My First 4WD Experience with my '16 T4RTE - NOT GOOD
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1engineer
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Decent tires and maintaining speed will get you through. Maxtrax will help a bit if you are stuck but keeping from getting stuck should be your goal. Use your money for a set of decent tires first.
rjmckay99
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Interesting thread. Covered some great topics! I build roads for a living and in my experience 10" of gravel on a road like that would be wasted. With soft clay soil the gravel would just get driven into the clay with traffic over time, or blown out into the ditches. Your investment would be wasted. Unless the underlying problem is fixed your kind of wasting your money. Less gravel like 4'' would give you similar results for a lot less money. It would just have to be bladed or harrowed with some regularity to keep the gravel on the surface. Good luck! As it is it looks like fun to rip through anyway! Previous posts were bang on saying momentum and steady throttle are your friend in stuff like that. I haven't had much success with crawl control in mud. The slow tire speeds don't let the tires self clean so you end up slowly spinning in one spot.
As for Beer, I'm partial to Big Rock Grasshopper. Its local here out of Calgary, AB. Much better than the water that passes for beer in the States :cheers::hiding:
Not so much clay as it is sandy loam soil. The county road goes from paved for about 300Y to gravel for about another 400Y then straight to sand. Not sure what sort of foundation the county laid down for the graveled section, but the road traffic is limited to very sparse traffic.
CO-Cygnus
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Oh, if you could only see some of the stuff floating in Clear Creek.
Looks clean, right? I didn't get a shot upstream showing half the dogs in Golden playing in the creek. Dog piss gives Coors its authentic flavor.
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rjmckay99
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Tough conditions for sure. Up here we have muskeg, which is basically soil and other organic material floating on quicksand like a big mossy carpet. We are expected to build roads on that stuff. Usually that involves digging it all up and replacing it with clay, all while trying to keep your site from flooding. We also sometime mix cement powder into the soil to use excess moisture to create strength. Not very cost effective you a single resident though.
I think your best bet may be to try and talk to a local aggregate producer near you and see if they have any surplus material that doesn't meet the engineering standards used for bigger projects. You may be able to get them to deliver and spread it for a reasonable price. Either that or complain until the county does something about the road! It seems with the little amount of traffic you have stated it gets that may fall on deaf ears.
Needless to say you have a more than capable vehicle for the conditions, it just makes your travels a little more interesting some days!
Blitzkrieg
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Coors Banquet is the nectar of the God's.
Allow me to educate those who have yet to appreciate the beauty of a fine beer made over a mile high.
https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/15-things-you-didnt-know-about-coors-banquet
It is the ONLY beer that passes my lips or sits on the floor of my beloved 4Runner. Ever.
Allow me to educate those who have yet to appreciate the beauty of a fine beer made over a mile high.
https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/15-things-you-didnt-know-about-coors-banquet
It is the ONLY beer that passes my lips or sits on the floor of my beloved 4Runner. Ever.
Blitzkrieg
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No. I love Coors and can't stand dark or craft beers.
I am a man. I mow my own lawn, change my own oil and like to blow shit up at the gun range. After those activities I want an ice cold Coors going down my gullet.
I don't want a beer that tastes like roselips, honey, sassafras and perfume. I want a beer. A mans beer.
And if I am ever at a bar and hear a dude say "This beer has a nice, piquant aftertaste" I am throwing a dart directly at his aorta to save him from what is surely to be a life of perpetual pussification. ;-)
wadle5
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If you like that you should definitely try the Surley Coffee Bender. One of the best I have had. Not overwhelming, but subtle and definitely get the great home roasted coffee flavor.
Sorry for the tangent, back to everyone offering this guy money for his truck
:lookout:
blues
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While I don't at all agree with your assessment of the qualities or drinkability of Coors beer, I fully endorse and support the rest of your sentiments. Have you considered a run for the White House? :laser: :tea:
1engineer
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...and the guy over at the bar drinking Guinness will be thinking the same thing...
Now, let me end this debate and thread. Ready?
The best beer of all time is...........
FREE BEER!!!!!
blues
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Unless it's Coors! :tape::laugh:
I do have fond memories of my Dad loading up the station wagon when driving out west and giving coors to all visitors to our house. You might be suprised how much you like beer theses days. There is some non-orange cheese out there that is worth trying as well....
1000MPH
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Johnny Paycheck - Colorado Kool-Aid
https://youtu.be/2K3szlIdZ3Y
https://youtu.be/2K3szlIdZ3Y
Blitzkrieg
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It would have been funnier if you would have said "There is cheese out there worth trying that doesn't come in a can", but you are from Chicago so I'll give you a break.
Shall we dance?
williamlv282
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I love pretty much any beer from San Diego and I'm really liking everything from Joseph James which is a brewery in my town here in Nevada.
My buddy and I drank Coors to try to get sober once after a party. We had run out of water but Coors worked pretty well.
My buddy and I drank Coors to try to get sober once after a party. We had run out of water but Coors worked pretty well.
