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Wes (Wes)
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Post Number: 212
Registered: 02-2002
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 12:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post


winch
 

Jim Reynolds (4x4xfar)
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Post Number: 199
Registered: 05-2003
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 01:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

WOW We've all seen front and rear but this takes it to a new level!!!
 

Rob Davison (Nosivad_bor)
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Post Number: 1336
Registered: 02-2003
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 01:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

yup, them warns aren't the most reliable. better have two :-)

 

Danno (Danno)
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Post Number: 339
Registered: 08-2002
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 01:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

it's a Jeep thing, i don't understand...
 

Lewis Jones (Cutter)
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Post Number: 230
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 01:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Okay Wes, whats the story here?? Some new kind of australia recovery competition? And how many does this guy have on the rear of his Jeep?
:-)
 

Greg Hirst (Gregh)
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Post Number: 387
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 03:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

LOL-That looks like a unique anti-smoking method...
 

Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d)
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Post Number: 1129
Registered: 02-2002
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 03:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

The top one is the milemarker, for people who want to watch the slo mo action replay

:-)
 

Rob Davison (Nosivad_bor)
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Post Number: 1337
Registered: 02-2003
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 05:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

dean you are good for a brit. the two warn solenoids fooled me.

rd
 

Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
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Post Number: 2755
Registered: 02-2002
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 05:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Wha???

The top one is a Warn, an 8274... The bottom, tho', sure, maybe is's a mm with a Warn solenoid, maybe it's not.... :-).


-L

 

Matthew A. Barnes (Discoveryxd)
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Post Number: 196
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 06:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I'm more interested in those Simex tires.
 

Lewis Jones (Cutter)
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Post Number: 233
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 07:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

just get some swamper tsl's and a grooving iron....:-)
 

Wes (Wes)
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Post Number: 213
Registered: 02-2002
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 08:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Its a picture from the ongoing Rainforest Challenge in Malaysia. More pics here...

http://homepage.mac.com/orbitant/Menu11.html

With the shit they're showing on the site, I think two winches isn't enough! Some shots have bulldozers pulling participants out!
 

chuck yarbrough (Cptyarderho)
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Post Number: 29
Registered: 06-2003
Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 11:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hell, I have a TJ and I don't understand...
the leverage on the top winch must be enormous, given the distance to the bumper
 

Charles Allen (Callen229)
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Post Number: 97
Registered: 07-2002
Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 10:20 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

The top winch is for tree climbing. We did it all the time in the South African jungles of Borneo.
Charles
 

Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d)
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Post Number: 1131
Registered: 02-2002
Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 10:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

South african jungles of Borneo eh!
 

Paul D. Morgan (V22guy)
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Post Number: 2232
Registered: 02-2002
Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 11:19 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post


quote:

The top winch is for tree climbing. We did it all the time in the South African jungles of Borneo.




So I what I need to know Charles is....what type of swallow and what was its unlaiden speed? :-)
 

Alan Bates (Alanb)
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Post Number: 375
Registered: 07-2002
Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 11:23 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

European or African?
 

Greg Hirst (Gregh)
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Post Number: 388
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 02:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

LOL
 

Lewis Jones (Cutter)
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Post Number: 251
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 09:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

again with the birds....:-)
 

SSV (Susannah)
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Post Number: 580
Registered: 06-2002
Posted on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 10:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

What about this?! :-)

http://homepage.mac.com/orbitant/PhotoAlbum8.html
 

Lewis Jones (Cutter)
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Post Number: 271
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 12:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

drooooooolllllll.......:-)
 

Donald McFarlane (Dsmcf)
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Post Number: 46
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 05:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Makes you wonder. Do they have a car window tax in Singapore, like they do in Britain? Or are they just applying the good old KISS principle...
 

Jamil Abbasy (Jamooche)
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Post Number: 232
Registered: 05-2003
Posted on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 06:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I think this one is a range rover with dual snorkels, look at the hood...

http://homepage.mac.com/orbitant/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2003-09-01%2 005.57.39%20-0700/Image-9D1EAE8EDC7A11D7.jpg

 

Rob Davison (Nosivad_bor)
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Post Number: 1349
Registered: 02-2003
Posted on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 07:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

i see relocated front shocks too.


i wonder if the RR has one for exhaust and one for intake or has he swapped motors.

 

Matthew A. Barnes (Discoveryxd)
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Post Number: 200
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 08:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

That yellow Defender sure would look good in my driveway with my yellow XD. Man, I want one BAD!

Someday,
Matt
 

CALM (Gumarcel)
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Post Number: 1074
Registered: 11-2002
Posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 10:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

The guy standing in front of the 110 looks really really funny.
 

Lewis Jones (Cutter)
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Post Number: 284
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 03:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

that Range Rover with the dual snorkles....what axles do y'all suppose are under there? Portals of some kind?
 

Greg Hirst (Gregh)
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Post Number: 391
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 10:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Look like might be Volvo C303's.
 

Wes (Wes)
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Post Number: 217
Registered: 02-2002
Posted on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 09:56 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

more pics of the Rainforest Challenge...

http://www.landserwis.pl/rfc_2003_2_eng.html
 

Anton (Anton_r)
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Username: Anton_r

Post Number: 45
Registered: 09-2003
Posted on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 11:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

by the way, anybody knows why American team is not taking part in RFC this year ? they were there last year
 

R. B. Bailey (Rover50987)
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Username: Rover50987

Post Number: 702
Registered: 07-2002
Posted on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 11:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Because they couldn't figure out how to get two winches to work right, kept ripping the truck in half.
 

Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d)
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Post Number: 1147
Registered: 02-2002
Posted on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 03:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I wonder, do those guys have quadruple 50 lb yellowtops under the hood also?

:-)
 

Anton (Anton_r)
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Username: Anton_r

Post Number: 46
Registered: 09-2003
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 12:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

finally know some results from RFC :-) ... Russian (that's me) is 4th in it's class and 1st in tourism (whatever it means ;) ) not that bad :-)

here are some photos:
http://www.souz-96.com/team.phtml?id=15
http://www.souz-96.com/team.phtml?id=16
http://www.souz-96.com/team.phtml?id=17
http://www.souz-96.com/team.phtml?id=18
http://www.souz-96.com/team.phtml?id=19


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