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    Inyo PO POs in Tecopa Monday handing out tickets

    in General Chat

    Posted

    IN CA? In CA you'll need either a single vehicle over 26K GVWR or a trailer who's GVWR is over 10K if pull behind and over 15K if 5th wheel.

    Im here in Vegas, and my 26' box trailer has a GVW of 11,000#. My question is can I stick that behind my ford f-350 for the driving test, or do I have to attach the trailer behind my M/H which has a GVW of 42,000#

    Halloween trip reports

    in Dumont Happenings

    Posted

    Just A Arms, One Shock Shaft Was Bent, One Rear Rim, A little Sheet Metal, Small Brackets, and Pride Thats all that got Broken And Frank It Will Always Be Your Fault

    Jim I'm glad to hear from. Ive fallen of the horse once to on my old car. Its only metal and can all be easily fixed. When you get back in the saddle call me.

    FRANK

    Halloween DDR meet & greet

    in Dumont Happenings

    Posted

    yea it was franks car.

    the belt was poppin off and over heating when we first took it out. and we got it stuck, but frank burried it for us after he hopped in.haha

    then we figured out the radiator was crap.so we got a new radiator and a new belt. its runnin at 185 now so that problems fixed. but last saturday we found out that we needed a new alternator. now thats in and runnin good. hopefully it runs good for halloween weekend.

    Pocket change, sorry about the radiater/alternator issue, wish you would of called, the radiater was fairly

    new Im sure we could have it gotten fixed, Well any way welcome to the wonderful world of expense hobby. I will be out there this weekend with my family and our usual crew at the little dunes. I would love to offer you drink, but had to quit (blood sugar just a little high). Hopefully you have driven the crap out that PLATINUM, Maybe we can go on a nice slow cruise, to manny people to go fast. :laughing:

    People riding after drinking

    in Dumont Regulations, Safety & BLM

    Posted

    I friggen hate tweekers im sure you have employed a few like i have there peaces of sh$$ like firepole said you can spot them a mile away, so to answer your ? they wouldent be in my camp :blink::beercheers:

    I do every thing possible to keep these crackheads not working for me, But the labor board tells me that these pieces of SH$$T have rights also...... :blink:

    MYSTERY SAND DUNES, SOUTH OF BAKER

    in General Chat

    Posted

    Well everybody we all know where Dumont is, but has anybody driven south of Baker yes on I-15

    just short of ZYZZX rd on the east side there seems to be these beatiful Virgin sand dunes. Has anybody ever ridden these dunes????? Rumors has it its 3X the size of Dumont, any info would be appreciated..

    sandrail crash

    in Dumont Happenings

    Posted

    :bawl::laughing::laughoff::laughoff:

    Hey Rhino King sorrry about that last night. Well any way no matter what speed that rail was going at there is no reason why every weld should have come apart. Supposedely the builder that fabricated this rail is in hiding and has numerous other rails out there that need to be addressed. Somebody on this board knows who he is. For the safety of other fellow duners he should fess up on who he is and have a recall on all his rails that have this same design flaw....

    sandrail crash

    in Dumont Happenings

    Posted

    Would Helmets have mitigated the fatal injuries?

    Hey guys all Im saying is did anybody see that rail in person????? I did and never so many broken welds ,

    every weld on that cage looked like bubblegum no penetration at all. Im sorry to bring this up and again I do apoligize to every body on this board but that is just my proffeional opinion. I would not want this to happen to my worst enemy and all Im trying to do is prevent this from happening again. Just inspect it all

    before going out and playing, and if you dont know call on a proffesional, dont experiment with your LIFE.

    sandrail crash

    in Dumont Happenings

    Posted

    Jeff I do apreciate your input on this and I do welcome you to the board, a newbie just like me. Again I wish all my love and prayers to the famililies , under no circumstences would I ever wish any harm or injuries to my fellow duners. After many years of duning with my buddies and family, I am sickened by all these accidents. Every other week you read about these fatalities of people getting hurt in these crashes.

    Majority of these sand rail accidents are home made garage jobs. These so called garage jockeys have absolutely no Idea what it takes to engineer/build/design a rail.

    Why would any body buy a no name toy and take it out to a Dangerous place like Dumont. How many garage built quads/dirtbikes does anybody see out at DUMONT....... NONE

    sandrail crash

    in Dumont Happenings

    Posted

    Well I think everyone has the best of intentions here. First, I did know Harry. Not very well but i've hung out with him on occassion. I'm close to his Niece and her husband. (He was truely a great guy and will be missed!) The family is dealing with some terribly bad times right now and to have anyone start picking on the equipment or the driver would of course set them off, as it would any of us if this was on our plate right now!

    I can tell you this. I know that Harry was a VERY experience driver in the sand and was off to Dumont or Glamis on plenty of occasions, he was not a rookie by any means. I can only speculate that he got turned around and didn't realize what was next, sun in the eyes, malfunction with the buggy, we will just never know. I know the car was sound. Chromoly, nice weld job, basically a nice SAND CAR. I have raced off-road and have spent countless hours looking at all types of cars/buggies. I own a 4-seat desert car, and of course those of us that know the difference between a sand car and a desert car, know that it can be alot! Thicker walled tubing, gussets, extra bracing, etc. etc. etc. (made to hit things hard, not like sand is supposed to be "soft") This is unfortunately a price that is paid for light sand cars. That's one of the reasons you will see me running around in the big ole heavy buggy that is slower than everyone else, but having a blast! I think we can all see from the pics provided, that drop wasn't made for any vehicle. An educated guess would tell me that any of our tuff desert cars/buggies would have done the same thing. Maybe crinkle differently, but crinkle it would!

    I would say the biggest lesson to be learned hear is that we are all proned to get in a position that could take our lives, no matter how good the talent or equipment is. Love your family and friends and appreicate what we have because an accident could take it all away. We in the offroad world tend to lean a bit towards the out of control (slideways) side of things. We take our chances. I'm sure most of you can remember the old days when the buggies running these mountains had two bars going up and over the head, a vw powered engine, and bilstien shocks off the old pickup. And while the new big fancy cars out there are alot tougher, you can break them. Know your car, know the cars limits, know your talents, know your fears.

    Now get out there and tear up those Dunes!

    By the way, i'm new here. Actually came to the site looking for some answers to what happened this weekend. You all seem to be a great bunch, look forward to meeting you out at Dumont.

    I have really appreciated the comments and photo posts, I would have hated to have never seen the pics provided. If i do come across any info about the chassis (or lack of chassis), malfunction, or any pertent info. that will help keep us all safe, i will be sure to pass the info along.

    Jeff I do apreciate your input on this and I do welcome you to the board, a newbie just like me. Again I wish all my love and prayers to the famililies , under no circumstences would I ever wish any harm or injuries to my fellow duners. After many years of duning with my buddies and family, I am sickened by all these accidents. Every other week you read about these fatalities of people getting hurt in these crashes.

    Majority of these sand rail accidents are home made garage jobs. These so called garage jockeys have absolutely no Idea what it takes to engineer/build/design a rail.

    Why would any body buy a no name toy and take it out to a Dangerous place like Dumont. How many garage built quads/dirtbikes does anybody see out at DUMONT....... NONE

    sandrail crash

    in Dumont Happenings

    Posted

    :shocked2: :woo_hoo::loser: :fro: you have taking that jump??? thats not a jump!!!!!!!!!!look at that picture,,i thought i was not going to say any more but you guyz are blowing :laughoff::laughoff:

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    RHINO QUEEN, that jump was biggg, but thats what they build roll cages for. That cage should not have brooken at every weld. Why do you think they are doing an investigation on it right now?????????

    sandrail crash

    in Dumont Happenings

    Posted

    amen

    Well guys Its me again. After a miserable weekend for me (nothing but sh*t a$$ luck on my new rail) I have to say that it could have been worse. After seeing that crash with those 2 poor unlucky souls all I can think about is SAFETY. I am truly sorry for what happenened to my fellow duners and all love goes out to the families .

    After close inspections of that rail I would like to personally question the fabricator of that frame, Every body is mourning right now, but lets state the facts, that rail was not going as fast as every body i s saying, no way because I was there maybe 25ft jump at most. I have personally taken that jump as fast as speed would allow and the most air I ever got was 25ft. I have been in 3 crashes, Includining a 125 ft heads over heal jump with 3 people in my car and walked away with a broken lip.

    My personel opinion might not make a difference to anybody, but after the ownining 4 rails and 4 crashes

    (yeagh,yeagh,yeagh, that was in my younger days) there is now way that rail should have folded like that.

    Everybody is saying that the rail was built stout, Well how many of you guys that are claiming that have had any experience with rails , or ever owned one????? I say let the builder come on this board and explain to me and every body else it was designened an engineered.

    The AzzHoles

    in Dumont Regulations, Safety & BLM

    Posted

    I got no prob getting along with others. just that a 2200 lb car can get out of hand real easy and be in some budys camp real fast and than there will be a big problem. this pic is of the car just after the run he made could not get my camera quick enuff to get him roosting by camp

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    By the way I was the one that stopped and asked if you where ok when you were putting your fan belt back on

    HEY Barney RUBBLE where are these imagnatary wheelies and roost pictures you are complaining about

    it are. You sure have a nice picture of my brand new rail getting out of the trailer. Where is your immaginaniry picture of me roosting you aaaaaaaat??????

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