| . 1 . 2 . >> |
| Author |
Message |
Cooks Dock
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Oct 2012 09:29pm
Reply
Just bought my second Jeep. This one is a Wrangler, had a Cherokee before, amongst others. I actually got rid of my Yamaha quad to buy the Jeep. What gets you to and from paradise?
|
|
Borrego
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Oct 2012 10:16pm
Reply
Wife and I have 3 vehicles: My '03 jeep Wrangler and '00 Chevy Silverado, plus her '06 Jeep Liberty. So it depends on what we're doing....since we're in the process of building right now, most trips involve materials and supplies, so it's the Chevy. Occasionally we don't need the truck, but still have to work, so then it's her Liberty. Then when it's time for desert 4 wheelin', out goes the Wrangler... pretty good combo for us!
|
|
toyota_mdt_tech
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Oct 2012 11:34pm
Reply
2010 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Long Bed 4WD Cummins Diesel 6 spd manual shifter. Hauls my enclosed 16 foot trailer, and anything I take to work on the cabin. Hauled it all, and with ease.
Wife drives a 4WD Toyota Highlander. Also have a Corolla and a Tercel. Corolla is my commuter, Tercel is the wifes commuter.
I just sold my Tacoma 4WD, sold my 98 Chev K1500 and sold my 92 Chev C2500 diesel.
Down to just 4 vehicles now. Had 7 for a little while. It was nuts shuffling things around to get access to one or another.
I also have a 2002 Kawasaki KLR650 dual sport. That would be fun to zip over to the cabin. But it wouldnt haul my Honda gennie, so no go! 
|
|
TheCabinCalls
Member
|
# Posted: 25 Oct 2012 09:00am
Reply
Sold our Jeep YJ when we had number 2 and it sat more and more.
Now we have a Caravan. I know it sounds lame, but listen to all we have hauled:
- canoe, jon boat
- 4x8 sheets of drywall and osb with hatch closed
- dishwasher, mircowave, range and two car seats
- fridge, two car seats, dolly and side chair
- our entire kitchen full of cabinets from states away
- 54 bags of mulch
- 26 rolls of R-30 batt insulation
- 4 boxes of 12' siding (ran them up to the windshield)
- lots of lumber up to 16'
- queen mattress
- all the furniture in our cabin
|
|
bobbotron
Member
|
# Posted: 25 Oct 2012 10:11am
Reply
I have a 2005 Subaru forester. Great little SUV, tows trailers, goes soft roading great, tears up the dirt roads near our place and is fun on the road.
|
|
silverwaterlady
Member
|
# Posted: 25 Oct 2012 10:30am - Edited by: silverwaterlady
Reply
I love my mini van. I bought it new in 1996 and still drive it. We take our Ford F 150 4x4 Crew Cab up to the cabin. I spend most of my time driving a Freightliner.
Just got my million mile safe driver award!
| 
The trusty mini van
| 
Moose guard on the Ford
|  |
|
|
trollbridge
Member
|
# Posted: 25 Oct 2012 10:30am
Reply
Quoting: TheCabinCalls Now we have a Caravan. I know it sounds lame, but listen to all we have hauled:
LOL!!! I know...like it or not the mini vans are just so darn versatile that once ya own one it is hard to justify buying anything else!!!!
My van has 196,000 miles on it and it just keeps going-seating for all the grandkids carseats plus us-that amazing automatic sliding side doors makes it so convenient and the ease at which the seats either fold forward or pop out completely is awesome!
We also have hauled A TON of stuff to our cabin or even around town...oh and those little side venting windows in the back...they make a great place for extra long lumber to stick out 
Mr. Troll drives a full size passenger van for work-we always have the passenger vans because then we can have enough seating in them when we need it and he likes the visibility out the side windows. Same deal...for work just the two front seats-if we take his van up north then we pop in a bench seat and still have tons of space for hauling everything we need to-if we want to avoid pulling a trailer we even stick the riding lawn tractor or the 4 wheeler in the back!
|
|
cabingal3
Member
|
# Posted: 25 Oct 2012 11:33am
Reply
jeep...
|
|
|
CabinBuilder
Admin
|
# Posted: 25 Oct 2012 11:48am
Reply
FYI - similar thread: What vehicles do you use to get to your property?
|
|
Anonymous
|
# Posted: 25 Oct 2012 01:55pm
Reply
<I love my mini van. I bought it new in 1996 and still drive it. We take our Ford F 150 4x4 Crew Cab up to the cabin. I spend most of my time driving a Freightliner.>
Congrats on ur million mile award silverwaterlady. Do u drive for Schneider?
|
|
hitanktank
Member
|
# Posted: 4 Nov 2012 08:36pm
Reply
my parents up the wall
|
|
trollbridge
Member
|
# Posted: 4 Nov 2012 09:03pm
Reply
Quoting: hitanktank my parents up the wall
46 and still driving them up the wall?!?!!! LOL!
|
|
hitanktank
Member
|
# Posted: 5 Nov 2012 12:31am
Reply
oh ya I manage to do it in some form or another, even at this age
|
|
Bevis
Member
|
# Posted: 7 Nov 2012 12:46pm
Reply
97 Jeep Wrangler ( My Toy), Swamp Buggy (for Hunting)
10 F150 my everyday vehicle...then every third day I ride shotgun in an International 4300 Ambulance, if not in my supervisor truck.
|
|
TheWildMan
Member
|
# Posted: 7 Nov 2012 04:26pm
Reply
mongoose paver, tricked out with oversize cargo baskets on the front and back, with a cargo trailer i built out of one oof those childcarrier trailers (removed all but metal frame and axle, installed a cargo bin on it) can haul myself and about 250 lb of cargo, use it to run 24 miles to town and back. my friends say my calves arelike watermellons (legs bulge like popeyes arms)
|
|
Montanagirl
Member
|
# Posted: 8 Nov 2012 12:08pm
Reply
'02 Jeep TJ
'62 Willy's truck
truck.jpg
| 
water20crossing2..jpg
| | |
|
|
neb
Member
|
# Posted: 23 Nov 2012 11:17pm
Reply
TheWildMan
Do you bike the 24 miles each day to work?
|
|
bobrok
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Nov 2012 05:21pm
Reply
I'm giving my '01 Cherokee to my son who needs it and, after a 5-year long argument with myself broke down and bought a new p/u.
2012 Nissan Frontier 4WD; my first truck and I'm sorry I waited this long to get one.
|
|
customrunner
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Nov 2012 06:42pm
Reply
2009 H3
|
|
ErinsMom
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Nov 2012 06:51pm
Reply
have 4runner, tacoma 4 wheel drive and rav. all used.
|
|
neb
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Nov 2012 07:12pm
Reply
Chev Colorado.
|
|
BoatMan
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Nov 2012 07:16pm
Reply
Ford Ranger 2WD long bed. I sleep in the back of it.
|
|
BoatMan
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Nov 2012 07:32pm - Edited by: BoatMan
Reply
"..mongoose paver, tricked out with oversize cargo baskets on the front and back, with a cargo trailer i built out of one oof those childcarrier trailers (removed all but metal frame and axle, installed a cargo bin on it) can haul myself and about 250 lb of cargo, use it to run 24 miles to town and back. my friends say my calves arelike watermellons (legs bulge like popeyes arms).."
Until the end of August I was commuting to work (during decent weather) on a 1973 Schwinn Continental 10-speed with dual folding Wald baskets hung on a steel Wald cargo rack. Since the beginning of Sept. my primary commuter is a Ross Pegasus (essentially a mountain bike fitted with fenders and generator lights and sold in the 80's as a commuter). I added additional LED lights and the folding baskets.
Have not had much time to use it lately but when i want to take my homemade solo canoe down to the river I haul it on a homemade trailer behind a 1974 Continental that apparently was fitted with flat bars by the selling dealer, and which I converted from 10-speed to 15-speed (which was not worth doing).
Cyclists rule.
|
|
Cooks Dock
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Nov 2012 08:40pm
Reply
Sweet rig....what do you get ????? 100mp litre H2O
|
|
BoatMan
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Nov 2012 08:51pm
Reply
It takes something a bit stronger than H20 to fuel this old man these days...
|
|
neb
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Nov 2012 08:59pm - Edited by: neb
Reply
BoatMan
That is a cool rig! What part of the country are you from?
|
|
neb
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Nov 2012 11:11pm
Reply
Montanagirl
That 62 willy should be the ride to church each week! That is a nice machine.
|
|
Montanagirl
Member
|
# Posted: 24 Nov 2012 11:23pm
Reply
Thanks Neb. . . I have to admit. . . it is like having my own parade every time I drive it. LOL
|
|
BoatMan
Member
|
# Posted: 25 Nov 2012 06:37pm
Reply
"...What part of the country are you from?..."
Missouri
|
|
neb
Member
|
# Posted: 25 Nov 2012 06:46pm
Reply
BoatMan
The reason I asked is that I knew it was the Missouri River in the pictures just didn't know what state. Thanks
|
|
| . 1 . 2 . >> |
