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Matt's Off Road Recovery.

CarterKraft said:
I was throwing the 250hp number out as a guess, the math is the same though in regards to speed/capacity doubling.
I'd be curious to know what the stall speed of that rig is when power braked.


Here's my comparison. Terex TA300 haul truck has 9 liter 370 hp engine that makes 1400 lb ft @ 1400 RPM
The auto trans ratios are unknown but it's max rated speed in 6th gear is 50 mph. 1st gear max speed is 3.5 mph
The drop box is built in to the transmission with unknown ratios.
The tires are 57" tall and has differential ratios of 3.875:1 and 5.71:1 for a final drive axle ratio of 22.12:1

I am not smart enough to know what it would take to get that same setup to 70 mph but just halfing the axle final drive ratio to 11:1 would seem to double the speed at 100 MPH. Does this make sense?
The whole point of planetary axles is to put the large torque numbers at the end of the chain.

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I hear what your saying and I think it is correct-- increase the torque at the axle and keep it less everywhere else and things will live longer... but I don't think what he has is hopelessly wrong. He is probably 5-10% over the line and not an order of magnitude off. He may have planned it that way too...

One thing I do know, he knows the formula to get views. So whatever he does is not calculated with any other formula than that. Running out of gas is getting old, so new drama must be created...

Meanwhile my Heep's new 205/underdrive isn't broke but isn't making me any money at all like his broken one is.. Hopefully, I will get to see if it lives when put to the test this summer.
 
Pablo said:
I hear what your saying and I think it is correct-- increase the torque at the axle and keep it less everywhere else and things will live longer... but I don't think what he has is hopelessly wrong. He is probably 5-10% over the line and not an order of magnitude off. He may have planned it that way too...

One thing I do know, he knows the formula to get views. So whatever he does is not calculated with any other formula than that. Running out of gas is getting old, so new drama must be created...

Meanwhile my Heep's new 205/underdrive isn't broke but isn't making me any money at all like his broken one is.. Hopefully, I will get to see if it lives when put to the test this summer.
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Bold take creating "wrecker Olympics" by working for a year to build said wrecker to have it break drivetrain components in the first obstacle of said Olympics.
You guys really think him breaking at the bottom of the first obstacle at KOH was to get views???
Versus climbing to the top and spiking a beer?

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CarterKraft said:
Bold take creating "wrecker Olympics" by working for a year to build said wrecker to have it break drivetrain components in the first obstacle of said Olympics.
You guys really think him breaking at the bottom of the first obstacle at KOH was to get views???
Versus climbing to the top and spiking a beer?

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Mountain Dew. :flipoff2:


Church decided to go all in during Prohibition, despite Mormons being known for the quality and quantity of their beer previously. :laughing:
 
Not really to that extent, but a planned parts upgrade path makes for lots of videos.
 
I was in the area and swung by the other day. The golden nugget is in an open shed, covered with dust. I thought Ed was supposed to be driving that thing. For that matter, where is he? Hasn’t been seen in many recent videos unless I’m mistaken. Hope he’s OK.
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plym49.2 said:
I was in the area and swung by the other day. The golden nugget is in an open shed, covered with dust. I thought Ed was supposed to be driving that thing. For that matter, where is he? Hasn’t been seen in many recent videos unless I’m mistaken. Hope he’s OK.
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The last vid or so I saw Ed in a hard neck brace.🤷‍♂️
 
Watched one of the Mischief Maker videos where she dropped in as he was swapping in new Titan outputs...
 
budget76 said:
looks like it's in an easy spot to be loaded up on a trailer and disappear? Ala Roadkill Mazdarati
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Ya'll don't pay much attention do you? Inside the office and the garage there are monitors showing at least 6 different camera views of the yard, plus they just built Ed a new apartment in the building
 
HE seems to be doing better in that last vid. But even he says it struggles to get over obstacles that the Banana and the Morrvair walk over. It does seem to suffer from traction issues on climbs. I wonder if laying that boom up against the back of the cab wouldn't be better to put more weight where it's needed? If it can't get itself moving, it's probably going to have a real hard time pulling anyone else.
 
Elwenil said:
HE seems to be doing better in that last vid. But even he says it struggles to get over obstacles that the Banana and the Morrvair walk over. It does seem to suffer from traction issues on climbs. I wonder if laying that boom up against the back of the cab wouldn't be better to put more weight where it's needed? If it can't get itself moving, it's probably going to have a real hard time pulling anyone else.
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People don't understand how much wieght holds you back wheelin. Big tires only give you more clearance.
 
I don't know, I just feel like it should do better. Even with the weight, that should translate to ground pressure and traction, but his just wants to rotate in place. Too much weight up high? Weight is situated to that on a steep climb it is pushing him back more than pushing down on the tires? Maybe needs to go back to the old deal of water in the tires? Can't say I've ever had these issues, my limitation has always been gearing or power, lol.
 
Elwenil said:
I don't know, I just feel like it should do better. Even with the weight, that should translate to ground pressure and traction, but his just wants to rotate in place. Too much weight up high? Weight is situated to that on a steep climb it is pushing him back more than pushing down on the tires? Maybe needs to go back to the old deal of water in the tires? Can't say I've ever had these issues, my limitation has always been gearing or power, lol.
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Has he mentioned a wieght yet? I'm guessing over 10k lbs.

No matter how you slice it, it's harder to get 10k lbs up a climb than 4k lbs. The long ass wheelbase helps, but not enough obviously.
 
Elwenil said:
HE seems to be doing better in that last vid. But even he says it struggles to get over obstacles that the Banana and the Morrvair walk over. It does seem to suffer from traction issues on climbs. I wonder if laying that boom up against the back of the cab wouldn't be better to put more weight where it's needed? If it can't get itself moving, it's probably going to have a real hard time pulling anyone else.
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Sand bagging?
 
The new 205 output will make a big difference, the new spline on the front propeller shaft I'm not so sure.

He needs two things, the lockers working correctly via switches/valves and the CTI.
I saw in that video he is going to have tire pressure gauges for each tire.
If he can drop some more psi on those flat climbs it will help a bunch.

It's a heavy pig no doubt. To think it will recover vehicles like Rory I'm not so sure.
For the Olympics he might just drop the towed vehicle at each obstacle (win h out) and winch it up again once he has himself up/over.
 
Muckin_Slusher said:
I thought it couldn't climb for shit because there's obviously way, WAY too much tire pressure.

Thing is super heavy and those tires still don't flex at all. Looks like a Lego truck with plastic tires.
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CTI with a kick ass compressor would be amazing for what he does.
 
bigun said:
Ya'll don't pay much attention do you? Inside the office and the garage there are monitors showing at least 6 different camera views of the yard, plus they just built Ed a new apartment in the building
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since when do cameras stop theft? if it's gated, then yeah that makes it harder

i got tired of the videos a while back. once in a while I skim through the 90% fluff to find the 3 interesting minutes
 
bigun said:
My money is on Rory and Trail Mater, He has more hours of using it, and has worked all the bugs out of the systems. Most of the others are still wrenching on their rigs.
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I want to know why the dudes who have the "Camel Tow" wrecker didn't get an invite. Seems like at the very least they would be a crowd pleaser(and the sound of the v8 in that thing makes me all hot and bothered):




 
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