Recent content by CR-Venturer

I was going to say almost exactly this. A similar idea is something called a "Deadman Anchor," which is basically a super strong bag-like thing with recover straps at the corners that you bury in the ground (usually intended for sand, I believe) with the strap loops sticking out, and you can...

For sure always best to have another rig with you when possible, but yeah, a winch is an awesome insurance policy. I'm working on a custom solution to mount a winch inside my stock bumper. Hopefully someday I can buy one :D

A couple highlights from the trip for you:

Every chance I get, although the wifey often wants him to stay home to keep her feeling safe. This is Charlie, and he is the goodest boy. He is an outstanding adventure dog. When this picture was taken, we were surrounded by thunderstorms, and his chill never wavered. He's amazing in the truck...

Awesome trip! I'm heading for Crowsnest Alberta tomorrow. We're doing Racehorse Pass along with a bunch of other stuff. I was thinking of not bringing my chainsaw due to space constraints, but I might reconsider that given your comment about lots of fallen trees. Cheers from the countryside east...

Thanks! I'm very pleased with how it turned out. Ideally, I would prefer to put new springs, but given the age of the vehicle, the mileage and the very high cost of new springs, I feel like this is a much wiser approach in my case.

This bad boy: General PDP Template Virtually every feature that makes a rotomolded cooler work so efficiently (thick insulation in lid as well as walls, tight seal, latches to hold the lid shut, heavy duty hinges etc) but at less than half the price of a similarly sized rotomolded. Quite the...

I've been annoyed by the horrid sag in the back end of Rumble for a long time, the product if extremely old, rusty, tired springs with 358k+ kms on them. I added helper springs last year, which did help some and improve the ride, but it didn't eliminate the saggy back end entirely. More...

At least where I live, satelite imagery is extremely helpful. It can save you a ton of time going down dead ends that lead to nothing. Be aware that sat imagery is a double edged sword, as it can be exceptionally useful in identifying tracks and potential camp sites, but depending on the age of...

I love the under deck storage on that thing, but I gotta say, Honda really missed a golden opportunity by not making that deck into a folding table like the legendary RD1 CR-V table. Looks like your rig is doing very well from the video with the Wagoneer.

This is an awesome idea and I'm thinking of doing something similar myself. I saw someone use a folding plastic bench for this purpose somewhere before, and in looking for that post, I found this one.

I can't do the slide out the back kitchen like many have on here because of the necessity of keeping the bed available for "homestead jobs," so for years I've been using the plano sportsman's case as the "Kitchen Bin." Recently I finally decided that I hate it, so I revamped my kitchen setup: I...

Finally got sick of the Plano case for the kitchen bin. It was just too inconvenient, always getting jumbled up, hard to reach and find things, awkward to move around, always getting buried by things in the truck etc. So I revamped my whole kitchen setup: Not exactly a mod, I know, because I...

Revamped my kitchen setup. I had a crack at using one of these bins as the kitchen before, without success, but I think last time I was using only the left bin. I had been using a plano sporsman's trunk previously, but I finally decided I just hate it, so I was determined to make this work...

All these are good reasons for the Ghettoverlanding approach I take. My old rusty truck didn't cost me that much to begin with, and the mods have been pretty cheap along the way. If it ever gets totalled, even if the insurance company won't cover it, it's not the end of the world.