We had 6 trucks show up, Brian McCormick and son with his FJ40, Josh Schmitt and girfriend in his FJ40, me and my buddy Tom in my FJ40, Henry and family in his 40, Nelson Wilkinson and Dan Kunz in Nelson's 80 and Josh Schaefer and a couple buddies in his 80.
Hit the trails a little late, by around 10:30, only two of us had ever been to Beasley before, and no one had recently.
As we were heading up the first part of Rattlesnake hill (one of the more difficult trails) the trouble started with Schmitty's steering shaft losing a keyway. After staring at the problem for awhile, we found an allen key that fit, and retained with a hose clamp, gave Schmitty steering the whole way out.
After about a half hour of delay and winching Josh up to a flat spot since he'd lost momentum we got started again.
The next obstacle was fairly tricky, Henry had to winch over it. We kept working up the mountain until Henry, the trail leader now, hit a rock a little too hard and bent/inverted a front spring, popped a tire, and snapped a pinion all at once. Now the truck was stuck with 2wd so we were facing a winchfest and had no idea which way was the quickest/easiest out.
After some jacking and a lot of winching, Henry got to a flat spot where I was able to get around and strap him anywhere else he had trouble.
Josh's 80 then suffered a flat from the same spot that claimed Henry's tire/pinion/spring.
After a few phonecalls to some Georgia Bounty Runners that knew the area well, we figured out the quickest way out, everyone was pretty tired and scared of more breakage by this point.
So it took us around 3 and half, 4 hours to cover 1500 yards of steep, loose trail.
Damage report-
Josh Scmitt's steering shaft
Josh Schaefer's new 35" BFG
Henry's front pinion, PS spring, and one 33" swamper.
Pretty intense for what was supposed to be a light day trip.
Beasley is definatly a place trucks with at least one locker and 33" tires. Winches sure came in handy, and I would never go after a rain.
I didn't have my camera, but some pictures should be comin up from others.
Hit the trails a little late, by around 10:30, only two of us had ever been to Beasley before, and no one had recently.
As we were heading up the first part of Rattlesnake hill (one of the more difficult trails) the trouble started with Schmitty's steering shaft losing a keyway. After staring at the problem for awhile, we found an allen key that fit, and retained with a hose clamp, gave Schmitty steering the whole way out.
After about a half hour of delay and winching Josh up to a flat spot since he'd lost momentum we got started again.
The next obstacle was fairly tricky, Henry had to winch over it. We kept working up the mountain until Henry, the trail leader now, hit a rock a little too hard and bent/inverted a front spring, popped a tire, and snapped a pinion all at once. Now the truck was stuck with 2wd so we were facing a winchfest and had no idea which way was the quickest/easiest out.
After some jacking and a lot of winching, Henry got to a flat spot where I was able to get around and strap him anywhere else he had trouble.
Josh's 80 then suffered a flat from the same spot that claimed Henry's tire/pinion/spring.
After a few phonecalls to some Georgia Bounty Runners that knew the area well, we figured out the quickest way out, everyone was pretty tired and scared of more breakage by this point.
So it took us around 3 and half, 4 hours to cover 1500 yards of steep, loose trail.
Damage report-
Josh Scmitt's steering shaft
Josh Schaefer's new 35" BFG
Henry's front pinion, PS spring, and one 33" swamper.
Pretty intense for what was supposed to be a light day trip.
Beasley is definatly a place trucks with at least one locker and 33" tires. Winches sure came in handy, and I would never go after a rain.
I didn't have my camera, but some pictures should be comin up from others.
............ sorry us UC guys couldn't make it.