What did you do WITH your Gladiator today?

Capngeo · 2026-07-20T13:09:08-0700

LOL, we have as much rocks as the desert has water. We have sand, clay, and wet here

Mud Pie · 2026-07-20T13:12:58-0700

Capngeo said:
I actually came thru unscathed for the most part (soggy carpets)... The white one not so much.. He never raised his dff and TC breathers, both of those got water, He got his air filter soaked, then sucked it into his intake jamming up his throttle body, packed his radiator with mud and weeds and g0ot stuck for a long ride home in limp mode.. There's something to be said for slow and easy vs bouncing off the rev limiter

What's that phrase Forrest said ? Oh yeah, "Stupid is as stupid does.". White Jeep proved that....

In spades.

Capngeo · 2026-07-20T13:24:37-0700

Mud Pie said:
What's that phrase Forrest said ? Oh yeah, "Stupid is as stupid does.". White Jeep proved that....

In spades.

Yeah... My club calls me "slow", but I never get stuck, never drown the Jeep, and am usually the guy pulling everyone else out. The kids who show up bouncing off the rev limiter never seen to last long. One last week hooked my kinetic to his tie rod, yep, I uninstalled it for him.

ChrisNLA · 2026-07-20T13:26:09-0700

Capngeo said:
LOL, we have as much rocks as the desert has water. We have sand, clay, and wet here

That's why I gotta drive two dang days to do any of the offroading I like

Mud Pie · 2026-07-20T13:42:33-0700

Capngeo said:
Yeah... My club calls me "slow", but I never get stuck, never drown the Jeep, and am usually the guy pulling everyone else out. The kids who show up bouncing off the rev limiter never seen to last long. One last week hooked my kinetic to his tie rod, yep, I uninstalled it for him.

Yep, same here back in the day when I was tooling in my 'Zuki. The Jeeps would give me crap, call me slow, call me Doctor because I drive like I'm performing surgery, etc.. I was never of the "shit-n-git" mindset.

I always said the same thing, "If I bust it up, you gonna tow me home ??" Usually got the "take your time...."

WILDHOBO · 2026-07-20T13:48:51-0700

Mud Pie said:
Yep, same here back in the day when I was tooling in my 'Zuki. The Jeeps would give me crap, call me slow, call me Doctor because I drive like I'm performing surgery, etc.. I was never of the "shit-n-git" mindset.

I always said the same thing, "If I bust it up, you gonna tow me home ??" Usually got the "take your time...."

Yep. Anyone that rushes you can just go.

ChrisNLA · 2026-07-20T13:54:53-0700

WILDHOBO said:
Yep. Anyone that rushes you can just go.

2020, on Metal Masher, we got to the top and a couple rigs in our group was sick to death of our plodding along and said they were gonna take the lead on the way down.

They thundered away in the distance, lol.

The difference was, they trailered their stuff in from California and it's just a toy. They run KOTH with an Ultra 4. They like fast.

The rest of us drove in from Louisiana, mostly in daily drivers.

Yeeessh. That was six years and three months ago.

Was it?

WAS IT?

Brb gonna have a mid life panic attack.

shooterrex · 2026-07-20T14:00:17-0700

We went and picked up about 100 bales of hay out of 1 of the hayfields. I just pulled the trailer around. Someone younger than I stacked it on the trailer.

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Bandit’s Lair · 2026-07-20T14:05:38-0700

shooterrex said:
We went and picked up about 100 bales of hay out of 1 of the hayfields. I just pulled the trailer around. Someone younger than I stacked it on the trailer.

Ugh I remember those days. I was the one on the ground though. I think they let me drive the Massey maybe 3 times over the 5 summers I worked for em. Older couple. They paid $5/hr and a 50 cent piece every time. Didnt matter what it came out to each of us got a 50 cent piece. Without fail.

shooterrex · 2026-07-20T14:25:30-0700

One tractor still had the bailer attached. The 1 ton dually has lumber on it and the other tractor doesn't have an enclosed cab so I used the Jeep. It's humid and 90 something AC is important.

WILDHOBO · 2026-07-20T15:54:30-0700

ChrisNLA said:
2020, on Metal Masher, we got to the top and a couple rigs in our group was sick to death of our plodding along and said they were gonna take the lead on the way down.

They thundered away in the distance, lol.

The difference was, they trailered their stuff in from California and it's just a toy. They run KOTH with an Ultra 4. They like fast.

The rest of us drove in from Louisiana, mostly in daily drivers.

Yeeessh. That was six years and three months ago.

Was it?

WAS IT?

Brb gonna have a mid life panic attack.

I was talking to a friend yesterday about the same concept. He lead 14 jeeps on a well known trail, and had people in his group, honking to get by. So weird. I don’t get the desire to beat the crap out of your rig. Slow and relaxed. It’s not a race.