Totally agree with Matt about keeping trails to their original spec. Too many bypasses and they'll end up too busy and get closed for noticeably wrecking the environment. Plenty of other trails to build up skills around.
100% agree. We’re newer sxs owners and not once have we tried to make our own trail or bypass, we learn our capabilities and double back if we fail. Have to respect the land.
This happens with mountain bike trails too. Over the last few years, all these go-arounds have appeared even on the simplest obstacles. When I first started learning the ride, I would just keep attempting the obstacles until I cleaned them, the challenge was half the fun.
@@scottmichaels12 the planet isn't overcrowded. Have you ever been to the western US? Lots of open space, and plenty of trails a SXS can do without the need to make their own. It's all about respect for the land.
@@bripslag economically the planet is overcrowded. we surpassed the population where we couldve had 0 poverty on the planet back in like the 70's or 80's
Having visited the shop, I can tell you that while Matt is the star; Jamie is clearly essential to making it all happen for us, and we should thank her. Seems like a pretty great childhood for any kid with a MORR Mom upbringing.
Hey Matt not complaining you know I love your show why do you keep bringing the cry babies that's what you have other employees for otherwise fireman bring back Lizzie and a few of the other people get rid of the cry babies I don't want to be here I would rather be at a birthday party
@@jodyrismoen8168 dude, quit creeping on Lizzie. she got married. she's a wife now. she's got more things going on in her life than working on camera for Matt. anybody else you are missing can be found on Rudy's channel, the FabRats channel, Robby's channel, TrailMater...
Matt has been talking to Rory. Rory is the biggest advocate about staying on trail and he was the first to call out the UTV's about staying off the rocks.
@@MichaelRainabbaRichardson it's just bad etiquette. People cutting new trails makes the forestry service and other landowners shut down trails. It's also not good for the natural ecosystem. It's not just off-roading in the hiking community it's encouraged to stay on trail as well
@@thomassummer7478 pretty much anywhere people go outdoors... I see places in town where people cut across a front yard , or houses that have giant rocks to block cars. Basically people just destroy everything
Once again, I'm amazed at the patience and teamwork of the family. Jamie filming in the water, wearing a long dress, and Karter learning the job while missing a birthday party. Smiles all around. The positive attitude extends to non-family teammates.
I was just typing "I'd never bail on my own vehicle and leave it to someone else to collect without me there" and the customer jumped back into the game. Kudos for returning.
I’m the same, not even to make sure they don’t damage it, I accept it’s probably gonna get damaged, I just want to be there to give permission when it does. It’s farm rules, if you get stuck always make sure the person who owns the machine is there when you pull it out.
Thank you for sharing the stay on the trail. I hate that people do or make bypasses off trail. It is a big reason and excuse for trails to be closed. If you can't do the trail, turn around!
Different here then Moab you can use the area how you want to. All of western Canada is like that too and how it should be. Moab is wayyyy to over hyped at this point, been a good long run they had but it’s going to get locked down no matter what. Just like snowboarding right on the glaciers in Whistler, after so many years the glacier was slowly drying up and they killed camp of champs to save the mountain.
First time watching this channel (thanks YT), I just started off-roading with my new ATV and never thought of the "off-road recovery business" idea. BRILLIANT! I always see it's the owner or their pals who end up helping or repairing the stuck vehicles.
Hey Matt the one thing that I love watching your videos for is the fact that even though you're great at what you do and you stay humble. If you ever had a spot open for a tow truck driver with 32 years experience, I'd be happy to come out and work with you anytime. You and your crew are awesome. Also being such a smart engineer, I love it when you admit when you're wrong or have made a mistake, that deserves respect.
Love watching this family work together. Matt always starts them out young and trains them along the way. Even though they may pick on each other, they also encourage each other. Good parents, good kids.
I feel ya about trails being discovered. Riff Raff used to keep one of the best local trails accessible to only something locked, armored and on 35s until SxS tourism people came in with a backhoe and literally ruined the entry obstacle so that even stock rigs can get into trouble up above Lake Shasta... The trails have become torn up, covered in trash and now we deal with yearly washouts on once passable trails, fighting to keep people from further damaging or removing obstacles... It's horrible. Love that you made them take the original route on the way back lol
@@ripvanrevs Those are shuttlefucks using money instead of muscle to get to the top then drag their rear tire down the entire trail. As a mtbiker, I hate them.
I feel it too. I'm fine if people want to skip something really gnarly, but if that's how hard the trail is down the whole thing, it's better to go down a different one if you aren't ready for it.
@@ripvanrevsand a lot of our bike trails have a problem with hikers standing in the middle causing us to crash. The world goes round and we all suck get over it.
What I love is that you don't over wheel your vehicles, literally use your brake not your throttle. I've seen so many yahoo's hear in Aus literally mash throttle just making a mess. Great effort getting that through that terrain. 👍🇦🇺
Admittedly, I know very little about Jeeps, so I assumed the Rubicon variant - with all of the off road capabilities it boasts - would come with skid plates.
Not sure the deal on that "rubicon" as it's got the XR flares but looks like it's on the 32's. The stock skids from Jeep absolutely suck. They protect the transfer case a little bit. First thing to do is get real skids on it. My jeep and sxs would do that trail no problem, and both are "stockish".
Back in 2015 I bought my Jeep on Saturday and was on the Rubicon Trail on Sunday. Wanted to test its capabilities before upgrading everything. That’s my answer to your question “why”.
People seem to have forgotten that "off road transport" was meant to be able to travel through unfavourable territory. NOT to travel through the worst, most difficult, parts of it ! (and screw them up !).
Come on people STAY ON THE TRAIL! Going off of them is what is getting trails shut down by the parks service. Good job Matts A Crew getting him out of there!
I used to have a ton of fun taking my Avalanche on the ton of local trails we used to have, people being insanely disrespectful got them all closed down by the park service and she became a pavement princess, so I ended up having to suck it up and sell it years ago. People doing stuff like taking trucks down the ATV/bike only trails instead of the very clearly marked truck trails, leaving huge messes, just all the general "people are the worst" type stuff. Ruined it for all of us!
@@skylermummert24 Hey hey it was more that just gravel roads, but certainly nothing like yall got out west! I'm in the DC area so it was mostly forest trails in the Blue Ridge mountains. Pretty much mostly mud pits! Point still stands! lol
Those side by sides just destroy trails. A combination of high speeds, smooth brain drivers, and an army of them. They're the trail equivalent of termites. You go off trail for an emergency. Nothing else. Recovering a trashed vehicle is not an emergency. Kudos to your speech about stay the trail.
We just stopped into the shop today! We we're lucky to have a small tour of the yard. Alli was super. What a great day as we got pictures with the wrecker, The Movair, and the Bannana! Got a picture of The Bombi too! Thank you, Alli for your help and courtesy!
You and your family are the best I live in Michigan but I've learned so much about wheeling and having fun off-roading without getting stuck by watching your videos my family to yours love you guys God bless be safe
Totally agree on the side by side issue, and another thing..... Why is it that most newby wheelers jump straight in with buying 37-40" tires, and all the other stuff that "serious" trails "Require", and they never really learn how to drive. I consider this trail to be intermediate, I drove it on 7.50-16 bias plys, not taking bypasses. I had a ton of fun on Papa Smurf this year in the same rig, and everyone other than our little group was on 37-40" tires, looking at our little rigs like we shouldn't be there. HaHa, we had less trouble than most of them getting up the obstacles. People are sooo into over building / over speccing their rigs these days, and not learning how to drive..... Over built rigs with under skilled drivers are a real issue these days.
I'm pretty sure the issue is that the hobby is literally based around destroying and polluting the environment, you sound like you have an intellectual disability.
We’ve missed Carter and his voice overs (including sound effects). Hope to see more of him in the future. A mandatory item in each MORR vehicle should be a pair of off road shoes for Jamie. What a trooper in her Sunday sandals. I’ve lost count of the last minute rescues she has gone on with the wrong footwear 😢.
It's not just the sandals but the dress. Jamie should have been given time to change clothes (unless this is all preset drama) to get reactions. Not the first time this has happened to not just Jamie but to other women.
I fully agree with you Matt. You stay on trail no matter what. Only exceptions is a bad medical emergency and that is it. If you can't do the obstacles then stay off the trail.
This is no more principled than any other hipster. Don't get me wrong: I don't have skin in this game. But not taking a busted vehicle back onto the road for no other reason than so no one is traveling onto the road for precisely one trip with three vehicles -- and thereby breakup a customer's truck worse -- isn't principled. What they did is harder on the environment, harder on the obstacles, a waste of time, and cost the customer money.
To be fair the Jeep is doing as much damage as any side by side. It's just doing damage in an area that was already damaged. They can't expect everyone to make a custom built rig to play on public lands.
Honest question: I get that off-road recovery isn't anywhere near straight-forward but I assume that you have clients sign a contract that says "In the process of recovering your vehicle we are going to bang up your vehicle even more than it already is. Its the nature of the beast with the difficult terrain of these trails." or something along those lines. I get that these vehicles are expected to take cosmetic damage going off-roading but every additional bang and scratch had me wincing especially considering that Jeep was clearly not a purpose built off-road vehicle despite what Jeep advertises. At the end of the day, if you don't want to accept that its going to get banged up during the recovery you're free to wait around for a recovery vehicle that can get it out of there without further damage. You'll either be waiting for a hell of a long time or paying a arm and a leg for the luxury though.
I've watched this channel for a long time now and it's always entertaining. I live in rural NV and completely share the dislike of side by sides and generally the SXS crowd because of exactly what Matt talks about in this channel. Can't take the normal route? The idiots make a new trail. Most also have zero trail etiquette (litter, don't slow when passing, go off track whenever they please).
It sounded like there was some additional damage during recovery, but that's what you get when you drive in areas that your rig was never built to go. Great recovery Matt and family! Sorry you missed the birthday party.
Kudos to you too, Matt, for not going the easy route in recovering stranded vehicles. They shouldn’t be there in the first place, and the damage incurred would have been, if they’d tried to rescue themselves, without you.
Literally the first modification I did to my stock Jeep JK Wrangler (after fitting rated recovery points front & rear) was to install an aftermarket skid plate over the oil pan. Could never work out why they leave the factory with skid plates over the gas tank and transmission/transfer case but not the oil pan.
I put an aftermarket engine and transmission skid plate in my JK because I knew I wouldn't be turning it into a brodozer and want to ensure things were protected off road.
I think the lift and wheel/tire combo are much more important. The skid plates are nice for peace of mind, especially for newbies, but having good clearance is a necessity.
@@scottmichaels12 I don't disagree that good clearance is a necessity. I'd say that the more lifted the vehicle, the more extreme obstacles it is meant to try, so skid plates are still just as important.
@@JamesSmith-uc8tk Yep, same reason I did the skids first. I knew what I'd be using it for and didn't need a life & 40" tyres for the trails I'd be running on right then, but have seen enough holes punched in oil pans by errant rocks to know that skids are cheap insurance (and a lot cheaper than the many thousands I'd spend on wheels, tyres and suspension parts I didn't really need at the time).
You're totally right about stick to the trail the amount of damage by not sticking to the trail is spoiling the surrounding area nice for sticking to your guns mat
Hello from Oklahoma! Interesting video. The old river rat here. Every jeep I've owned, 10 so far, have a winch, a recovery kit, and are ridin' on 35's minimum. I'm driving a 2014 Rubicon Unlimited 4 door right now. Its pretty capable, but I know my limitations. Thanks for all y'all do! God Bless!
@@xaeaxaea6280 Yes. There's a bunch of old logging roads in S. E. Oklahoma. Kiamichi mountain area. Some aren't bad others get kinda technical. Take a bow saw and an axe. Clayton, Honobia are good starting points. Or Poteau. There is a land access fee of $40. Or Northeast you can go to Disney, which is Part of Grand Lake area. And if you want to you can go out kinda mid state/west, to The Little Sahara. That ought to get ya started. When I started wheelin' I joined a club and found a bunch of places and learned alot. Good Luck!
I have to say 'Hats off to Matt's wife, Jaime"❗ What a trooper to help Matt & crew., wading through the muddy creek❗ Three Great Sons they raised👌💯‼ Good recovery and my first time seeing youngest son, Carter👋👋👋
OH MY GOD this is so relatable. I'm a mountain biker and I've been riding the same trails for 30 plus years. I make posts on the internet about how we should all close the bypasses aka cheat lines around obstacles and half the internet freaks out that I should "mind my business" and people should "ride wherever they want". They haven't been at this for decades, they don't see what way the trails have gotten blown out over time. They need to be educated but they'd rather just tear things up making singletrack into fireroad. It is so frustrating.
There needs to be a ranger at every trail, it pissed me off to see people doing dumb stunts, people taking their dogs past no pets signs on alpine tundra trails, letting their kids run across pristine landscape off the trails…. Killing the very thing that took hundreds of years to grow.
@@seanseoltoir No, I'm going to be protesting people who ruin those ramps and elevators because they came along knowing very little about ramps and elevators but decided that they should ruin them because they want them to be different.
JB WELD!!! And put oil back in it!!!! and drive it out. Trail Mater did this on a jeep. Drain oil or whats left, clean outside area with break cleaner. Mix some JB metal weld epoxy, and put on the pan oil leak. wait 10 min, put oil back in motor, and drive it out!
Problem is that Jeep couldn't drive off the trail the proper way even if it was running hence the speech about morons that go off-trail like this guy did
JB weld Steelstik is the product I would recommend. Take a Dremel with an acorn shaped burr. Grind back the crack to clean up up. Scuff the area with 80 grit paper then push the putty in there hard.
@@GregoryVeizades This is for the trail fix, not for the home fix. Doubt anyone's got a grinder on hand in the middle of nowhere let alone on... a rubicon.
I keep a roll of aluminium tape on hand, 1 minute resin for concrete bolts and some wipes. Between the resin and the aluminium tape (the good stuff) you can fix just about everything that can be fixed on a trail. You mix the resin in your hands, poke it through the cracks, put the tape on top after you clean up the adjacent area of dirt or oil or whatever and in a few minutes you can pour new oil in. This also works for exhaust leaks, fuel and other things where JB would have to be specialized. Resin don't care, it hardens into a concrete like plug. Just... uh don't drop it into your eyes. It ain't pretty.
My favorite will always be when they dragged that beat up and stripped gold Geo from the banks of the Virgin River with Lizzie in it. I hadn't laughed so hard in a long time. It still gets me laughing just thinking about poor Lizzie getting thrown around like a rag doll on a raging bull with all that sand and dust flying all over her. Talk about a wild ride!😂
It's great to see Carter letting his crew figure out these rescue things for themselves. Especially that Matt guy. Honestly though Carter, It's great to see you out with the fam on this recovery. Great job all, two thumbs up...and also well done to all of Carters minions.even the new guy Matt. lol.
Nice family outing! The spots you get stuck in out in the Wild West look way more impressive than what we have up here in the frozen Nort. I own a Gladiator, and tonight I’ll hear all that scraping and grinding in my nightmares.
Wow. I didn't think that this one was do-able, once I saw that cracked pan... but there you are. Totally surprised to hear the Duran Duran reference, and even more to hear plaudits for R.E.M.!
There is a girl at work that drives a Jeep and calls out of work whenever it snows. I tease her that every Jeep commercial shows Jeeps plowing through snow drifts. She just says, "My Jeep doesn't do that."
I have been at Dumont sand dunes and seen three different car companies making adds , plus a fertilizer company. And they had a front loader there to place the vehicle up for the shot . It couldn't drive up for the picture.
Off road means off a prepared surface. Off the off the concrete or tired surfaces. Or in the case of country roads off the graded gravel or dirt roads.
Offroad means "off prepared, like graded and/or graveled. If it has ever been graded, it's on-road. Off-pavement does not = offroad. Car advertising people need to learn about that.
Here in Kansas we have what is called low maintenance roads with signs stating travel at your own risk ! I have taken a few of them but I also had experience of driving on oil field roads and farm equipment most of my 69 years ! I also know what my limitations and vehicle limitations are before trying stuff !
@@kennethbrown8723 It's a problem, though, when you have just a regular passenger car, and you know there's a dirt road, and you know the line about "inquire about road conditions before attempting." So you ask the park ranger, "How are the road conditions? What kind of road is it, really?" but he answers, "What kind of car are you driving? We just had a pickup flip over, because people go speeding..." Hey mister "ranger," don't go judging my driving, my experience, and my sensibility, by what I'm driving. Or by what foolish things other drivers do. I asked you about the ROAD. It was mentioned that it was a County road, so one might assume it was maintained. But we were looking to take it as the way home, rather than backtracking on the asphalt road that ended at the visitor center. The dirt road is too long of a road to take part way down, only to discover there's been a washout or something, and have to backtrack even further. I want to go sightseeing, not have a misadventure. It's true car companies are just trying to sell product, and will tell you anything, with a footnote in the fine print at the bottom. But rangers and local officials should be helping people make smart decisions. Even paved roads become undriveable sometimes. We have a Subaru Forester now, and it's laughable how they tout its rugged capabilities, especially the pricey "Wilderness" edition. I know to laugh, after watching Matt's videos. It ain't no rock crawler or river swimmer. No, it isn't the same as 4WD. I have yet to take a Forester anywhere I wouldn't take my old sedan.
Best Example for what the name Jeep stands for. In Germany we say 'J eder - E insatz - E in - P roblem'. What means 'every mission one problem. Anyway, good job from you guys. Youre blessed with these surroundings
Love your channel family and how you all work together. What I don’t get is Jeep owners. I think they watch to many Jeep commercials on TV and get lied to at the dealership. They have to be modified bar none. They go on their dream trip then get stuck or destroy their new Jeep. I from Michigan and pulled out several Jeeps. I just didn’t have any T-Shirts to give them. I have a 1998 Chevy Silverado that’s been redone 👍 Be safe out there ❤️
Matt's taste in music amazes me as much as his knowledge of movies. Imagine trying to run the Rubicon in that Rubicon? Jeep should be ashamed of themselves.
Why be ashamed? I would guess only 10% ever go off road and and maybe 1% go on trails that hard. For moderate trails, they are more capable than any vehicle built today when in stock configuration, with 4Runners being a distant 2nd.They can still be built to do hard trails, but they are first and foremost an off road capable road vehicle. It's the driver that should know better, not the manufacturer.
I see plenty of stock Rubicons here in CO on hard trails. They are fine. I wouldn't hesitate to run that trail in a stock Rubicon. Driver error. I modified my old 2 door to 35's better sliders, 2" lift, and air lockers. However, I have taken friends with brand new Wranglers over bad trails here and in Moab, and they do fine with proper wheel placement...
Proud to watch the channel and support a guy that will take you back the way you should have come in! Love it! And if their vehicle gets more damage because of it that's on them!
luckily that jeep is one of the one's that you can swap the oil pan without doing a remove and reinstall on the engine. HIGHLY recommend skid plates if you intend to do any kind of offroading that is more than just driving down dirt roads and open fields, ESPECIALLY if you are going into rocky terrain. A hole in your oil pan will leave you stranded and without power to charge phones/radio's etc. Safety over everything and if you think you need one, then you need two of whatever you need.
Or closed. Pine Valley (across 15 from Matt ) used to be so much fun . Everyone stayed on the trails and picked up any trash we saw . But a lot of new comers were nasty . Leaving used TP all over a camp ground. Now it's closed .
I'm not blaming Matt but when you have TH-cam channels that are as popular as this one, it's going to lead to more people wanting to go wheeling. And Matt has about a dozen or more spin-off channels now. It's just like when you live in a nice quiet neighborhood and then everyone decides they also want to live in that same nice quiet neighborhood. All of a sudden that neighborhood becomes less nice and quiet. More people always equals more problems.
I was in a 4x4 club in Colorado, still live there. The formula seemed to be. Get a Jeep Rubicon; lift it, bigger tires, aftermarket steel bumpers front and rear, and a winch. That is what I did. My 2011 4 door is going good, works great on trails and gets me around in deep snow. Love it.
one of the first mods i did to my 2022 tacoma was skid plates front to back. Engine, transmission and transfer case, gas tank, and rear diff skids. second mod was rock sliders. I only then took my truck offroading after I installed those. If I didn't have my skids, I would have damaged my transfer case on the first ever trail I did with it. Skids are far cheaper to buy than an engine or drivetrain component. Watching this channel, rory's, fab rats, tacomabeast, dirtnation and several other youtube channels, all taught me one thing. BUY ARMOR to save yourself the headache!!!!
I have never seen anything as rigorous as your channel. Heart pounding drama....love it! Sensational family and team! My favorite channel. Amazing what you put off-road vehicles through. Other worldly.
The SXS have nothing to do with it. It's the people driving them. I have a rock crawler, SXS, dirt bike and I hike too. People just need to learn to respect the trail that they are on.
One of the first things I did when I go my KK after lifting it 3 inches was to put on complete body armor underneath. Even sliders, and I don't do rock climbing. It's not made for major off roading but I've "bumped" the bottom a few times on curbs at the mall, never destroyed my oil pan either. 😁
I am so inlove with that off-road truck! wth do I call it? lol. Absolutely obsessed! Stunning piece of honestly, art! Edit: When I heard its Called the Wrecker, my jaw fell open and then when i saw it has REAR WHEEL STEERING, I came. Edit 2: Bro... when he went up that rocky hill and the Wrecker was already struggling, I kept shouting 'why are you taking the Jeep over that???'... and then he did...and then he said "This Jeep shouldnt be in here" I can only image the owners repair bill...
Id like to see the business side of this. Like what they charge and why it costs that, but understand if that's something they wouldn't want to divulge.
Absolutely agree about social media. All the wonderful hidden places that very few hot to see are now getting mobbed by people who have no respect for nature, damage these places, and overuse them. When I tell someone about a special place or road, I sometimes ask them not to tell more than a friend or two, and not to post the locations on social media
Totally agree with Matt about keeping trails to their original spec. Too many bypasses and they'll end up too busy and get closed for noticeably wrecking the environment. Plenty of other trails to build up skills around.
100% agree. We’re newer sxs owners and not once have we tried to make our own trail or bypass, we learn our capabilities and double back if we fail. Have to respect the land.
We live on an overcrowded planet. Eventually everything will get destroyed.
This happens with mountain bike trails too. Over the last few years, all these go-arounds have appeared even on the simplest obstacles. When I first started learning the ride, I would just keep attempting the obstacles until I cleaned them, the challenge was half the fun.
@@scottmichaels12 the planet isn't overcrowded. Have you ever been to the western US? Lots of open space, and plenty of trails a SXS can do without the need to make their own. It's all about respect for the land.
@@bripslag economically the planet is overcrowded. we surpassed the population where we couldve had 0 poverty on the planet back in like the 70's or 80's
You can tell Matt is passionate about his “Backyard “.
Carter…Another well raised MORR kid. Hope we see more of him.
Having visited the shop, I can tell you that while Matt is the star; Jamie is clearly essential to making it all happen for us, and we should thank her. Seems like a pretty great childhood for any kid with a MORR Mom upbringing.
Hey Matt not complaining you know I love your show why do you keep bringing the cry babies that's what you have other employees for otherwise fireman bring back Lizzie and a few of the other people get rid of the cry babies I don't want to be here I would rather be at a birthday party
@@jodyrismoen8168you sound drunk 😅
I stopped by the shop last year and Carter gave me the tour. You can just tell a kid that was raised right. Very nice young man.
@@jodyrismoen8168 dude, quit creeping on Lizzie. she got married. she's a wife now. she's got more things going on in her life than working on camera for Matt. anybody else you are missing can be found on Rudy's channel, the FabRats channel, Robby's channel, TrailMater...
Matt has been talking to Rory. Rory is the biggest advocate about staying on trail and he was the first to call out the UTV's about staying off the rocks.
that's b/c is absolutely overrun with them....
I was wondering if that was the reason. Thanks for confirming. I'm not in the off-road community and I appreciate that is a thing. 👍
@@MichaelRainabbaRichardson it's just bad etiquette. People cutting new trails makes the forestry service and other landowners shut down trails. It's also not good for the natural ecosystem. It's not just off-roading in the hiking community it's encouraged to stay on trail as well
@@helloneighbor11 no different in snow country with snowmobile trails, trespassers wreck it for everyone
@@thomassummer7478 pretty much anywhere people go outdoors... I see places in town where people cut across a front yard , or houses that have giant rocks to block cars. Basically people just destroy everything
Thank you for promoting trail preservation and staying on track. Before we know it we’ll have nothing left to play on!
Thats a big issue with our Pine Barrens in Jersey, and a reason closing areas is discussed.
Once again, I'm amazed at the patience and teamwork of the family. Jamie filming in the water, wearing a long dress, and Karter learning the job while missing a birthday party. Smiles all around. The positive attitude extends to non-family teammates.
teamwork!
I was just typing "I'd never bail on my own vehicle and leave it to someone else to collect without me there" and the customer jumped back into the game. Kudos for returning.
I’m the same, not even to make sure they don’t damage it, I accept it’s probably gonna get damaged, I just want to be there to give permission when it does. It’s farm rules, if you get stuck always make sure the person who owns the machine is there when you pull it out.
i trust our professional recovery folks
Hahah looks like that customer got absolutely chewed out by Matt. I would of just headed home and stayed out of his way
Yes, it’s great that he returned. So we could see the idiot in person.
I wonder if Matt's insurance would cover any damage done under towing? Or since it's a non-standard tow the owner's insurance would be liable?
I appreciate Matt's honesty. He's like "yah that party is totally not happening. Like at all."
So, how many in the crew is disappointed that they won't be there, and how many are going, "Yeah, let's do some off-roading!"
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Never off road in a jeep
But I bet that after party did 😂
That was an ingenious one! Lots of good tips from 'no bypasses' to 'this jeep should not be in here' to Duran Duran!
Too many Jeep noobs on the roads.
Thanks Matt, for caring not just about the customer, but the terrainn as well. We need many more like you.
Thank you for sharing the stay on the trail. I hate that people do or make bypasses off trail. It is a big reason and excuse for trails to be closed. If you can't do the trail, turn around!
Just wanted to thank Matt for the video and giving the shirtless guy a shirt! I do believe you did us all a service with that one.
Amen!
Dude was sippin twisted tea like a pro
he should be hiking
Just a wee tad to much mayonaisse skin glaring at you! Some things you can't unsee! Great video!
I am sure you have a six pack also
No more Mr Nice Guy. Matt is finally speaking his mind. Refreshing.
Thanks for staying on the trail Matt. Too many people have never heard of Tread Lightly!
Different here then Moab you can use the area how you want to. All of western Canada is like that too and how it should be. Moab is wayyyy to over hyped at this point, been a good long run they had but it’s going to get locked down no matter what. Just like snowboarding right on the glaciers in Whistler, after so many years the glacier was slowly drying up and they killed camp of champs to save the mountain.
Ah...but you're forgetting the second part of that saying. Tread softly, but carry a big stick...
@@kender1412 you're mistaking a quote from Theodore Roosevelt when he said: Speak softly and carry a big stick!
@@loose-arrow-garage -- Reagan modified that quote.
First time watching this channel (thanks YT), I just started off-roading with my new ATV and never thought of the "off-road recovery business" idea. BRILLIANT! I always see it's the owner or their pals who end up helping or repairing the stuck vehicles.
Hey Matt the one thing that I love watching your videos for is the fact that even though you're great at what you do and you stay humble. If you ever had a spot open for a tow truck driver with 32 years experience, I'd be happy to come out and work with you anytime. You and your crew are awesome. Also being such a smart engineer, I love it when you admit when you're wrong or have made a mistake, that deserves respect.
Love watching this family work together. Matt always starts them out young and trains them along the way. Even though they may pick on each other, they also encourage each other. Good parents, good kids.
It’s amazing what a beast your wrecker is - pulling that jeep out of that nasty trail like it’s no big deal! Really impressive.
I feel ya about trails being discovered.
Riff Raff used to keep one of the best local trails accessible to only something locked, armored and on 35s until SxS tourism people came in with a backhoe and literally ruined the entry obstacle so that even stock rigs can get into trouble up above Lake Shasta... The trails have become torn up, covered in trash and now we deal with yearly washouts on once passable trails, fighting to keep people from further damaging or removing obstacles... It's horrible.
Love that you made them take the original route on the way back lol
Maybe find a hobby that isn't entirely based around destroying and polluting the environment?
@@evrythingis1 Get lost.
@@Stealth55555 lol, go vote for Trump again like the rest of your inbred half-witted yokel degenerate family did.
@@evrythingis1 retard take if i ever heard one
@@evrythingis1soulless Marxist
That wrecker is a beast of genuine beauty. Seriously love everything about it. Starting with the ridiculous torque.
first time viewing one of your videos... That wrecker is VERY impressive handling the trail WHILE towing a heavy vehicle like a jeep. Well done.
As a mountain biker, we have the same problem with people going around obstacles and ruining trails. I feel your frustration.
Ban shuttles
Our hiking trails has a problem with mountain bikers rutting up the trails.
@@ripvanrevs Those are shuttlefucks using money instead of muscle to get to the top then drag their rear tire down the entire trail. As a mtbiker, I hate them.
I feel it too. I'm fine if people want to skip something really gnarly, but if that's how hard the trail is down the whole thing, it's better to go down a different one if you aren't ready for it.
@@ripvanrevsand a lot of our bike trails have a problem with hikers standing in the middle causing us to crash. The world goes round and we all suck get over it.
What I love is that you don't over wheel your vehicles, literally use your brake not your throttle. I've seen so many yahoo's hear in Aus literally mash throttle just making a mess. Great effort getting that through that terrain. 👍🇦🇺
Two pedals = two feet. Three pedals is when things get fun!
@@scottleggejr Heel and toe or handbrake with manuals is a forgotten craft it seems.
Yep, too many people trying the Queensland Bump when they just need to back up and pick a new line, and it absolutely destroys trails.
@@scottleggejr 3 feet, 3 hands and 2 brains is what it feels like lmao
You all are AWESOME! Love the wrecker!
Off road vehicles have skid plates for just this reason. I love that recovery vehicle.
Seems like it would have been faster to just slap a new oil pan on
Admittedly, I know very little about Jeeps, so I assumed the Rubicon variant - with all of the off road capabilities it boasts - would come with skid plates.
Not sure the deal on that "rubicon" as it's got the XR flares but looks like it's on the 32's. The stock skids from Jeep absolutely suck. They protect the transfer case a little bit. First thing to do is get real skids on it. My jeep and sxs would do that trail no problem, and both are "stockish".
@@msalazar37 nope. only skid plate on the wrangler is the gas tank.
I never understood Jeep's thinking. They have skid plates for the transfer, gas tank but miss the oil pan
Jeeps are great, but their factory skids are not adequate for a lot of trails. Always recommend installing full skids. Cheap insurance in this case.
Kudos to young Carter. That was a difficult, and technical recovery, and he nailed it. Diving off-road must be in the Wetzel family DNA.
Why would anyone take a new stock jeep down a trail like that is beyond my comprehension. Well done Matt and crew!
Because Mr Murphy exists.
Back in 2015 I bought my Jeep on Saturday and was on the Rubicon Trail on Sunday. Wanted to test its capabilities before upgrading everything. That’s my answer to your question “why”.
@TheHappinessOfThePursuitHow on earth would you know anyone's vaccination status? 😂
A lot of stock car trail recoveries are due to tourists with rentals following the GPS.
People seem to have forgotten that "off road transport" was meant to be able to travel through unfavourable territory. NOT to travel through the worst, most difficult, parts of it ! (and screw them up !).
Come on people STAY ON THE TRAIL! Going off of them is what is getting trails shut down by the parks service. Good job Matts A Crew getting him out of there!
I used to have a ton of fun taking my Avalanche on the ton of local trails we used to have, people being insanely disrespectful got them all closed down by the park service and she became a pavement princess, so I ended up having to suck it up and sell it years ago. People doing stuff like taking trucks down the ATV/bike only trails instead of the very clearly marked truck trails, leaving huge messes, just all the general "people are the worst" type stuff. Ruined it for all of us!
@@Torenhiresome of us just need more of a challenge than a gravel road for an avalanche 😂😂 I’m jk stay on the trails
@@skylermummert24 Hey hey it was more that just gravel roads, but certainly nothing like yall got out west!
I'm in the DC area so it was mostly forest trails in the Blue Ridge mountains. Pretty much mostly mud pits! Point still stands! lol
Hate the “forest” “service”.
I like what Rory said on Trail Mater recently: "Stay on the trail or stay home"
Dang Matt just pulls a new kid out of the woodwork every year.
and every one of them has the right attitude to help their Dad go for the win.
A comedian told a joke about being the first born of identical twins. He has his brother in his phone contacts as, Spare Parts.
If there is anyone I’d love to have training boys how to be men for our future, it would be Matt!
Mormons, they host their family meals at the school cafeteria
Hes got 12 kids ! Lol 😂
Those side by sides just destroy trails. A combination of high speeds, smooth brain drivers, and an army of them. They're the trail equivalent of termites. You go off trail for an emergency. Nothing else. Recovering a trashed vehicle is not an emergency. Kudos to your speech about stay the trail.
The entire point of the hobby is to destroy nature with polluting heavy equipment, what are you going on about?
You should see where the Curries take their sxs, they go off trail to make new even harder options. We have taken sxs where 90% of jeeps can’t.
This Family works well together! Extra points for Colin being spotter and cameraman simultaneously.
Jamie is such a trooper. I love seeing the family recoveries.
We just stopped into the shop today! We we're lucky to have a small tour of the yard. Alli was super. What a great day as we got pictures with the wrecker, The Movair, and the Bannana! Got a picture of The Bombi too! Thank you, Alli for your help and courtesy!
Happy Father’s Day Matt. Looks like you are a great dad.
You and your family are the best I live in Michigan but I've learned so much about wheeling and having fun off-roading without getting stuck by watching your videos my family to yours love you guys God bless be safe
Totally agree on the side by side issue, and another thing..... Why is it that most newby wheelers jump straight in with buying 37-40" tires, and all the other stuff that "serious" trails "Require", and they never really learn how to drive. I consider this trail to be intermediate, I drove it on 7.50-16 bias plys, not taking bypasses. I had a ton of fun on Papa Smurf this year in the same rig, and everyone other than our little group was on 37-40" tires, looking at our little rigs like we shouldn't be there. HaHa, we had less trouble than most of them getting up the obstacles. People are sooo into over building / over speccing their rigs these days, and not learning how to drive..... Over built rigs with under skilled drivers are a real issue these days.
I'm pretty sure the issue is that the hobby is literally based around destroying and polluting the environment, you sound like you have an intellectual disability.
We’ve missed Carter and his voice overs (including sound effects). Hope to see more of him in the future. A mandatory item in each MORR vehicle should be a pair of off road shoes for Jamie. What a trooper in her Sunday sandals. I’ve lost count of the last minute rescues she has gone on with the wrong footwear 😢.
It's not just the sandals but the dress. Jamie should have been given time to change clothes (unless this is all preset drama) to get reactions. Not the first time this has happened to not just Jamie but to other women.
A Jayme will do what a Jayme will do.
I fully agree with you Matt. You stay on trail no matter what. Only exceptions is a bad medical emergency and that is it. If you can't do the obstacles then stay off the trail.
This is no more principled than any other hipster. Don't get me wrong: I don't have skin in this game. But not taking a busted vehicle back onto the road for no other reason than so no one is traveling onto the road for precisely one trip with three vehicles -- and thereby breakup a customer's truck worse -- isn't principled. What they did is harder on the environment, harder on the obstacles, a waste of time, and cost the customer money.
That last line was definitely from the heart. "If you went off trail to get to where you are, I WILL recover you on trail." hahahaha
What a diplomatic way to say "Stay on the trail".
To be fair the Jeep is doing as much damage as any side by side. It's just doing damage in an area that was already damaged. They can't expect everyone to make a custom built rig to play on public lands.
Honest question: I get that off-road recovery isn't anywhere near straight-forward but I assume that you have clients sign a contract that says "In the process of recovering your vehicle we are going to bang up your vehicle even more than it already is. Its the nature of the beast with the difficult terrain of these trails." or something along those lines. I get that these vehicles are expected to take cosmetic damage going off-roading but every additional bang and scratch had me wincing especially considering that Jeep was clearly not a purpose built off-road vehicle despite what Jeep advertises. At the end of the day, if you don't want to accept that its going to get banged up during the recovery you're free to wait around for a recovery vehicle that can get it out of there without further damage. You'll either be waiting for a hell of a long time or paying a arm and a leg for the luxury though.
I've watched this channel for a long time now and it's always entertaining. I live in rural NV and completely share the dislike of side by sides and generally the SXS crowd because of exactly what Matt talks about in this channel. Can't take the normal route? The idiots make a new trail. Most also have zero trail etiquette (litter, don't slow when passing, go off track whenever they please).
It sounded like there was some additional damage during recovery, but that's what you get when you drive in areas that your rig was never built to go. Great recovery Matt and family! Sorry you missed the birthday party.
Kudos to you too, Matt, for not going the easy route in recovering stranded vehicles. They shouldn’t be there in the first place, and the damage incurred would have been, if they’d tried to rescue themselves, without you.
Literally the first modification I did to my stock Jeep JK Wrangler (after fitting rated recovery points front & rear) was to install an aftermarket skid plate over the oil pan. Could never work out why they leave the factory with skid plates over the gas tank and transmission/transfer case but not the oil pan.
No one I jeep with has that. Bigger tires and a lift kit, as well as some awareness of your surroundings goes a long way.
I put an aftermarket engine and transmission skid plate in my JK because I knew I wouldn't be turning it into a brodozer and want to ensure things were protected off road.
I think the lift and wheel/tire combo are much more important. The skid plates are nice for peace of mind, especially for newbies, but having good clearance is a necessity.
@@scottmichaels12 I don't disagree that good clearance is a necessity. I'd say that the more lifted the vehicle, the more extreme obstacles it is meant to try, so skid plates are still just as important.
@@JamesSmith-uc8tk Yep, same reason I did the skids first. I knew what I'd be using it for and didn't need a life & 40" tyres for the trails I'd be running on right then, but have seen enough holes punched in oil pans by errant rocks to know that skids are cheap insurance (and a lot cheaper than the many thousands I'd spend on wheels, tyres and suspension parts I didn't really need at the time).
Lol, Matt didn’t seem too bummed about doing a rescue and possibly missing the party! Btw, I agree with and appreciate Matt’s off-road ethics.
I love Matt's taste in music with shout-outs to bands like Duran Duran, Cake and my hometown guys, REM!
The narrator sure grew up! Good job Carter
Jamie is looking good, rocking her off road recovery dress. What a lovely woman.
This time, she had the right footwear on for the job.
And an even better attitude!
It's Jamie's attitude and personality that make her so lovely.
Normally it's the Patagonia all terrain sandals that really make the outfit pop 😂
It is easy to tell that Jamie is Matt's reason for his happiness,,, I pray for continued blessings for you both,, 🙂
You're totally right about stick to the trail the amount of damage by not sticking to the trail is spoiling the surrounding area nice for sticking to your guns mat
Good to see Carter joining in on the fun and Kaulin coaching him. Love the layers of the “training”
Loving the measurement of time by how many water crossings there are. That’s real living. ❤
Hello from Oklahoma! Interesting video. The old river rat here. Every jeep I've owned, 10 so far, have a winch, a recovery kit, and are ridin' on 35's minimum. I'm driving a 2014 Rubicon Unlimited 4 door right now. Its pretty capable, but I know my limitations. Thanks for all y'all do! God Bless!
Howdy from Oklahoma!
Howdy neighbor from here in Kansas !
Do you have any suggestions for good wheeling in Oklahoma, to get used to a stock jeeps limitations?
@@xaeaxaea6280 Yes. There's a bunch of old logging roads in S. E. Oklahoma. Kiamichi mountain area. Some aren't bad others get kinda technical. Take a bow saw and an axe. Clayton, Honobia are good starting points. Or Poteau. There is a land access fee of $40. Or Northeast you can go to Disney, which is Part of Grand Lake area. And if you want to you can go out kinda mid state/west, to The Little Sahara. That ought to get ya started. When I started wheelin' I joined a club and found a bunch of places and learned alot. Good Luck!
I have to say 'Hats off to Matt's wife, Jaime"❗ What a trooper to help Matt & crew., wading through the muddy creek❗ Three Great Sons they raised👌💯‼ Good recovery and my first time seeing youngest son, Carter👋👋👋
Do not change! You are correct about staying on trail.
Nice recovery video! I still miss my 2003 TJ Rubicon, it was a blast to drive, gave me frills every time I'd take it offroad.
Lol, I just love Matt's random references like the Duran Duran one. The stuff he pulls out always catches me off guard.
Good job Morr family, you are right to be upset with these people who don't care about this beautiful country we live in. Just stay on the trail.
OH MY GOD this is so relatable. I'm a mountain biker and I've been riding the same trails for 30 plus years. I make posts on the internet about how we should all close the bypasses aka cheat lines around obstacles and half the internet freaks out that I should "mind my business" and people should "ride wherever they want". They haven't been at this for decades, they don't see what way the trails have gotten blown out over time. They need to be educated but they'd rather just tear things up making singletrack into fireroad. It is so frustrating.
What we need to do is ban shuttles
There needs to be a ranger at every trail, it pissed me off to see people doing dumb stunts, people taking their dogs past no pets signs on alpine tundra trails, letting their kids run across pristine landscape off the trails…. Killing the very thing that took hundreds of years to grow.
@@Steevo69 Game cams also work as redneck cams
So, when you get old, are you going to be protesting the wheelchair ramps on sidewalks or elevators in 30-story buildings?
@@seanseoltoir No, I'm going to be protesting people who ruin those ramps and elevators because they came along knowing very little about ramps and elevators but decided that they should ruin them because they want them to be different.
JB WELD!!! And put oil back in it!!!! and drive it out. Trail Mater did this on a jeep. Drain oil or whats left, clean outside area with break cleaner. Mix some JB metal weld epoxy, and put on the pan oil leak. wait 10 min, put oil back in motor, and drive it out!
Problem is that Jeep couldn't drive off the trail the proper way even if it was running hence the speech about morons that go off-trail like this guy did
JB weld Steelstik is the product I would recommend.
Take a Dremel with an acorn shaped burr. Grind back the crack to clean up up. Scuff the area with 80 grit paper then push the putty in there hard.
@@GregoryVeizades This is for the trail fix, not for the home fix. Doubt anyone's got a grinder on hand in the middle of nowhere let alone on... a rubicon.
I keep a roll of aluminium tape on hand, 1 minute resin for concrete bolts and some wipes. Between the resin and the aluminium tape (the good stuff) you can fix just about everything that can be fixed on a trail. You mix the resin in your hands, poke it through the cracks, put the tape on top after you clean up the adjacent area of dirt or oil or whatever and in a few minutes you can pour new oil in. This also works for exhaust leaks, fuel and other things where JB would have to be specialized. Resin don't care, it hardens into a concrete like plug. Just... uh don't drop it into your eyes. It ain't pretty.
Who cares
i agree 100% Matt, that jeep should not be in there, good job by everyone getting it out of there, thanks for sharing
My dad drove tow truck for many years. He passed away a few years ago. He would a loved seeing this beastie in action!!
I’ve been watching you guys for a long time. I rank this rescue as my second all-time fav, just behind the Golden Nugget (number one). Great job!
My favorite will always be when they dragged that beat up and stripped gold Geo from the banks of the Virgin River with Lizzie in it. I hadn't laughed so hard in a long time. It still gets me laughing just thinking about poor Lizzie getting thrown around like a rag doll on a raging bull with all that sand and dust flying all over her. Talk about a wild ride!😂
It's great to see Carter letting his crew figure out these rescue things for themselves. Especially that Matt guy. Honestly though Carter, It's great to see you out with the fam on this recovery. Great job all, two thumbs up...and also well done to all of Carters minions.even the new guy Matt. lol.
You got them out that’s what it takes. Do what you do stay on the trail no bypasses good job guys
Nice family outing! The spots you get stuck in out in the Wild West look way more impressive than what we have up here in the frozen Nort.
I own a Gladiator, and tonight I’ll hear all that scraping and grinding in my nightmares.
Glad to hear your all safe. Hope all is OK at the shop
The 'off-road Wrecker' is truely a purpose built💯💥
Nice to see Carter join the party. He did a great job with the camera and piloting that Jeep through the initial obstacles. 👍🏼`
Thanks for taking us along for recovery
The stupefaction shibboleth on the side-by-side was a chef's kiss.
Wow. I didn't think that this one was do-able, once I saw that cracked pan... but there you are. Totally surprised to hear the Duran Duran reference, and even more to hear plaudits for R.E.M.!
So many car ads on tv show "off road" as a flat dirt road with an occasional shallow puddle.....and they call that off road !🤪😂😂
Correct term.
There is a girl at work that drives a Jeep and calls out of work whenever it snows. I tease her that every Jeep commercial shows Jeeps plowing through snow drifts. She just says, "My Jeep doesn't do that."
I have been at Dumont sand dunes and seen three different car companies making adds , plus a fertilizer company. And they had a front loader there to place the vehicle up for the shot . It couldn't drive up for the picture.
@@gordbaker896 nah, correct term; dirt road dirt roading
@@thomasbrovont4114 At least she knows what her Jeep is capable of.
Passive aggressive Matt cracks me up
It is an off road vehicle, it's just not a no road vehicle.
There's a difference!
Off road means off a prepared surface.
Off the off the concrete or tired surfaces.
Or in the case of country roads off the graded gravel or dirt roads.
Offroad means "off prepared, like graded and/or graveled. If it has ever been graded, it's on-road. Off-pavement does not = offroad.
Car advertising people need to learn about that.
@@dustymojaveNo, buyers need to stop being so gullible. We all were provided with a brain, don’t be afraid to use it!
Here in Kansas we have what is called low maintenance roads with signs stating travel at your own risk ! I have taken a few of them but I also had experience of driving on oil field roads and farm equipment most of my 69 years ! I also know what my limitations and vehicle limitations are before trying stuff !
@@kennethbrown8723 It's a problem, though, when you have just a regular passenger car, and you know there's a dirt road, and you know the line about "inquire about road conditions before attempting." So you ask the park ranger, "How are the road conditions? What kind of road is it, really?" but he answers, "What kind of car are you driving? We just had a pickup flip over, because people go speeding..." Hey mister "ranger," don't go judging my driving, my experience, and my sensibility, by what I'm driving. Or by what foolish things other drivers do. I asked you about the ROAD.
It was mentioned that it was a County road, so one might assume it was maintained. But we were looking to take it as the way home, rather than backtracking on the asphalt road that ended at the visitor center. The dirt road is too long of a road to take part way down, only to discover there's been a washout or something, and have to backtrack even further. I want to go sightseeing, not have a misadventure.
It's true car companies are just trying to sell product, and will tell you anything, with a footnote in the fine print at the bottom. But rangers and local officials should be helping people make smart decisions. Even paved roads become undriveable sometimes. We have a Subaru Forester now, and it's laughable how they tout its rugged capabilities, especially the pricey "Wilderness" edition. I know to laugh, after watching Matt's videos. It ain't no rock crawler or river swimmer. No, it isn't the same as 4WD. I have yet to take a Forester anywhere I wouldn't take my old sedan.
Best Example for what the name Jeep stands for. In Germany we say 'J eder - E insatz - E in - P roblem'. What means 'every mission one problem.
Anyway, good job from you guys. Youre blessed with these surroundings
Love your channel family and how you all work together. What I don’t get is Jeep owners. I think they watch to many Jeep commercials on TV and get lied to at the dealership. They have to be modified bar none. They go on their dream trip then get stuck or destroy their new Jeep. I from Michigan and pulled out several Jeeps. I just didn’t have any T-Shirts to give them. I have a 1998 Chevy Silverado that’s been redone 👍 Be safe out there ❤️
"In contrast... (throws the shirt) See how cold and impersonal that was?"
ROFL... Too funny.
Matt's taste in music amazes me as much as his knowledge of movies.
Imagine trying to run the Rubicon in that Rubicon? Jeep should be ashamed of themselves.
Why be ashamed? I would guess only 10% ever go off road and and maybe 1% go on trails that hard. For moderate trails, they are more capable than any vehicle built today when in stock configuration, with 4Runners being a distant 2nd.They can still be built to do hard trails, but they are first and foremost an off road capable road vehicle. It's the driver that should know better, not the manufacturer.
To me that’s not a Jeep it’s a awd minivan. The only Jeep out there has 2drs.
Many people have taken their stock Rubicons on the "Rubicon Trail" and made it. This case here is driver error and probably lack of skills.
I see plenty of stock Rubicons here in CO on hard trails. They are fine. I wouldn't hesitate to run that trail in a stock Rubicon. Driver error. I modified my old 2 door to 35's better sliders, 2" lift, and air lockers. However, I have taken friends with brand new Wranglers over bad trails here and in Moab, and they do fine with proper wheel placement...
Jeep can't build the jeep that they want because of Ridiculous government regulations
Carter crushing it in this one, perfect save when it slipped off, then looking down at the rock slider and sayin 'we're good" lol I cackled.
Y'all are so lucky to work and live in such beautiful country
great job Matt, that trail looked really hard for that jeep
Ahh yes the elusive "Carter" , how could we not know of him .. especially when Matt says "I have 3 other just as good boys at home". Lol
probably a minecraft addict, that's why we dont see him
@@paddington1670 thats quite a wild assumption, he could be doing anything, Matt doesnt force them into recovery work or fab
how many kids does Matt have?
@@MrPlayfulRebel He's got the 4 boys, and I think he has a daughter? Maybe two?
@@KarlEllerNope, just 4 boys. Rudy, Kaulin, Rhett, and Karter. And yes, these are the correct spellings.
Proud to watch the channel and support a guy that will take you back the way you should have come in! Love it! And if their vehicle gets more damage because of it that's on them!
Jamie is a real trooper. Out on a recovery in her dress supervising the efforts to get this Jeep out.
luckily that jeep is one of the one's that you can swap the oil pan without doing a remove and reinstall on the engine. HIGHLY recommend skid plates if you intend to do any kind of offroading that is more than just driving down dirt roads and open fields, ESPECIALLY if you are going into rocky terrain. A hole in your oil pan will leave you stranded and without power to charge phones/radio's etc. Safety over everything and if you think you need one, then you need two of whatever you need.
Jami added a certain Oregon trail quality to this recovery with that dress. What an awesome fmily.
Great to see Carter.
Love seeing the Wrecker doing Wrecker things in the Wrecker way.
That poor Rubicon
People can Yap all they want, but when you have grown up in an area and then you see a pristine area getting torn up - it hurts! !! !!!
Or closed. Pine Valley (across 15 from Matt ) used to be so much fun . Everyone stayed on the trails and picked up any trash we saw . But a lot of new comers were nasty . Leaving used TP all over a camp ground. Now it's closed .
SXS rednecks
I'm not blaming Matt but when you have TH-cam channels that are as popular as this one, it's going to lead to more people wanting to go wheeling. And Matt has about a dozen or more spin-off channels now. It's just like when you live in a nice quiet neighborhood and then everyone decides they also want to live in that same nice quiet neighborhood. All of a sudden that neighborhood becomes less nice and quiet. More people always equals more problems.
Only if they're irresponsible self absorbed dickheads...
I was in a 4x4 club in Colorado, still live there. The formula seemed to be. Get a Jeep Rubicon; lift it, bigger tires, aftermarket steel bumpers front and rear, and a winch. That is what I did. My 2011 4 door is going good, works great on trails and gets me around in deep snow. Love it.
one of the first mods i did to my 2022 tacoma was skid plates front to back. Engine, transmission and transfer case, gas tank, and rear diff skids. second mod was rock sliders. I only then took my truck offroading after I installed those. If I didn't have my skids, I would have damaged my transfer case on the first ever trail I did with it. Skids are far cheaper to buy than an engine or drivetrain component. Watching this channel, rory's, fab rats, tacomabeast, dirtnation and several other youtube channels, all taught me one thing. BUY ARMOR to save yourself the headache!!!!
I have never seen anything as rigorous as your channel. Heart pounding drama....love it! Sensational family and team! My favorite channel. Amazing what you put off-road vehicles through. Other worldly.
10:58 “Who’s Duran Duran” haha never felt older 😂
They would probably like a lot of our music . I introduced my son to the 60s-70s And 80s music and loves it
Duran squared > rem!!
but he was right about REM... what a great Band got me through some rough times.
Yeah, I agree. These SxS things are destroying stuff.
The SXS have nothing to do with it. It's the people driving them. I have a rock crawler, SXS, dirt bike and I hike too. People just need to learn to respect the trail that they are on.
@@Slappyracecars that's makes the most sense.
You’re a complete idiot
What does SxS stand for?
@@kge420 slang for "side by side". It's or whatever you wanna call them.
One of the first things I did when I go my KK after lifting it 3 inches was to put on complete body armor underneath. Even sliders, and I don't do rock climbing. It's not made for major off roading but I've "bumped" the bottom a few times on curbs at the mall, never destroyed my oil pan either. 😁
I am so inlove with that off-road truck! wth do I call it? lol. Absolutely obsessed!
Stunning piece of honestly, art!
Edit:
When I heard its Called the Wrecker, my jaw fell open and then when i saw it has REAR WHEEL STEERING, I came.
Edit 2:
Bro... when he went up that rocky hill and the Wrecker was already struggling, I kept shouting 'why are you taking the Jeep over that???'... and then he did...and then he said "This Jeep shouldnt be in here" I can only image the owners repair bill...
You should have brought your nephew along. A rock crawling birthday party, what better gift could there be?
That kid knows how to follow directions better than most adults.
Id like to see the business side of this. Like what they charge and why it costs that, but understand if that's something they wouldn't want to divulge.
Hiking trails would bring that guy in a much better shape. Cheaper too.😅
Absolutely agree about social media. All the wonderful hidden places that very few hot to see are now getting mobbed by people who have no respect for nature, damage these places, and overuse them. When I tell someone about a special place or road, I sometimes ask them not to tell more than a friend or two, and not to post the locations on social media
New talent [ Carter ] appears out of nowhere. Should be fun to see his development.