EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

New box in the new rig ready to stack some bacon!
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Like !!

 looks good.

Thanks guys i sure do take pride in my toys and I love this one lol

Got me some new pens to (http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb441/keltondarden/D68C3637-17B2-4E06-B45F-5B197AE71ABE-8039-0000072C5FD2BA9C_zps043bfa57.jpg)

Nice !

There you go. Hoping to have me a small set ( probably 3) sometime in January.

Nice set up fella

Awesome, set up!!!

Nice pens,and really like your ride,been thinking of getting one,seems like you can carry alot,just dont know how bike would do in this mud and ditches around here,nothing but buckshot here.its nice

I have never seen a ranger get stuck in the mud I have Been in some nasty stuff with buddy that use to own it and never seen it stuck that thing is Nasty in the mud

I have seen them stuck. But I have also seen lots of tractors stuck.


Shotgun
Arkansas

Ive seen them all get stuck ,if you had that thing loaded down,with dogs gear ppl,and go across one of these fields around here,it wouldnt make it long.shotgun lets hunt.

That rig is heavier than my big red. I have hauled over 900 pounds of people and dogs across a muddy disced up field. As long as u don't high center it should be fine. As u know if the buckshot is sticky it will ball up a pick up.


Shotgun
Arkansas

This ranger got a lift on it sets up bout 4 or 5 inches higher  then a factory! But I don't know what yal call buckshot? All I know is we got some nasty mud down here and red clay and some places real bad sand here in central Texas and it gets the job done just fine!

 anything can get no matter how good it is. if there is no solid ground beneath the machine and it cant get traction, its stuck, no matter if its a dozer, tank, backhoe, farm tractor or even atvs, but its harder to stick an atv bc its lite enough it wont fall to the bottom of the hole, unless like shotgun said, it high centers. in central tx, I have to get my atv, or even seen them rangers or rhinos get stuck easily. east tx on the other, it don't take much to burry 1 up and have to winch it out

Well I am not gonna get ignorant in the thing I bought to go do some hog hunting out of I didn't get it to go mud bogging so I imagine it will stay on the roads n keep me from walking any where

 hey tejas, I think its your cousin, or some family member, but they had an older yota that he was trying to rig up for hunting. did he ever finish it? its been bout yr n half since I was over there and forgot his screen name here.

It was my brother yeah he finished it then he got married sold it built a house and now he living the married life he don't own any more hog dogs don't hardly even go with me anymore! But yeah that was my brother

 ok, I wasn't sure which family member it was. I don't know if you were with us the time I hunted up there. there was a brother, but not sure, it might have been step brother.

Yeah it was my younger step brother that was hunting with yal I was at work that night!

 ok. its been a while and I couldn't remember.

I wasn't knocking ur rig at all. It is heavier than mine but that's why I said that about 900lbs. Urs isn't that much heavier. Buckshot mud is a black clay type soil. If it's dry it cracks open and can get hard as a rock. I have smoked tires leaving black marks like u would on the highway on it. When it's real wet the bottom can be hard to reach. When it gets in the sticky stage it sticks to everything to the point it will completely clog ur fender wells and stop ur tires from turning. It's a delta mud left from the time of all this ground being swamp.


Shotgun
Arkansas

we have similar mud here in central tx. in 2011/2012, the ground cracked so bad, there were caverns in the ground big enough to swallow an adult human leg all the way to the crotch. and yea, it gets so hard u dang near need a jack hammer to bust it up when it dries out. it sounds like what iv know as gumbo mud in east tx.

That is another name for it. Here we have what we call buckshot which is like I described. Then we have what we call gumbo which is worse. The gumbo here will turn anything it dried on blue. Lol


Shotgun
Arkansas

Buckshot sounds like fun to run through lol

yes sir it will. and that blue is a pain to get off, even with a pressure washer.

Yeah anything can get stuck in the right conditions; I try to keep my Ranger out of mud holes but every once in a while, you got to go through one.  Who ever made the comment about being high centered is exactly right.  Once these heavy rigs get high centered and the tires can reach the bottom, you stuck like chuck.  The bad thing about the heavy bikes is there isn't any tipping and rocking like you can do one a 4 wheeler.  All in all I am happy with my ranger and the two times I had it stuck were my fault.  All tires would turn like crazy and throw mud, but they had nothing to grab onto so they just spun.