Anyone know any of the heavy equipment operators who worked after Hillary?  I sure would like to buy them a beer or a bottle or lunch.  I mean these guys were like - You wanna get a 1977 Pinto up to the Moorehouse Mine?  I got you bruh. LOL.  I almost forgot my Jeep had 4wd while rolling around the entire Ibex area.  Telephone Canyon and Lemogine Canyon's were also in great shape when we visited post Hillary.  If they use the same crew on Titus you'll be able to get a 1997 mini van through.

I know it’s not the same crew that did the canyons off West Side Rd. They had a big too much float on their blade and created a whoopty surface that had my truck bouncing like a pogo stick if I was over like 6mph.

WSR itself however was incredibly nice.

(2025-01-28, 03:58 PM)Beardilocks Wrote: I know it’s not the same crew that did the canyons off West Side Rd.  They had a big too much float on their blade and created a whoopty surface that had my truck bouncing like a pogo stick if I was over like 6mph. 

WSR itself however was incredibly nice.

Stop trying 6. Try 60.  Mythbusters showed us this was the way.  Full send.

Loved that episode. Test washboard with a champagne flute pyramid? Of course you do!

This is like washboard but like 18” wide and 3ft apart. Quite the amplitude!

Someone on the old forum (I can't remember who) once said something along the lines that the washboard smoothes out at about 5mph above the speed at which you lose control over the vehicle.

(2025-01-28, 09:19 PM)Kauri Wrote: Someone on the old forum (I can't remember who) once said something along the lines that the washboard smoothes out at about 5mph above the speed at which you lose control over the vehicle.

That's because the washboard rattles out all the bolts and screws holding your vehicle together, your vehicle disintigrates and you end up in the middle of the Saline Valley road seatbelted to your driver seat out in the open and in the middle of the road ...   Ask me how I know ... 

I don't recall the dynamics and physics, but it is my understanding that speed causes and worsens washboard. In my experience, when I go slow, less than 10 mph, even in 4WD, my compact 4x4 trucks skittered about and could not be held in a straight line. Oddly, my full size 4x4 trucks didn't suffer this. I assume wheel base and track may be a factor. When I go fast, waggy dynamics persist and worsen with increased speed, my nerves fray and hardware falls out from under the dashboard, even on my Tacoma.

After a Hunter Mountain / Racetrack / Lippincott and south Saline Valley run one day in 2008, a substantial bolt fell out from under the dash near the steering column in the dark and fell on my throttle foot (in Saline I changed into shorts and sandals) while climbing South Pass; thereafter I had a persistent dashboard buzz near the base of the windshield.

(2025-01-28, 09:41 PM)DAW89446 Wrote: I don't recall the dynamics and physics, but it is my understanding that speed causes and worsens washboard. 

I think I saw a youtube video once where the guys claimed the only way to prevent washboards from forming in the first place is to keep all vehicle speeds under ~3 mph.  Anything above that and they'll form eventually.   I think the same video said that you can lower your tire pressure so that the tire contact surface spans the width of the washboard and that makes them barely perceptible.  I don't know about the feasibility of that, but lowering tire pressure does make them much more tolerable.

Yes, lower tire pressure certainly helps soften the ride, not as jarring.

My closest neighbor lives about 2/3rds of a mile away and often runs our common dirt road at 45 mph or greater. My land is at the junction with a narrow but paved county road, and fortunately my gate is 250’ from the junction. Needless to say, there are some killer washboards between my property and his. He owns a tractor with a box scraper and occasionally drags the road; the county grades it annually. He gets a lot of UPS and Fed Ex deliveries and they fly down the road also. When I drive the road between my place and his, it’s often intolerable in either my 4Runner or Outback at ~5 mph. He has a late model GMC Sierra and Yukon, and I can hear either rattle and squeak most of the distance between us as he or his wife come my way to access the roads to town.

(2025-01-28, 05:16 PM)VintageDUG Wrote:

(2025-01-28, 03:58 PM)Beardilocks Wrote: I know it’s not the same crew that did the canyons off West Side Rd.  They had a big too much float on their blade and created a whoopty surface that had my truck bouncing like a pogo stick if I was over like 6mph. 

WSR itself however was incredibly nice.

Stop trying 6. Try 60.  Mythbusters showed us this was the way.  Full send.

how do I search for this episode?

(2025-01-29, 09:05 PM)Daymoth Wrote:

(2025-01-28, 05:16 PM)VintageDUG Wrote:

(2025-01-28, 03:58 PM)Beardilocks Wrote: I know it’s not the same crew that did the canyons off West Side Rd.  They had a big too much float on their blade and created a whoopty surface that had my truck bouncing like a pogo stick if I was over like 6mph. 

WSR itself however was incredibly nice.

Stop trying 6. Try 60.  Mythbusters showed us this was the way.  Full send.

how do I search for this episode?

Looks like it's episode 58 "Shattering Subwoofer"

https://watch.plex.tv/show/mythbusters/s...episode/15