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Matt's Off Road Recovery.

I would also stop showing too much of the clients if my recoveries were free. How many people would then get stuck on purpose so they can be in a video? Not showing the client probably reduces some of that a bit. Also Matt has also never really cared much about making sure he did not damage the vehicle even more when recovering it.
 
LScout800 said:
I would also stop showing too much of the clients if my recoveries were free. How many people would then get stuck on purpose so they can be in a video? Not showing the client probably reduces some of that a bit. Also Matt has also never really cared much about making sure he did not damage the vehicle even more when recovering it.
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Why that's his video business is it not? Based on Clients coming in? You can refuse jobs at any time.
 
NorCalJalopy said:
I’m in the tow game along with recovery and rd side repair. I’ve left comments on tons of his videos asking about his permitting process. We are in Northern California and we get calls from AAA to go to burning man every year to winch out junk and to tow junk home for the participants. We have to pull permits to go across state lines. When I take my service truck to Reno to work on busses we have to pull permits. Curious if he has permits for az, ca and wherever else he goes.
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Permit for what? Who you even "regulate" that.

I permit you do it it. There.
 
NorCalJalopy said:
I’m in the tow game along with recovery and rd side repair. I’ve left comments on tons of his videos asking about his permitting process. We are in Northern California and we get calls from AAA to go to burning man every year to winch out junk and to tow junk home for the participants. We have to pull permits to go across state lines. When I take my service truck to Reno to work on busses we have to pull permits. Curious if he has permits for az, ca and wherever else he goes.
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Bebop said:
Fine is cheaper than what money the video makes.
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I would guess that $10,000 is less than what he makes off of the videos?

Does he still get AAA tows after pleading guilty to defrauding them?
 
Johnny Longrifle said:
I quit watching after the off road games shit show (and I only watched a few minutes at that). For fucks sake they had a guy die last year, and I think they were doubling down on tempting fate this year. Their course markers were living breathing human beings!

The hack fuckery that goes on there and the millions of mouth breathing, adoring fans will lead to even more shitheads out destroying public lands and making a bad name for all of us.
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Who died last year?
 
Steve300xcw said:
That fuck show can hardly make it back from a staged recovery. He's shootin for the moon.
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C’mon man, wouldn’t it be fun to critique his build, then critique his driving skills?

I wonder how hard it is to keep the YouTube’s content flowing. I’ve noticed several content people have slowed down considerably after awhile. Kinda like season 3 of a sitcom, you’ve done everything once and it starts to get derivative.
 
cervelorod said:
C’mon man, wouldn’t it be fun to critique his build, then critique his driving skills?

I wonder how hard it is to keep the YouTube’s content flowing. I’ve noticed several content people have slowed down considerably after awhile. Kinda like season 3 of a sitcom, you’ve done everything once and it starts to get derivative.
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From comments I have heard from some it's hard to do it weekly, then there are others like "Trail Mater who may post several a week, but then they are in a target rich area for recovery work. Then there is others who may post one a month (Project Binky hasn't in months) but their content is such that when they do e their veiws are astronomical.
 
bigun said:
From comments I have heard from some it's hard to do it weekly, then there are others like "Trail Mater who may post several a week, but then they are in a target rich area for recovery work. Then there is others who may post one a month (Project Binky hasn't in months) but their content is such that when they do e their veiws are astronomical.
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Mark Rober does 12 vids a year...
Its a business 100%

But like I said before and here's a new comparison, there is more build tech (right or wrong info) on the MORR channel than there is on Finnigans Garage, I said it. :flipoff2:
 
bigun said:
From comments I have heard from some it's hard to do it weekly, then there are others like "Trail Mater who may post several a week, but then they are in a target rich area for recovery work. Then there is others who may post one a month (Project Binky hasn't in months) but their content is such that when they do e their veiws are astronomical.
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I think Binky is going for the longest YouTube series by length of time :flipoff2: But they do incredible work so I understand why their updates are so far apart.
 
Chkn said:
I think Binky is going for the longest YouTube series by length of time :flipoff2: But they do incredible work so I understand why their updates are so far apart.
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I think they are trying to take longer than "Sceep" on their build! :flipoff2:
Watch Wes Work said just videoing can add up to the job taking 4 times as long. A guy I started watching to see what UK gardening practices look like, showed the thing you know happens but never see, him walking away from the camera then having to go back and pick it up.
 
CarterKraft said:
Mark Rober does 12 vids a year...
Its a business 100%

But like I said before and here's a new comparison, there is more build tech (right or wrong info) on the MORR channel than there is on Finnigans Garage, I said it. :flipoff2:
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The view numbers on Roders videos are crazy
 
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Badass recovery. The wrecker is no joke.

With that said, seeing that rig get left for 2 weeks and the only person willing to recover it had to come from Utah made me even more proud at how our group came together last year when a heavy rig had similar failures with zero wheel drive and DMANbluesfreak and I hauled a dead rig out from RTF loop out to loon. I would have thought this was easy enough that it wouldn’t have sat for 2 weeks
 
06h3 said:


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Badass recovery. The wrecker is no joke.

With that said, seeing that rig get left for 2 weeks and the only person willing to recover it had to come from Utah made me even more proud at how our group came together last year when a heavy rig had similar failures with zero wheel drive and DMANbluesfreak and I hauled a dead rig out from RTF loop out to loon. I would have thought this was easy enough that it wouldn’t have sat for 2 weeks
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That frontier was not that big a tow. The owner was just dumb. I followed it on the Rubicon page. Sounded like he just wanted to pay somebody to get it for him. I don’t plan on watching it because I have seen a Matt video and I do not care for them. He tries to make everything look way more complicated than it is, or he’s dumb.
 
Beat95yj said:
That frontier was not that big a tow. The owner was just dumb. I followed it on the Rubicon page. Sounded like he just wanted to pay somebody to get it for him. I don’t plan on watching it because I have seen a Matt video and I do not care for them. He tries to make everything look way more complicated than it is, or he’s dumb.
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I think it's funny if he can't use a snatch rope he will call Rory to "assist". Meaning Rory brings Mater or Ol' Blue and does all of the rigging and recovers it. :grinpimp:
 
Beat95yj said:
That frontier was not that big a tow. The owner was just dumb. I followed it on the Rubicon page. Sounded like he just wanted to pay somebody to get it for him. I don’t plan on watching it because I have seen a Matt video and I do not care for them. He tries to make everything look way more complicated than it is, or he’s dumb.
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Could've likely been fixed in an afternoon....only questionable part being the no start issue. I have the exact same SAS kit on my xterra. Rear driveshaft would be stock so easy to find at a junkyard. Same for rear springs. Grab a junkyard pack and stack a couple of the old leaves if you need a little more height. Front shaft would likely be a bit harder if he was running the CM one. I use an XJ cv with a thunderbird flange so parts are more readily available and I usually carry enough spare parts to rebuild it on the trail.


I'd almost bet the no start was the MAF. Probably broke a motor mount in all the abuse, which lets the engine pivot under load and can be enough to rip the MAF out of the intake tube. Exact same thing happened to me.
 
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Badass recovery. The wrecker is no joke.

With that said, seeing that rig get left for 2 weeks and the only person willing to recover it had to come from Utah made me even more proud at how our group came together last year when a heavy rig had similar failures with zero wheel drive and DMANbluesfreak and I hauled a dead rig out from RTF loop out to loon. I would have thought this was easy enough that it wouldn’t have sat for 2 weeks
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There were a ton of local people that offered to help as well as several local places that would have done it for probably around $2k.
 
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