CLC Volunteer work day with the Forest Service

dhayes80 · 05-23-09, 08:55 PM

Colorado Land Cruisers has arranged a Volunteer work day with Pike National forest service on a couple of trails between Woodland park and Divide on Sunday June 14th. We'll be working on the following:

1) Extract what is left of a 91 Toyota truck. It is off the side of an ATV trail. If some on can bring two rims and tires to put on the front axle it will make it easier. We just need to get it back out to the main road and the forest service will bring a trailer to haul it from there.
2) Close off and re-seed an illegal hill climb area
3) Adopt another road and do general maintenance (signs etc)

The first two are off 357a and the final one is 354. He wants to meet us in Woodland park so we can go up 354 to 357a.

We'll first meet at the Western at 8:00 am on June 14th and leave by 8:30.

David H.

black95 · 05-24-09, 01:07 PM

I have 2 spares I can bring that would save everyone from having to haul them from the springs. but, I can't leave them with the forest service as they are my "backing into the garage" tires. I have no extra lug nuts.

RLMS · 05-28-09, 11:41 AM

I have some lugs and I think I also have 2 wheels!

Justin

black95 · 06-07-09, 06:59 PM

*bump* just wanted to keep this in the loop.

PPFJ60 · 06-07-09, 08:21 PM

I was going to take my ATV out to the Toyota today and take some pictures but I didn't get done with my honey-do's so I didn't make it. I will try to get out and look for it some time this week. I will post up pictures if I find it.

Either way I plan on being there on Sunday June 14th.

dhayes80 · 06-08-09, 08:38 PM

How many are plannning to attend this Sunday the 14th, for our CLC Volunteer work day with the Forest Service in Woodland Park.

David

minisrule · 06-08-09, 09:15 PM

I am planning on being there at this point. I will post up if it changes.

PPFJ60 · 06-09-09, 06:53 PM

OK David, I am going to need another hint to find the 91 Toyota pickup that is off the side of an ATV trail off 357A. I have driven 357A, 357B, parts of 354 and the ATV trail 717A but have not found a 91 Toyota?

I took the ATV out for a 90 minute ride this evening. Sure is fun to ride the trails when no one else is out there. My ATV with me on it weighs about 850 lbs and getting airborn at 30 mph off the water bars is a blast.

minisrule · 06-09-09, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by PPFJ60

getting airborn at 30 mph off the water bars is a blast.

Sounds like fun, but, maybe this is why you haven't found the truck yet, I am guessing it is hard to look and jump at the same time!

black95 · 06-09-09, 08:42 PM

count me in sunday.

chuck, you must have passed that toyota while you were turning up a beer, lol. too hard to see around those blue boar bottles.........

black95 · 06-09-09, 08:49 PM

I think the forest service didn't want to release the location of some possibly free toyota parts to a toyota club........I was thinking I might need the rear axle that truck probably has..........

minisrule · 06-09-09, 09:03 PM

I knew I should of called dibs

!

Isotel · 06-10-09, 03:58 PM

if we recover it, you would think we could steel whatever off it, and get the $$ for Scrap!

i plan on going on this one!

dhayes80 · 06-10-09, 09:19 PM

Don't get to concerned about who called dibs on the rear axle, there was a reason he said we only need to bring two rims and tires with lug nuts.

minisrule · 06-10-09, 09:40 PM

I was just messing around. I figure theres not much of anything worth anthing left anyhow.

As for the scrap, there might be some issue with insurance or theft.

PPFJ60 · 06-10-09, 09:54 PM

I'm thinking someone beat all of us to it and the whole thing is gone.

Isotel · 06-12-09, 01:23 PM

well that's no fun

is there stuff in the area to play on if we cant find it?

PPFJ60 · 06-12-09, 03:54 PM

Not much to play on other than FS roads. Part of 354 was washed out and sort of a steep climb that used to be fun before the bull dozer came through a few weeks ago. You can always get some air on the water bars

dhayes80 · 06-12-09, 06:32 PM

Just talked to Rick with the Forest service they are planning on us being there on Sunday to remove the 91 Toyota. He was asking if we had someone planning to bring a couple of toyota rims with tires and lug nuts to help with the extraction. At the meeting we had a few people say they could bring the toyota wheels. We will need them with tires and lug nuts. We just need them long enough to extract the vehicle and get it out to road where the forest service can bring in a trailer. Do we have someone that is planning to be there bringing them?

He also had a couple of other projects for us depending how many people show up and how long it takes to remove the abandon vehicle.

black95 · 06-13-09, 10:00 PM

I am bringing the tires and rims. my brakes went out Wednesday and I just finished installing a new master cylinder, I know it's late but if anyone reads this between now and then, bring some lug nuts. If no one shows up with extra lugs I figure we can spare one or two from each truck until we reach the road?

My lugs are no good to anyone as they are the "mag" style internal lugs as opposed to the standard "acorn" style lug most wheels use.

PPFJ60 · 06-14-09, 05:58 PM

Well we, with the help of Rick Elsworth from the Forest service, found the remains of the 91 Toyota. It took us about 4 1/2 hours to get the 91 Toyota 200 yards up the trail. By that time we were wondering if we were going to get it out to the road. Andy was winching with combinations of direct lines and snatch blocks to get the 91 Toyota up the first steep slope. After the first 200 yards the trail began to mellow out a bit and Luke hooked onto the front of my FJ60 which was strapped to the 91 Toyota and we were off to the races. It took us less than 30 minutes to get up to 357 which was about half a mile. Towards the end of the trail my strap broke and Luke pulled the 91 Toyota the rest of the way to the road.

black95 · 06-14-09, 07:44 PM

Thanks for writing a trail report Chuck.

This was a pretty wild day. Things started to look bad for me early on because of some "phantom" brake problems, I thought I was going to have to turn around early, but the brakes kept coming back to work, so I stayed in the game.

I'm speaking for myself, but when they asked us to remove an abandoned vehicle, I never thought it was going to be in a place this difficult. We could have taught a 4 hour winching 101 class. There were winch cables everywhere, I know I learned a thing or two. At one point, it literally looked like we were building a spider web in front of andy's rig, there were three snatch blocks, two chains and about five shackles involved. crazy!!! plus chuck was hooked up at the same time to boot. We tried to leave the winches out of things for a while, but the ground was just too soft and the trail just too off camber. There were surely some places where you could have taken a flop if you were not careful.

I think that's why that toyota was in this location, it looked to me like it rolled, but even if he didn't, there was no way you were getting a stock toyota out of that valley. especially when it had 1,000 bullet holes in it.

by the way, bullet holes seem to be really handy for providing places to hook your ratchet straps too, lol.

I am glad I was there and was proud to give back to the forest service, I sometimes feel like I don't do enough to enjoy all the public land we have rights too.

Watching scott from the forest service steer that toyota with not rear end, no door, a cigar hanging out of his mouth, and a huge grin on his face was not to be missed, I laughed about that the whole way home. I also got a free hub dial out of the deal if anyone needs one, let me know

later.

PPFJ60 · 06-15-09, 09:42 AM

On this run we had Rick and Scott from the FS, David H. and Conner, Andy, Luke and Claire and Chuck.

David and Rick were running winch lines in many different configurations. Sometimes our volunteer work for the FS doesn't take much physical effort but this job had us burning lots of calories. I could feel it in my shoulders this morning.

I thought everyone did a great job working together to get the job done and no one was hurt!

We sure got some strange looks when we had David's FJ80, Luke's 4Runner, the 91 Toyota, Andy's mini-truck and my FJ60 lined up. Luke started telling a story to some passing ATV's that we have had a bad day 4 wheeling with one of the trucks in the group!

After we dragged the 91 Toyota up to FR 357 and the FS had a tractor there to take the truck to the trailer, David, Andy and I took a little run down 357B loop. We talked about how that area would be a good place for a club run with a picnic day. The trails are fun and passable with a stock 4x4's. Maybe a club run with a picnic lunch and a winching class all thrown together would be fun.

LCPilot · 06-15-09, 11:47 AM

It sounds Like a intersting learning experience. I was tied up with youth baseball and couldn't get there in time. Thanks for all of your time and effort.