Everything is NOT bigger in Texas!

[WheelyCurious]

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WheelyCurious

[eunuchorn3 (imported)]

side note to you, Wheely. I am an amputee. lost my left leg just above the knee. thoght you might want to know.

[Losethem (imported)]

I have worked with a Texas geologist who calls them designer handbags for men. I think the first time I saw a brush guard on a vehicle was in Scottsdale, AZ about 2004. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Even more I love the elevated snorkel air intakes on spotless vehicles with no desert detailing. Or the shiny immaculate jeeps. As any car salesman will tell you, it is all about ego.

The first time I saw a brush guard on a

truck was 1978, on a used truck my grandfather bought. It was actually quite handy for the way the family used the truck. However, most of the freeway queens I see driving around will never see a leaf, much less the whole tree.

[Losethem (imported)]

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WheelyCurious

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[Arab Nights (imported)]

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ing around will never see a leaf, much less the whole tree.

Mostly I and other guys have usually just gotten thru on gaps or low growth sage and avoid the sahuaros and greasewood. No brush guard but lots of desert detailing. They do seem reasonable to me, but not in Scottsdale.

[Losethem (imported)]

Mostly I and other guys have usually just gotten thru on gaps or low growth sage and avoid the sahuaros and greasewood. No brush guard but lots of desert detailing. They do seem reasonable to me, but not in Scottsdale.

I would imagine not unless you were driving around off-road on Mt. Lemon, or other similar environs. The foothills of Central California are a bit different. In addition to tall trees, there's a lot of low growing brush (low meaning 3-4 feet), enough a brush bar is useful. But gosh, all these trucks with all this fancy equipment on it, what a waste.

I bought myself a mid-size all-wheel drive SUV a little over 4 years ago. Then about a week later we had a 2ft snowstorm in a place that rarely gets more than 3" of snow all winter. It was a workday the following day and I hopped in my new little SUV to drive over to the other side of the apartment complex where I lived at the time. The interstate was over there, so I wanted to see if it had been cleared to make a decision about going to the office or not.

Whilst trying to get out of the part of the complex where I lived, I came upon a relatively new, jacked-up, huge tire, all the flashy equipment, F-250 (what I've taken to calling a penis extender), and it was simply rocking back and forth in the parking spot. The owner couldn't get it any further. I'm guessing they plopped down about $60K on that thing, probably at 10% interest, and the thing they saved money by not equipping it with? 4-wheel drive.

I actually had to get out of my car, get the drivers attention, and ask them to stop long enough so I could get by. They were literally backing out, driving back in, repeatedly, in a futile effort to get out. I simply drove past.

Sometimes it's what you got, not how you use it. LOL

[Begoneboy (imported)]

I have worked with a Texas geologist who calls them designer handbags for men. I think the first time I saw a brush guard on a vehicle was in Scottsdale, AZ about 2004. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Even more I love the elevated snorkel air intakes on spotless vehicles with no desert detailing. Or the shiny immaculate jeeps. As any car salesman will tell you, it is all about ego.

I love what that geologist called big trucks. That's the best I've ever heard!

[Begoneboy (imported)]

I would imagine not unless you were driving around off-road on Mt. Lemon, or other similar environs. The foothills of Central California are a bit different. In addition to tall trees, there's a lot of low growing brush (low meaning 3-4 feet), enough a brush bar is useful. But gosh, all these trucks with all this fancy equipment on it, what a waste.

I bought myself a mid-size all-wheel drive SUV a little over 4 years ago. Then about a week later we had a 2ft snowstorm in a place that rarely gets more than 3" of snow all winter. It was a workday the following day and I hopped in my new little SUV to drive over to the other side of the apartment complex where I lived at the time. The interstate was over there, so I wanted to see if it had been cleared to make a decision about going to the office or not.

Whilst trying to get out of the part of the complex where I lived, I came upon a relatively new, jacked-up, huge tire, all the flashy equipment, F-250 (what I've taken to calling a penis extender), and it was simply rocking back and forth in the parking spot. The owner couldn't get it any further. I'm guessing they plopped down about $60K on that thing, probably at 10% interest, and the thing they saved money by not equipping it with? 4-wheel drive.

I actually had to get out of my car, get the drivers attention, and ask them to stop long enough so I could get by. They were literally backing out, driving back in, repeatedly, in a futile effort to get out. I simply drove past.

Sometimes it's what you got, not how you use it. LOL

Most folks would have helped push the guy out since they were already out of the vehicle.

Except of course city slickers!

[Arab Nights (imported)]

I would imagine not unless you were driving around off-road on Mt. Lemon, or other similar environs. The foothills of Central California are a bit different. In addition to tall trees, there's a lot of low growing brush (low meaning 3-4 feet), enough a brush bar is useful.

All over the low desert of Nevada, Arizona, southern California and Utah. You can actually go a lot of places crosscountry if you pick your path carefully, especially crossing arroyos. Obvious does not work in rugged mountains, dense pine forests or chaparral, but that leaves a hell of a lot of country.

You are onto something with all-wheel drive. We have noticed on wife's Equinox is less squirrelly on slick snow than my 4 X 4 (the plainest PU available, now a 1500 Workman). Rarely, but I also can get stuck in silly looking situations where without positraction the power goes to the wheels in soft ground and not the wheels that can get you. Time to get the old jack out and throw rocks under the tires.

[Losethem (imported)]

Most folks would have helped push the guy out since they were already out of the vehicle.

Except of course city slickers!

I learned a long time ago not to engage in pointless activities. In this case, it would have been pointless, as he wasn't going far until the snow melted or the lot was plowed.

FWIW, when I got to the other side of the complex, I did get out and help someone else get their car unstuck and back into a parking space. They weren't going anywhere either, but they were not sitting there going back and forth in a pointless effort. The other guy could have at any time parked his truck and gone back inside.