Recent content by Alan_Hepburn

Speaking of family: our get-togethers are really entertaining - I'm Army (82nd Airborne) veteran; our younger son is career Navy; his daughter just joined the Air Force! We get a 3-way war!

Inter-service rivalries are interesting - we say things to each other as a sign of brotherhood that, to a civilian, seem downright nasty. And if we hear a civilian try to repeat our banter watch us come together to truly eviscerate that civilian!

As an old paratrooper we thought of the Air Force as our bus drivers... :grinning:

They haven't built enough of them to get them on the road long enough to see whether or not the roof is going to leak.

It seems everybody wants LED lights - I also see everybody complaining how bad the LED lights are in the winter, when there's no heat to melt accumulating snow off the lights...

Are we allowed to mention other websites here? If so, you might check out Trails Offroad - they list a bunch of trails in California.

It's too bad that some of those extra hours for the build didn't go into doing some QA before sending the units out to the dealers...

Here's what I added to my Gladiator - it'll be recognized by some military folk, but it's a puzzler for the general public... it's the unit crest and motto of the Regiment I was in back at Ft Bragg...

We're thinking late spring/early summer to give it a try - we're planning on taking our motorhome up to the Russian River Thousand Trails resort and using that as a base camp. Then we can spend a few days running around on the three trails I mentioned earlier. I guess I need to learn how to use...

Here's mine - no mods yet...

I've been looking at the Trails Offroad website for some local trails to try, and we're kind of interested in doing some 1-day trips to maybe Walker Ridge Road near Williams, or Old Toll Road to Highland Springs, or Knoxville-Devilhead Road - those look to be pretty tame so those of us who are...

So, I've been told to look for a decent, low-cost GMRS radio for our Jeeps. In wandering around the internet I found a Midland GTX1000 bundle that includes a Midland MicroMobile radio and 2 of their GTX1000 handheld walkie talkies. The Amazon price for this package is $150, which fits our budget...

GVWR minus the actual weight gives you how much cargo you can carry. GCWR minus the actual weight gives you the towing capacity, but you still have to be wary of GVWR because your tongue weight will eat up the cargo capacity.

Your actual, real-world towing capacity is the lower of: 1. GVWR of the tow vehicle minus the actual measured weight of your tow vehicle 2. GCWR of the tow vehicle minus the actual measured weight of your tow vehicle The first calculation tells you how much weight the tow vehicle itself can...

Congrats on your kid making Eagle Scout! Our younger son was in Scouting for a few years, but never made Eagle. He was a bit "rebellious" during high school, but after graduating from college with a computer science degree he surprised us one day by stating "I've joined the Navy"... that was 15...