Finally putting my winch to use

[jazngab]

Sunday wheeling at Brendan Byrne forest in NJ. Had a fairly large group of 8 rigs. All Rubicon’s of JL and JK variety, some built, some stock, and one Land Rover Discovery. I was the only TJ.

Not even 15 minutes into the trails, I partially drove over an ice patch I didn’t see and my driver side rear wheel bottomed out. It took quite a bit of winching to get out. Stupid me had the parking brake on for a couple tries before I smelled my drum brakes burning up. First time using my winch for a self recovery. Other than that it was an light day of easy trail riding, off camber hills and some climbs, although it was pretty damn cold out. We did have to recover an XJ that was there solo. Couple of kids that got high centered on a mountain of dirt. Started to snow halfway through which made for some cool pics. One of the guys had a drone and took some nice aerial photos.

 

[jazngab]

 

[TWiG01]

Looks like a fun day. That’s not too far from me. I grew up in Shamong (Wharton state forest) only about 20 minutes from Brendan Byrne

 

[jazngab]

Looks like a fun day. That’s not too far from me. I grew up in Shamong (Wharton state forest) only about 20 minutes from Brendan Byrne

It’s only about an hr from me (45 miles). Its an easy drive. It’s the closest off roading for a bunch of us from PA. RC and AOAA are about 2 hrs (100 miles) from me.

 

[WSS]

Very cool pics! Looks like everyone was prepared and had a good run.

 

[Chris]

Great pics indeed!

 

[Westtown Willy]

my winch has been far more beneficial to others as well, the self-recoveries have been pretty rare. The rig looks great man, I like the choices you've made a lot, very clean & purposeful.

Now, give that thing a bath

 

[Vasq]

That looks like a ton of fun.

The video doesn't work for me, I only get audio (just FYI, could be on my end).

 

[jazngab]

my winch has been far more beneficial to others as well, the self-recoveries have been pretty rare. The rig looks great man, I like the choices you've made a lot, very clean & purposeful.

Now, give that thing a bath

Thanks Marc. Its killing me that its sitting in the garage absolutely filthy.

As for the mods, all my choices have always been to improve performance or function without disturbing too much of the classic TJ appearance. The problem now is I'm running out of things to modify.

 

[jazngab]

That looks like a ton of fun.

The video doesn't work for me, I only get audio (just FYI, could be on my end).

Hmm it works on my phone but not on my desktop...