Craig Miller
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Morris Yarnell
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| | 20 Jan 2008 05:52 PM |
| Thanks for sharing. It was a great commercial and on top of that they showed really rugged trail footage. That is such beautiful country. Morris | | | |
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Roger Carr
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| | 22 Jan 2008 12:42 PM |
| Neat. I really want to run that trail | | | |
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Gem Mookherj
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| | 22 Jan 2008 01:05 PM |
| so when are we going? | | | |
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Craig Miller
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| | 22 Jan 2008 01:40 PM |
| Gem,
Do you have bridging ladders?
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Gem Mookherj
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| | 22 Jan 2008 01:51 PM |
| No I dont, should I for this trail? | | | |
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Craig Miller
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| | 22 Jan 2008 02:01 PM |
| Right now, yes. It got severely washed out last fall. I haven't seen it myself though. Even with them it might be impossible. C | | | |
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Peter Carey
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| | 22 Jan 2008 02:11 PM |
| Has anyone acutally been up there to see how bad it is? And I still prefer the picture of Scott almost getting ran over by Isaac.  
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Craig Miller
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| | 22 Jan 2008 03:33 PM |
| Scott looks like Fred Astaire in that photo. Nice moves Scott.  I haven't been up there, but several guys over on nw-wheelers.com and the RTW guys have. They posted a couple of photos and it looks big enough to be a concern. The other problem is that if you roll there is that its a long ways down before the truck will stop rolling. When I heard that the tube buggy guys weren't running up there anymore, I decided that it was probably serious. That said, from the photos, it looks like a pair of bridging ladders would work perfectly in this situation. If someone comes up with a set of real strong bridging ladders, I'm in for a run. Craig | | | |
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Peter Carey
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| | 22 Jan 2008 09:15 PM |
| Can you post any pictures here? | | | |
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Andy Berglund
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| | 22 Jan 2008 09:42 PM |
| i thought peter had bridging ladders? didn't you cover all of moab that way?
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Craig Miller
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| | 22 Jan 2008 09:50 PM |
| Posted By Peter Carey on 01/22/2008 9:15 PM
Can you post any pictures here?
I don't have any photos and they removed the photos from those other websites shortly after they were posted.
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Craig Miller
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| | 22 Jan 2008 09:52 PM |
| Posted By Andy Berglund on 01/22/2008 9:42 PM
i thought peter had bridging ladders? didn't you cover all of moab that way?
andy
It's my understanding that Peter has waffle board/sand ladders that most likely aren't strong enough to support the full weight of a loaded vehicle.
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Peter Carey
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| | 22 Jan 2008 10:04 PM |
| They are if you combine them. As in one plank won't do the job but two together(bolted) would. | | | |
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Craig Miller
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| | 22 Jan 2008 10:10 PM |
| Do you have 4 of them? Are they long enough to span a 3-4' wide trench?
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Peter Carey
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| | 23 Jan 2008 01:41 PM |
| I have 6. they are all 5' intended to span 4' | | | |
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Mike Rupp
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| | 23 Jan 2008 03:14 PM |
| Peter, give me some details about the waffle boards. Last year on the Darland Mountain trip they would have some in handy in the silty stuff. | | | |
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Gem Mookherj
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| | 23 Jan 2008 03:47 PM |
| where does one aquire these? | | | |
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Peter Carey
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| | 24 Jan 2008 02:12 PM |
| There's an old thread in here some place about them. And yes, there were a number of things I had "back home" that could have helped on that trip.
they are plastic and strong. I tested them by bridging a small 3' gap and took the Suburban over it. they made some crinkling noises and that's why I think two bolted together would be fine. they are 1.5" and have 1" squares, i think.
I bought them from a plastics place back east. I can't remember the name and it wasn't what they normally do (sizes that small). normally they make catwalk kinda stuff. The shipping cost brought the price up a lot as they weigh close to 22lbs each, if I remember right. I didn't save a whole lot as compared to going with the commercial offering who's name escapes me at the moment. And yes, it's pronounced esss-caaup-ayyy
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Dave Waters
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| | 24 Jan 2008 05:45 PM |
| Here is a link to some that are pretty reasonable in price...
http://www.terra-trax.com/index.html?0.9670378281581392 | | | |
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