i was just seeing where people go offroading with there truck or what every they have. i have gone to the bandlands in indiana but the trails a really tight for the full size trucks

I just end up in the fields behind the house..
Nice, short trip with the tractor to pull myself out! http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/images/smilies/hihi.gif

useing the tractor is alot easer to get your self out then any thing else

offroading on cape cod isnt what you guys call it anywhere in the country. we have a few beaches that we can drive on, ofcourse regulations are strict. a few pits & powerlines are it. as much as i love this place, i hate it. just feel so isolated from the world here.:rant:over

Southern Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. Challenges are if you break down, you are screwed (no dealers most areas); if you get stuck, you are screwed without a winch (burros don't have too much pulling torque and aren't found often); if you get lost, you can really get lost, and no one comes looking for you; if you run out of fuel, you are really screwed (never happened - I carry 130 gals). Adventure - that is what it is all about.

Southern Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. Challenges are if you break down, you are screwed (no dealers most areas); if you get stuck, you are screwed without a winch (burros don't have too much pulling torque and aren't found often); if you get lost, you can really get lost, and no one comes looking for you; if you run out of fuel, you are really screwed (never happened - I carry 130 gals). Adventure - that is what it is all about.

WOW! I thought I was being adventurous in central VA

These days I just use the truck to get the atv to the trails. This truck is too heavy to pull out of the mud. Tried to pull the truck out of some light mud once with the Sportsman 500. That was just laughable. Needed to call in the JD for reenforcement.

I just end up in the fields behind the house..
Nice, short trip with the tractor to pull myself out! http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/images/smilies/hihi.gif
:exactly::ro)

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thats where nar and I go mudding with my buddies. After those pics I should finally have my truck back tomorrow after a week in the shop:(

Fore the toys I have, I go open desert.

When the desert gets too hot I hit the mountains.

So Cal Desert!
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Nevada is good for "off roading" since it is mostly fed owned and their is a prevalent "leave the gate as you found it policy" though locks seem to be creeping over the mountains from the west.

The Sierra Madres in Mexico can be interesting. Start with a topo map and make it an objective to get from one location to another location. Or pick two "towns" with no connecting roads and assume that there must be some way to "get from here to there" and give it a shot. Most often there will be. What Gardnerteam says is accurate but those people have done with so little for so long that helping others in trouble is part of the culture. If you are well equipped (and you better be), lots of opportunities will be presented to help others. And this is a fine recipe for turning a trip into an adventure. Having a good supply of trinkets/toys for the kids is always a sure fire way to win over the hearts and minds of the locals.

My rig is going in a container for Australia in July. It's said to have some of the best off roading in the world. And lots of it. Now if I can just get the snorkel fabbed before departure date.....

Now that I have a Polaris ATV, I'm not as adventurous as I use to be in my truck. I did tow my quad to the Kaibab Plateau up in Northern Arizona during a snowstorm last November. Got stuck of course. Those stock 245's just don't cut it.

Nothing like a run to Silver Lake Sand Dunes on the Lake Michigan Shoreline in west Michigan.

My work sites I always have 100K lb piece of iron to pull myself out or rip a truck in half trying and a 30k gal. water pull to make the mud. Sometimes we stay after work for several hours.

I go to either Glamis or Pismo Beach...

I'm jealous of you guys driving on the dunes, can't even walk on the ones around here. Someday I'll have to take a trip somewhere & try it out.

A friend and I went out to some sand dunes (Sand Mountain) to see if this 10,000 lb. ("empty" weight) pig could get over a dune. Yahoo!! The truck performed flawlessly. With the tires deflated to 18 lbs. and a little momentum it went up and over the dunes and maneuvered like it was made for them. It was kind of funny, my driving my behemoth around the dunes surrounded by the sand rails, quads and dune buggies. Gnats.

Glamis!!!!!!!!:rockit: :driver:

if you can find a 4x4 shop they probably have some off-road books with maps to 4x4 places. I have used one to locate several fun roads in the mountains. They usually tell you how difficult each trail is. The only time I get stuck is when I go hunting in the fall and the ground is wet . . . . winch has saved my truck several times.

BTW, anyone got a pull pal they have used? A buddie made something similar for me but he got the wrong angle and it don't dig in -:t

I have a PullPall and have used it on a number of occasions in mud and sand where it works great. Where it's not so hot is in hard, rocky soil but that's not where problems usually happen. I used to have a setup that uses a series of steel stakes which works great in the hard & rocky but is useless in mud or sand. Went to PullPal and have never regretted it.

freddyo;

can you measure the angle of the pull pal blade from the rod the cable is hooked to? If I knew the proper angle I am sure I could fix the anchor my buddy made.
Thanks.

Pismo, 2 OHV ares about an hour from my house ( carnegie and hollister), and the sierras

I never wheel my truck off road unless I'm towing a toy to get somewhere. They never come clean and are never the same again. I go to Rubicon,Hollister hills, Pismo beach, Dusi, Fordyce, Niagra Rim. I'm into Rock Krawling so these places are close to home for me, couple hours each way.
The Dodge is a friends truck, he sold it about a month after that the truck never ran the same.

Deadeye -

The Pull Pal engineering consists of more than a "rod" and a blade. It sounds like you have something similar to a Danforth anchor design. Correct? If so, I don't think that you can make it as functional as a PP which consists of three linears forming a triangle. The triangle distributes the "pull" forces. Also, oftentimes the blade needs some weight on it and some directing to get it to dig in when beginning the pull with the winch (even though the blade is at the correct angle). The upright portion of the triangle facilitates this. PM me if you would like more info.