We rode here the day before the event. This is a DCNR state forest trail system. The story behind the name is miners would put their bottles of whiskey in the local springs to keep them cold until their shift was over. Part of the trail system is on old strip mines so some areas are barren, others are full forest.

This ride was 64 miles. We have done rides pushing 100+ Her quad will be on reserve by 100 miles. I carried these mainly because I use only non-ethanol gas in the quads and generator. Turns out one gas station in town sells it.

It just adds character to it !!

I just paid $125 for 3 machines, full coverage. I also have not had any incidents and I have been with the same company for years so that explains the rate.

Good morning from the cowboy State 😁 more cows than people

Quad and plow are going to get a workout today!

I have had my new tires for a while, chronic procrastinator, decided it was time to get them mounted up. Against my better judgement i decided to mount them myself. I got one of these Harbour Freight manual tire mounting machines, mounted it to a half pallet to make it more portable. Very impressed with the quality and amount of tools that came in the kit for a low price point. The bead breaker worked very well, i wasnt sure it would be able to do it, i think these tires are original to the bike its a 2004, but with enough lube, mothers concentrated car wash straight, it finally broke the bead. Tire fit very well on the machine and it tightened down good. The extra long pry bar that came with the kit worked well to get the outer rim of tire off. Half way there, half way there no issues, then it got serious. I pulled and i tugged had 3 prybars working this thing and it wouldnt budge no matter what i tried it would not come off, until i got the grinder out and cut it off. Im sure most of you see what the problem was. I didnt notice it until i was too far in to change direction. On this particular rim the tire goes on and off from the back side of the rim, not the front like what i was used to. The back side is the low side. Plus to add to the problem tires were old and not very strechy, i have a greater respect for how well these ATV tires are made with well reinforced sidewalls, even with the grinder it took me a minute or two to cut through it, of couse i was being very careful not to nick the rim. Anyway the HF machine worked well and the tire is off, hopefully the next one wont be this bad. Lot of hard work for an old man, glad i can still do it. Now for the fun part , cleaning up the old rim, years of stop leak and slime caked on the inside, that stuff dries hard, the little Milwaukee is good for getting into tight spaces, but wasnt quite up to the task. Needed a few more RPMs. Old rattlecan paint just flaked right off. Now time to decide on a new color, tired of the boring gray. More to come!

What a nice guy helping the elderly couple.🤩

Its a refrigerator that looks like a cooler but it runs on 12/24 volts. Usually includes a power brick to run it off 120 volts. The one shown here is a small one. It uses a compressor and can even be set as a freezer if needed. This small one is the one I usually keep in the shed on a shelf in the summer to have cold drinks handy when I am working on something. (the shed is like my workshop and where I maintain the quads) Right now I have it powered up because I am going on a trip for a few days and want a few cold ones in the hotel room. These are very power efficient. I have a larger one I take camping and run it off the battery. Uses 3amps when running (at 12 volts) and they are very quiet. I also have a dual-zone one so I can use the small compartment as a freezer for ice packs when we quad ride in the summer to keep the drinks cold during the day.

First round of plowing with the 450 this year. I had an older quad that was used for plowing but was sold this year. Took off the front cargo box to see the plow better and the extra lights are helpful since when the plow is lifted, the headlights are partially blocked.

Afternoon

You will never have enough tools, but the ones you only need once in your lifetimes list gets long. For most tasks you just need a regular socket set metric and a volt meter definately feeler guage, JIS screwdrivers, phillip will mess up the screw head taking it out. If you go to do the brakes the rear axle nut is large, not usually in a standard socket set. I would recommend only buying these specialty tools as you find a need for them.

Lead acid ATV / UTV batteries, whether AGM, SLA or flooded are like car batteries.. They will last years longer if kept on a maintainer when not in use. Letting them sit at less than full charge is the biggest killer of them due to sulfation build up.

It sounds like the clutch is not grabbing what does it do when you give it more throttle make noise or just sit there or go slowly. Its also possible it jumping out of gear, try shifting again and see if it wants to move.

BTW Tie Wraps on high VDC ignition leads are bad. Many times guys will 'hog down' on tie wraps pulling the wire tight to metal (its grounded) housing.

@mehim no nude/barely clothed photos please. I removed them from your last post.

This site lists stations that sell pure gas. (non-ethanol) https://www.pure-gas.org/

Great Morning QC !! Quick 2 hr ride then lunch with wife !!

The old folks knew how to take care of emergency with no Dr. , never heard of the egg thing but a great idea.

Good story, even without the eggs

Good Morning! Beautiful Tuesday after Memorial Day here in MI. Hope everyone had a great weekend! 😎

I know the feeling, just had a bad storm last night, just barely got it cleaned up from the last one, now do it all over again, Tornados hit just a few hrs south complete destruction in a few areas.

Probably beautiful trails send Pictures!

No fuel bowl on fuel injected systems. Normally gas engines use a high pressure fuel pump (40 psi or more) to feed the injectors directly. Carburator fuel pumps run around 7 psi. to fill the fuel bowl. Carbs work on a vacuum system rather than a pressure one. I strongly suspect when it is sitting for a few days the fuel bleeds out of the line,possibly from an unnoticed small leak. If some air can enter the line it could cause an air lock and take a bit to clear. It takes a moment for the fuel to compress the air in the line and build pressure.The injectors only open for the time the control program says it normally needs so it can take several cycles to bleed the air out and actually deliver fuel to the cylinder(s)

Head should be fine unless you see discolored areas from extreme heat, make sure the gasket surfaace is flat and the head fits on with no big gaps if its not perfectly flat you can get some aggresive sandpaper and lay the head on it going back and forth to flatten it back out and replace the gasket do not put gasket sealer on the new head gasket it keeps the head gasket from sealing correctly resulting in failure, maybe not immediately but at some point make sure head bolts aare torqued correctly.

I had 2 more new tires i decided since i was already set up to go ahead and install them on the other machine since the rears were leaking down, tired of airing them up everytime i needed to move it. They were still descent probably just valve core. The first one went fairly easily so im finally getting the hang of this. Then i got to this one. You can see it was damaged from packaging and shipping and warped all the way around. I could not get it to bead on that side i pulled i pryed it up i used starting fluid, way too much, i tried to film it , but couldnt hold the camers, light it and run at the same time, still wouldnt do it. The side walls on these Kenda K299s are so stiff. So itried stretching the bead back into place. After a few ays sitting like this i went through the whole process again.Still no go. Admitting defeat decided to take it to the dealer. I watched 2 guys work on this thing for 30 minutes with very professional equipment and they couldnt get it seat either. Made me feel a little better about my failure, but still didnt have my tire mounted. While i was there waiting looked at some nice machines. It looks like they only have the Brut Force ATV now. Wicked! Very nice ride. I ordered these from a very reputable company, so i contacted them to get a replacement, none available and since i had tried to mount it already they wouldnt take it back and offerd no help whatsoever. I will never order from them again. So trying to decide what to do i ran across a hole in the wall tire place looked like it had been there 100 years. Took it in the nicest gut you ever want to meet, took it right away and i watched him work on it for 30 minutes with fancy equipment plus old school know how and still nothing. Trying to decide which direction to go next i decided to order a tube, i relly dont like messing with tubes plus they are expensive, half the price of the tire. Should be a good tube. Broke the tire back down to install the tube, all that messing around hadnt helped at all. Got the tube in aired it up, max pressure was 35psi i went to 40 still wouldnt completely pop the bead almost there i bounced it up and down i jumped on it i sprayed my yamaha slicky spray would not completly pop i had i/2 inch gap on one side. Let it sit overnight still didnt pop. I aired it up to 45 thought it might blow, still didnt pop. One option i thought of but hadnt tried, i put it in the sun not thinking that would do anything went to check it in 5 minutes and it has poped into place, i immediately aired it down to 30 psi for a while and then down to 20. Still have air 3 days later. Im done mounting tires for a while. What an ordeal! Messed up my freshly painted rim but tires on and rolling, i wouldnt want to go very fast on it because im sure its out of round but will see how it works.

I took this video back in 2007. Recently the trail (old railroad grade) I was riding was converted into a walking trail (obviously no more ATV riding on it) 👎 I dug up this old video and put it together since it shows the entire section and what it used to look like. The quality of the video is lacking, but this was from 18 years ago. Image stabilization didn't exist back then so I wore the camera on my helmet. (mounted to the quad was useless with all the shaking) so there is some annoying frames of me looking around. I noted any historical items from the railroad in the video. There is a section where the railroad grade is wiped out due to erosion so I had to jump off it and ride an abandoned road for a section to get around it.

Interesting, i like to do that also, especially if you find one out in the woods abandoned just to see how old the markers are. I found one next to a creek bank once all the stones were early 1800s lot of history there.

Wet snow, yes, typical for my area. Machine has 4WD so I don't need chains, wheels do not slip. The plow has springs on it so if it does hit something hard, the blade deflects down.

OK.....! I never liked a strap on.

Well on battery disconnects I only open the DCcommon. safety of no com if Bat + is grd to frame accidentally. On a light yes I guess one could use a double pole discinnect but never two individual switches. I don't like chasing open com's.

The preferred method would be a scope. Dvom with peak voltage adapter works fine as well. Resistor, diode, and led in series will also work. Main point is, we find out if the cdi has both input and output signal, hopefully, eliminating that component as the problem. We are hoping for a poor ground or open circuit.

An Old building a distance off an abandoned road. It was actually the "fruit celler" of an old cabin where they stored apples, potatoes etc. Found meat hooks and snakes there. Old ruins

I got the new parking brake caliper...it was loaded. Installing it was farily easy 30minute job after I spent an hour and a half figuring out how to maneuver the caliper into position. The first pic is the Parking brake rotor with caliper installed. Second is old caliper and new. Last is the Rotor before installing new caliper. Adjusting is easy and can be done wuthout jacking Mr Alays ready up...

That's cool! ........... Sorry I could not resist that...LOL

Got on the front brakes yesterday! Interesting find! Crappy mess as i expected! Completely down to metal! The left side was worse, inside shoe was completely gone! Remnants of shoe inside piston. Never seen one this bad , i just ground it back down with the grinder reinstalled and working perfectly, see the remnants of the shoe i dug out of the piston laying on the tire in the background. Had to reinstall it with a c clamp my caliper tool was to large to fit in the tiny caliper.I have new calipers ordered for both sides, but its working good now i suspect the bad one will start leaking. Caliperss are so cheap 25 for set of 2 new caliper is cheaper than piston and seals. I have one more of these Eigers to do, i have the front brakes working with no issues but never pulled the caliper to check it out, rears not working at all, while its fresh on my mind i think i will do it also, plus thats the one i need to mount the new tires on. That will be an interesting venture, i usually take it and have them mounted but the cost has gotten so expensive i decided to do it myself. I bought one of those Harbour Freight portable tire changers cheaper than the cost of getting them mounted, very interested to see how that goes, but that will be another thread.

Gooood Morning Bridge Day 2025 survivors! Over 100,000 people visited WV New River Bridge Day! over 400 free jumpers. Bungy sling shot jumpers (OMG) and parachutist took the 876 foot plunge over the bridge.

There may be other US sites with as good or better deals, but I got my 12v fridge / freezer from Vevor on their Canadian site . Mine came with a 12v power cord to run the fridge and a 120V ac to 12v dc power supply to run the fridge off house current. Here is the link to the Canadian site. https://www.vevor.ca/s/58-qt.-cooler-,-freezer

Hard storage is the way to go looks nicer and cleaner and some come with padding and there are also padding kits available, getting banged around is what its all about just pretend you are ridding a buffalo. Some of the trails i have been on i cant image it being much different.

If you plan on doing a lot of winching, or even just to be "well equipped" for winching, get a couple of "tree saver" straps and a choker cable.- The straps protect trees from damage by the winch cable and are handy for connecting to all sorts of things in a pull. You can use the choker as a short extension when a longer reach is needed or use it to tie the rear of the quad to something when the quad is being dragged by the pull rather than the object you want to move. The "snatch block" on the winch line can be used as you did to change direction the winch pulls, or to double the pulling power of the winch.. By the way, winches are usually rated pulling with a single wrap on the drum, not by whether the snatch block is used.. As each wrap loads on the drum the pulling power reduces.. A winch rated 3500 # at one wrap may only pull 500# on the last wrap of a full drum. One last thin I can think of is for those that may need to winch when there is nothing to pull against. 2 or preferably 3, 3ft. iron stakes either solid or pipe can be driven into the ground at an angle and tied together in series top to bottom. The winch line is connected to the bottom of the first stake to pull against. The other 2 stakes are used to keep the first from being pulled forward and out while the in ground part of the first stake provides the anchor for the pull. RT%he firmer the ground , the heavier load the stake will handle.

Most motorcycle starters draw over twenty amps for the first few seconds. It's the armature that pulls all the amps. The relay coil (starter solenoid) is only 5 amps or less .. maxbeg did very well

I did prepare for that possibility of needing fuel. There is a small town called Germania which used to sell gas but had to stop because the fuel tanks went bad. They just got a grant to replace them. They also sell wheel cheese which is excellent. We made it round trip without re-fueling but Michelle's quad was low on fuel and the gauge was blinking. She still had reserve fuel if needed. Since this was the first trip with my new quad I was not sure how far I could go with it since the motor is bigger then my old quad so I attached these two gallon rotopax just in case. I added chains to the lid of my cargo box so the weight of the fuel doesn't flex the lid.

great...wires different color? You found it

Always glad to hear vintage motorcycle storys i have had the bug ever since my first, 1962 Sears Allstate Moped, ithink i was 9, most fun i ever had, i cant count how many times i peddled that POS home, after that i graduated to hondas, i think i was around 14 i traded 25 8 track tapes for a CL90 and rebuilt it completely. I currently have about 15.

Hard working Grizzly with lots of issues, barely made it off the trailer (and only in reverse)!

Back in 2017 Arctic Cat was sold to Textron. They kept the Arctic Cat name on the snowmobiles, but changed them to Textron for the ATV's it was a disaster. They also shuddered most of the dealers since their intention was to sell machines through big box retailers instead. Finally realizing their mistake, they changed the name back to Arctic Cat in 2020. Tracker machines are also made by Textron, this is why you will see parts cross between the machines. Prior to the 2017 sale, the smaller ATV's up to the 400's used some Kymco parts. The engines were Kymco design and the smaller machines were almost rebranded Kymco;'s My girl had a 2010 366 machine and a lot of the parts cross referenced to a Kymco MXU 350. Presently she has a 2017 Alterra 400 which looks different, but remove the plastics and it is nearly identical to the 366. Fast forward to 2025, Arctic Cat was sold again, back to the original owner and his plans are to bring the brand back to its roots. This is why 2025 models have been delayed. I recently picked up a brand new leftover 2023 Alterra 600 LTD which is a re-designed machine compared to my older 2012 450. (got a good price for it) The ATV is very different as far as the build. So far it runs well but I have a bit to learn for servicing it. Mike

Goood Morning Dog Days! Wow it is the middle of the heat of Dog Days…OMG. Back home they have gone from Dandelion greens and asparagus just a few weeks ago to now fresh Half Runner green beans, corn on the cob, zucchini, onions, and strawberries. Get out the canner. Snapping beans all morning under the shade tree, Home made ice cream on Sunday after church and sleeping next to an open window at night to stay cool. Chicken at every meal as we had to eat the old chickens as the new White Rock layers were starting to lay eggs. I hated plucking old chickens, but I loved the egg yokes, liver and hearts floating in the gravy. Ten (10) gallon crocks of sauerkraut stinking up the house. Check the moon signs before making kraut or cutting your nails. And the kids are picking Blackberries along the fence row, Watch out for copperheads as they are blind during Dog Days and will strike at anything that moves. BTW Dog Days is a remnant tradition of the Holy Roman Empire.

Good Morning and Buenos Dios San Juan My hotel was in the "Tourist Compound area " ...OMG but close by the Cock Fight Bar. Definitely a Testosterone guy thing; but What a blast ! I was working but had time to have fun. Check out the Rainforest ATV guided tours...

GOOOOOD MOrning Valley of Fire Nevada! Leave the gambling behind and do something you can win at. (I don't gamble. Life is risky enough) Head north on US 15 a few miles to the State Park Valley of Fire.. A lot of history there. Prehistoric cave drawings. I hiked it but ATV's have great tours.

Tartanpion was looking at a Black powder revolver....herewith is a pic of my Pietta. It has been shot a lot because it is a lot of fun . I use the powder flask with a calibrated spout for pistol loading. The cap holder is handy as the nipples on the Pietta are recessed of course. This reproduction is a Navy Revolver, the 'New Navy Revolver has a frame that covers the cylinder on the top. My under standing I'm not an expert. Just hang out with the guys at the range and listen...LOL There is a ball extractor shown ...I never use that. Air compressor will take a ball out... But Damn, be careful that ball will shoot out and dent Granma's freezer in the garage.