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ridered3 said:
Somehow I quit getting notifications for this thread so just got caught up. Glad you got to see Windrock with Alex since he knows that place so well but looked like a miserable fun trip temperature wise.

Our juggy has older PRP seats with their old heating elements. It makes me chuckle that the only vehicle we own with heated seats is a juggy with no windshield or doors but man is it nice to have.
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It was a fun trip in hindsight lol. I’ve always wanted to snow wheel so that was awesome and my first time. I’ve wheel with some snow on the tails but not several inches of hood snow. I’ll be back there for a week, meeting a buddy from back home and Alex again and hopefully stringing some good trails together.
 
TaltonOffRoad said:
It was a fun trip in hindsight lol. I’ve always wanted to snow wheel so that was awesome and my first time. I’ve wheel with some snow on the tails but not several inches of hood snow. I’ll be back there for a week, meeting a buddy from back home and Alex again and hopefully stringing some good trails together.
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Snow wheeling is always fun, once you warm back up/thaw back out! Last snow wheeling trip I went on was probably 8-10 years ago with 14'' of fresh snow on the ground and was in a full body XJ with a passable heater. Spent all day going nowhere, but it was fun.
 
Our time is coming to an end here in Wears Valley and its about time to head to Windrock. The next few months are going to be fun but tough I believe. I'll be at Windock for a week, then move to Choccolocco for several days, then bouncing around state parks in AL & GA for a week or 2 at a time. I say tough cause it will be a lot of setup and take down, all with the buggy, and it will be continuous until April when I get to Utah. This will be the real test, and when things get very real. A lot of wheeling going on as well.

Also, for the YouTube channel, I have decided to start a special series called "In the Shop" where I will be getting with builders in the areas that I'm in and doing a short interview, getting to know the builder and asking questions. Things like how the conversation looks when someone wants a turn key rig, time lines, budgets, hurdles, future plans etc. I just think that will be cool content that most gear heads like us would want to see.

For now I have already filmed and edited an interview with Scott Goforth. He is not a builder but his name in our world with tires seemed relevant and I was close. I already have several more lined up.

I don't think this is going anywhere but I sure am having a lot of fun doing it. I bought a GoPro and accessories and overall really just enjoy making videos and such. It's something I can constantly improve on and each time I get a little better and a little better. It's going to be something awesome for us to look back on years from now.
 
Sounds awesome on the various locations and the new series. This is like taking home videos to the next level for y’all.

I’d be interested in a segment on what it’s like driving the Kodiak as a DD in various towns.
 
ridered3 said:
Sounds awesome on the various locations and the new series. This is like taking home videos to the next level for y’all.

I’d be interested in a segment on what it’s like driving the Kodiak as a DD in various towns.
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Noted.

I have thought about doing a live thing on FB. It just feels so cheesy though lol. However, I’ve watched other people do it and I asked questions and enjoyed it. I just struggle with feeling like some internet fame thirsty person begging for people to interact with me or something. Maybe I’ll do it eventually, maybe not.
But either way I am collecting questions for a video in the near future and will address that. I’ll try to capture some parking footage or something to insert in there. It gets interesting, especially with the buggy on the back like it’s been the last week.

The truck itself gets a ton of attention, it’s x1000 with the buggy on the back. But sometimes it’s just not worth taking it off if I’m moving in a day or 3.
 
TaltonOffRoad said:
Noted.

I have thought about doing a live thing on FB. It just feels so cheesy though lol. However, I’ve watched other people do it and I asked questions and enjoyed it. I just struggle with feeling like some internet fame thirsty person begging for people to interact with me or something. Maybe I’ll do it eventually, maybe not.
But either way I am collecting questions for a video in the near future and will address that. I’ll try to capture some parking footage or something to insert in there. It gets interesting, especially with the buggy on the back like it’s been the last week.

The truck itself gets a ton of attention, it’s x1000 with the buggy on the back. But sometimes it’s just not worth taking it off if I’m moving in a day or 3.
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Sounds like a plan there. I don’t watch many Live social media posts but wouldn’t be interested in the Q&A topics for sure.

May need to print off a Spec Sheet for the truck and buggy so people can see what it’s got without having to ask you all the time (said from someone that would 100% start up a conversation with you based on the truck or buggy).
 
ridered3 said:
(said from someone that would 100% start up a conversation with you based on the truck or buggy).
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I will gladly talk about my truck or buggy anytime someone wants to ask. Or talk about their truck, or the truck across the street, or the one that just drove by lol.

Just drag your stuff on out to Windrock this weekend and we can talk truck all you want :cool2:
 
TaltonOffRoad said:
I will gladly talk about my truck or buggy anytime someone wants to ask. Or talk about their truck, or the truck across the street, or the one that just drove by lol.

Just drag your stuff on out to Windrock this weekend and we can talk truck all you want :cool2:
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Haha and similar here to vehicle wise.

After all this wetness, I’m starting to think you only like going to Windrock when it’s gross out there.
 
Well, folks wanted to know how I would deal with buggy repairs while out on the road. I didn’t expect to get balls deep in it this soon but here I am with a torn apart buggy at Windrock, just days before I’m supposed to be at Choccolocco.

Short, rough edit video due to time.

 
One of your wife's short videos came up on my videos and cool story. Good on y'all for living the dream... Keep us posted!
 
I’m stuck here at Windrock waiting on parts to arrive. I called ECGS and as always they took fantastic care of me.
I will have to extend my stay here an extra day and arrive to Chocco later. I’m hoping everything shows up Thursday. Hoping the rain isn’t too bad, and I’ll be putting it back together.
I ordered Chromos and Super Joints, with an extra stub shaft, and a Grizzly locker, bearings, seals, etc. I’m under the impression that the deck height of the Detroit and the Grizzly should be within 1 or 2 thou and I can use the same shims I remove and put them back the same way. I will measure and confirm first. I found a place in town that will press the new bearings on for me and then reassemble.

I am replacing the broken RCV shaft and those will be my spares, or spares I loan to someone else in need along the way.

I will have a roughly edited follow up video on the channel soon for the repair. And plan to do a video about our time here at Windrock, as well as a video of our review of the park and campground overall.

I do want to add that I have had many people reach out and offer help in many ways and it’s been incredible. It’s exactly the community I’d hoped to experience, I just hoped it wouldn’t be this soon lol.
 
I wound up staying at Windrock an additional week. There was a lot of rain heading thru Choccolocco and with the repairs I would have been a day late and then it just didn't seem worth loading it all up and going to stay in the rain. I did get to wheel an extra day at Windrock though and had a good time.

chaplinfj60 said:
what was the final verdict on repair parts needed? yukon and a spool or grizzly
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I went with a Grizzly Locker and Chromo Shafts with Yukon SuperJoints. There is now a video about it on the YT channel, and a couple more.

I'm now in Alabama and 1.5 hours from Hawk Pride, which I'm going to try to go Saturday. May try to slide down to Stoney Lonesome as well while in this area.

 
TaltonOffRoad said:
I wound up staying at Windrock an additional week. There was a lot of rain heading thru Choccolocco and with the repairs I would have been a day late and then it just didn't seem worth loading it all up and going to stay in the rain. I did get to wheel an extra day at Windrock though and had a good time.


I went with a Grizzly Locker and Chromo Shafts with Yukon SuperJoints. There is now a video about it on the YT channel, and a couple more.

I'm now in Alabama and 1.5 hours from Hawk Pride, which I'm going to try to go Saturday. May try to slide down to Stoney Lonesome as well while in this area.

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Glad you got it fixed and that’s great on Hawk Pride. While in that area, see if Rattlesnake Saloon is back open yet. It’s about 30 minutes from Hawk Pride and it’s a restaurant literally built into a cave. The food is meh, but cheap and it’s in a cave so pretty cool spot if open while you are around.

Slander said:
Hawk pride is fun, one of my top 5 favorite parks!
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I have a blast at Hawk Pride while a RBD. It’s also in my Top 5.
 
Long post.

I made the drive out to Hawk Pride yesterday. Didn’t realize there was an event going on until I’d already planned to go and meet some folks there. I don’t deal with large crowds very well. I went anyway, and it started off Rocky pretty much immediately. GPS showed the park a touch further down the road and I passed it, and I saw a big driveway and shop with tractors and such and it was plenty big enough for me to pull in and back out into the road to turn around, so that’s what I did. But when I pulled in there this guy appeared out of no where and absolutely lost his mind because I was turning around there. He comes up to the truck yelling and throwing his arms up and cussing me out. I’ve got my boy in the truck with me and logos for social media on the side of my truck so I tried to keep my cool with the guy and explain that I had no idea, was from out of state and just following GPS. He is enraged and not having it. My blood was boiling and there was no reasoning with this guy. I went on about my way while we were both yelling at each other. I need to see if that altercation it still on my dash cam.

Anyway I went on into the park which was jam packed and muddy as all get out. SxS had the buggies outnumbered 10:1 and it was evident. I watched the race and hung out with a friend I finally got to meet in person for the first time, till about 2pm and then we went and rode around for a few hours.
I was crawling an obstacle beside the main hill for the traffic to come and go to the race, and some idiot in a SxS rips up the hill in 2wd and pelts my buggy with rocks, hitting my boy in the face causing him to bleed. I backed off the obstacle and told my buddy I either needed to get into the trails away from everyone or just head home. So we went and wandered around.
Neither of us had ever been there and was just riding around blind, even though we had a map I found it hard to navigate. Apparently there is an active map but I didn’t have enough service to download it.

I have never seen so much trash littering the trails in a park. It was by far the worst I’d ever seen. We did a few cool things but spent more time riding around in circles it seemed.
Then I realized my motor was running 240° and my fan wasn’t working. Turns out I melted a relay. I swapped that out and rode a little longer but the mud and the crowd had finally done me in and I decided it was time to head back since I had nearly a 2 hour drive back “home”.

All in all it was a good day, I had fun with my boy and did a few cool things in the buggy. It was worth it all to get to spend the day with a guy I’d “known” online for a while and we had a blast talking about life and everything in between while watching the race.
Can’t say I have much interest in going back to HP, but I do realize it was an event weekend so the crowd was bigger than normal, and that I didn’t get to see much of it. It just seems like more of a SxS park to me.

I had planned to go to Stoney Lonesome this coming weekend but have decided to skip that. I’m so anxious to wheel out west I don’t even want to wheel here and I’m really just over all the mud and the awful SxS crowd. I know I will deal with that everywhere but I can’t take 4 weekends straight of dealing with rudest people in the world.
 
TaltonOffRoad said:
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I made the drive out to Hawk Pride yesterday. Didn’t realize there was an event going on until I’d already planned to go and meet some folks there. I don’t deal with large crowds very well. I went anyway, and it started off Rocky pretty much immediately. GPS showed the park a touch further down the road and I passed it, and I saw a big driveway and shop with tractors and such and it was plenty big enough for me to pull in and back out into the road to turn around, so that’s what I did. But when I pulled in there this guy appeared out of no where and absolutely lost his mind because I was turning around there. He comes up to the truck yelling and throwing his arms up and cussing me out. I’ve got my boy in the truck with me and logos for social media on the side of my truck so I tried to keep my cool with the guy and explain that I had no idea, was from out of state and just following GPS. He is enraged and not having it. My blood was boiling and there was no reasoning with this guy. I went on about my way while we were both yelling at each other. I need to see if that altercation it still on my dash cam.

Anyway I went on into the park which was jam packed and muddy as all get out. SxS had the buggies outnumbered 10:1 and it was evident. I watched the race and hung out with a friend I finally got to meet in person for the first time, till about 2pm and then we went and rode around for a few hours.
I was crawling an obstacle beside the main hill for the traffic to come and go to the race, and some idiot in a SxS rips up the hill in 2wd and pelts my buggy with rocks, hitting my boy in the face causing him to bleed. I backed off the obstacle and told my buddy I either needed to get into the trails away from everyone or just head home. So we went and wandered around.
Neither of us had ever been there and was just riding around blind, even though we had a map I found it hard to navigate. Apparently there is an active map but I didn’t have enough service to download it.

I have never seen so much trash littering the trails in a park. It was by far the worst I’d ever seen. We did a few cool things but spent more time riding around in circles it seemed.
Then I realized my motor was running 240° and my fan wasn’t working. Turns out I melted a relay. I swapped that out and rode a little longer but the mud and the crowd had finally done me in and I decided it was time to head back since I had nearly a 2 hour drive back “home”.

All in all it was a good day, I had fun with my boy and did a few cool things in the buggy. It was worth it all to get to spend the day with a guy I’d “known” online for a while and we had a blast talking about life and everything in between while watching the race.
Can’t say I have much interest in going back to HP, but I do realize it was an event weekend so the crowd was bigger than normal, and that I didn’t get to see much of it. It just seems like more of a SxS park to me.

I had planned to go to Stoney Lonesome this coming weekend but have decided to skip that. I’m so anxious to wheel out west I don’t even want to wheel here and I’m really just over all the mud and the awful SxS crowd. I know I will deal with that everywhere but I can’t take 4 weekends straight of dealing with rudest people in the world.
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Hate to read you had such a bad first time to Hawk Pride. I assumed you knew about the race weekend and was probably meeting with someone who knew the park or else I would have given you some pointers on that place.

Basically cruise down to watch the hills for a bit, then go as far away from there as possible to avoid all the trail gnats. We normally go to the top right side of the map or bottom left on busy weekends and hardly see a sole not in crawlers. Avenza/Carto Tracks has an awesome map for Hawk Pride and it’s somewhere you should give another shot with someone that knows where to take you. Generally it’s a pretty clean park so surprised to read that wasn’t the case.

Especially hate to read about your boy being injured. That entrance to the big hills sucks since it’s more or less a free for all for gnats and crawlers unfortunately.

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ridered3 said:
Hate to read you had such a bad first time to Hawk Pride. I assumed you knew about the race weekend and was probably meeting with someone who knew the park or else I would have given you some pointers on that place.

Basically cruise down to watch the hills for a bit, then go as far away from there as possible to avoid all the trail gnats. We normally go to the top right side of the map or bottom left on busy weekends and hardly see a sole not in crawlers. Avenza/Carto Tracks has an awesome map for Hawk Pride and it’s somewhere you should give another shot with someone that knows where to take you. Generally it’s a pretty clean park so surprised to read that wasn’t the case.

Especially hate to read about your boy being injured. That entrance to the big hills sucks since it’s more or less a free for all for gnats and crawlers unfortunately.

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I’d have been a lot better off had I thought to download that before heading there. Much better than the black and white copy I was given. I’m sure it’s a fine park, I just didn’t get to experience it is all.
 
TaltonOffRoad said:
I’d have been a lot better off had I thought to download that before heading there. Much better than the black and white copy I was given. I’m sure it’s a fine park, I just didn’t get to experience it is all.
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Totally understandable there. We’ve been 5 times for RBD (Biggest Wheelin Party of the Year) with 1500-2000 people there over the weekend. We’ve learned how to avoid the major traffic issues, get some great trail riding in (like 30 miles over two days which is a lot for a non-Windrock/Harlan place), and have awesome hang out time with all our out of state friends. Give her another shot someday.

How’s your son?
 
ridered3 said:
Totally understandable there. We’ve been 5 times for RBD (Biggest Wheelin Party of the Year) with 1500-2000 people there over the weekend. We’ve learned how to avoid the major traffic issues, get some great trail riding in (like 30 miles over two days which is a lot for a non-Windrock/Harlan place), and have awesome hang out time with all our out of state friends. Give her another shot someday.

How’s your son?
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He’s fine, it was a very minor deal, just rude is all. That hill wasn’t slick and most folks were just creeping up it in 4low but there was a handful of folks that wanted everyone to hear their motor so they went up wide open in 2hi just slinging stuff everywhere.

I personally am just not a fan of large crowded events like that. It’s not that I don’t enjoy a good time, but I get all anxious and frustrated inside and feel like I need to to leave immediately. I can keep it at bay for the most part. Many times I’ll go to things with my wife and I push thru but I reach a point where I NEED to leave and my wife understands so either we leave or I’ll just go to the truck or something and wait on her. Honestly I didn’t used to be like that, but something changed over the last 3-5 years. Maybe I’m just a cranky old man deep down.

I worry about this for Trail Hero this year but I keep telling myself it won’t be too bad. We will see.
 
TaltonOffRoad said:
He’s fine, it was a very minor deal, just rude is all. That hill wasn’t slick and most folks were just creeping up it in 4low but there was a handful of folks that wanted everyone to hear their motor so they went up wide open in 2hi just slinging stuff everywhere.

I personally am just not a fan of large crowded events like that. It’s not that I don’t enjoy a good time, but I get all anxious and frustrated inside and feel like I need to to leave immediately. I can keep it at bay for the most part. Many times I’ll go to things with my wife and I push thru but I reach a point where I NEED to leave and my wife understands so either we leave or I’ll just go to the truck or something and wait on her. Honestly I didn’t used to be like that, but something changed over the last 3-5 years. Maybe I’m just a cranky old man deep down.

I worry about this for Trail Hero this year but I keep telling myself it won’t be too bad. We will see.
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That’s good on him being fine and get the rude aspect for sure. Also understand the larger group thing too. I’m not a huge fan of large group things unless it involves wheeling. Then I’ll stick it out :lmao:
 
You'll be fine at trail hero - once on the trails, you only see the group you're with. The rest of the event is all optional, come and go as you please. Watch for a bit till you're 'done' then head back to the camper.
 
Sucks about the HP experience. When I went we also had a SXS damn near roll onto my friends wife and kid while we were wrenching at the bottom the bottom of the hill and fuck just launched up the hill. We also got lost as hell there as well lol.
 
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