47MasoN47 Man, it was especially hard to see him afterwards. I know that feeling well I had to let my 84 Nissan 720 King Cab go a few months back, it's like you lose a child. Since this was made a while back I wonder if he has another project going now? The Chevy was one of the trucks on here I liked most as it was creative, and I'd really like to see what he does next.
The blazer drivers got my full respect but that is why you go off roading with friends and you help them and they will be there for you. But best of luck on the future builds and sorry for y’all truck but if y’all are ok that’s what matters.
Man i would love to see a build video of a truck like the screaming green one! love the show and i think im falling in love with offroading just by watching this
That little Suzuki seemed to do OK, maybe not the ultimate wheeler but pretty cool, can probably make through some tight spaces unlike the bigger, wider bruisers. Love the Army truck.Super cool.
That's just crazy. I grew up in St Louis and have visited the Big Foot shop a few times. Now I live in Salem Mo. Both these places Ultimate Adventure 2014 went to. I even remember seeing a line of off road trucks roll through Salem but I didn't know why at the time. We do have an off road park here in Salem, maybe it's in the next video but maybe not. On a side not, sucks what happened to the '83 Blazer that flipped over, but luckily the driver and co-driver are ok. Trucks can be rebuilt, people can't.
At 4:35 wouldn't it have saved him from tipping over if he had let go of the brakes on the right moment and instead roll it back a bit until the front end is on the ground again?
Ok, he had 4 options: 1) Go forward(results in tipping over) 2)Smash the brakes(results in tipping over) 3) Get in to reverse(like he said, not enough time) 4) Let go of the brakes and let it roll back, GOLDEN!
well I spent some time watching the whole video of this in slow motion from the other angles that are not on this cut and here is what I found. 1. It is not breaks that were hit, but the lag in the transmission from letting off the gas. 2. At that precise moment, the blazer was at critical angle with extra weight in back of bed, angle and slop of hill. 3. rear digs in and over we go. He tried to get it into neutral but not in time, if he had an auto so he needed to hit neutral and it hung up in the gate. It was a mater of speed, weight in rear of Blazer and angle on the hill. Truck totaled, driver and co driver fine and had great spirits. All in a day of the UA.
o wow i realized i was at gardner dam scout camp while u guys were doing this. it's nowhere near where u guys were, but we were campin at the same time
+Peter Timowreef look at his face just after he punched the tire and as they cut, dude was an inch off crying, shattered - takes a real man to show that on a camera.
+Mijc Osis (mycosys) Yea man, to get all philosophical on you: Life is cold and cynical, it's great to see people heat up by showing passion, vunerability and emotion. Especially because I share that passion for anything automotive.
Is there no maximum tire width wherever you guys are doing this ? In Pennsylvania if you took those jeeps with the fender flares removed and the tire sticking out from the fender you'd get stopped right away and fined. Your only allowed 2 inches or tire past the fender / fender flare. I wasn't sure if there were any laws where you were at or if you guys just didn't care ha admittedly I'm not an offroad guy but I enjoy watching :)
sexymikeization You only need to be legal in your home state, every state doesn't have the same rules and you can't be reasonably be expected to know what EACH states has for a different regulations. Its just like when you can take an non-emissions vehicle to an emissions state as long as your not registered there. Commercial vehicles can be much different. Generally it doesn't stop cops from hassling people.
+Matt. d. motorbike. no, no it inst. its truest state is when you are trying to get somewhere - like in png or the aussie top end or south america, africa or russia. this is off roading as a sport. not criticizing, its great, but its all created rather than just encountered and all just to see if you can go over it rather than see if you can get there.
I think that the title is supposed to state "Part 4" (Not Day 4). Motor Trend Channel Really upset about the reader that flipped right over and couldn't finish out the trip, just praying that they fix that rig right up and ready for next year.
Since it is muddy, tires will have no traction anyways. So, the only thing they can do is keep up momentum by flooring it and not letting off until they reach the top.
WyRsCrew'sClips I see that as a lack of skill (not saying i have these skills), because tire spin has less grip than less tire spin, because all i see in these videos is EXCESSIVE wheel spin. best case scenario based on physics is to keep the tires moving without excessive tire spin, so you'd keep your momentum. So am i still missing something or is that pretty much it?
Good luck climbing steep hills with no wheelspeed and MT tires turned into racing slicks due to mud stuck into the tire tracks. If your theory was true then @7:22 he would have plenty of traction and would not need a winch. There is NO traction when your tires are completely covered in mud. The wheel spin cleans the tire tracks and give you a bit more than 0 traction.
Luciano Ballista aaahhh so mud on mud has no traction, and wheel spin is to eject the mud off the tires? got it. Because that's the opposite of snow, which is the only thing I've driven on. Thanks!
Yeah it sticks to the treads and the tire becomes slick lol my Mamute off-road Wolverines can attest to that, and those are mud bogging tires fit for the most comon type of offroading we have in southern Brazil, lotsa rain, the only time in a mud pit where they have traction is when they're throwing mud everywhere hahaha.. i can't say anything about snow since we don't have it here haha
They where all just a different kind of difficult. All the rain made things a lot harder, take away the wet and the stuff in Iowa and Illinois would have been much easier. I think we went right in the middle of record rainfall....it made things extra hard.
Metcalf Yeah clay and rain are kinda our thing here in the Midwest. Rain slick clay is maybe the lowest traction coefficient in the universe. I'm pretty sure greased ice offers better traction.
probably the wrong place to ask this but i'm 13 and I've been dreaming about what i could have as my first car. I live in the UK so no Chevy blazers or wranglers. I was thinking maybe a Suzuki SJ (Samurai), Suzuki Jimny, Or a Suzuki Vitara (Geo Tracker/Suzuki Sidekick) What do you guys think?
+AaronGSXC you don't have jeep wranglers in the uk ? the samurais are a pretty capable with a few mods pretty popular in Australia but isn't the land rover a popular car in the uk ? they are pretty pricey here but would assume they would go fairly cheap on the used market over there havnt looked might be worth getting one of them as your first rig if you can pick them up cheap
Alex Richardson you can get jeep wranglers but it's the insurance that's a problem, im only 13 and i already went on to an insurance company to get some quotes. landrovers can be cheap but if they are cheap they are likely very rusty.
hey what kind of headsets are those they're using in the dirt every day truck. do they just hook up to a cb or what? i wanna get somthing like that so i dont have to put my ear next to my cb when im in my rig
+ratsnake22 given there are 2 in car it will hook to an internal wired intercom as used in rally, motorbikes and prop aircraft - there is too much noise to chat so they talk over those. the vehicle wiring is cheap enough, good headsets arent. commonly there is a secondary system to hook the intercom , either both at once or one mic at a time, into the radio system as
+King Trollington III looked like he had a 5point on, and it only collapsed onto the main roll bar - it stayed solid like its designed to. the front collpsing acted like a massive crumple zone they are slightly lighter tube generally for partly that reason
Ok, I feel bad for the guy that rolled, but its just sheet metal and roll cage. Easy enough to fix. I know it is easy to diagnose from where I am sitting, but I have rolled umpteen times and some are a lot worse than others. Even if the frame is bent, it can still be fixed. IMO, of course.
At some point it's better to just move on. The frame on the blazer, tub, and cage where all pretty much destroyed in the roll. I think the rear of the frame was bent almost 6" down at the ends. The parts will live on in the next project from what I hear.
+11YeeP11 that was more space frame than roll cage - its straight out trashed - it did its job, put all the energy into the secondary structure and bent that rather than the main bar over their heads
I guess that's the U.S. equivalent for Green laning. Except that Land Rovers are turned into Heavily modified Jeeps and muddy climbs are turned into rock-climbs.
and you see right there thats a man im not leaving ill pull straps or whatever good on ya bud sorry about the truck it was sweet and will be again id bet
Oh man, it hurt watching that blazer roll... Best of luck to him on his next project!
Im not a Chevy guy but from losing one of my Jeeps I feel his Pain
P,
47MasoN47 Man, it was especially hard to see him afterwards. I know that feeling well I had to let my 84 Nissan 720 King Cab go a few months back, it's like you lose a child. Since this was made a while back I wonder if he has another project going now? The Chevy was one of the trucks on here I liked most as it was creative, and I'd really like to see what he does next.
Kory Breitenbucher I've got a 86.5 Hardbody king cab mnyself. I'd cry :(
Kory Breitenbucher i have a single cab 720 2wd i want to make 4x4
Sucks what happened to the blazer. That was a guy who really loved and put effort and time into that build. Beautiful rig!
Thanks for cleaning up the mess in the forest behind you. You have my respect guys.
To the guy who rolled his rig- good luck man!
Ah the blazer going over hurts to watch :( poor guy and poor truck. He just looked so crushed.
The blazer drivers got my full respect but that is why you go off roading with friends and you help them and they will be there for you. But best of luck on the future builds and sorry for y’all truck but if y’all are ok that’s what matters.
4:43 That fire extinguisher pass and catch was pretty spot on. Such a bummer about the Blazer...
Fred's co-driver shortly after the Blazer rollover, "ooh, ooh, biscuits" lol...classic
I used to see that blazer all the time down the street from my house. I haven't seen it for a while now.. i think he parted it and is building another
these people are awesome, having fun and being responsible
Thats a shame what happened to the blazer :/ I really liked that one the most too!
AND He had it 18 years?!!?!? WOW
That's it. MotorTrend is the best car YT channel. Hands down!
That red Jeep is just awesome.
That is a full tube chassis rock buggy with a Jeep grill and hood. Not a Jeep in any way but yes, it's still very cool.
Ryan Hudson C'mon... Way to point out the obvious... I could of swore it was factory stock cage work..
4:42 that catch of the fire extinguisher!!! good hands sir!!
I dont know how he uses that half steering wheel, looks very awkward.
Man i would love to see a build video of a truck like the screaming green one! love the show and i think im falling in love with offroading just by watching this
I can't wait to get out in my jeep this weekend! any 4 wheeling is fun!
Sorry for your loss Sean/Shawn.
Love the 07 Cherokee!!!! We got an 06 planning on doing some tune ups
That poor Cadillac blazer, I hope that guy fixes it up good
Cadillac? it was an avalanche front end....
He had a Cadillac badge on it. Its actually a Silverado 1500 Pre Runner front end.
Nice to see our trails have hit the big time!
That little Suzuki seemed to do OK, maybe not the ultimate wheeler but pretty cool, can probably make through some tight spaces unlike the bigger, wider bruisers. Love the Army truck.Super cool.
+Statimtek its a pity you guys dont have 70 series cruisers,. would have been awesome to see a swb 70 series on this
god that poor truck! bet he wish he would have crawled out of the truck with a winch cable. too bad. time to build a new one huh? lucky guys
This is just like when I go wheeling, except for everyone here seems to be sober.
+japhethwar when you coming to australia?
5:57 "....ooohh ooooh biscuits!" lmfao
That's just crazy. I grew up in St Louis and have visited the Big Foot shop a few times. Now I live in Salem Mo. Both these places Ultimate Adventure 2014 went to. I even remember seeing a line of off road trucks roll through Salem but I didn't know why at the time. We do have an off road park here in Salem, maybe it's in the next video but maybe not. On a side not, sucks what happened to the '83 Blazer that flipped over, but luckily the driver and co-driver are ok. Trucks can be rebuilt, people can't.
I did Basic at FLW in 00', I seen them drive by a "Mark Twain Nation Forest" sign. I know FLW is right on it, not sure how far away they were?
These episodes need to be about 40 min each.
That's what they want. NO Roadkill doesn't make us buy a DVD.
Murray P Cakes
Nor does it have the same budget.
+Murray P Cakes congrats on noticing it isnt roadkill, and missing that it funds roadkill.
Holy hell that roll over was a hard hit
At 4:35 wouldn't it have saved him from tipping over if he had let go of the brakes on the right moment and instead roll it back a bit until the front end is on the ground again?
Ok, he had 4 options:
1) Go forward(results in tipping over)
2)Smash the brakes(results in tipping over)
3) Get in to reverse(like he said, not enough time)
4) Let go of the brakes and let it roll back, GOLDEN!
power3244 I'm presuming you can't hit the clutch and hope it rolls back?
Maybe if he let off as soon as it nosed up further than normal, but probably not. Just bounced the wrong way on the wrong hill
well I spent some time watching the whole video of this in slow motion from the other angles that are not on this cut and here is what I found.
1. It is not breaks that were hit, but the lag in the transmission from letting off the gas.
2. At that precise moment, the blazer was at critical angle with extra weight in back of bed, angle and slop of hill.
3. rear digs in and over we go.
He tried to get it into neutral but not in time, if he had an auto so he needed to hit neutral and it hung up in the gate.
It was a mater of speed, weight in rear of Blazer and angle on the hill.
Truck totaled, driver and co driver fine and had great spirits.
All in a day of the UA.
it looked like his shocks unloaded a bit to hard as well to me.
That is why roll cages are a must.
9:20... slight concussion maybe? He landed pretty hard on the roof
I feel really bad for the guy who flipped, he couldn't talk at the end, Im sorry man hope your alright and get some good offroading again
o wow i realized i was at gardner dam scout camp while u guys were doing this. it's nowhere near where u guys were, but we were campin at the same time
Man I felt bad for that guy when he rolled his ride, he took it like a real man though.
+Peter Timowreef look at his face just after he punched the tire and as they cut, dude was an inch off crying, shattered - takes a real man to show that on a camera.
+Mijc Osis (mycosys) Yea man, to get all philosophical on you: Life is cold and cynical, it's great to see people heat up by showing passion, vunerability and emotion. Especially because I share that passion for anything automotive.
Any info in the headlights in the Dodge and 16:25?
That 5:50 song was beautiful.
Trucks are just so awesome
Thank goodness for roll cages. I hope he had some new clothes because his current ones probably had a huge brown stain.
man i wish i would have known you guys were in town. im a couple miles away from Bigfoot!
I wonder if a removable front roll bar would have saved the Blazer.
Dang that blazer was cool.
Damn shame about the Blazer. Glad they came out ok.
7:22 what a place to stand!
8:53 so its just A jeep with A custom body? I guess.. I want it
Is there no maximum tire width wherever you guys are doing this ? In Pennsylvania if you took those jeeps with the fender flares removed and the tire sticking out from the fender you'd get stopped right away and fined. Your only allowed 2 inches or tire past the fender / fender flare. I wasn't sure if there were any laws where you were at or if you guys just didn't care ha admittedly I'm not an offroad guy but I enjoy watching :)
sexymikeization You only need to be legal in your home state, every state doesn't have the same rules and you can't be reasonably be expected to know what EACH states has for a different regulations. Its just like when you can take an non-emissions vehicle to an emissions state as long as your not registered there. Commercial vehicles can be much different. Generally it doesn't stop cops from hassling people.
so is the actual DVD longer and more detailed or the same as whats on youtube?
Adel, that lady know some wheeling
If you guys are ever Come to NM give me call can take some crazy places
anyone else feel like these have become one big add?
Sheriff this is no jamboree... these vehicles are true crawlers
This is off roading at its truest state
+Matt. d. motorbike. no, no it inst. its truest state is when you are trying to get somewhere - like in png or the aussie top end or south america, africa or russia. this is off roading as a sport. not criticizing, its great, but its all created rather than just encountered and all just to see if you can go over it rather than see if you can get there.
+Mijc Osis (mycosys) not saying your wrong but it is
Matt. d. motorbike.
just saying you are wrong. If you guys had the option to do the real thing you wouldn't be using off road 'parks'
+Mijc Osis (mycosys) agree about it I ges
I think that the title is supposed to state "Part 4" (Not Day 4). Motor Trend Channel Really upset about the reader that flipped right over and couldn't finish out the trip, just praying that they fix that rig right up and ready for next year.
wondering if decent parts meant fixer up so shes back this year??
witch kind of coller is the thug truck? wich kinkd of red? i like it a lott!!
I've never done any off roading so excuse my ignorance, but I thought wheel spin is bad for grip? why is everyone flooring it?
Since it is muddy, tires will have no traction anyways. So, the only thing they can do is keep up momentum by flooring it and not letting off until they reach the top.
WyRsCrew'sClips I see that as a lack of skill (not saying i have these skills), because tire spin has less grip than less tire spin, because all i see in these videos is EXCESSIVE wheel spin. best case scenario based on physics is to keep the tires moving without excessive tire spin, so you'd keep your momentum.
So am i still missing something or is that pretty much it?
Good luck climbing steep hills with no wheelspeed and MT tires turned into racing slicks due to mud stuck into the tire tracks. If your theory was true then @7:22 he would have plenty of traction and would not need a winch. There is NO traction when your tires are completely covered in mud. The wheel spin cleans the tire tracks and give you a bit more than 0 traction.
Luciano Ballista aaahhh so mud on mud has no traction, and wheel spin is to eject the mud off the tires? got it. Because that's the opposite of snow, which is the only thing I've driven on. Thanks!
Yeah it sticks to the treads and the tire becomes slick lol my Mamute off-road Wolverines can attest to that, and those are mud bogging tires fit for the most comon type of offroading we have in southern Brazil, lotsa rain, the only time in a mud pit where they have traction is when they're throwing mud everywhere hahaha.. i can't say anything about snow since we don't have it here haha
Wish I knew about this I'm from calhoun county illinois just south of there
Thanks buddy
It is cool.
The Best4x4!
all of these rigs seem mechanically very similar to me. full-width solid axles, big nitto tires, coils, radius arms. am i wrong in thinking this?
Not really. My little jeep had narrow axles, leaf springs, 35" bfg tires...
the chevy may have been ruined even before it rolled, still sucks though, better luck next time
how do you flip a.full size truck over end over end!
If you guys are on the road and someone wanted to join just out of no where do you guys let them or no?
No
This was so cool
Illinois seems like the toughest trails yet?
Maybe by a long shot?
They where all just a different kind of difficult. All the rain made things a lot harder, take away the wet and the stuff in Iowa and Illinois would have been much easier. I think we went right in the middle of record rainfall....it made things extra hard.
Metcalf
Yeah clay and rain are kinda our thing here in the Midwest.
Rain slick clay is maybe the lowest traction coefficient in the universe.
I'm pretty sure greased ice offers better traction.
+reagentism come try the aussie top and and see if you still feel that way ;)
4:29 is the ultimate why you wear a helmet when off-road.
Me when the truck flipped over "OH SHIT!!!"
At 2:00 Rick sounds just like Tommy Lee Jones. Just something random I'd like to point out.
It was that Pizza....
FRED! What radio setup were you guys using in the big orange Dodge?
you mean to tell me that you guys were less than an HOUR AWAY from where I live playing and tearing shit up an I did know!?!?
probably the wrong place to ask this but i'm 13 and I've been dreaming about what i could have as my first car. I live in the UK so no Chevy blazers or wranglers. I was thinking maybe a Suzuki SJ (Samurai), Suzuki Jimny, Or a Suzuki Vitara (Geo Tracker/Suzuki Sidekick) What do you guys think?
Toyota RAV4 they are great get one with a 5 speed and 4 wd
+AaronGSXC you don't have jeep wranglers in the uk ? the samurais are a pretty capable with a few mods pretty popular in Australia but isn't the land rover a popular car in the uk ? they are pretty pricey here but would assume they would go fairly cheap on the used market over there havnt looked might be worth getting one of them as your first rig if you can pick them up cheap
Alex Richardson you can get jeep wranglers but it's the insurance that's a problem, im only 13 and i already went on to an insurance company to get some quotes. landrovers can be cheap but if they are cheap they are likely very rusty.
+AaronGSXC get a jimny. We dont have them here in the states but ive seen them when ive traveled and they seem li9ke some pretty sweet little rigs.
I miss the green Comanche. That thing is Rad.
more videos of the white wk ...
I LOVE TUG TRUCK
hey what kind of headsets are those they're using in the dirt every day truck. do they just hook up to a cb or what? i wanna get somthing like that so i dont have to put my ear next to my cb when im in my rig
probly rugged radios. its a race style intercom
+ratsnake22 given there are 2 in car it will hook to an internal wired intercom as used in rally, motorbikes and prop aircraft - there is too much noise to chat so they talk over those. the vehicle wiring is cheap enough, good headsets arent. commonly there is a secondary system to hook the intercom , either both at once or one mic at a time, into the radio system as
What headlights does Fred's truck have?
Freds
15:48 ayyyy
Spider falls in front of the lens at 0:28
If these guys had swampers they would have made it a lot more places
And lost their fillings.
how much does a pimped up vehicle like that cost?
+Theholycheeseburgers lol
4:25 EPIC!
you boys drove right by my house!!
I’ve been on this trail
How old are you 5 or 6 ???
I want a solid front axle for my wk. Jealous of the guy at 13:00
intense_m9_downhiller I really liked that WK! Super cool truck.
I love mine to death but with a solid front axle and a hemi it would be unstopable.
I feel bad for your Cadillac and that was intense you should put more weight in front of your Cadillac
This was 2 years ago, and you should really address who your saying this to *even though I already know*
Merica!
Hahaha,
that accent at 3:41 had me cracked up. lol
I wonder if that's the way Texans speak everyday or he's just acting it in front the camera?
11:21 my hometown hamburg illinois
"OooOoOooo, biscuits."
OooOooOooo biscuits😂😂
How much do trucks like this cost to build? $50k? $75k? $100k?
joeracer302 My flat fender didn't cost anywhere near 50K. Maybe 15K.....and time.....LOTS of time!
depends, the regular cab2013 cummins is probably 50k+
freedomnutz But it doesn't HAVE to cost that much to participate in the event. A normal guy can do it.
Tim's Zuk cost $347.59 and we took up a collection last year to buy the beadlocks so they do no count.
tom boyd We all know Tim's rig is priceless and belongs in a museum.
Biscuits? hahaha
Damn thought his head would have been dented from shit like that... RIP blazer?
+King Trollington III looked like he had a 5point on, and it only collapsed onto the main roll bar - it stayed solid like its designed to. the front collpsing acted like a massive crumple zone they are slightly lighter tube generally for partly that reason
+King Trollington III I say bad call from Rick Pewe three all Jeep trails with full size rigs. Bad on you Rick_
Ok, I feel bad for the guy that rolled, but its just sheet metal and roll cage. Easy enough to fix. I know it is easy to diagnose from where I am sitting, but I have rolled umpteen times and some are a lot worse than others. Even if the frame is bent, it can still be fixed. IMO, of course.
At some point it's better to just move on. The frame on the blazer, tub, and cage where all pretty much destroyed in the roll. I think the rear of the frame was bent almost 6" down at the ends. The parts will live on in the next project from what I hear.
you cant fix a cage like that. if you bend the whole thing, the whole thing is bent, you cant just replace components
+11YeeP11 that was more space frame than roll cage - its straight out trashed - it did its job, put all the energy into the secondary structure and bent that rather than the main bar over their heads
I guess that's the U.S. equivalent for Green laning. Except that Land Rovers are turned into Heavily modified Jeeps and muddy climbs are turned into rock-climbs.
Peggy Bundy's home town.
wish i had the money to build my jeep up :,(
and you see right there thats a man im not leaving ill pull straps or whatever good on ya bud sorry about the truck it was sweet and will be again id bet
"...Oooooh biscuits."
it's actually Bigfoot 5