Pickett, brimestone, royal blue, and tackett

fordcontraption01 · Nov 6, 2017

I've got pics of all this stupid **** too. You can't make this **** up.

fordcontraption01 · Nov 6, 2017

It's kinda like that place is a curse or something for us. We even rode rzrs up there and my buddy Brian again on his own wheeler blasted a mud hole going down the railroad ed it hydroplaned and almost killed him and his little boy. We like to have never got the steering stem of the 4 wheeler bent back enough to halfway steer to get back off the mountain :****: he was skint all over from head to toe they both were. And I don't think I've been up there since. Lol

offroadohio · Nov 6, 2017

Re: Re: Pickett, brimestone, royal blue, and tackett

TBItoy said:
IMO

Part of being prepared for wheeling like that is packing your camping gear like you were hiking, in a good hiking backpack.

Nowhere in TN that you can take a vehicle is more than an 2 day hike back to civilization.

Thats what do, none of that roof top tent buisness like overlanders. We divide our needed gear among our rigs and sleep on the ground in a tent.

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fordcontraption01 · Nov 6, 2017

offroadohio said:
Thats what do, none of that roof top tent buisness like overlanders. We divide our needed gear among our rigs and sleep on the ground in a tent.

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there are bears up there too for real. Seen a few

offroadohio · Nov 6, 2017

No doubt there are but its no differant than doing a back country hike also camping in tackett wilderness or an establisher campground will depend where we are when it gets dark.

Last trip we managed to dtive past a roach motel nearly every night so camping was minimal, but trip before that we back country camped all 4 nights

We do the whole trip without any plans. Just places we want to go ride. Omce we get in the area we start looling at paper maps and just make random turns , this is about as much research as we do. Jist wanna make sure we stay legal.

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blacksheep10 · Nov 6, 2017

fordcontraption01 said:
. My uncle, you couldn't melt him and pour him in anything I'm in if I say let's go to the woods lol.

This made me laugh my ass off.

tonybolton said:
LOL....I'd probably have no doubts about wheeling THAT! Super nice rig man!!! My XJ was good....but only Craigslist good.

**** man, he was FOLLOWING Brian in that bad mf'er. Miles, like all 3 of us in the group, are in stockish JK rubis on 37's. Trying to go up Carnage. BIG ****ing rocks. We all still have to get our wives and 2 kids each 12 hours home in these things . Nope, not for me

blacksheep10 · Nov 6, 2017

offroadohio said:
No doubt there are but its no differant than doing a back country hike also camping in tackett wilderness or an establisher campground will depend where we are when it gets dark.

Last trip we managed to dtive past a roach motel nearly every night so camping was minimal, but trip before that we back country camped all 4 nights

We do the whole trip without any plans. Just places we want to go ride. Omce we get in the area we start looling at paper maps and just make random turns

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First off, awesome, secondly, hand gps or bigger dash mounted or just a map and a compass? I'm mainly talking about getting back out if you're a day in and not sure where you are

fordcontraption01 · Nov 6, 2017

If you was to come down and ride like your speaking of. You could start off at the sandmines and make your way to royal blue which is the sandmines. Then continue over the mountain until you get to Tackett and you could come out in Cumberland gap and head on to Harlan but I highly doubt you're all's rigs. I'm not saying they are piles or anything but the sandmines is hardcore as well as Tackett is all I'm saying. I can do it but mine was built heavy duty because I ride those places.

offroadohio · Nov 6, 2017

We roll mostly by paper map but we do have a tablet running the polaris ride command app to track us. But its generally just laying in the back use it more to google parts stores or food when it can

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offroadohio · Nov 6, 2017

That sounds like a good general ditection. Rur plan was some pretty basoc trails at royal blue, across to tacket for harder stuff with a very mild day between tackett and harlan. Maube hensley settlement trail and some none wheeling activities to take a break.

We push these piles into some **** they shouldn't be into so im not concerned with that. We go in and if we say wtf are we doing in here well fimd.our best route out and cheat around to the next. Not afraid to say this is to much but also not one to not try

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fordcontraption01 · Nov 6, 2017

Cool

Nate.b · Nov 6, 2017

Be sure to video the trip!

fordcontraption01 · Nov 6, 2017

This is the beast I used to run those parts in and run over whatever whoever

offroadohio · Nov 6, 2017

Looks like i missed several replies.

Her in ohio wellsville is my arch nemesis, every time i go something drastic happens. I do alot better out of state it seems.

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Zjman · Nov 6, 2017

offroadohio said:
Looks like i missed several replies.

Her in ohio wellsville is my arch nemesis, every time i go something drastic happens. I do alot better out of state it seems.

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Cause you bite off more than you can chew, you push it past the rigs limit but you know what you're doing and always get out, this makes me wanna get a streetable rig and go

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offroadohio · Nov 6, 2017

I do like to push its limits. In 15 years of wellsville my last trip was tge only one wherw i had no major issue.

Ive wrecked on the way home, litterally broke an xj in half, lost trailer bearings, tow rig break downs, popped a parking pin amd watched my rig roll.without to the bottom.of hell hole, etc

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fordcontraption01 · Nov 6, 2017

Sounds like my trips to Tackett creek. I have pulled my gooseneck trailer all the way back to where the big ditch is or where there was a bridge and they tore it out. Unhooked from it and drove the tow rig back up to the main road going to the look off to get my 79 which was broken in the middle of the road. This was another trip we took on New Year's Eve. We wheeled our usual up there and there was this pretty much a bottomless pond. We would mud in it . Brian was with us in a big huge Rockwell ranger with a diesel 4 banger in it which was a great crawler rig but didn't have any business in the pond because it was lacking whoomp pow. Anyway he goes in and sinks way up over the 44 boggers and it just wont do it so I hook to him in reverse for me and I'm backing up pulling him out and then boom front driveline punches a hole through my floor between my feet. I'm like what the hell is going on here. My rockwells were set up as radious arm and my tubbing bent under all pressure from reverse so my rockwell was pointing down. Any how we pulled the driveline and I drove the rest of the day in 2 wd we went to the sand caves and met some other people and they were asking what happened I told them. One of them had a battery welder setup and was like I can weld that back together for you I said no don't worry about it. This is where I should have said please weld that back up for me. They left we stayed and bullshited by a fire for awhile it was damn cold too. I made the mistake of not dissconecting my front brake line so we get out of the caves and are heading back down the main road. Rockwell brakes chatter and grab and just raise hell when they are pinion braked. Were going along and boom the front tires are under the cab and we're going down a pretty steep hill. I open the door and I'm like oh I'm screwed how the heck am I going to fix this much bad **** here right here. I had a buddy stay with it I borrowed his crawler to drive out and to my house over an hour away dropping people off also because they were cold and done with the day. I end up throwing his rear driveline out a couple miles from my house and broke the output off his t case and I'm having to run back down the road picking up pieces to his truck. It's a long story on from here but it's a good one.

offroadohio · Nov 6, 2017

Wellsville has kicked my ass from day one. My first trip there i was 15 and brand new to wheeling met some folks and was riding passenger in a ra ger woth no roof or doors, this place litteraly has no rules its complete anarchy, truck was so unsafe one of the cxmpground owners kicked us off his portion of the property.

Next trip i was 16, with some chick i had met a few weeks prior. Got pulled over for speeding. Then found out she was a juvenile delinquent on probation who wasnt allowed to be that fsr from home. ( the fact that her mom let her take a two and a half hour trip on an overnight 4-wheeling Adventure when she was 15 years old kind of explains a lot) and we had to sit there for nearly two hours while he contacted the probation officer and they finally let us go. Then 10 minutes into the trailI broke a leaf spring, and had to load up and go home.

Next trip we got hit with a massive ice storm and i was in tge lowest point possible with no where to go. Blew a rod out the block tryng to get out and had to leave my rig over night. Got it out next morn and lost a brake line on tow rig, and rear ended a truck, destroyed my trucl and brole tounge on trailer.

After that i had a **** ton more adventures,

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offroadohio · Nov 7, 2017

Funny enough this status popped up in my facebok memories. Its from the day after a wellsville trip

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half ton · Nov 7, 2017

fordcontraption01 said:
Sounds like my trips to Tackett creek. I have pulled my gooseneck trailer all the way back to where the big ditch is or where there was a bridge and they tore it out. Unhooked from it and drove the tow rig back up to the main road going to the look off to get my 79 which was broken in the middle of the road. This was another trip we took on New Year's Eve. We wheeled our usual up there and there was this pretty much a bottomless pond. We would mud in it . Brian was with us in a big huge Rockwell ranger with a diesel 4 banger in it which was a great crawler rig but didn't have any business in the pond because it was lacking whoomp pow. Anyway he goes in and sinks way up over the 44 boggers and it just wont do it so I hook to him in reverse for me and I'm backing up pulling him out and then boom front driveline punches a hole through my floor between my feet. I'm like what the hell is going on here. My rockwells were set up as radious arm and my tubbing bent under all pressure from reverse so my rockwell was pointing down. Any how we pulled the driveline and I drove the rest of the day in 2 wd we went to the sand caves and met some other people and they were asking what happened I told them. One of them had a battery welder setup and was like I can weld that back together for you I said no don't worry about it. This is where I should have said please weld that back up for me. They left we stayed and bullshited by a fire for awhile it was damn cold too. I made the mistake of not dissconecting my front brake line so we get out of the caves and are heading back down the main road. Rockwell brakes chatter and grab and just raise hell when they are pinion braked. Were going along and boom the front tires are under the cab and we're going down a pretty steep hill. I open the door and I'm like oh I'm screwed how the heck am I going to fix this much bad **** here right here. I had a buddy stay with it I borrowed his crawler to drive out and to my house over an hour away dropping people off also because they were cold and done with the day. I end up throwing his rear driveline out a couple miles from my house and broke the output off his t case and I'm having to run back down the road picking up pieces to his truck. It's a long story on from here but it's a good one.

. Tons of fun that trip. Lot of carnage I broke the rear driveshaft out twice. Between the both of us we cobbled it together both times. Fun fun. :woot: