NW WA Meet / BS Thread

eye loops on the towing assembly. definately no jerk launches. mainly looking to manuver fell trees.

 

Maybe you could rent an excavator and push them over and stack them.

 

use the hook on the passenger side and you should be just fine. The drivers side one really isnt much to it so I wouldnt use it

 

I remember thinking its crazy how much bigger 5100's were compared to stock suspension. Now these 6112 make the 5100s look tiny.

 

I wouldn't use the front point on the truck. When I put a hook into the receiver, I was more worried about messing up my frame by jerking. I have pulled over a 60 ft pine with my Tacoma, with a wedge cut out, and most of the back cut done. I've also done some jerking with the hook in the receiver, but that is a 2-3 foot start in 4low.

If you have access to a pintle hitch, you can also put that in upside down and put a tow strap in that to have it pointing uphill to where you hook onto the tree.

In all my experience using tow straps to pull on trees, the only broken strap snapped because I had caught it with an axe while knocking branches off to get to the strap with the tree on the ground. I've never broken an eye on one. As I'm sure you know (so this is for those who may be reading and don't know better), never ever ever ever ever buy a tow strap with the metal hook already sewn into either side of a tow strap. When something breaks loose, those metap hooks seem to aim for glass on vehicles, or find a way to hit things they aren't meant to hit.

 

thats a great tip about the metal ends. thanks.

 

Seems that the CV is holding good since I had issues previously. Making sure it was all ready to go a bit closer to home. FN509 also shoots flawlessly pretty impressed so far

 

Any one able to translate? No speaké englé

 

Ready to go

 

I kinda figured. My humor has been pretty dry lately.

 

Hey Guys,
Sad news my truck was broken into this morning at 2:06am.
190th street & 51st ave NE Lake Forest Park
In the bed of the truck, I lost a full toolbag and a large bin of recovery gear.
I will try to get better descriptions of items later.
But in the meantime lookout for really great deals on tools and recovery gear....
black bin 16"x16"x30"
warn recovery bag (red) three rings(https://www.red-winches.com/product/snatch-ring-8t/), soft shackles, D rings, tow strap (yellow), snatch strap (orange), 3/8" full winch extension line 100' (gray synthetic)
Toolbag from harbor freight. 7"x7"x16"
mix of 3/8" & 1/2" sockets, wrenches. Basically, a full set to work on every bolt on the truck. Most all new condition. Pittsburgh brand.
Airline 25' (green) ARB air up gauge modified with 36" (green airline extension)

I'm sure there is more just can't remember because

 

Son of a bitch I hate thieves, sorry to hear it.

 

I also have a video from the neighbor's camera that got one of the thieves.
How do I post that here????????

 

lol election time may be accelerating the drinking; foggy mornings are more prevalent.

Edit: not morning drinking lol

 

Someone may know a trick but I have always had to do YouTube and then link it here. You can make it private so only people with the link can view it but then again this is a public forum. Sorry about that thieves suck.

 

It’s 2020, I find it hard to believe but there’s no way to alert drivers in front of you but they’re doing 15 mph under the speed limit

 

I have an tool called a 30 inch light bar I use it’s pretty effective

 

Morning drinking during an election in the middle of a pandemic?

 

You must be banging off the rev limiter with those 5:29’s. Lol, finally found some people going slow enough you can pick on.

 

40 in a 55 in 3rd gear = 4500 rpm of VVTi fury