Cruise Moab 2018

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Yeah, I've wheeled Moab (and other places) a fair bit. And I've never seen rigs get that close to tipping over, consecutively. The Tacoma I thought was going over for sure. As soon as he started I said "That's a bad line..." I felt I had to jump on his left/rear bumper to counter-weight, that was insane. Probably not the smartest move but I couldn't just stand by and watch that.

Metal Masher was fun though.

But then I ate something and puked all night from Friday night through Saturday and missed Poison Spider on Saturday. Bummer as it's my favorite trail, but I got to lay in bed and watch dozens of hours of Food Network in the hotel. So there's that.
 
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Your 200 and trailer looked great on the highway. Very nice setup!


I was wondering who that was. Your 200 looks awesome. Love the color :D
 
Yeah, I've wheeled Moab (and other places) a fair bit. And I've never seen rigs get that close to tipping over, consecutively. The Tacoma I thought was going over for sure. As soon as he started I said "That's a bad line..." I felt I had to jump on his left/rear bumper to counter-weight, that was insane. Probably not the smartest move but I couldn't just stand by and watch that.

Metal Masher was fun though.

But then I ate something and puked all night from Friday night through Saturday and missed Poison Spider on Saturday. Bummer as it's my favorite trail, but I got to lay in bed and watch dozens of hours of Food Network in the hotel. So there's that.
So did you still manage to make it to Vegas "on your way home"?
 
200 series on hells revenge. He drove into a massive hole he didnt see with a lot of momentum. I couldn't believe it when it didn't go all the way over. It got caught on the front bumper which saved it. 5 feet to the left is a 30 foot drop off. I winched to his rear corner with my fj40. He only got a scratch on his bumper in the end.

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So did you still manage to make it to Vegas "on your way home"?

Not this time. Crunched for time.

200 series on hells revenge. He drove into a massive hole he didnt see with a lot of momentum. I couldn't believe it when it didn't go all the way over. It got caught on the front bumper which saved it. 5 feet to the left is a 30 foot drop off. I winched to his rear corner with my fj40. He only got a scratch on his bumper in the end.

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Jesus. That thing is inches from rolling. Anything on the roof would have CoG'd him over I bet.
 
200 series on hells revenge. He drove into a massive hole he didnt see with a lot of momentum. I couldn't believe it when it didn't go all the way over. It got caught on the front bumper which saved it. 5 feet to the left is a 30 foot drop off. I winched to his rear corner with my fj40. He only got a scratch on his bumper in the end.

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I led Hells on Thursday and mentioned during the drivers meeting and at lunch that if you stray from the recommended line very far bad things can happen quick, and this is a great example of that. Very lucky it didn’t end badly in that case - he’s pushing it about as far as possible without rolling.
 
200 series on hells revenge. He drove into a massive hole he didnt see with a lot of momentum. I couldn't believe it when it didn't go all the way over. It got caught on the front bumper which saved it. 5 feet to the left is a 30 foot drop off. I winched to his rear corner with my fj40. He only got a scratch on his bumper in the end.

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If your horizon line is level, that LC is tilting at 53 degrees - it should have gone over. Very lucky it had a stout front bumper.
 
yeah, i'll probably go up for a day trip. just to get ideas and see how the other half live....

there's some NNNNNIIIIIICCCEEEEE rigs that show up. $750K earthromers, and the like.

will be interesting to see what the weather is like this year.
had crazy snow 2 or 3 years ago and total mud fest last year.
been a mild dry winter, probably going to be a hot one this year.

For the 200 series guys this year at EXPO will be a couple $200K 200 series next to the $750K Earthromers:smokin:

Highjack over:flipoff2:

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As always with moab pics it's tough to get perspective right when looking at the pic. I was coming down a hill from higher up when the pic was taken in my cruiser. It looks like the tire is only 12 inches off the ground in the pic, but in reality the rear corner factory tow hook was in the area of stomach or chest height when standing next to it when I put the winch hook on it. I told him to hold the brakes until I start winching but he was too worried it would make thing worse if he did anything. Not a 200 but this fj40 had a bad day on hells revenge same day but earlier on, snapped the transmission adapter in half...
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Great pic @White Stripe - made my stomach queasy just to look at it!
 
And people looked at me funny when I said doing a night run on hells wasn't a good idea. Easy to miss the mark in the day, not sure how some of those turns around the hot tub people could stay on track without seeing the tire marks as you cant really see whats up ahead at certain angles
 
And people looked at me funny when I said doing a night run on hells wasn't a good idea. Easy to miss the mark in the day, not sure how some of those turns around the hot tub people could stay on track without seeing the tire marks as you cant really see whats up ahead at certain angles
I wouldn't do it at night. Only way you could do it is if you had enough stadium lighting on your rig to light up everything, but then who wants to be on a trail with a bunch of rigs with bright lights blaring at you front and back? I guess some don't mind it or else they wouldn't have gone.
 
Wasn't by choice, but we did golden crack to poison spider and back to trailhead at night with nothing more than stock halogens and handheld flashlights.

made for a looooong night.
 
Wasn't by choice, but we did golden crack to poison spider and back to trailhead at night with nothing more than stock halogens and handheld flashlights.

made for a looooong night.

The best part -

It was your wifes 1st Moab trail......driving.......SOLO :clap:
 
AAAAAnd, that's why I'm bumming a ride this year. She's done with moab.
 

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