

00:30:51.950 --> 00:30:54.309
Leo's like, well, shit. And I'm like, yeah, no.

00:30:54.569 --> 00:30:56.630
I said, we're good, we're good. I said, we're

00:30:56.630 --> 00:31:00.049
not scraping body or anything. I try to go for

00:31:00.049 --> 00:31:03.630
it a little bit. I can go for it a little bit,

00:31:03.710 --> 00:31:06.190
but I'm worried if I send it, I'm going to run

00:31:06.190 --> 00:31:09.289
into those Colorados. So I'm like, hey, can you

00:31:09.289 --> 00:31:12.269
guys move the Colorados? I back up. No problem

00:31:12.269 --> 00:31:15.450
backing up at all. I try to go again. I'm just

00:31:15.450 --> 00:31:18.410
not getting it. And then one of the guys from

00:31:18.410 --> 00:31:20.230
the Colorados, I can't forget his name. He's

00:31:20.230 --> 00:31:22.549
really cool. I think he's got the black one.

00:31:23.170 --> 00:31:26.289
Probably Jack's. Yep. Yeah, Jackson. He got the

00:31:26.289 --> 00:31:27.670
Colorado out of the way, and then he's helping

00:31:27.670 --> 00:31:29.369
try to, like, spot me. He's like, yeah, let's

00:31:29.369 --> 00:31:31.750
just back it up more. And you just try to take

00:31:31.750 --> 00:31:33.190
the full right side again. I'm like, yeah, yeah,

00:31:33.190 --> 00:31:36.529
sure. So I back it up. I am actually grabbing

00:31:36.529 --> 00:31:39.029
the right side this time. My tires are. So I'm

00:31:39.029 --> 00:31:40.450
like, oh, cool. I'm going to be able to hop up

00:31:40.450 --> 00:31:43.650
here. And I go from me, this is the trail here.

00:31:43.849 --> 00:31:45.349
This might, you know, just think of a straight.

00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:48.960
And my rear tire, I start sliding down, my rear

00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:51.440
tire hits the rut, and all of a sudden I'm crawling

00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:55.579
sideways the trail. So, like, my top front end

00:31:55.579 --> 00:31:59.079
is on the right high part of the trail. Yeah,

00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:04.000
and I was. I crab crawled for about, I don't

00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:07.549
know, four feet. I almost got out of it until

00:32:07.549 --> 00:32:11.109
I pretty much lost traction and locked myself

00:32:11.109 --> 00:32:15.549
sideways in the trail, completely sideways. I'm

00:32:15.549 --> 00:32:17.490
like, well, shit. So I try to back up. I could

00:32:17.490 --> 00:32:20.089
feel I'm hung up on my bumper along the bank.

00:32:20.289 --> 00:32:23.900
I try to go forward. I just spin. And Jackson's

00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:26.099
like, yeah, oh, that's fucking weird. And then

00:32:26.099 --> 00:32:28.440
I hear Shane out of the back corner going, how

00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:33.799
the fuck did you do that? I'm like, I don't know.

00:32:33.819 --> 00:32:36.519
We're just hanging out here. And so Jackson's

00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:38.519
like, well, you want me to winch you? And I was

00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:40.920
like, yeah, probably. So he hooked up to the

00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:43.099
winch to the front. He moved me probably like

00:32:43.099 --> 00:32:45.720
four or so inches, and that was just enough to

00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:48.740
keep me up on the trail. My other tire grabbed,

00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:52.549
and then boom, I was right up. I crawled right

00:32:52.549 --> 00:32:54.150
up the right. They told me to stop because I

00:32:54.150 --> 00:32:56.109
was going to run over the line because I was

00:32:56.109 --> 00:32:58.690
just like, fuck, I got to go. So they finally

00:32:58.690 --> 00:33:01.549
grabbed the line and started pulling it, and

00:33:01.549 --> 00:33:04.009
I just drove right up and was out. And everybody's

00:33:04.009 --> 00:33:06.670
like, oh, shit, you got it. I'm like, yeah. I

00:33:06.670 --> 00:33:10.990
was like, Shane, you next? He's like, nah. So

00:33:10.990 --> 00:33:17.109
nobody else did it in that group. So I was the

00:33:17.109 --> 00:33:19.250
only one there. I was the first one to do it.

00:33:19.690 --> 00:33:21.990
And I was the only one of that large group to

00:33:21.990 --> 00:33:24.369
do it. So I was like, hey, cool, good job me.

00:33:25.250 --> 00:33:28.470
And so we got that. We drove off. And as we were

00:33:28.470 --> 00:33:31.809
getting ready to drive off, Yamber started walking

00:33:31.809 --> 00:33:34.690
up it and saw that I was up there. And he's like,

00:33:34.750 --> 00:33:36.829
yeah, we're going to go up here. I'm like, yeah,

00:33:36.849 --> 00:33:39.869
well, I know you could do it. That's no problem

00:33:39.869 --> 00:33:43.190
for yours. And he did. He just crawled his right

00:33:43.190 --> 00:33:46.569
up and then busted to built. They got up there.

00:33:47.069 --> 00:33:49.849
And they crawled it like nothing. Like you could

00:33:49.849 --> 00:33:51.930
barely even tell. When they went through it,

00:33:51.970 --> 00:33:53.910
it looked like there was nothing even going on.

00:33:54.309 --> 00:33:57.009
Yeah. Damn near straight. I'm like, all right,

00:33:57.089 --> 00:34:01.250
whatever. So we got out of that. We're just,

00:34:01.250 --> 00:34:04.049
you know, chilling. I was excited. And I was

00:34:04.049 --> 00:34:05.849
gloating a little bit because I was like, ah,

00:34:06.029 --> 00:34:09.849
like I'm the only one that got it. Ah. And finally,

00:34:10.010 --> 00:34:11.349
I'm like, fuck, how are we going to get out of

00:34:11.349 --> 00:34:14.610
here? And I didn't have that planned out. So

00:34:14.610 --> 00:34:16.980
I'm like, you know, they have. So we're sitting

00:34:16.980 --> 00:34:18.760
on nav for a couple of minutes and we're like,

00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:20.820
all right, I think we found a spot. All right,

00:34:20.820 --> 00:34:22.380
guys, going to have to follow me. This might

00:34:22.380 --> 00:34:24.059
get shitty. I don't know. I don't know what the

00:34:24.059 --> 00:34:26.780
trail is going to look like. And, you know, it

00:34:26.780 --> 00:34:28.980
wasn't bad. Everything else was just pretty much

00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:33.380
just dirt road to get out. And we got out of

00:34:33.380 --> 00:34:35.300
the trail, did that blue trail. That wasn't even

00:34:35.300 --> 00:34:39.400
hard and got out of that. Connected to a main

00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:42.599
road. And then right before we hit concrete,

00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:45.969
we decided to air up. Somehow the exact same

00:34:45.969 --> 00:34:48.329
place we aired up front at last time, last year,

00:34:48.389 --> 00:34:53.170
on that dirt road next to the field. And your

00:34:53.170 --> 00:34:55.170
brother pulls up. He's like, I don't have a compressor.

00:34:55.409 --> 00:34:58.210
I'm like, all right, well, I figured. Someone

00:34:58.210 --> 00:35:02.630
wasn't going to have one. I was supposed to be

00:35:02.630 --> 00:35:04.090
his compressor. I was like, that's fine. I'll

00:35:04.090 --> 00:35:07.230
fill you up. No problem. So I get out. I'm hooking

00:35:07.230 --> 00:35:09.610
my compressor up. It doesn't turn on. I'm like,

00:35:09.650 --> 00:35:12.050
what the fuck? What's going on? Like, there's

00:35:12.050 --> 00:35:13.590
got to be something wrong with my Anderson at

00:35:13.590 --> 00:35:15.230
this point because there's no reason why my compressor

00:35:15.230 --> 00:35:17.869
wouldn't turn on. So I'm using my Leatherman

00:35:17.869 --> 00:35:20.829
to, like, open that sheet metal bolt or screw

00:35:20.829 --> 00:35:24.349
that I put in, pull it out. Fucking negative

00:35:24.349 --> 00:35:28.849
cable is cracked right where it meets up with

00:35:28.849 --> 00:35:30.650
the Anderson, and I kind of flex it a little

00:35:30.650 --> 00:35:32.989
bit, and boom, just breaks free. There's a fuck

00:35:32.989 --> 00:35:36.110
ton of, like, corrosion on the inside. So I'm

00:35:36.110 --> 00:35:38.510
like, ah, fuck. So I went to go use my jumper

00:35:38.510 --> 00:35:43.130
cables. And hooked those up. And I hooked those

00:35:43.130 --> 00:35:45.429
up to the positive and negative. The other side

00:35:45.429 --> 00:35:49.909
of the jumper cable came right off. The negative

00:35:49.909 --> 00:35:54.130
end just like fell off as I was doing that. So

00:35:54.130 --> 00:35:55.409
I'm like, all right, well, I'll just touch the

00:35:55.409 --> 00:35:57.730
negative to it. Touch the negative, got sparks.

00:35:57.969 --> 00:36:00.530
I'm like, that's weird. Why am I getting sparks?

00:36:01.150 --> 00:36:04.150
And so I tried it again, sparks again. And it

00:36:04.150 --> 00:36:06.510
was like sparks like welding. It was not power

00:36:06.510 --> 00:36:10.239
sparks. It was like I had them mixed up. But

00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:15.019
I couldn't. I just plugged the Andersons in to

00:36:15.019 --> 00:36:17.820
the jumper, right? So I just plugged the Anderson

00:36:17.820 --> 00:36:22.059
from the Thor's Lightning to the Anderson to

00:36:22.059 --> 00:36:25.320
the jumper cables. I'm wondering if I might have

00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:28.599
gotten the jumper cable Anderson flip -flopped.

00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:35.420
Because I haven't really used those. Yeah, that's

00:36:35.420 --> 00:36:38.659
possible. thinking i did was i shorted out the

00:36:38.659 --> 00:36:43.239
fuse in the thor's lightning because when i was

00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:46.619
like fuck it like i gotta air up like and i gotta

00:36:46.619 --> 00:36:49.280
air him up i just cut the ends off of the anderson

00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:53.460
on the thor's lightning and uh your brother was

00:36:53.460 --> 00:36:55.139
talking to me for a second then the other guy

00:36:55.139 --> 00:36:58.000
came up and was asking what was wrong and in

00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.579
that process i forgot which one was the positive

00:37:00.579 --> 00:37:04.530
and negative because they're both black I'm like,

00:37:04.570 --> 00:37:08.010
this is exactly why I need the fucking, the tube,

00:37:08.130 --> 00:37:11.929
you know, the labels on here. I need to be able

00:37:11.929 --> 00:37:15.309
to label these. So I'm like, all right. So I

00:37:15.309 --> 00:37:17.590
go and touch them on the battery. Nothing happens.

00:37:17.989 --> 00:37:20.510
Switch sides. Oh, fuck it. Maybe different side.

00:37:20.550 --> 00:37:23.530
Nothing happens. I'm like, all right. Well, now

00:37:23.530 --> 00:37:25.750
I'm fucked because if I didn't fry it, I fried

00:37:25.750 --> 00:37:29.530
it now. So I'm pretty sure it's a fuse. I got

00:37:29.530 --> 00:37:31.460
to take it apart. I actually brought it inside

00:37:31.460 --> 00:37:34.500
today to dry out and warm up so I could take

00:37:34.500 --> 00:37:37.639
the casing off. I ended up just throwing it back

00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:40.659
in my truck, packing everything up. They used,

00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:44.639
one of the other guys had a Milwaukee pump. So

00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:47.139
your brother used that. And I'm like, I will

00:37:47.139 --> 00:37:49.519
just, we're running out of time. I'm like, it's

00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:55.800
4 .30. We got to be there. So I just drove. I'm

00:37:55.800 --> 00:38:00.090
like, I'm going 45. you guys can follow or you

00:38:00.090 --> 00:38:01.349
can pass me. And they're like, we don't know

00:38:01.349 --> 00:38:02.929
how to get there, so we're going to follow you.

00:38:03.030 --> 00:38:05.329
I'm like, all right, cool. So we get to the bowling

00:38:05.329 --> 00:38:07.030
alley. I'm like, I'm just going to fill up the

00:38:07.030 --> 00:38:11.289
gas station later. We do that, and I'm sitting

00:38:11.289 --> 00:38:13.369
there talking to the guys, and everyone's asking,

00:38:13.530 --> 00:38:16.550
you know, well, who did the obstacle? I'm like,

00:38:16.610 --> 00:38:18.809
yeah, it was me. They're like, oh, you actually

00:38:18.809 --> 00:38:21.670
made it? I'm like, yeah. And then Joe's like,

00:38:21.769 --> 00:38:25.349
well, I did too. I'm like, cool. Dang it. So

00:38:25.349 --> 00:38:28.909
someone else actually got to do it. And, yeah,

00:38:29.010 --> 00:38:32.449
Alex and everyone else were there. We did the

00:38:32.449 --> 00:38:37.309
giveaways, and I had a trash hand. And I thought

00:38:37.309 --> 00:38:40.690
I had a three of a kind, but that's not a thing

00:38:40.690 --> 00:38:42.530
because it has to be, like, three of the same

00:38:42.530 --> 00:38:48.489
number and suit. Right, right. Yeah, we had three

00:38:48.489 --> 00:38:50.909
spades. Well, we had four spades in a club or

00:38:50.909 --> 00:38:53.730
something like that. I don't remember. And, yeah,

00:38:53.809 --> 00:38:55.489
it wasn't any hands, so we had nothing. We had

00:38:55.489 --> 00:38:58.679
a trash hand. And then coming to find out people

00:38:58.679 --> 00:39:02.780
were actually picking the hand they wanted. And

00:39:02.780 --> 00:39:07.019
I understand that confusion. And when I looked

00:39:07.019 --> 00:39:10.360
back at the comments in Facebook, Derek said

00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:13.420
yes to do that. And I was like, fuck. Because

00:39:13.420 --> 00:39:16.119
our group would have had the best hand because

00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:19.300
we pretty much hit all of those first. We hit

00:39:19.300 --> 00:39:21.619
a lot of those obstacles first. So we would have

00:39:21.619 --> 00:39:25.519
had a really good hand for the first half. until

00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:27.480
we started running into people doing them backwards.

00:39:27.780 --> 00:39:34.139
So it's okay. I think the rewards were there

00:39:34.139 --> 00:39:36.980
was a Trey. I don't remember what it's called.

00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:40.400
Trey USA or something like that. It was a diff.

00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:43.159
Yeah, diff breathing kit. Trey 4x4. Yep. And

00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:48.239
then something else. Oh, it was like camp lighting.

00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:51.519
So those are the main prizes. And then Busted

00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:53.500
to Build was really cool. They put up a prize

00:39:53.500 --> 00:39:56.320
pack. That was super cool then because they absolutely

00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:58.420
didn't have to do that either, but they put up

00:39:58.420 --> 00:40:01.760
some prize packs together, and they gave one

00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:06.119
out to whoever had the smallest tires and whoever

00:40:06.119 --> 00:40:10.659
got stuck the most, which I don't remember. I

00:40:10.659 --> 00:40:14.860
think it came into a tie, but I think it was...

00:40:14.860 --> 00:40:21.199
It was Rivian that won that one. It was a tie,

00:40:21.340 --> 00:40:24.719
but he got stuck the worst. I think it was. So,

00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:27.320
yeah, that was a lot of fun. And we sat there.

00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:30.440
We all kind of, like, forego dinner because last

00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:35.119
time dinner took forever. Good pizza and stuff.

00:40:35.300 --> 00:40:38.579
I think last time me and Shane left at, like,

00:40:38.579 --> 00:40:44.360
10 with our pizzas finally. Me and Mark actually

00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:47.380
left before the giveaways because we both had

00:40:47.380 --> 00:40:48.900
to work early in the morning. We were like, yep,

00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:51.659
we're out. To be honest, I was more there for

00:40:51.659 --> 00:40:54.219
just being there and not actually participating

00:40:54.219 --> 00:40:57.199
in the whole thing. Yeah, I didn't really care

00:40:57.199 --> 00:40:59.360
about the giveaway. I was just there to do it.

00:40:59.619 --> 00:41:04.000
I was just drawing random cards to make it harder

00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:05.840
for everyone else. I didn't even care. Yeah,

00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:08.440
I think at this point we were all kind of just

00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:11.320
there for the camaraderie, just to be out there

00:41:11.320 --> 00:41:13.960
with our friends. And the poker run's a good

00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:15.739
opportunity to meet people you haven't seen in

00:41:15.739 --> 00:41:18.510
months. And that was my... Even Leo kind of made

00:41:18.510 --> 00:41:22.210
a comment and talked to me. She was like, Leo

00:41:22.210 --> 00:41:25.429
says you talk a lot. I'm like, yeah, I do. Especially

00:41:25.429 --> 00:41:27.369
when you're meeting up with like some of your

00:41:27.369 --> 00:41:29.929
good friends you haven't seen in months. Like

00:41:29.929 --> 00:41:32.530
some of these guys I haven't seen half the summer

00:41:32.530 --> 00:41:36.309
since summertime. And, you know, because I didn't

00:41:36.309 --> 00:41:39.010
know Riggs and Coffey or some of them I haven't

00:41:39.010 --> 00:41:42.949
met at all. Yeah, they're mostly on the east

00:41:42.949 --> 00:41:45.010
side of the state, so this is one of their events

00:41:45.010 --> 00:41:47.329
that they can get to us. Yeah, so a lot of the

00:41:47.329 --> 00:41:50.130
times you're meeting a lot of people, you're

00:41:50.130 --> 00:41:52.369
re -meeting, you're visiting a lot of these people,

00:41:52.449 --> 00:41:55.570
and it's just a really good event to branch out,

00:41:55.690 --> 00:41:59.110
talk to people, get to know. I mean, we made

00:41:59.110 --> 00:42:01.550
some new friends. I think the Rivian guy added

00:42:01.550 --> 00:42:04.090
me on Instagram. He's got a couple of cool videos

00:42:04.090 --> 00:42:09.550
of him driving around. He's a cool guy in general.

00:42:09.900 --> 00:42:13.280
Yeah, we got some cool videos. I got to actually

00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:16.260
meet some of the faces behind, some of the people

00:42:16.260 --> 00:42:19.500
I've followed on Instagram and never really met

00:42:19.500 --> 00:42:25.000
in person. So it's a really great event for that.

00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:30.019
I don't know. We had fun. I mean, honestly, it

00:42:30.019 --> 00:42:32.619
was way better this year than it was last year

00:42:32.619 --> 00:42:35.360
for me. I don't know about you guys. Overall,

00:42:35.739 --> 00:42:39.420
I think I liked it better this year. It would

00:42:39.420 --> 00:42:41.739
have been way better if I got to wheel. Yeah.

00:42:42.519 --> 00:42:46.780
Things happen. So you guys heard my whole story.

00:42:47.260 --> 00:42:50.300
Let's break off to Alex and Mark's part of the

00:42:50.300 --> 00:42:52.860
story where they break off because they have

00:42:52.860 --> 00:43:01.940
their own little story here. Yeah. So short story

00:43:01.940 --> 00:43:04.039
real quick. If you have an issue with alternating

00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:07.230
battery. Even though supposedly your alternator

00:43:07.230 --> 00:43:09.789
is fine, just replace the alternator. You had

00:43:09.789 --> 00:43:11.409
a trouble with it, you might as well replace

00:43:11.409 --> 00:43:14.530
it. That's a short story. Now for the loans.

00:43:14.909 --> 00:43:19.809
And don't trust O 'Reilly's or AutoZone or any

00:43:19.809 --> 00:43:22.610
of those alternator testers because they're all

00:43:22.610 --> 00:43:26.489
fucking junk, dude. I don't know. There had to

00:43:26.489 --> 00:43:31.769
be some notification because I've had them work

00:43:31.769 --> 00:43:33.389
pretty good to tell you whether they're good

00:43:33.389 --> 00:43:36.840
or bad. But I kind of watched the constant voltage

00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:41.139
with my voltmeter because I'm petrified. I installed

00:43:41.139 --> 00:43:44.960
a voltmeter, a digital one, on my dash area so

00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:47.000
that I could constantly watch it because I've

00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:49.559
gone through two alternators in the past few

00:43:49.559 --> 00:43:53.619
years. Because you get a new one, and after,

00:43:53.659 --> 00:43:57.000
like, 50 -some, 100 -some miles, it goes bad

00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:02.159
again because it's a reman. So, like... But don't

00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:04.079
buy Raymans. At the time, that's all I had money

00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:08.659
for. Usually, it's the only thing in stock. That's

00:44:08.659 --> 00:44:13.840
also true. Of course, I get a new one for free.

00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.940
The warranty is great on that, but still, I have

00:44:16.940 --> 00:44:20.880
to pull it out and put a new one back in. I'm

00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:22.860
always watching that. There had to have been

00:44:22.860 --> 00:44:27.139
some kind of telltale sign that that one was

00:44:27.139 --> 00:44:30.780
going bad again. I don't know. I have no idea.

00:44:31.210 --> 00:44:33.010
Was it the actual alternator? You didn't have

00:44:33.010 --> 00:44:34.550
anything going wrong with, like, the belt or

00:44:34.550 --> 00:44:41.429
anything, right? No. Not majorly. The only reason

00:44:41.429 --> 00:44:44.150
why I think it was the alternator, because you

00:44:44.150 --> 00:44:46.610
can watch it when it looks like it engaged, but

00:44:46.610 --> 00:44:49.030
it jumped up, like, .3 and then dropped right

00:44:49.030 --> 00:44:51.010
back down to where it was. Yeah, it must have

00:44:51.010 --> 00:44:53.670
been having some issues. So, to me, it was, like,

00:44:53.690 --> 00:44:56.210
partially engaging, but not. Yeah, so you guys

00:44:56.210 --> 00:44:58.570
ended up peeling off, and then you went to O

00:44:58.570 --> 00:45:03.000
'Reilly's, right? Because that's usually Alex's

00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:05.260
favorite, so I'm assuming that's O 'Reilly's.

00:45:05.500 --> 00:45:10.199
Well, because we have a company. Yeah, shop discount.

00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:14.099
Not judging. It's not just because my wife works

00:45:14.099 --> 00:45:16.199
at AutoZone or anything. I'm just saying usually

00:45:16.199 --> 00:45:21.179
that's Alex's favorite. We can almost get parts

00:45:21.179 --> 00:45:24.440
half off. It's kind of hard not to go to them.

00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:29.230
Oh, I don't blame you. We actually, so. My roommate,

00:45:29.449 --> 00:45:33.389
his brakes were going bad on his car, so we went

00:45:33.389 --> 00:45:35.630
to get brakes for his, and they were like, he's

00:45:35.630 --> 00:45:37.989
got a Chevy Malibu, some little piece of shit.

00:45:38.349 --> 00:45:43.849
But they were like $279 or something like that,

00:45:43.949 --> 00:45:46.050
and then I put in my account, and it knocked

00:45:46.050 --> 00:45:49.550
it down to like $105. What's crazy about that,

00:45:49.630 --> 00:45:52.869
just for a tangent real quick, is that that's

00:45:52.869 --> 00:45:57.460
just part of the markup for him. Like, they're

00:45:57.460 --> 00:45:59.280
not even at cost there. They're still marked

00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:02.739
up. So, like, people who make parts make a crazy

00:46:02.739 --> 00:46:06.360
amount of money on parts. Just absolutely. And,

00:46:06.420 --> 00:46:08.239
of course, that's why they make them to fail.

00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:10.199
So you have to keep buying them. Just saying.

00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:15.159
Yeah, because with our discount, a lot of times

00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:17.480
we get damn near O 'Reilly's price for them,

00:46:17.539 --> 00:46:21.360
which is pretty nice. Not every part's that way,

00:46:21.460 --> 00:46:25.039
but a lot of them end up that way. But, yes.

00:46:27.099 --> 00:46:33.800
Yeah, so we get his alternator out, get the new

00:46:33.800 --> 00:46:37.579
one in, and then realize his belt's bad. So then

00:46:37.579 --> 00:46:39.920
we had to drop the skid plate to put the new

00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:47.119
belt on. Pain in the ass. Then... Then... Oh,

00:46:47.139 --> 00:46:48.760
yeah, we haven't even gotten through this weekend.

00:46:48.860 --> 00:46:51.199
We're at an hour, and we still got, like, two

00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:53.900
more major things to get through. So then...

00:46:54.570 --> 00:46:57.110
So yeah, we get Mark's alternator changed. We

00:46:57.110 --> 00:46:59.550
go changing cards, then we go home. That's it.

00:46:59.989 --> 00:47:02.750
The rest of that was easy. Then the next day,

00:47:02.869 --> 00:47:05.909
I just get this random picture on our group chat

00:47:05.909 --> 00:47:09.570
of every single component of Mark's truck laid

00:47:09.570 --> 00:47:13.309
out. Every accessory. Pretty close, dude. Just

00:47:13.309 --> 00:47:16.030
the pulleys and the freaking belt that got chewed

00:47:16.030 --> 00:47:20.570
up on the way into work again. That tells me

00:47:20.570 --> 00:47:22.469
that there must have been a pulley issue too,

00:47:22.550 --> 00:47:25.630
though. And that might have affected. Yeah. Oh,

00:47:25.690 --> 00:47:29.389
yeah. I already replaced the tensioner like two

00:47:29.389 --> 00:47:33.909
weeks ago. So. Yeah. Unfortunately, I have been

00:47:33.909 --> 00:47:37.389
dealt with three belts or destroyed three belts

00:47:37.389 --> 00:47:40.710
within three weeks. Technically two in one day.

00:47:40.710 --> 00:47:45.349
Scary spare belts, guys. Yeah. So. I wish I do

00:47:45.349 --> 00:47:47.349
have another spare belt because I don't know

00:47:47.349 --> 00:47:49.469
what's going to happen now. But I'm like, okay.

00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:56.539
Yeah, so Mark did his pulleys and everything

00:47:56.539 --> 00:47:59.980
again. Also, technically, before we went trailing,

00:48:00.059 --> 00:48:02.159
I had a feeling something was going to go out.

00:48:02.460 --> 00:48:04.159
I didn't think it was going to be the alternator.

00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:06.639
So I already had a pulley, and then I bought

00:48:06.639 --> 00:48:10.500
the lower one, my lower pulley, which is different

00:48:10.500 --> 00:48:14.019
from my other ones, which I figured that one

00:48:14.019 --> 00:48:16.659
out. So I have two upper pulleys, which is just

00:48:16.659 --> 00:48:18.659
bearing on wheels, while the lower one is like

00:48:18.659 --> 00:48:22.449
a beefed up bearing. Yep. He's like a thick boy

00:48:22.449 --> 00:48:29.769
and stiff. Yeah, so all Mark's accessories are

00:48:29.769 --> 00:48:32.070
new. All his pulleys are new. His belt's new

00:48:32.070 --> 00:48:36.070
three times. That's rough, but I've been there.

00:48:36.969 --> 00:48:39.570
Usually, yeah, if you can afford it, which half

00:48:39.570 --> 00:48:44.690
the time I can't, but if you can, replace them

00:48:44.690 --> 00:48:49.670
all and then buy spares of all of them. So with

00:48:49.670 --> 00:48:52.420
a Toyota, it's like, and i don't know i only

00:48:52.420 --> 00:48:55.219
have experience with my toyota so but with toyotas

00:48:55.219 --> 00:48:57.780
in general with the alternator lower yeah you

00:48:57.780 --> 00:49:00.800
go through muddy water a few times and that could

00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:05.000
be mine yeah and that could be all you need to

00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:09.760
ruin that whole set of pulleys uh go through

00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:12.320
the belt because of that and then the alternator

00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:15.610
so it's one of those things where like If you

00:49:15.610 --> 00:49:17.530
end up doing the overlanding thing and you end

00:49:17.530 --> 00:49:19.690
up taking your vehicle through water and you

00:49:19.690 --> 00:49:21.909
know it's going to go through water, you need

00:49:21.909 --> 00:49:24.409
to have a spare set of all pulleys, all belts,

00:49:24.550 --> 00:49:28.889
and if you can, a spare alternator to rotate

00:49:28.889 --> 00:49:33.730
out. Mark, isn't your alternator and Gavin's

00:49:33.730 --> 00:49:38.449
alternator in the same spot? He says it sits

00:49:38.449 --> 00:49:41.230
lower than his. We technically should be the

00:49:41.230 --> 00:49:43.659
same because we are the same engine. I find it

00:49:43.659 --> 00:49:45.480
hard to believe that they switch up the setup.

00:49:45.579 --> 00:49:50.340
I mean, mine's lower. I think it's weight. Mark's

00:49:50.340 --> 00:49:54.820
is lower than mine. Mark's is lower than mine.

00:49:54.860 --> 00:49:58.039
AC compressor. I know mine's towards the bottom

00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:03.219
of the engine, and that's quite... It's below

00:50:03.219 --> 00:50:06.260
the other pulleys. Gavin's... I would say mine's

00:50:06.260 --> 00:50:12.320
mid... Gavin's is also right above the AC compressor.

00:50:12.739 --> 00:50:15.599
I think I'm actually using the same alternator

00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:18.300
you do. I didn't have a spare. I would have gave

00:50:18.300 --> 00:50:20.239
it to you, but I think I use the same alternator

00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:23.820
because the Tacoma. There's only two alternators

00:50:23.820 --> 00:50:26.579
because one is the towing package and one is

00:50:26.579 --> 00:50:29.039
not. Well, the FJ alternator is different from

00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:34.800
the Tacoma alternator. Riddle me that. The Tacoma

00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:39.550
one puts the leverage. I'm looking at it now.

00:50:39.670 --> 00:50:42.190
The FJ alternator is the same as the one that's

00:50:42.190 --> 00:50:43.989
supposed to be in Mark's truck, but we did the

00:50:43.989 --> 00:50:46.650
higher amperage one, which is probably the one

00:50:46.650 --> 00:50:50.329
you've got. Because there's two different ones

00:50:50.329 --> 00:50:52.750
for the Tacoma, which one's the same as the FJ,

00:50:52.769 --> 00:51:00.329
the other one's not. Because for some reason,

00:51:00.349 --> 00:51:03.510
I was talking to a buddy when I was replacing

00:51:03.510 --> 00:51:05.210
mine, and he's like, just go with the Tacoma

00:51:05.210 --> 00:51:07.300
one. It's the same fitment because it's the same

00:51:07.300 --> 00:51:10.340
engine, but they have a higher amperage. I didn't

00:51:10.340 --> 00:51:12.599
specify when I got that alternator which one

00:51:12.599 --> 00:51:16.820
to get. I just got the Tacoma alternator because

00:51:16.820 --> 00:51:18.320
I didn't know there were two different ones,

00:51:18.460 --> 00:51:21.159
and that's what I got. So I'll have to make sure

00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:23.219
that that was a higher amperage one next time

00:51:23.219 --> 00:51:26.059
when I have to go through another one. But I'm

00:51:26.059 --> 00:51:27.659
going to go to Rock Auto. I'm going to buy the

00:51:27.659 --> 00:51:33.449
cheapest alternator I can. Then I will replace

00:51:33.449 --> 00:51:35.650
that one, and then the next time I find a parts

00:51:35.650 --> 00:51:38.489
store, I will warranty my old alternator, and

00:51:38.489 --> 00:51:44.670
I'll run the cheapo as long as I can, and I will

00:51:44.670 --> 00:51:50.630
just rotate them like that. Yeah, I highly recommend

00:51:50.630 --> 00:51:53.030
just buying the alternator that you would have

00:51:53.030 --> 00:51:55.469
in the truck anyway. That way, when you do a

00:51:55.469 --> 00:51:58.690
trail fix, it's just the fix. Yeah, effectively,

00:51:59.030 --> 00:52:03.090
I'd like to get to... of the same AutoZone warrantied

00:52:03.090 --> 00:52:05.389
alternators because I could just flip -flop them.

00:52:05.949 --> 00:52:10.070
So one goes out in a lifetime, which is crazy

00:52:10.070 --> 00:52:12.489
that they offer a lifetime with an alternator.

00:52:12.550 --> 00:52:15.170
Those go bad, like, every couple years, it seems

00:52:15.170 --> 00:52:19.449
like. And in our case, every couple months. And

00:52:19.449 --> 00:52:23.489
so I think that's the most replaced part. Like,

00:52:23.489 --> 00:52:26.449
I've replaced alternators more than brakes, which

00:52:26.449 --> 00:52:32.489
is probably also my fault, too. I have had, so

00:52:32.489 --> 00:52:36.050
the original alternator to my truck died two

00:52:36.050 --> 00:52:39.550
years ago. And then the one that I had replaced

00:52:39.550 --> 00:52:42.889
it with just died a couple weeks ago. So I've

00:52:42.889 --> 00:52:44.730
done it twice in three years. I've done it twice

00:52:44.730 --> 00:52:47.889
in three years as well. This would be the second

00:52:47.889 --> 00:52:55.440
one. Yeah, so after that whole fiasco. We had

00:52:55.440 --> 00:52:57.340
a pretty chill weekend of just playing games,

00:52:57.420 --> 00:53:01.099
really. Then Sunday night, I was headed to Fremont

00:53:01.099 --> 00:53:04.099
to get some groceries, and I came across this

00:53:04.099 --> 00:53:06.800
Ford Explorer that had went off the road somehow.

00:53:07.019 --> 00:53:09.360
The road was clear. I have no idea how this dude

00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:13.980
went down in a ditch. But he had... Yeah. So

00:53:13.980 --> 00:53:17.199
the back of his truck was against a sign, and

00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:19.159
the front of his truck was against a mailbox.

00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:23.949
So I kind of... I kind of wheedled him out the

00:53:23.949 --> 00:53:26.349
best I could and got him to a point where all

00:53:26.349 --> 00:53:28.989
I had to do was pull the front of his truck over

00:53:28.989 --> 00:53:33.469
like six to seven inches, right, so that I could

00:53:33.469 --> 00:53:36.010
just pull him straight out of there. And as I'm

00:53:36.010 --> 00:53:40.309
doing that, I just hear pop, and my bumper goes

00:53:40.309 --> 00:53:46.210
doop and points down. So I ended up ripping the

00:53:46.210 --> 00:53:49.239
top of my frame. where it was welded to the bumper

00:53:49.239 --> 00:53:51.900
and then broke all the welds from that point

00:53:51.900 --> 00:53:55.579
and bent the bumper down and it's funny because

00:53:55.579 --> 00:53:58.260
i made a reel about this and like it got pretty

00:53:58.260 --> 00:54:00.780
big and there's all these dudes just trying to

00:54:00.780 --> 00:54:03.159
slam me oh i wouldn't have towed from that angle

00:54:03.159 --> 00:54:05.980
anyway oh it's just user error and it's like

00:54:05.980 --> 00:54:08.159
dude how else are you supposed to get the front

00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:11.789
of that truck over without hitting anything Like,

00:54:11.829 --> 00:54:14.230
he was wedged in. Like, I'm not saying it's preferred.

00:54:14.349 --> 00:54:16.210
And I didn't have my toe strap with me because

00:54:16.210 --> 00:54:19.909
I'd taken it all out at this point. Like, I just

00:54:19.909 --> 00:54:22.610
had to pull him over a little bit to be able

00:54:22.610 --> 00:54:24.710
to winch him forward. When you're watching a

00:54:24.710 --> 00:54:26.750
video like that, and this goes for a lot of our

00:54:26.750 --> 00:54:30.090
videos, reels, anybody's, you only get part of

00:54:30.090 --> 00:54:33.349
the story. So the comments don't really help

00:54:33.349 --> 00:54:35.250
when you're trying to, like, be corrective and

00:54:35.250 --> 00:54:36.949
you're like, you have no idea what situation

00:54:36.949 --> 00:54:39.789
was really there. Like, we don't have a bird's

00:54:39.789 --> 00:54:43.449
eye view of the situation. This was a, who shot

00:54:43.449 --> 00:54:48.570
that anyway? Was that Kalen? No, my roommate,

00:54:48.690 --> 00:54:51.449
Ryan. I was like, damn, he got a cameraman for

00:54:51.449 --> 00:54:53.989
his recoveries? What the fuck? I'm like, I'm

00:54:53.989 --> 00:54:55.869
sitting there. I'm like, why don't we have cameramans

00:54:55.869 --> 00:54:58.989
for our last recovery? What the hell? So, yeah.

00:54:59.130 --> 00:55:02.030
Oh. I was about to say, I think someone would

00:55:02.030 --> 00:55:04.860
have critiqued. how I got out of my situation,

00:55:05.219 --> 00:55:07.800
but all I had was to sit around a tree and hook

00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:10.280
it. It would have been ideal if I had a tree

00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:13.219
saver. There will always be a hater, and that's

00:55:13.219 --> 00:55:14.940
how you know you're doing something right, when

00:55:14.940 --> 00:55:17.480
you start getting enough comments and shit that

00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:19.980
some of them are negative. There will always

00:55:19.980 --> 00:55:25.679
be a hater. Yeah, we got that kid out. I had

00:55:25.679 --> 00:55:28.719
to stop traffic for like two minutes. In that

00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:30.880
two minutes, an ambulance pulled up without their

00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:33.539
lights on or anything. They watched me break

00:55:33.539 --> 00:55:37.000
my bumper, and then the paramedic in the passenger

00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:39.400
side gets out as I'm disconnecting to pull forward

00:55:39.400 --> 00:55:41.159
and let him through. You've got to move your

00:55:41.159 --> 00:55:43.219
vehicle. I'm like, oh, you fucking prick. I know.

00:55:43.519 --> 00:55:50.739
We're working. It's crazy. Oh, and so was that

00:55:50.739 --> 00:55:52.340
it? Was that all of it? Because I just want to

00:55:52.340 --> 00:55:56.420
make sure. Okay. Yeah. So I did a follow -up

00:55:56.420 --> 00:55:58.579
because it was dark when I finally got home.

00:55:58.679 --> 00:56:01.539
I couldn't walk my truck and see what was really.

00:56:02.360 --> 00:56:06.500
If I had damaged anything, really. And I did

00:56:06.500 --> 00:56:08.960
the walk around. It's been raining all day today

00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:12.000
and stuff. And so I'm like, cool, I'll be able

00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:13.579
to see any scratches. I didn't really have any

00:56:13.579 --> 00:56:16.179
scratches, which makes sense because those bushes

00:56:16.179 --> 00:56:18.619
that we went through were covered in ice. So

00:56:18.619 --> 00:56:22.719
they probably wouldn't have scratched. But going

00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:27.059
through those bushes, I had so many of them grabbing

00:56:27.059 --> 00:56:29.579
up and getting pinched in between the awning

00:56:29.579 --> 00:56:34.480
that it actually ripped my. awning off of the

00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:38.420
mount it like snapped the it snapped the bolt

00:56:38.420 --> 00:56:42.539
or it ripped it out of the the channel and so

00:56:42.539 --> 00:56:44.639
my awning was just barely it was just hanging

00:56:44.639 --> 00:56:48.340
on by the two bolts in the in the back and so

00:56:48.340 --> 00:56:52.519
that was hanging off and i was like meh whatever

00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:56.099
like as far as damage goes that was probably

00:56:56.099 --> 00:56:59.079
best case scenario so i was cool that i just

00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:02.480
was like whatever um wrapped a strap around it

00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:06.260
called it a day it was like you know it for everything

00:57:06.260 --> 00:57:09.340
that we did that day and for all the stuff that

00:57:09.340 --> 00:57:11.320
i'm worried about already with my diff and everything

00:57:11.320 --> 00:57:16.940
my axle like if i rip my awning off well fuck

00:57:16.940 --> 00:57:18.960
it like it was barely a hundred dollar awning

00:57:18.960 --> 00:57:22.719
like i could just throw it back on no big deal

00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:26.119
um of course i had my fucking limb risers off

00:57:26.119 --> 00:57:31.090
and I made a reel about that, too, and I tagged

00:57:31.090 --> 00:57:40.429
Eagle Pursuit. Yeah, Eagle Pursuit. And I knew

00:57:40.429 --> 00:57:43.829
that he's an avid YouTube watcher as well, so

00:57:43.829 --> 00:57:47.510
I knew we'd get the joke. And I said, so what

00:57:47.510 --> 00:57:52.110
do you think about Limrisers now? Because Ozark

00:57:52.110 --> 00:57:56.489
Overlanders, they made a video about, like, useless

00:57:56.489 --> 00:58:01.730
items that people usually get and he said that

00:58:01.730 --> 00:58:03.929
in in that video he said that limb risers were

00:58:03.929 --> 00:58:05.969
useless so i made the joke i was like what do

00:58:05.969 --> 00:58:08.269
you think about it now and he goes he goes i

00:58:08.269 --> 00:58:11.610
bet you he changes mine then i'm like yeah i

00:58:11.610 --> 00:58:13.869
said i'd tag him if he if he would answer but

00:58:13.869 --> 00:58:16.469
i don't want to yeah i don't want to make him

00:58:16.469 --> 00:58:18.030
think that i'm like making fun of him or anything

00:58:18.030 --> 00:58:21.510
but in that situation with those bushes limb

00:58:21.510 --> 00:58:24.710
risers would have been mint but i didn't have

00:58:24.710 --> 00:58:27.480
them on I took them off and had them inside my

00:58:27.480 --> 00:58:29.880
door because I was worried that I was going to

00:58:29.880 --> 00:58:32.960
have some other issue with the battery because

00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:36.639
my battery had been dead. Turns out it was because

00:58:36.639 --> 00:58:40.460
auxiliary power was turned on the whole time,

00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:44.260
so it completely drained my battery. But I was

00:58:44.260 --> 00:58:46.320
worried that I had a cell die or something, but

00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:50.219
thankfully. Now, I got really worried when we

00:58:50.219 --> 00:58:52.079
were going through those bushes because my windshield

00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:56.710
wiper stopped working completely. It turns out

00:58:56.710 --> 00:58:58.349
it was because there was so much fucking snow

00:58:58.349 --> 00:59:00.829
and brush underneath the windshield wipers that

00:59:00.829 --> 00:59:03.550
they couldn't cycle down all the way. So I had

00:59:03.550 --> 00:59:05.949
to actually get out with my snow brush and clear

00:59:05.949 --> 00:59:08.449
all the snow and stuff out, and then they worked,

00:59:08.469 --> 00:59:11.010
and I was like, whoo, because I thought I was

00:59:11.010 --> 00:59:14.730
losing power. But, yeah, no, everything went

00:59:14.730 --> 00:59:16.849
good. It was a really fun poker run. We didn't

00:59:16.849 --> 00:59:19.989
have any really serious catastrophic failures.

00:59:20.590 --> 00:59:25.829
Nobody D -beated, which was great. Great success.

00:59:26.349 --> 00:59:30.230
Very good. Because that was, like, last year

00:59:30.230 --> 00:59:33.809
it was cold and shitty, and that was just a pain

00:59:33.809 --> 00:59:36.550
in the ass last year. It was not a big deal.

00:59:36.570 --> 00:59:39.190
Like, we got it done within, you know, in about

00:59:39.190 --> 00:59:42.409
an hour or so. But it was just a horrible spot

00:59:42.409 --> 00:59:47.510
for a DB to happen. And in the snow, I had, like,

00:59:47.510 --> 00:59:51.039
the shitty free. uh like what was it like two

00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:53.059
ton jack or something that i've been using as

00:59:53.059 --> 00:59:55.719
my off -road jack and that was sinking into the

00:59:55.719 --> 00:59:58.559
snow and sliding and it was like okay i need

00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:00.960
a new jack yeah yes i still haven't done that

01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:05.679
yet but like it still works still works it was

01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:10.460
free so yeah it was a good poker run man we should

01:00:11.789 --> 01:00:15.010
We should get Gavin one of the jack stand jacks,

01:00:15.010 --> 01:00:17.750
which last year, if my truck wasn't at the bottom

01:00:17.750 --> 01:00:19.809
of the hill with the jack stand jack, we would

01:00:19.809 --> 01:00:23.510
have used it. No, I think I have one in my car.

01:00:23.630 --> 01:00:28.269
It's a bottle style, but it's got a extended

01:00:28.269 --> 01:00:33.050
pad out so that it won't sink. But it's like

01:00:33.050 --> 01:00:37.730
a full -ton bottle jack. If you're going to do

01:00:37.730 --> 01:00:41.039
a bottle jack, do the jack stand jack. Because

01:00:41.039 --> 01:00:44.579
then you get... Does it have a jack stand on

01:00:44.579 --> 01:00:49.940
it? I'll share it to you guys later. Yeah, because

01:00:49.940 --> 01:00:52.719
if it... If you're already doing a bottle jack,

01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:59.780
you may as well do one that's... Yeah. Yeah,

01:00:59.820 --> 01:01:02.139
then you just lock it and now it's a jack stand

01:01:02.139 --> 01:01:03.420
and you don't got to worry about it collapsing.

01:01:03.619 --> 01:01:06.539
Like set up at the base with the... I think there's

01:01:06.539 --> 01:01:10.940
a pin there to lock it, but yeah. sounds about

01:01:10.940 --> 01:01:13.099
right that's what what i was reading that was

01:01:13.099 --> 01:01:16.019
probably the best bang for my buck the off -road

01:01:16.019 --> 01:01:19.360
jacks they're big um they're really expensive

01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:22.860
man like i don't i just can't see paying like

01:01:22.860 --> 01:01:25.980
three some hundred bucks for bigger wheels honestly

01:01:25.980 --> 01:01:29.460
it's pretty much the only yeah they look they

01:01:29.460 --> 01:01:31.119
look cool kind of the only difference really

01:01:31.119 --> 01:01:34.860
from a regular low boy or something is they just

01:01:34.860 --> 01:01:37.079
have bigger wheels i feel like we could do that

01:01:37.079 --> 01:01:41.820
at home And just use, like, casters or something

01:01:41.820 --> 01:01:43.860
and longer bolts and still be able to do it.

01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:49.340
So. So, yeah, you want something like this one

01:01:49.340 --> 01:01:54.300
I'm sending you right now. That is the best bang

01:01:54.300 --> 01:01:57.300
for your buck offer of jack you can buy. Yeah,

01:01:57.320 --> 01:01:58.300
I think that's what I have in my cart. Because

01:01:58.300 --> 01:02:04.519
it gives. Good. yeah that gives you one uh that

01:02:04.519 --> 01:02:06.300
pin you pull it out and it's height adjustable

01:02:06.300 --> 01:02:09.519
and then two it's got that switch up and down

01:02:09.519 --> 01:02:13.659
to put the put it in jack stand mode and they're

01:02:13.659 --> 01:02:16.199
only 80 bucks like it's by far the best thing

01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:18.400
you could buy it sucks that they haven't been

01:02:18.400 --> 01:02:20.920
back in tractor supply since that one year we

01:02:20.920 --> 01:02:24.559
bought them yeah i've not seen one back in tractor

01:02:24.559 --> 01:02:27.239
supply everyone keeps dude i had some really

01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:30.920
good uh really good like off -road stuff a while

01:02:30.920 --> 01:02:34.280
back, and they stopped making money on it. So,

01:02:34.420 --> 01:02:36.699
like, they sold all the good off -road lights

01:02:36.699 --> 01:02:38.619
that they had because they did have some good

01:02:38.619 --> 01:02:41.280
ones. They pretty much got rid of all the nice

01:02:41.280 --> 01:02:44.980
synthetic winches that they had. And let's see.

01:02:45.079 --> 01:02:47.960
Is it the Powerbilt, right? Yeah. That's exactly

01:02:47.960 --> 01:02:54.380
the one I have in here. Yep. Oh. Cat just came

01:02:54.380 --> 01:02:57.760
out with an even nicer one. Oh, yeah, that looks

01:02:57.760 --> 01:03:02.070
smaller. That's one ton more. Well, it's not

01:03:02.070 --> 01:03:07.369
small. It's a bigger. Yeah. I was saying, like,

01:03:07.429 --> 01:03:11.449
it looks shorter, like, to start. Yeah. Well,

01:03:11.530 --> 01:03:14.829
they've got adjustable. I don't know. The cat

01:03:14.829 --> 01:03:17.409
one just looks nice. They also don't have the

01:03:17.409 --> 01:03:20.829
jack stand corners like they usually do. The

01:03:20.829 --> 01:03:22.869
other one, this one. They do have an off -road

01:03:22.869 --> 01:03:25.170
trolley jack, if you look at that same selection.

01:03:26.010 --> 01:03:34.710
That's only $149 rather than $300. I see their

01:03:34.710 --> 01:03:40.750
off -road trolley jack that's 426. 149? Hold

01:03:40.750 --> 01:03:43.409
on, let me copy and paste. Huh. Because it says

01:03:43.409 --> 01:03:47.809
149 on mine. Oh, you're looking at the 301, Alex.

01:03:48.110 --> 01:03:51.530
He's looking at a bigger one. Yeah, check that

01:03:51.530 --> 01:03:52.730
link. There's the off -road trolley. Oh, yeah,

01:03:52.769 --> 01:03:55.070
look at that. Look at the car ATV. It's a two

01:03:55.070 --> 01:03:58.929
-ton. Yeah. The two -ton should be able to do

01:03:58.929 --> 01:04:01.289
it, right? Yeah, I don't know. It just doesn't

01:04:01.289 --> 01:04:06.460
have a lock. I just don't know how I feel about

01:04:06.460 --> 01:04:09.380
those floor jacks with big wheels on them. Yeah,

01:04:09.380 --> 01:04:11.920
I think they're kind of gimmicky. I'll be honest.

01:04:12.619 --> 01:04:15.539
I mean, you want to talk about gimmicky, you

01:04:15.539 --> 01:04:19.039
got O 'Reilly's tank tracks. No, that isn't gimmicky.

01:04:19.179 --> 01:04:25.340
The one with tank tracks is not a gimmick. O

01:04:25.340 --> 01:04:31.409
'Reilly's got them ensnared. No, it's super sick.

01:04:31.590 --> 01:04:34.630
It looks awesome. No, that is the future, man.

01:04:35.210 --> 01:04:40.090
Yeah, that's exactly why. It looks like the hail

01:04:40.090 --> 01:04:44.630
tank got turned into a jack stand. Dude, it's

01:04:44.630 --> 01:04:48.230
honestly, like, I don't see it ever being useful,

01:04:48.349 --> 01:04:50.010
but it looks fucking cool. As soon as you said

01:04:50.010 --> 01:04:53.530
tank, I'm like, if it's 40 green, this is all.

01:04:55.980 --> 01:04:59.360
It has a headlight, damn it. Oh, my God. Tank

01:04:59.360 --> 01:05:04.179
tough. You know what? If it was electronically

01:05:04.179 --> 01:05:07.579
assisted to move or something, I would be like,

01:05:07.619 --> 01:05:11.199
cool. That would be cool. Because the biggest

01:05:11.199 --> 01:05:13.320
issue with these floor jacks is getting them

01:05:13.320 --> 01:05:17.079
to move on uneven terrain. If it was electronically

01:05:17.079 --> 01:05:20.099
assisted, like with a controller or something,

01:05:20.199 --> 01:05:21.860
that you could actually get it to move under

01:05:21.860 --> 01:05:24.380
the car where you wanted it, I'd be like, shit,

01:05:24.460 --> 01:05:32.730
that's pretty dope. But that's interesting. $400

01:05:32.730 --> 01:05:38.809
for that thing. My lord. It's a three -ton. I

01:05:38.809 --> 01:05:42.170
wonder how easy those tape tracks will get destroyed.

01:05:42.409 --> 01:05:45.230
I guess. So I'm looking at reviews right now,

01:05:45.269 --> 01:05:49.190
right? On Reddit, of all places. Everyone says

01:05:49.190 --> 01:05:53.780
the best part about it is that it... It moves

01:05:53.780 --> 01:05:56.940
over terrain better than the Harvard Freight

01:05:56.940 --> 01:05:59.179
Jack. O 'Reilly's at the one stars, and they

01:05:59.179 --> 01:06:04.380
got, would not lift tank, would not roll in mud

01:06:04.380 --> 01:06:10.719
or dirt. The other one says, doesn't work outside

01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:13.980
at all. Dirt and gravel stops it dead in its

01:06:13.980 --> 01:06:20.619
literal tracks. So, literally. The thing about

01:06:20.619 --> 01:06:23.119
the O 'Reilly's reviews is that there was a meme

01:06:23.119 --> 01:06:25.500
for a while of just writing bullshit reviews

01:06:25.500 --> 01:06:28.739
on the O 'Reilly's website for this jack. This

01:06:28.739 --> 01:06:32.500
could be it because it says, so gravel gets stuck,

01:06:32.559 --> 01:06:34.599
stuck inside the track frames and completely

01:06:34.599 --> 01:06:37.039
locks the tracks from moving. Heck, it barely

01:06:37.039 --> 01:06:39.880
rolls on hard pavement. Save your money. What

01:06:39.880 --> 01:06:42.960
vehicle did you purchase this for? A 2004 AM

01:06:42.960 --> 01:06:49.579
General M1151 Humvee. Yeah, like. Literally,

01:06:49.619 --> 01:06:52.519
there was a meme for like six months of just

01:06:52.519 --> 01:06:54.800
roasting O 'Reilly's in their review section.

01:06:55.000 --> 01:06:57.300
But it returned it the same day. Hard to push.

01:06:57.460 --> 01:07:00.239
Hard to turn. Not what I expected. What was this

01:07:00.239 --> 01:07:06.860
for? A 2018 Ram. Went to order and not a real

01:07:06.860 --> 01:07:09.820
item. Tried ordering for government to test and

01:07:09.820 --> 01:07:12.340
was ignored. Tried ordering for 24 hours and

01:07:12.340 --> 01:07:15.500
ignored. No response. That one sounds like a

01:07:15.500 --> 01:07:22.130
meme one. Yeah, so that's the thing. Jacks are

01:07:22.130 --> 01:07:25.550
jacks. Having a jack is better than no jack.

01:07:26.210 --> 01:07:30.690
Like, I'm not a big fan of farm jacks, to be

01:07:30.690 --> 01:07:33.389
honest. I think they're more danger than they're

01:07:33.389 --> 01:07:36.949
worth, and a lot of the times overlanding with

01:07:36.949 --> 01:07:42.789
typical starter vehicles, you don't have a ton

01:07:42.789 --> 01:07:45.849
of points that you can actually jack off of.

01:07:46.360 --> 01:07:48.860
Like there are a lot of people like me, for instance,

01:07:49.059 --> 01:07:52.559
that I don't have welded sliders that I could

01:07:52.559 --> 01:07:55.900
hook that up to. So not having welded sliders,

01:07:55.920 --> 01:07:58.199
you could try to do a pinch point, but you can't

01:07:58.199 --> 01:08:00.960
because the body rounds out too far for you to

01:08:00.960 --> 01:08:03.760
actually get the lip of the farm jack on. So

01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:06.880
you're pretty much limited to, if you have a

01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:10.840
steel bumper, steel bumper or steel, you know,

01:08:10.840 --> 01:08:13.780
front bumper. And a lot of the times I don't

01:08:13.780 --> 01:08:16.550
have a steel front bumper. So I'm looking at

01:08:16.550 --> 01:08:19.310
rear bumper only. So God help me if anything

01:08:19.310 --> 01:08:23.789
else goes wrong. And even your rear bumper, you

01:08:23.789 --> 01:08:25.750
don't have anywhere to put that without taking

01:08:25.750 --> 01:08:28.109
your spare tire off. Because the only spot you've

01:08:28.109 --> 01:08:30.189
got on your rear bumper to put it is in your

01:08:30.189 --> 01:08:34.149
hitch receiver. So I've done it before. It was

01:08:34.149 --> 01:08:38.789
super sketchy. And I did it to the side part

01:08:38.789 --> 01:08:43.090
of my bumper to do just a corner. But still.

01:08:43.789 --> 01:08:46.449
The issue with those is they're so floppy. When

01:08:46.449 --> 01:08:48.170
you finally get them up to the height that you

01:08:48.170 --> 01:08:50.869
need them to, they want to teeter either side.

01:08:50.909 --> 01:08:55.649
There's no real stability with them. If you do

01:08:55.649 --> 01:08:57.729
it right, it's not a problem. But the problem

01:08:57.729 --> 01:09:00.770
is that that's not what it was. You know, back

01:09:00.770 --> 01:09:05.529
2016, 17, farm jacks were, there was a lot of

01:09:05.529 --> 01:09:09.279
education around them. Well, then end of 17 going

01:09:09.279 --> 01:09:12.659
into 18, it just became the thing to have a farm

01:09:12.659 --> 01:09:16.100
jack on your off -road truck. So you started

01:09:16.100 --> 01:09:18.439
seeing them just mounted to the hoods of Jeeps.

01:09:19.060 --> 01:09:21.319
I've done a lot. I've done recoveries with farm

01:09:21.319 --> 01:09:24.699
jacks. I've used them pretty much every way you're

01:09:24.699 --> 01:09:28.439
not supposed to and every way you are. And they

01:09:28.439 --> 01:09:31.140
are a useful tool, but nine times out of 10,

01:09:31.239 --> 01:09:33.560
having something else is the better move. To

01:09:33.560 --> 01:09:36.380
me, they're useful. They're better than nothing.

01:09:36.989 --> 01:09:39.569
and the nice thing is you can kind of use them

01:09:39.569 --> 01:09:42.409
as a come -along if you have the skill to hook

01:09:42.409 --> 01:09:45.850
them up right. But if you have a winch, and if

01:09:45.850 --> 01:09:48.890
you have almost any other jack, those are more

01:09:48.890 --> 01:09:54.329
useful. I used one as a winch for a long time

01:09:54.329 --> 01:09:56.449
with my DJ because I didn't want to spend the

01:09:56.449 --> 01:09:59.189
money on a winch. I've seen the horror stories.

01:09:59.390 --> 01:10:02.970
I watched Joe Yamber, and this was after the

01:10:02.970 --> 01:10:05.739
fourth time he's had to... take it out and put

01:10:05.739 --> 01:10:08.079
it back on because he had it mounted to his uh

01:10:08.079 --> 01:10:12.819
spare tire carrier um i watched him um he wasn't

01:10:12.819 --> 01:10:15.880
even near it but the handle started popping off

01:10:15.880 --> 01:10:18.720
on its own it it started the jack itself started

01:10:18.720 --> 01:10:22.760
messing up like it was a it was not well he didn't

01:10:22.760 --> 01:10:25.500
yeah so just the jack just started having the

01:10:25.500 --> 01:10:28.659
handle do this like gave up like it you could

01:10:28.659 --> 01:10:31.470
hear it go clink and then The handle flew up.

01:10:31.510 --> 01:10:33.489
It wasn't doing the teeter thing like you do

01:10:33.489 --> 01:10:35.590
when you just kind of let it go to go down on

01:10:35.590 --> 01:10:38.210
its own. It just went, you heard like this clink,

01:10:38.250 --> 01:10:43.930
and it turned out it bent. But, yeah, no, it

01:10:43.930 --> 01:10:46.909
went up. The handle went up once, uppercutted

01:10:46.909 --> 01:10:49.449
him right in the chin, and he just kind of like

01:10:49.449 --> 01:10:52.109
walked it off. But I was like, fuck. I saw that,

01:10:52.130 --> 01:10:54.689
and I'm like, hey, he wasn't even near it. It

01:10:54.689 --> 01:10:56.970
wasn't supposed to be doing anything. He wasn't

01:10:56.970 --> 01:11:02.590
even trying to like loosen it. I always secured

01:11:02.590 --> 01:11:06.449
my handles when I pulled them down to lock them.

01:11:07.689 --> 01:11:10.310
And then on top of that, the biggest problem

01:11:10.310 --> 01:11:14.470
with farm jacks is that we went from a time period

01:11:14.470 --> 01:11:16.550
where farm jacks were useful. And then when they

01:11:16.550 --> 01:11:18.970
started getting used for off -roading, the Chinese

01:11:18.970 --> 01:11:24.989
market flooded the farm jack market. And then

01:11:24.989 --> 01:11:29.090
now I want to trust. 98 % of the farm jacks because

01:11:29.090 --> 01:11:31.050
they're not the product that we used to get.

01:11:31.189 --> 01:11:33.510
I mean, you can go pick one up. You can go pick

01:11:33.510 --> 01:11:36.850
one up for 75 bucks. Now I spent 400 on my old.

01:11:36.930 --> 01:11:38.869
Oh yeah. I'm pretty sure I saw one for 50. I

01:11:38.869 --> 01:11:42.069
have one. I have a farm jack and I've used it

01:11:42.069 --> 01:11:46.470
a couple of times. And every time it was a way

01:11:46.470 --> 01:11:49.069
sketchier than it would have been to just throw

01:11:49.069 --> 01:11:52.949
a regular floor jack underneath it. And every

01:11:52.949 --> 01:11:55.800
time that I did use it. I should have and could

01:11:55.800 --> 01:11:59.539
have used a floor jack. It was just lazy. Yeah,

01:12:01.159 --> 01:12:03.659
and that's why we went to the jack stand jack.

01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:09.600
Yeah, it's not only safer, it takes up a little

01:12:09.600 --> 01:12:13.779
bit less space than a large floor jack. It has

01:12:13.779 --> 01:12:16.000
a jack stand on it, so you can let it rest on

01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:18.960
there and not worry about, because typical floor

01:12:18.960 --> 01:12:21.239
jacks don't. There are some that have locking

01:12:21.239 --> 01:12:25.439
pins, but typical ones don't. And plus you get

01:12:25.439 --> 01:12:28.939
a lot more, what is it, vertical rise typically

01:12:28.939 --> 01:12:33.760
out of the bottle size. Yeah. So you get a higher

01:12:33.760 --> 01:12:37.979
vertical push, raise, lift, whatever you want

01:12:37.979 --> 01:12:40.539
to call it on those. So they're kind of all around

01:12:40.539 --> 01:12:43.939
better with a smaller footprint. And typically

01:12:43.939 --> 01:12:46.460
those bottle jacks, like the ones that we have

01:12:46.460 --> 01:12:49.600
posted, which you can just look them up, they

01:12:49.600 --> 01:12:52.380
have a big square base. So they're really good

01:12:52.380 --> 01:12:56.180
for like sand. distributing all that uh yep you

01:12:56.180 --> 01:12:59.000
know distributing all the terrain so kind of

01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:04.100
the best all around for the most part all right

01:13:04.100 --> 01:13:06.060
boys i think it's time we go get that other episode

01:13:06.060 --> 01:13:08.960
done yeah yep all right well thanks for listening

01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:11.340
in guys and we will talk to you on the next one

01:13:11.340 --> 01:13:14.319
later