Abntroop's 08' H3 Alpha build

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[Ed's06h3]

Nice pics looks like you had a great time

 

[ABNTROOP]

Eight days on the road, through southern Oregon, 80% unpaved back roads. Not too shabby other than getting stuck in that nasty, sticky mud at warm springs reservoir for a day. That reservoir is in BFE and I got quoted 800 to have a tow come all the way out for me. Told them where to stick it, and found a helpful rancher another 10-15 miles down the canyon who yanked me out with her tow chain&strap combined with my two straps. She didn't ask for a penny but we gave her the 200 we scraped together between the four of us. She was a life saver! Nice to know there are still decent folks in the world. Rolled up to 10,000' in the Steins, great area, Hart mountain, the antelope refuge. Hot area, but well worth exploring.

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

No winch? no anchor? no highlift? dang - you live on the edge.

 

[ABNTROOP]

High lift's on the back of the roof rack. Didn't help for **** in that bud though, extended baseplate or not. As far as a winch, that's on the list for next year

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

High lift's on the back of the roof rack. Didn't help for **** in that bud though, extended baseplate or not. As far as a winch, that's on the list for next year

if you have a hi lift, you have a winch.... two chains and you're in bidness (with the aforementioned ground anchor or another vehicle).
[video=youtube;xldBPnzohtI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xldBPnzohtI[/video]

 

[Sethmark]

if you have a hi lift, you have a winch.... two chains and you're in bidness (with the aforementioned ground anchor or another vehicle).
[video=youtube;xldBPnzohtI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xldBPnzohtI[/video]

Things that go boom at the worst possible moment.

It works. Kind of. I hate high lifts. Scary dangerous... But sometimes the best tool for the job. I stopped carrying one once the trails stopped having any sort of flat surface.

 

[ABNTROOP]

Yeah, with mud that the jack and base would sink into effortlessly, no land anchor, no trees, etc, that highlift became just another piece of weight. Thanks for the video, although I am indeed aware of the multiple uses of a high lift ergo why I carry one. Pretty sure there's more than two of us who carry them as a tool and not just a vehicle ornament. :wink:

 

[Sethmark]

Reminds me of this picture. 3 jacks in use and the high lift securely attached to the rear bumper. No way my ass was climbing under that car to do that much work with a high lift.



This would be the result of blowing the bearing caps off a 9". 130:1 is tough on parts.

 

[ABNTROOP]

Nice! :thumbs:

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

Yeah, with mud that the jack and base would sink into effortlessly, no land anchor, no trees, etc, that highlift became just another piece of weight. Thanks for the video, although I am indeed aware of the multiple uses of a high lift ergo why I carry one. Pretty sure there's more than two of us who carry them as a tool and not just a vehicle ornament. :wink:

mine's an ornament - I have a winch, ground anchor, lockers, extraction straps, and travel in packs of jeeps.... I still remember an argument I got into with our illustrious leader about why we were wasting our time on a hi lift extraction course (he's the newbie with 15 years of off-roading experience).... but it does look pretty cool up on top of my roof rack, right next to the shovel and axe that I'm required to carry for the 4x4 SAR stuff I do.... :roll:


of course, that hi lift pic reminds me about the time we argued about how far up a tree to attach the strap to pull your vehicle out with a chainsaw

 

[owlxxx]

That shovel really came in handy last weekend(I carry a trenching shovel). A ford ranger ext cab crept up on us at 2am as we were camping on the lakeshore. Well, the ranger hit a sinkhole and the whole front end dropped to the body panels and the rest of the truck was down to the frame. After shoveling for 15 minutes I was able to pull it out with my h3. Those guys set up about 100yds from us and fished till 6am. they never slept and there were 6 guys, a bbq and camping gear in that little truck.

 

[ABNTROOP]

A. Pls tell me they dug as well, and B. pls tell me they paid you in fresh caught BBQ'd fish

 

[RamRod]

A. Pls tell me they dug as well, and B. pls tell me they paid you in fresh caught BBQ'd fish

agreed!

 

[owlxxx]

A. Pls tell me they dug as well, and B. pls tell me they paid you in fresh caught BBQ'd fish

Well... They did try to dig and No offense to anyone here, but they were heavy set guys and after watching them try to dig like someone that's never seen a shovel, I just had to step in and do it. A shovel is no big deal since I use one at work a lot of the time digging power line poles where there is no truck access. My brother and friend helped dig and they were handsomely rewarded by the guys in distress with a case and a half of beer and they love beer.

 

[ABNTROOP]

Well, figured I'd post up some pics from the last few camping trips we've done over the last several weeks.
these were on Nikolai mountain outside of clatskanie, OR