What did you do WITH your Gladiator today?

[DylanM]

Took the camper down and stayed in Fredericksburg for a few days.

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[ALT2870]

Took way too long to install the winch cover plate. The nut on the inside fell when I was trying to thread the fairlead and plate back on. Fell somewhere into the netherworld but after removing the skid plate and the nuts for the bumper (yes, I was about to remove the bumper) it vibrated out on the last nut. Oh, and as a bonus lost one of the skid plate nuts so looks like I'm heading to the dealer at some point. ?

 

[USMC_1Wire6337]

I have a buddy, he and his Wife went down to Florida on vacation. She's taken ill, and he's asked me to cut the grass at his house till his return. So handy having a pick up for situations like this!

Beige is a close match to my Gobi, but I thought hang flags were supposed to be red... ?

 

[Lunentucker]

A couple of days ago, my wife and I went through my now empty parent's house.
3 loads to Goodwill and 5 to the dumpsters.
I considered doing a yard sale or estate sale, but dealing with hagglers over my deceased parents' stuff just felt like it wasn't worth the few hundred dollars that it might generate.
We kept the things that we wanted, small and personal items, photos, etc.
They really didn't have much of value in the house itself, and to their credit, as did most from that era, they lived well within their means and saved for years and years, so most of what they left my two remaining brothers and me was easily transferred.

Do your kids a favor, and periodically go through your old stuff and purge what you don't need and they don't want.
Also make your arrangements, your will, and make sure that they know where any and all accounts and resources are located and how to access them.

Those last ten or so years of your natural life get away in a hurry.

 

[KevinM60]

A couple of days ago, my wife and I went through my now empty parent's house.
3 loads to Goodwill and 5 to the dumpsters.
I considered doing a yard sale or estate sale, but dealing with hagglers over my deceased parents' stuff just felt like it wasn't worth the few hundred dollars that it might generate.
We kept the things that we wanted, small and personal items, photos, etc.
They really didn't have much of value in the house itself, and to their credit, as did most from that era, they lived well within their means and saved for years and years, so most of what they left my two remaining brothers and me was easily transferred.

Do your kids a favor, and periodically go through your old stuff and purge what you don't need and they don't want.
Also make your arrangements, your will, and make sure that they know where any and all accounts and resources are located and how to access them.

Those last ten or so years of your natural life get away in a hurry.

Sorry to hear about your parents.
Both at the same time?
That must have made the loss even tougher.

 

[RudeJeepin]

A couple of days ago, my wife and I went through my now empty parent's house.
3 loads to Goodwill and 5 to the dumpsters.
I considered doing a yard sale or estate sale, but dealing with hagglers over my deceased parents' stuff just felt like it wasn't worth the few hundred dollars that it might generate.
We kept the things that we wanted, small and personal items, photos, etc.
They really didn't have much of value in the house itself, and to their credit, as did most from that era, they lived well within their means and saved for years and years, so most of what they left my two remaining brothers and me was easily transferred.

Do your kids a favor, and periodically go through your old stuff and purge what you don't need and they don't want.
Also make your arrangements, your will, and make sure that they know where any and all accounts and resources are located and how to access them.

Those last ten or so years of your natural life get away in a hurry.

I'm sorry for your loss as well. It's a tough thing to deal with.

Also, know that no two people deal with loss and grief the same way and there is really no wrong way.

Solid advice about getting your affairs on order. Not something people tend to think about. I mean "we have all the time in the world," until we don't.

 

[Jaxmax]

Hauled six trees in bed with ARB fridge in there also , could have gotten two more !
Reforesting a couple areas, usually plant about 10-15 trees a year. I live on a mountain formed by glaciers , digging is so much fun. Actually have about a half acre boulder field on property. I am always amazed how many rocks I get out and a lot of times the rocks are huge so just keep moving the hole until I can get the tree in the ground…..Jack

 

[TheDerb]

I have no photos to memorialize being an absolute dummy….

So I’ll just have to tell you about it.

Directly across from my rural subdivision, they have leveled hundreds of acres to put a “Del Webb” senior living neighborhood, and a little further than that they are clearing land and have roughed in the roads for another housing development.

My dog is a dummy, and somehow got out of the fence and ran across the road to this other housing development (thank God he didn’t get hit- he’s never gotten out before. Turns out the latch had broken. Its fixed now).

So I get in my truck and I cross the road and drive onto the gravel entrance to the roughed in roads. I thought I saw the dog, so I kept on, down about a 2.5' shelf, and I didn’t notice that after several days of Tennessee rain that the roughed in road looked suspiciously perfectly smooth and peanut buttery.

I made it about 12 feet before I was just stuck. Absolutely, hopelessly stuck.

It was perfect, nasty, peanut butter mud. And it was deep enough that the lower part of the tire (I guess around 9" or so) below the rim was completely under the mud.

I put into 4L, locked both axles, and honestly barely made it out. Due to the ledge I drove down when I wasn't paying attention, I had to keep going forward.

It took me 25 minutes to get through this sea of peanut butter, out, and around to a different exit.

I had no recovery options because the land had been rough leveled, so I would have no choice but go get my wife's Wrangler and use it to winch myself out had that not worked.

Honestly, it was a terrible experience only because I was completely irresponsible. Had I planned it, it would have been a blast.

But thank GOD I have the truck I do because any other truck and I would have had one bad day.

 

[KevinM60]

I have no photos to memorialize being an absolute dummy….

So I’ll just have to tell you about it.

Directly across from my rural subdivision, they have leveled hundreds of acres to put a “Del Webb” senior living neighborhood, and a little further than that they are clearing land and have roughed in the roads for another housing development.

My dog is a dummy, and somehow got out of the fence and ran across the road to this other housing development (thank God he didn’t get hit- he’s never gotten out before. Turns out the latch had broken. Its fixed now).

So I get in my truck and I cross the road and drive onto the gravel entrance to the roughed in roads. I thought I saw the dog, so I kept on, down about a 2.5' shelf, and I didn’t notice that after several days of Tennessee rain that the roughed in road looked suspiciously perfectly smooth and peanut buttery.

I made it about 12 feet before I was just stuck. Absolutely, hopelessly stuck.

It was perfect, nasty, peanut butter mud. And it was deep enough that the lower part of the tire (I guess around 9" or so) below the rim was completely under the mud.

I put into 4L, locked both axles, and honestly barely made it out. Due to the ledge I drove down when I wasn't paying attention, I had to keep going forward.

It took me 25 minutes to get through this sea of peanut butter, out, and around to a different exit.

I had no recovery options because the land had been rough leveled, so I would have no choice but go get my wife's Wrangler and use it to winch myself out had that not worked.

Honestly, it was a terrible experience only because I was completely irresponsible. Had I planned it, it would have been a blast.

But thank GOD I have the truck I do because any other truck and I would have had one bad day.

It’s all part of the adventure.
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[Janster]

Only 1,000 miles on the JT….. Got it a little muddy this morning on a public dirt road (Nature preserve). Now I remember why I hate mud…it’s a pain in the ass to clean!! Neat trail…we’ll be back!!

Also…. We worked on installing a hard top hoist in the garage. The hardest part is done…. I hope tomorrow, we can get the parts we need to cradle the top and actually lift it up.

 

[Duece McCracken]

Hit the two towers loop in Jackson NJ, got my buddy some experience in his Xterra he just bought.

Had a good time. ACT clutch did amazing. B&M shifters still doing great.

ARB twin filled mine and his super quick. Had him dick around with a 12v pump first, lmfao. I had 4 tires done before he got to 20 lbs in 1, lol

Banged up a fender, had to pull the liner, rebolt in the amber turn signal, snap upper and lower back together.

May look into some high clearance fenders for when I completely destroy a fender. I ordered my JT with unpainted fenders for this reason, disposable. Lol

 

[Lunentucker]

Sorry to hear about your parents.
Both at the same time?
That must have made the loss even tougher.

No. Mom died suddenly in 2016.
My dad, who was considerably older than she, hung in there pretty good until about the last 5-6 months.
He had a long and enjoyable life. The end was a bit rough, but he handled it gracefully.

 

[KevinM60]

No. Mom died suddenly in 2016.
My dad, who was considerably older than she, hung in there pretty good until about the last 5-6 months.
He had a long and enjoyable life. The end was a bit rough, but he handled it gracefully.

Oh.
sounds about like my parents except my mom just passed away a few months ago. My dad could possibly last another ten years. They didn’t plan very well and with my dad neading full time care he got moved into a nursing home and the house got sold with everything inside that they left behind. They did pass on the valuables to us kids last year but better planning would have made a big difference in their lives which to us is the priority.

 

[Lunentucker]

Oh.
sounds about like my parents except my mom just passed away a few months ago. My dad could possibly last another ten years. They didn’t plan very well and with my dad neading full time care he got moved into a nursing home and the house got sold with everything inside that they left behind. They did pass on the valuables to us kids last year but better planning would have made a big difference in their lives which to us is the priority.

My dad lived independently for the most part until about a year ago.
Then his brother moved in with him, so they still did alright together. We took care of their shopping and cleaning, house maintenance.
He slowly got worse and worse.
Heart failure, kidney failure, neuropathy in his legs and feet.

He did a couple hospital stays this year, and the last one in March indicated that he was not going to be the comeback kid again.
He went into skilled care rehab for a couple of weeks, but they got nowhere with him.
I took him to the cardiologist about three weeks before his passing.
She laid out the facts for him, and he elected to stop fighting, and to go into hospice.

As weak and frail as he was by then, I did not expect him to go nearly three weeks with no food and damned little water.
Even at 93-3/4, the human body want to keep living.
He was still able to communicate with us 24 hours before he passed.

Those last few days the clock on the wall just seemed to all but stop.

His courage for choosing that, and his conviction to stop eating, even when he still could have, ... mind blowing.
His last bite of anything was Easter Sunday, and that was literally just one bite of pie his neighbor had brough to him. He died the night of April 12.
The man showed me something about courage and conviction.

 

[WILDHOBO]

Thursday, Pritchett Canyon. Friday, Moab Rim, Today, Elephant Hill. Three perfect days.

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