Bed Step

[Ferd]

Your Mojave X should have bed skid rails
https://mountainoffroad.com/products/copy-of-jeep-jl-hide-a-step-powder-coated

Edit- they’re on sale so I ordered them. It’s your fault @gunsnrods

Btw, do they hurt when You’re bare foot?

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[azmojave]

Btw, do they hurt when You’re bare foot?

I’ll let you know next time I climb in bare footed

 

[JAPE]

Physical Therapy or Yoga. I'm legally disabled, but I'm a freak of nature regarding recovery, it's90% mindset. I just put my foot on the tailgate and step up, and under 6' too haha.


But I do have a HF folding stool for my grandmother when she comes along.

Does she hang her tongue out when she rides in the bed?

 

[Dilly’S Willy]

Does she hang her tongue out when she rides in the bed?

Nah, she's too busy complaining about her hair blowing around because the top or door is usually off. "Gram, you're really complaining about the wind in your hair? You keep cutting it shorter and soon you won't have any hair to complain about..."

She didn't think that was funny.

 

[azmojave]

Got them installed. Now when I slip off, it will cut my shin like a cheese grater LOL.
Feels much better getting into the bed now. Seems like I’m always needing up there when the tailgate is down. I definitely recommend!
BTW I’m 200 lbs and they don’t seem to flex.

 

[Cattywumpuss]

Got them installed. Now when I slip off, it will cut my shin like a cheese grater LOL.
Feels much better getting into the bed now. Seems like I’m always needing up there when the tailgate is down. I definitely recommend!
BTW I’m 200 lbs and they don’t seem to flex.

Nice write up. They do look a tad “aggressive” and hopefully you don’t find out what they do to a shin for a long while yet.

 

[Bandit’s Lair]

I just do the jump and spin my butt onto the tailgate when I have to get in there real deep like. I keep the tool boxes closer to the tailgate though so it isn’t too often. I do have the Nemesis hitch skid but don’t really use it as a step.

 

[BourbonRunner]

I just do the jump and spin my butt onto the tailgate when I have to get in there real deep like. I keep the tool boxes closer to the tailgate though so it isn’t too often. I do have the Nemesis hitch skid but don’t really use it as a step.

Until I broke my foot last month and it took up residence in a moon boot, I threw a foot on the edge of the bumper and pulled my semi-fat ass up. Now? Exactly as above. Drives me nuts.

I also have to remind myself to plop my increasingly larger sized ass on the tailgate FIRST then move to the ground. Made that mistake once.

 

[Bandit’s Lair]

Until I broke my foot last month and it took up residence in a moon boot, I threw a foot on the edge of the bumper and pulled my semi-fat ass up.

Hey I have one of those kickin around here somewhere!! I was in one for a couple months while my Achilles healed up. An experience I highly suggest everyone skip.

 

[BourbonRunner]

Hey I have one of those kickin around here somewhere!! I was in one for a couple months while my Achilles healed up. An experience I highly suggest everyone skip.

Missing the Achilles repair is on my list of Shit Steve Doesn't Want To Do. As I get older somehow that list gets longer.

I broke the 5th metatarsal in a spiral fracture rolling my ankle. Done that a million times but this is the first time I've broken anything other than a hairline break in my ankle.

 

[Bandit’s Lair]

Missing the Achilles repair is on my list of Shit Steve Doesn't Want To Do. As I get older somehow that list gets longer.

I broke the 5th metatarsal in a spiral fracture rolling my ankle. Done that a million times but this is the first time I've broken anything other than a hairline break in my ankle.

Yep. I was a distance runner/racer up until about 36. Anything from 5k to half marathon were the races for me. Then running was therapy and job related. Rolled ankles were just a part of the game. My pinky toe has also been screwed up for years. It works but it lays sideways. I attribute that to the running as well. Doc’s said no more running after the Achilles incident, so I walk now or use a rower. Anything low impact I can still do.

 

[BourbonRunner]

Yep. I was a distance runner/racer up until about 36. Anything from 5k to half marathon were the races for me. Then running was therapy and job related. Rolled ankles were just a part of the game. My pinky toe has also been screwed up for years. It works but it lays sideways. I attribute that to the running as well. Doc’s said no more running after the Achilles incident, so I walk now or use a rower. Anything low impact I can still do.

I ran XC and track in high school to stay in shape and trail ran mostly as an adult when I could. I worked for nearly 20 years in kitchens and that destroyed my knees and my feet. Last race I did was a 10K on July 4th about 14-15 years ago. I blew my left knee in 2018 hiking in Quebec in the snow (long story), it finally needed surgical correction after I started training for the Napa Half Marathon in late 2022. Did that in July 2023 but that knee still isn't right. A replacement is in the future.

My ortho was the chief of surgery at a couple Army hospitals and flight surgeon for the 24th ID and has a great sense of humor, gallows style specifically.

He said and this is an honest to God quote: "I looked at the pics of your knee. You shredded it. It looks like shit."

"is that a medical term, Doc?"

"Yes, medically speaking your knee looks like shit. Only time you should run now is if something is chasing you."

And yes, I was prescribed 800MG of ibuprofen.

 

[Bandit’s Lair]

I ran XC and track in high school to stay in shape and trail ran mostly as an adult when I could. I worked for nearly 20 years in kitchens and that destroyed my knees and my feet. Last race I did was a 10K on July 4th about 14-15 years ago. I blew my left knee in 2018 hiking in Quebec in the snow (long story), it finally needed surgical correction after I started training for the Napa Half Marathon in late 2022. Did that in July 2023 but that knee still isn't right. A replacement is in the future.

My ortho was the chief of surgery at a couple Army hospitals and flight surgeon for the 24th ID and has a great sense of humor, gallows style specifically.

He said and this is an honest to God quote: "I looked at the pics of your knee. You shredded it. It looks like shit."

"is that a medical term, Doc?"

"Yes, medically speaking your knee looks like shit. Only time you should run now is if something is chasing you."

And yes, I was prescribed 800MG of ibuprofen.

At least they gave ya the Grunt Candy!! The doc at the VA who repaired my Achilles told me it looked like a snapped tension cable. Surgey was about 4 hours to retract it down from behind my knee and reattach with calf material. When I finally came to I had 5 male nurses on top of me. I felt confused until they told me I’d been fighting with them coming off of anesthetic. They were not smiling.

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