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Large earth anchor!
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What is that? Sounds expensive. Very large... Last edited by charliedid; 09-23-2020 at 02:04 PM. |
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The rangers told us that it would cost at least $50,000 for a helicopter to remove this camper if it had fallen over edge of the road. The owner was fortunate that a wrecker was able to remove it for around $3-3,500. https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...im#post2060144
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Maybe install two of these on either end.
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She has a twin? The mind races.
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That has to be the world's coolest rappel anchor.
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When I bike commuted on Oahu, the Pearl Harbor bike path had frequent vehicles. I've got a photo on my portable HD that shows a car following me. Two events stand out, first was the white Toyota 4X4 pickup that was totally stuck in the mud. Over a period of a few days, I watched it get stripped to the frame. The second was a lowered Honda Civic that hit the raised concrete where the center pole would normally be. You could see a trail of fluid about 50 feet to the abandoned vehicle. It only lasted a day before it was stripped clean. Recycling is popular in Hawaii.
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Maybe a helical anchor can be installed by hand in a remote location like that? I'm really curious how this is going to end. Looking at the map that is linked in the story, it looks like he/she drove a long way on sketchy trails before getting stuck
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When I was a kid and anyone who wanted could drive a car on the beach, it was cars half buried in the sand along the tide line.
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I know a guy who lives here in Bozeman that took his dad's new Caddy out for a joy ride about 30 years ago. He and his buddies brought some beer and drove it on a dirt road that was rougher than expected. They high sided the car and got his totally stuck. It got dark and they walked out and hitched a ride home with the idea of coming back the next morning and retrieving it.
When they got back in the morning it had been burnt to the ground and was still smoldering. It had been badly beaten with big rocks and then set ablaze. Not sure what happened when dd got back into town from his business trip but I can guess. dave |
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There are still beaches in FL that you can drive on. Growing up, I spent a lot of time at the beaches in St Johns county and I saw plenty of cars that the driver parked close to the water at a lower tide, and they ended up in the ocean when the tide came in. I had a CJ5 at the time and it would go anywhere...but it became a rust bucket due to all of the salt water
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I'm not sure I'd want to ride my MTB down that trial never mind a Jeep.
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Actually now that we're telling stories about stuck cars.
My local MTB haunt has a whole bunch of 1930s-1950s car bodies/chassis/blocks sitting slowly rusting a way. They're pretty deep in the woods, which makes me wonder if they were trying to offroad. It's possible the trails were originally wider or something or there were dirt roads into the forest that no longer look like dirt roads.. there are very few trails in this network that a modern Jeep Wrangler could get down. Interestingly those old cars are a lot smaller than a modern Wrangler so maybe they could fit down narrower sections. I'd be curious what the dimensions of a WWII Jeep were compared to a modern one.. everything got huge along the way with cars.. and the bigger the car/truck is the more space it needs to get down the trail. Last edited by benb; 09-23-2020 at 04:20 PM. |
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