To Lock or Not to Lock. (1 Viewer)

[rdcnj]

Lockers are an invitation, not a requirement I have found. If you use your lockers a lot, you should or likely already have a winch on board.

Working lockers give:

1. Extra piece of mind to get past small obstacles in your way.
2. The confidence to overcome great obstacles.

But finding the best route to enjoy your truck how you like to enjoy it, is more fulfilling than lockers.

 

[HardyDanger]

Lockers are an invitation, not a requirement I have found. If you use your lockers a lot, you should or likely already have a winch on board.

Working lockers give:

1. Extra piece of mind to get past small obstacles in your way.
2. The confidence to overcome great obstacles.

But finding the best route to enjoy your truck how you like to enjoy it, is more fulfilling than lockers.

Totally agree.
What I might add. At least in my experience. Is that without lockers, you become hyper aware of your rig’s capabilities and perhaps this shows up how you approach driving over technical terrain.

Aside from the “hold my beer, watch this” crowd, I think most of us do a mental assessment of rig, terrain, and driving proficiency a million times a minute. Without lockers or winch onboard the outcomes of those calculations are fundamentally different, and they show up in how you approach an obstacle or a route, and in some cases it means you take a more conservative line, or you plot a very technical line to avoid trouble with your spotter. Net net, I think you have to think more, this probably make for a better platform for learning you rig’s capabilities and your boundaries.

At least that’s my hypothesis.

 

[rdcnj]

Totally agree.
What I might add. At least in my experience. Is that without lockers, you become hyper aware of your rig’s capabilities and perhaps this shows up how you approach driving over technical terrain.

Aside from the “hold my beer, watch this” crowd, I think most of us do a mental assessment of rig, terrain, and driving proficiency a million times a minute. Without lockers or winch onboard the outcomes of those calculations are fundamentally different, and they show up in how you approach an obstacle or a route, and in some cases it means you take a more conservative line, or you plot a very technical line to avoid trouble with your spotter. Net net, I think you have to think more, this probably make for a better platform for learning you rig’s capabilities and your boundaries.

At least that’s my hypothesis.

As a guy who didn't have lockers for half my weekend last weekend, I can attest to your thought process.

The day without lockers forced me to carefully think about my line and approach.

Only issue is when I saw "one way through" without lockers, it may have required a more abrupt approach than I would have chosen with lockers.

The ability to crawl when needed, can also be it's own channel and focus.

 

[Broski]

I think y’all are over thinking this

 

[TWILLY]

They make for slow, calm, drama-free driving in situations that would otherwise entail too much wheel spin or momentum. They do not fix poor judgment.

 

[HardyDanger]

I think y’all are over thinking this

lol. Absolutely! It’s Friday. The Blue Angels just flew over my house

. All is good.

 

[LockedCollector]

To lock

 

[Broski]

To lock

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Cruiser CANDY !

 

[HardyDanger]

I’ve come to the conclusion that when my startup is worth $100million, I’m sending my rig to ICON, and they can have their way with her for a stage 3 restoration.

 

[Broski]

I’ve come to the conclusion that when my startup is worth $100million, I’m sending my rig to ICON, and they can have their way with her for a stage 3 restoration.

Na then you won’t want to use it.
Plus Jonathan Ward is a ho never mind this is a family site.

 

[ChaseTruck]

I find the mental gyrations in this thread quite amusing. Carry on.
Since not having lockers apparently will make one a superior driver, do y’all expect the sale prices for triple-locked rigs to tumble, and this thread is the long game to make that happen?

 

[COS80]

I find the mental gyrations in this thread quite amusing. Carry on.
Since not having lockers apparently will make one a superior driver, do y’all expect the sale prices for triple-locked rigs to tumble, and this thread is the long game to make that happen?

Fancy all-terrain tires are also for quitters. Real drivers offroad with race slicks.

 

[HardyDanger]

and this thread is the long game to make that happen?

Dang it. Am I that transparent? I’m actually trying the corner the market on in locked rigs.

Na then you won’t want to use it.

Exactly. I’m going to get one of those influencer inflatable car bubbles and hermetically seal it in there and then throw ladders and chainsaws at it for the gram. It will be glorious.

Real drivers offroad with race slicks.

I bet if you mounted a set of 40” F1 soft compound slicks and ran them at 5 psi, they’d crawl up the side of a barn, unlocked and with out a winch of course.

Btw. Drove a friends new 250, it sounded like a Prius. Hmmmmpfft He said he might take it off road in a few years. It has rear lockers. I might get him are inflatable car bubble and throw ladders at it.

 

[Broski]

I'm done, unwatching

 

[ChaseTruck]

I bet if you mounted a set of 40” F1 soft compound slicks and ran them at 5 psi, they’d crawl up the side of a barn, unlocked and with out a winch of course.

Not wrong. One of the folks who taught me this crawling thing in Moab many years ago ran near-bald Swampers at ~3psi. His formula was “rubber-on-rock = crawl”. His formula also included lockers front and rear, leaf-springs vehicle, though.