Random Rig Shots

[boog2006]

Is your roof basket on backwards?

[Moots1288]

Is your roof basket on backwards?

it looks like it.

[bgwolfpack]

that's TARSH!

[tarsh]

No no, it's actually the same end to end. I just put the wind faring on the back. I know it's pointless but I did it anyway

[tarsh]

See!!!

[mikekey]

And by that you've extended it huh? You are the sites official Ricer. Congrats.

[tarsh]

Im beginning to think you guys enjoy giving me a hard time.

[bgwolfpack]

I have that rack also.

When adding the length to the center, (where it just slides together because of it being a two section and easy and cheap to ship) what did you do to add strength to the basket?

[tarsh]

I actually used solid steel rod and slid it all the way( end to end ) into the smaller bars. And for the bigger side rails I used one inch pipe. I was thinking about plateing it

[ErikSS]

Im beginning to think you guys enjoy giving me a hard time.

Dang it! He's catching on!

[tarsh]

I just did a major test on my winch. I was very impressed. We got a down poor here mid wheeling session a little befor dark, and the mouth of our trail was to slick for me. So my options were back all the way out or winch up the recently made hill. Very steep and very long. I have 94 foot of cable and probly used 80 feet or so. My winch mount held up without any additional beefing and the winch didn't get real warm. I couldn't gain any traction what so ever. It was grease. Needless to say the winch pretty much did it by its self. Luckily I just received a shackle and a tree saver strap in the mail. It was a good 15 minute pull. All in all very happy with the set up.

[HARDTRAILZ]

Pics or it didn't happen...esp in this thread

[tarsh]

Working on it. My little brother has the Video on his phone. I'll get around to it

[v7guy]

Nathan, you do realize that pulling yourself up a slick surface is primarily a test of the duty cycle of the winch and the health of your battery? It's a very minor load on the winch mount unless you're pulling yourself up over a ledge or you've got yourself half buried.

[dvanbramer88]

Physics lesson. On a near frictionless surface, your winch was only doing work equal to the vertical aspect of the ramp. The horizontal distance was free/came at very little work energy expense. Basically you were only fighting Fg (gravity) for the height of the hill. Not the length of the ramp surface.

[ErikSS]

I'm glad you had all the equipment you needed to get the job done. No damage to people, the Tree, or your vehicle are the things that matter.

[mikekey]

Interestingly enough about frictionless surfaces, the question of just how an ancient civilization—without the help of modern technology—moved the 2.5 ton stones that made up their famed pyramids has long plagued Egyptologists and mechanical engineers alike. But now, a team from the University of Amsterdam believes they've figured it out, even though the solution was staring them in the face all along.



As a UvA press release explains,

The physicists placed a laboratory version of the Egyptian sledge in a tray of sand. They determined both the required pulling force and the stiffness of the sand as a function of the quantity of water in the sand. To determine the stiffness they used a rheometer, which shows how much force is needed to deform a certain volume of sand.

Experiments revealed that the required pulling force decreased proportional to the stiffness of the sand...A sledge glides far more easily over firm desert sand simply because the sand does not pile up in front of the sledge as it does in the case of dry sand.

[HARDTRAILZ]

It was aliens!

[bgwolfpack]

It was aliens!

Everyone knows that.

[tarsh]

Wow, you just went all Sheldon cooper on me. But it's good. I did manage to get horrible picture

Not really worth putting up but here you go