I got challanged by a Hummer today.
*Yawn* 
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First, I never made this about Jeep vs Hummer.
I kept my part to not believing the original story, and defending my rig, and politics and greenies........but not Jeeps.
The only people putting down any other rigs, are some of you.
The original story isn't impossible, but is in my view, very unlikely. I worked at a ski resort years ago. The snow cats had made a road from a lower parking lot to an upper parking lot out of snow, it was about twenty feet deep.........many of us tried to wheel it at several different times throughout the year. Some customers actually thought it was a road because it looked just like one. It was very packed down with them plowing the lots everyday and using it to get back and forth.
Nobody in any 4x4 vehicle ever made it more than 1/4 of the way up that road without sinking past the axles up to the frame, including many different Jeeps.
Most conventional snow plowing equipment can't pile snow twenty feet high. Huge snow moving equipment at Airports barely stacks the snow from hundreds of acres of concrete that high. They use front loaders to get it close to that, before they carry it away. Snow packed on snow doesn't support thousands of pounds without something more solid underneath
I personally know the guy in the blown tie rod video (he's kinda famous with us
) I'm wheeling Moab in two weeks with him. He just put AEV beadlockers, 37's on his new JK Rubicon Unlimited.
I kept my part to not believing the original story, and defending my rig, and politics and greenies........but not Jeeps.
The only people putting down any other rigs, are some of you.
The original story isn't impossible, but is in my view, very unlikely. I worked at a ski resort years ago. The snow cats had made a road from a lower parking lot to an upper parking lot out of snow, it was about twenty feet deep.........many of us tried to wheel it at several different times throughout the year. Some customers actually thought it was a road because it looked just like one. It was very packed down with them plowing the lots everyday and using it to get back and forth.
Nobody in any 4x4 vehicle ever made it more than 1/4 of the way up that road without sinking past the axles up to the frame, including many different Jeeps.
Most conventional snow plowing equipment can't pile snow twenty feet high. Huge snow moving equipment at Airports barely stacks the snow from hundreds of acres of concrete that high. They use front loaders to get it close to that, before they carry it away. Snow packed on snow doesn't support thousands of pounds without something more solid underneath
I personally know the guy in the blown tie rod video (he's kinda famous with us
) I'm wheeling Moab in two weeks with him. He just put AEV beadlockers, 37's on his new JK Rubicon Unlimited.
Last edited by wayoflife; Apr 3, 2008 at 09:51 AM. Reason: blacklisted manufacturer
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Here's a cool video (it takes awhile to buffer and I'm not a fan of the soundtrack ).
http://www.hummerxclub.com/forum/vie...hp?f=33&t=2455
The guy in the H2, now has a JK unlimited Rubicon also.
I never meant to turn this into a Hummer versus Jeep thing. I never put down Jeeps here.
Perspectives are interesting.
I could throw insults too, but my ass would be banned in a second if I said 1/2 of the things here, that were said to me.
).http://www.hummerxclub.com/forum/vie...hp?f=33&t=2455
The guy in the H2, now has a JK unlimited Rubicon also.
I never meant to turn this into a Hummer versus Jeep thing. I never put down Jeeps here.
Perspectives are interesting.
I could throw insults too, but my ass would be banned in a second if I said 1/2 of the things here, that were said to me.
Last edited by ruggedh2; Mar 12, 2008 at 04:08 PM.
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Here is a fun one with a couple good ol' boy rednecks in the mud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOUBUH7EyOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOUBUH7EyOc
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cool videos, i wouldn't mind trying to take an h2, looks like it would be a helluva challenge to get over obstacles. the one h2 in the first vid looks nice, but after having jeep flex, i couldn't be happy with that constant 2 wheelin going on, tipping back and forth.
by the way, love the sig line... (the dude abides)
by the way, love the sig line... (the dude abides)
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Right on.
You are correct about the flex too. It's a different style and a different line......but for most stuff, it's a blast to run the different rigs together.
When you get into the really extreme stuff.....articulation becomes a must. Hummers wheel, but they don't flex.
You are correct about the flex too. It's a different style and a different line......but for most stuff, it's a blast to run the different rigs together.
When you get into the really extreme stuff.....articulation becomes a must. Hummers wheel, but they don't flex.
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Word for word exchange in McDonalds tonight...my son is still laughing.
Him: Hey man, is that your Jeep? The green one with the winch?
Me: Yep.
Him: That's my rig (points out the window at a white H3 glistening under the light)
Me: You need me to pull you out?
Him: (blank stare, his wife snorts)
Me: I'll be in the playland with the kid. Holler if you need help.
Him: Hey man, is that your Jeep? The green one with the winch?
Me: Yep.
Him: That's my rig (points out the window at a white H3 glistening under the light)
Me: You need me to pull you out?
Him: (blank stare, his wife snorts)
Me: I'll be in the playland with the kid. Holler if you need help.
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Here is a fun one with a couple good ol' boy rednecks in the mud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOUBUH7EyOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOUBUH7EyOc
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Joined: Mar 2008
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From: Ellicott city, MD
Word for word exchange in McDonalds tonight...my son is still laughing.
Him: Hey man, is that your Jeep? The green one with the winch?
Me: Yep.
Him: That's my rig (points out the window at a white H3 glistening under the light)
Me: You need me to pull you out?
Him: (blank stare, his wife snorts)
Me: I'll be in the playland with the kid. Holler if you need help.
Him: Hey man, is that your Jeep? The green one with the winch?
Me: Yep.
Him: That's my rig (points out the window at a white H3 glistening under the light)
Me: You need me to pull you out?
Him: (blank stare, his wife snorts)
Me: I'll be in the playland with the kid. Holler if you need help.
