So I'll give credit where credit is due...

[DiscoHasBeen]

So reading the "are any of you into this" thread I've been thinking back to the mid '80's when I had my CJ. 304 V8 rebuilt and tricked out. The shit I did in that rig.... This dude is right there and I'll give that LR props.

 

[CORover]

That does not look like fun. Hell of a Rover though. IH8Mud

 

[BarryO]

Forget about the P38, I wanna know about that Disco.

 

[kennith]

Ain't nothing at the end of that road worth dealing with that much mud to see...

Even so, it's a great example of choosing the appropriate tread pattern for your use case. He's pretty damned good at maintaining momentum, as well.

That's some nasty shit. It's not quite Louisiana or Eastern NC, but it does feel like I can smell it right through the monitor; that cold, wet smell mixed with organic detritus baking off the exhaust.

I hate that shit with a passion. I'd drive fifty miles in the other direction to avoid a hundred feet of that nonsense.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

Here's one with the Discovery and a Toyota.

The Discovery and a Defender.

 

[K-rover]

These guys mostly just do mud. Although I have them run some timed course events. Those are pretty cool.

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

And one more Discovery vs Defender.

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

These guys mostly just do mud. Although I have them run some timed course events. Those are pretty cool.

Those vids bring back fond memories. Back in the mid 80's over the winter, when there wasn't anything to hunt or fishing to do, a buddy with a Scout and me with the CJ would go see who would get stuck first. At that time there were thousands of acres of abandoned strip mines with every type of terrain you could want. God what I wouldn't give for a cell phone back then. We had a couple of pretty capable rigs and we put them to good use I think. I ran 33" Super Swamppers TSL.

One of the more memorable moments. We got to the trailhead one morning and right away it got pretty bad. Really rutted deeply. JD broke the shackles on his front suspension getting through the worst of it. We went back into this little town with a general store. They had a Evansville phone book and in it we found a towing company that showed a bad ass looking 4wd tow truck. We called and they agreed to come get him. So they show up with a regular duelly tow truck and a huge POS Dodge Power Wagon. The driver explained the 4wd TT was a show rig. So we get to the trail and they chain the TT up to the PW and he pulls it to JD's Scout. Hook up the Scout, ask JD to put it in gear and help, and back through the knee deep mud and ruts they go. I got to admit that PW was pretty fucking bad ass. So these guys drove two vehicles sixty miles, went through all the BS of getting that Scout out, and towed it back for $100.

 

[K-rover]

This is what I was talking about. Its a team competition.

 

[bri]

I only do mud if I must. never just for fun. out here in co it also widens track when people pick new lines and cant deal with ruts.

 

[CORover]

They do some crazy stuff and build awesome Rovers in Turkey.

 

[brian4d]

Not for me but these people think that's cool. I especially like the guy on the quad. If you don't have time or the stomach for reds at least watch the frist 20 seconds of this video.

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

I only do mud if I must. never just for fun. out here in co it also widens track when people pick new lines and cant deal with ruts.

I wouldn't want to do miles of that shit. In the mines you'd get all kinds of different opportunities. Mud, rocks, hills, etc. Sometimes gravel roads, but deep mud was never far away and we didn't try to avoid it. That said my Jeep and my buddy's Scout were pre emissions so all we had to worry about was keeping water/mud out of the diffs, engine, gas. There's no way in hell I'd take a current truck through any of that shit. Definitely not my old Discovery.

 

[LRflip]

That's some nasty shit. It's not quite Louisiana or Eastern NC, but it does feel like I can smell it right through the monitor; that cold, wet smell mixed with organic detritus baking off the exhaust.

That smell gives me wood.

 

[seventyfive]

Still my favorite video...

 

[CORover]

I love that they thought ahead and tied a jug to the sunk vehicle so they could find it later for the recovery.

 

[salvvia]

Give it hell

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

Still my favorite video...

IDK, to each their own but that shit doesn't appeal to me. I didn't mind getting stuck, but I wasn't inclined to dive into anything that I knew I couldn't make it through. The only exception would be getting well down an unfamiliar trail and coming upon something I knew I couldn't traverse without breaking out the winch, but going back was out of the question. But, getting stuck wasn't my goal.

 

[seventyfive]

I never wheeled mud. I hate mud. Absolutely nothing challenging in mud.

Strictly rocks.

It is my favorite video because those Eastern Europeans, doing Croatia cup and other shit, don’t quit. They go hard.

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

I never wheeled mud. I hate mud. Absolutely nothing challenging in mud.

Strictly rocks.

It is my favorite video because those Eastern Europeans, doing Croatia cup and other shit, don’t quit. They go hard.

If you never wheeled it how would you know? It's what we have here mostly and I enjoy a good muddy trail. But for me to bail out into a mud hole there has to be some chance I'll make it through. I also wouldn't take a recent model suv through that shit. That's why the last few years we wheeled we switched over to a Honda Foreman. No emissions or sensors to worry about.