Oregon and Washington BS thread

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30 seconds of hard work paid off... i figured out how to upload pics...

NOOB

 

Nice, rack is narrow but im still jealous. I didn't get more then two days out and no shot

 

Yeah I got it the second day of the season... My first elk, and first kill ever, on my second hunt isn't too bad so I'll take the little guy! ha

 

I don't remember Eric or Tim having to cut the plates much, it was more a matter of putting them at proper spacing.


Mitch, sorry to say, but I really think you want those plates on there before you learn the hard way.... well, the even harder way

 

We tried positioning the plates in different spots and couldn't figure them all out. Well see what happens, I still have them, if I need them I can grind it all down and start again (even though it would be a bitch)

 

Not saying you are wrong, or that I am right by ANY means.

I found this thread though, interesting read.

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/off-roading-trails/139318-slider-frame-plating-stress-test.html

 

That's a nice link.

 

I figure my setup is a combination of a couple of those. I know that for best strength the frame plate would have been best.

 

you'll be fine with out them, the plates would have been better but to late for that haha. it would take a ridiculously amount of force for anything to happen to your frame. i think everyone is thinking about it as one leg when there are 4 that are distributing the force, if the 4th leg to the rear is being pressed upward then the 3rd will pull against the force along with the 2nd and 1st leg. its a team work thing if that makes since. for anything to happen it would have to be a great enough force to tweak the entire frame down the whole side since the legs are spaced along the frame and all connected by a slider(very beefy slider)

 

Nice man! I went out there for the 1st season and had no luck for the 4 days

 

Very beefy indeed.

Yeah after thinking about it more last night, if anything just to have a square plate to push on the frame would have been ideal. But since this is my DD, I plan to still drive like a grandma about to shit her pants when I'm at Browns.

 

Sometimes it's really nice when I'm wrong!

 

I never said you were wrong

 

Would your friend be willing to help me weld my sliders on when I get them?

 

well, I was wrong... I was suggesting you had to remove the sliders. I was glad you didn't have to

 

Nice bull! Cool to see another yota loaded down on this forum.

 

I can ask when the time comes around

 

So which of you sillys drive a silver access cab with painted lower valance, grenade decal at the bedside and Christmas lights around the bed? Just saw you take a right turn onto Scholls from Hall I wasn't in my truck though..

I've seen you at Albertson also getting out of your truck with your child as I was walking towards mine with my daughter.

 

Yeah I got pretty lucky a buddy of mine from Oregon State had access to some private logging property so we were able to get into them the second day! So lucky...