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From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 1991 ranger brake problem
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"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vh0otb$1r6ir$1@dont-email.me...

A Bulgarian designer I have worked with perhaps said it best.  "The more
off road capable is your truck the further you must walk to find a
tractor."

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Well said.

My interest was exploring the back country, not tearing it up, the tread 
lightly ethic, so unlike my buddy with the Land Rover I didn't have to climb 
the steepest hills just to prove I could. That was the hold-my-beer episode, 
letting others feel superior for useless stunts doesn't bother me. Highway 
performance was important for me, to get to the mountains an hour or more 
away.

At the time I bought the Ranger a work friend from India used his engineer's 
paycheck to satisfy his long-time yearning for a Jeep, so we rode around in 
both. Though I didn't say so I felt that the 4WD Ranger was a much better 
choice for mainly half hour daily commuting with a little relatively mild 
exploring. With the 7 foot bed it was excellent for collecting firewood 
because it could access untouched areas where wider full-sized pickups 
hadn't. I used the winch to pull logs to the trail but never needed it to 
extricate the truck. After I had collected all the dead wood the truck could 
reach I switched to the narrower garden tractor and trailer. By then kids 
had discovered and torn up the trails such that in spring the low areas 
became mud pits I needed the winch to pass through.

The Ice Age melt filled in sand and gravel between the rocks and we don't 
have a bare boulder-strewn Rubicon to challenge us, only power line access 
roads and old dirt trails a horse and wagon could handle. The trail system 
here is very extensive but mostly suited to and maintained for snowmobiles 
which aren't so good on boulders or steep slopes, I found I could climb 
straight up a steeper grade than they could on properly waxed cross-country 
skis, and cross a filled-in gully they would sink into. The snowmobilers 
have built trail bridges across streams that would be too dangerous to cross 
on ice that running water kept from solidly freezing. Winter snow really 
opens up the woods to travel by freezing swamps and covering rocks and 
fallen trees that block trails in summer.