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Idahome
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She is shifting very very well! I cannot wait to put tags on it and drive to town for glass
Man, that's gotta suck. Maybe you should consider an asphalt driveway... oh wait, that would really be a ROAD!
I/We 4x4 every single day living back here. I build custom off road vehicles so I figured it was fitting. The forest road we call a driveway to home was built by loggers many moons ago. Now it is built and maintained by us the property owners back here. This time of year I should be on a snowmobile every day, but we have been getting rain on top of ice snow for weeks, fine with me we just run snow tracks or big tires depending...
The plow truck was keeping things open, until the bottom fell out of the road (ice layer turns to slush) and the water started running...oh and she broke the TTB suspension, but we got that fixed
Warm January that is for sure. I am happy with moisture, with all this rain up here in the PNW at least some fire seasons are passable without incident
The Ranger however might need some help getting out of here right now, I did my best to fix a couple of water spots yesterday (dozer)...we will go back at it this weekend, until then atv's
The machine we use the most has a cab, wiper, heater, seats 6, so its not like we are roughing it too bad, modern homesteading they call it.
Having a difficult road also has advantages in other ways, you see we want to buy up a couple of more lots that are around us.......so having the road a mess works in my favor.
I am in the market for a used road grader, that will make things easier........
Signed up for adventure, we found some. 3 moose hanging around the last few days......... I'm hoping for some more winter, it's only Feb now sheesh should be snowing not rain
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I build custom RBV, specializing in drivetrain conversions, wiring, suspension and complete custom trucks