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Dave in GA

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Speaking of mud, has anyone been muddin"? And in what vehicle? I took a 1965 IH 1-ton 4x4 out in some serious goop a few years ago and had a blast. Then it took hours underneath with a garden hose to remove all the mud. I decided I wouldn"t do that again.

One of my sons decided that he wanted to go muddin" with his 2wd Ranger to show the world that you can beat the mud in 2wd pickups too. Of course he got stuck and had to call a friend with a Jeep to pull him out. So he tried it again with a different 2wd pickup with the exact same results. Finally he learned what you can"t do with 2wd. But he had a lot of fun too. It"s fun until you have to take the wheels off and the brake drums and clean all the sand and mud out of the brakes.
 
That's just part of growing up.
Last summer during the drought here in Illinois my son had to use my little 4x4 blazer. He came home with it all muddy and I asked him where he had been with it cause there isn't any mud around here for miles. He said he was at a friend's place and her mom and dad were building a new house and it was muddy there....LOL! I let it go at that. I didn't tell my dad everything either.
 
This is the best time of the year to go muddin' in my opinion. Get 2-4 inches of mud on top of the frost and you dont get stuck. You can sling mud all over your buddies and have a great time.
Plus you really dont tear your truck up, cause you dont get buried up to the frame. Just watch out for the low spots in the field where there is 2 foot of water. That tends to slow you down and flood out the engine.

Getting stuck in the mud is not fun. Did that one time. Never again on purpose.

I'm older now, so I hate to load my truck up with 100 lbs of mud and have to clean it.

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 09:19:09 03/16/13) Speaking of mud, has anyone been muddin"? And in what vehicle? I took a 1965 IH 1-ton 4x4 out in some serious goop a few years ago and had a blast. Then it took hours underneath with a garden hose to remove all the mud. I decided I wouldn"t do that again.

One of my sons decided that he wanted to go muddin" with his 2wd Ranger to show the world that you can beat the mud in 2wd pickups too. Of course he got stuck and had to call a friend with a Jeep to pull him out. So he tried it again with a different 2wd pickup with the exact same results. Finally he learned what you can"t do with 2wd. But he had a lot of fun too. It"s fun until you have to take the wheels off and the brake drums and clean all the sand and mud out of the brakes.
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Used to do that every weekend growing up...(and a few times after)...the best way to get all that mud out from under is to run a lawn sprinkler underneath overnight. The old self propelled tractor style worked pretty good for that.
 

I few years back I was thinking of offering a service to the guys with four wheel drives. I was going to offer a spray on application of clay type slurry, that would enable them to look like they had been out doing some serious four wheeling without the vehicle damage. Think it would sell?
 
Sorry to be such a drag on everybodys fun, but we absolutely hate people who come onto our ground and tear it all up. We try really hard to stay off our own land with equipment when it is wet because it makes such a mess. Ruts are not any fun to try to run a hay mower or rake through, so we stay off it until its dry. However, immature people (doesn't seem age has much to do with it) go out and tear up the sod, make ruts and get stuck. Makes us furious, the lack of respect. I understand if you are doing it on your own place or have permission, that is entirely different. But for the most part people who screw around like that don't need any more encouragement. Just my two cents.
Lon
 
I went muddin once, but didn't have much fun. Found a nice bog. This was several years ago. Wife said there might be a bog under there, and I said naaaa.
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Agree with you that we always did it on our own property or friends. Had a few parents that didnt want us on their fields. Always tilled fields. Never winter wheat, alfalfa or anything like that.

I try to avoid turning around in the field entrances this time of year so I dont rut them up.

Rick
 
The year we sold our place the kid milking cows for us had some friends that wanted to come play in the mud. One was doing OK, the other had a dakota with highway tires and kept it in low gear because someone told him that letting the auto out of first would burn it up. I backed in from the other side and pulled him out. Twice.

Had an old gravel pit that we tore up over the winter loading silage out of piles with the backhoe. I tend to try to stay out of the mud but that night it was just too tempting.

I graduated in 99 and all the kids who were going to make the big money went to vo-tech for tool and die (don't ask them how that worked out for them) and bought shortbox Chevies and Toyotas, if you put tall wide tires on them they'd all but float. Eventually they outgrew that phase, after most of them burnt up a few transmissions, and a complete powertrain got dropped on the ground when a crossmember was snagged on the end of a culvert.
 
I learned real early in my driving life, "4wd means you get stuck worse". We get lots of mud here in western Oregon
Tim in OR
 
I learned about 20 years ago to not have the biggest, heaviest, baddest truck compared to all your friends. If you get stuck, no one can pull you out.

I also learned who your real friends are, when you are out there the next day, alone, jacking your truck up with a handyman jack to set pallets under each wheel!
 
always on someone elses property cause they don't have any of their own and if they did they wouldn't want to bounce over it or clean it up. it always infuriates me when people want to "have a little fun" on a friday or saturday night. if you want to do that get your own land & quit ruining mine.
 
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