Winter Romp Forum

[Ren Ching]

Yes, it is that time of year again.

This year Bruce asked if we could install a web forum to better organize,
discuss and post photos. This has been installed.

http://www.winterromp.org/phpBB3/index.php

For those that want to join the forum, go and create an account.
All accounts must be approved by an admin before they are active to keep out spammers.
Guest accounts can read any article, but to post you have to have an approved account.

Enjoy, and see you all in Feb. in the frozen North.

Cheers
Dave

[cgalpin]

If anyone from Maine is going to the romp, and could bring some parts from ECR to the romp, please let me know. It should be 2 half doors and few odds and ends.

thanks,
charles

[dmarchand]

Charles, I may know someone coming from that area. Let me check and get back to you.

[KevinNY]

1 to 2 feet of additional snow for Maine today!

[cgalpin]

Thanks David!

[EWR]

If anyone from Maine is going to the romp, and could bring some parts from ECR to the romp, please let me know. It should be 2 half doors and few odds and ends.

thanks,
charles

Hey Charles, I happen to work at that hack shop, and I should be at the Romp on Sunday,... let me know.
Carey

[ini88]

1 to 2 feet of additional snow for Maine today!If the snow continues to come down for the next couple of weeks it is going to be ridiculous up there.

[cgalpin]

Hey Charles, I happen to work at that hack shop, and I should be at the Romp on Sunday,... let me know.
Carey
Oh Sweet! Mike says they are at the old Warren shop, is that going to be ok?

Hack shop. ROFL

thanks,
charles

[EWR]

Sure, I'll ask him tomorrow. I might even be at the Romp on Sat. now as well.

[Fivespddisco]

Will I be able to get a RWD F250 with the Disco on a trailer up there ???

[KevinNY]

No problem, leave the rig and trailer at the Holiday Inn. They have a huge rear lot that lots of people leave their tow rigs in.
You join our little caravan if you keep it to 65 Justin.

[ron]

Dan a few people may be breaking trail friday day. see you there

[ini88]

Dan a few people may be breaking trail friday day. see you thereRon, i'm going to try to take friday off and head up. Eric, Ben and Cristina are going and I got Jorge and Fernando to drive up too. Sadly Ryan, Jarek and Barb can't make it. Might be a sober trip!

[grnthng]

I am also heading up to Maine, maybe I will find you guys along the way or maybe you''ll be way ahead of me!

[jimmy salmon]

Ron, i'm going to try to take friday off and head up. Eric, Ben and Cristina are going and I got Jorge and Fernando to drive up too. Sadly Ryan, Jarek and Barb can't make it. Might be a sober trip!Won't be a SOBER trip, I'm going :-)

[ron]

dan sounds good I will look for you guys.

jimmy is owen flying over ? If not you may have to drive your truck : )

[brn24whl]

Luis
When are you heading up?

Eric

[jimmy salmon]

dan sounds good I will look for you guys.

jimmy is owen flying over ? If not you may have to drive your truck : )Owen's not coming so i might not have any brakeages this year. Need a warm day, got to swap a U/J and fix the Lockers before the 13th. Going up early Friday.

[ron]

im heading up early also. want to break some trail maybe give the stock trucks a chance to make it
: ) im not sure my locker is working 3 rd low and boot it

[Fivespddisco]

No problem, leave the rig and trailer at the Holiday Inn. They have a huge rear lot that lots of people leave their tow rigs in.
You join our little caravan if you keep it to 65 Justin.

When are you heading north? Im leaving around 7 am puts me around mass 1-2 ish

[phoenix37]

What tire sizes are you guys all running? I keep hearing if you have less than 35's you are going to have trouble with snow this deep.

[grnthng]

Luis
When are you heading up?

Eric
Eric, I have to call you today, I need a few things from you !

[Ren Ching]

trouble is where the fun is. lots of stock trucks on 32's out there having fun. Snow chains help ALOT.

What tire sizes are you guys all running? I keep hearing if you have less than 35's you are going to have trouble with snow this deep.

[dmarchand]

What tire sizes are you guys all running? I keep hearing if you have less than 35's you are going to have trouble with snow this deep.

No. Problem is, you could be running 37's and have issues. Just depends on the trail, the conditions of the trail, etc. Unless you want to break trail, you should do fine. The only drawback to the deep snow is the amount of waiting you may do while the trucks in the front break trail. But a number of folks are organizing to get out there Friday and open things up.

Follow-up Post:

You should ask yourself if you can handle 3 slices of french toast at Big G's....

http://www.jamilabbasy.com/galleries/off-road/winter_romp_2007/HTML/img_7493_std_std.jpg

[Fivespddisco]

I will leave the truck on the trailer and just hang at big Gs

[KevinNY]

I'll probably be heading out ahead of you Justin. I like to get there before dusk and give my bleeding ears a little break before the night run.

[ini88]

You should ask yourself if you can handle 3 slices of french toast at Big G's....

http://www.jamilabbasy.com/galleries/off-road/winter_romp_2007/HTML/img_7493_std_std.jpgThis is very true! The snow is just a minor inconvenience. The real problem is fitting in time to eat your left overs from the doggy bag you took away from Big G's the first day

[TDI Guy]

Dave, is that a Big G's Coma you are in? I plan on this trip next year for sure.

Randy

[dmarchand]

Definitely Randy. Pretty bad picture. But the french toast is nearly the width of my torso.

[dmarchand]

Chevy on 42's breaking trail today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzU6uNjmpkE

[phoenix37]

Chevy on 42's breaking trail today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzU6uNjmpkEI didnt know that you would let Chevy's break trail! Im happy to trailer up my 46' Chevy pickup on 38.5 Super Swampers to help break trail also.

[130Tdi]

that thing looks like it should be the tow vehicle for your defender

[phoenix37]

Doug if it wasnt geared so low it would be!

[dmarchand]

Not many rovers on 38-42's. So somebody has to do it.

[phoenix37]

Like i said im happy to help. Im just about an hour away and can come up early on Friday just say the word.

[Fivespddisco]

Its a heart warming -7 here I cant wait to get to Maine so I can warm up to your -6 :)

[ron]

John, I dont see why you wouldnt be welcome to break trail, the more the merrier.
i will be leaving MA about 12:00 with a small caravan of LR'sme in white rhino, scott in my old P38 (black Rhino : )) and Paul with his d90.
I am going to see when jimmy and scott are leaving.

[jimmy salmon]

As its stands we will be leaving around 9am

[ron]

ok jimmy see you on the trail.

[cellulararrest]

I'm not making it this year. Enjoy.

[ron]

chris no way i need a good photgrapher.

[cellulararrest]

I know that was great last year! Sorry, I'll be there next year. I'm sure between Brenda, Paul, and Jamil you'll end up with some good stuff :)

[dmarchand]

Jimmy, we'll probably see you on the road. We are leaving the NH liquor store on 495 at 9:30 with a group of 4 trucks. KB, Court and a jeep.

Likely we'll be on channel 10.

[jimmy salmon]

Dave, We are leaving Scott's place at 9, takes about an hour to get to Portsmouth NH, so might just see you.

[jimmy salmon]

Pictures Brenda took at the 09 Winter Romp.
Had a great weekend. Got to go back next weekend to drag my truck back. Throw out bearing is not throwing out.
http://www.salmons-leap.com/rovering/v/Winter+Romp+2009/slideshow.html

[phoenix37]

Great pics. I think Bruce has a few trucks sitting in his yard right now that need to get recovered. Anybody get thru the water hole without winching? I sat that one out.

[pmd]

Jimmy - great pics - I need to look into a hosting site like that...

Here's a link to my pics. http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o197/pmd5/Winter%20Romp%202009/

We ran in a small group (3) Friday night and Saturday morning - then meet up w/ the NJ/NY guys on Saturday afternoon/night.

We broke a lot of trail on Friday night and Saturday morning - including the water hole Friday night.
Saturday night was a winch fest at the swamp.

Not much carnage - Ron tore a brake line and had a flat on the way home - he can explain.
Weather was great.

[jimmy salmon]

Paul, Ron wanted me to call when we got to the trails on Saturday but i wasn't getting service on my phone all day. We must have been crossing paths all day, glad you had a great time.
Sunday my throw out bearing got stuck in and the clutch was slipping bad. Took it back to Bruces and took the slave cylinder out and couldn't move the arm. Was hoping to release it and just drive home grating the gears, it is solid. Going back Saturday to trailer it home. What a dickhead i trailered it last year and had nothing wrong.

[ini88]

What a good time. We had a good time with Ron and Paul in the swamp. Took us about 4 hours to go half a mile.

Eric was leading us through the swamp when his winch line broke (not good for the leader). We tried to get him out with the hi-lift, shovels, logs, pushing, but nothing worked. So we tied the winch line in a knot through the fairlead and wound it up on itself. that worked and we got another 10 feet. it was like this the whole way up the swamp.

The next morning the water, mud and everything else froze my rear wheels to the axle. I was driving around the parking lot with my rear wheels locked up! it looked so bizarre.

Will post photos and video soon.

[pmd]

Here's two pictures of Eric's winch line - first one is showing the knot and the second showing it breaking the second time.

[cellulararrest]

The next morning the water, mud and everything else froze my rear wheels to the axle. I was driving around the parking lot with my rear wheels locked up! it looked so bizarre.
WOW. I've never had it THAT bad.

[bharris]

what kind of knot is that you guys tried?? It doesn't look like the double figure 8 I assume you should have used... I'm guessing it put a stress point on the line resulting in the second break. Did you end up blocking it to cut the stress down?

Sounds like you guys had a fun time anyway ;-)

[ini88]

what kind of knot is that you guys tried?? It doesn't look like the double figure 8 I assume you should have used... I'm guessing it put a stress point on the line resulting in the second break. Did you end up blocking it to cut the stress down?

Sounds like you guys had a fun time anyway ;-)

can't remember the first couple of knots. but then we did a double 8 inside the fairlead to the winch and wraped the line over the 8 once or twice. held it down nice and worked the rest of the 10 or so winch times after that. :)

[GYM]

Pictures Brenda took at the 09 Winter Romp.
I sure enjoy looking at the pictures/albums you post of various off road escapdes, Jimmy. Thanks.

Does the LE in the Romp pics belong to a member here?

[ini88]

yeah, it was really weird feeling. looked like a dog with two broke legs. i had to put it in low gear to keep it going. 1st high wasn't having it.

WOW. I've never had it THAT bad.

[jimmy salmon]

I think he is a member here, he lives in NH about an hour from me.
goes under the name mudbug on SNHLR forum. His brother also has a 90 who is a member here but can't think what name he goes under, he lives in NY city.

I sure enjoy looking at the pictures/albums you post of various off road escapdes, Jimmy. Thanks.

Does the LE in the Romp pics belong to a member here?

[Fivespddisco]

I have about a 100 extra winter romp stickers. If you want some shoot me an email Justin@Lucky8LLC.com I wanted to bring them to breakfast on sunday But Rover Dogs head hurt from going out drinking with VTXS on saturday night

[dmarchand]

You need to blame that on the Bob Inn and Chez Paris....

:)

It was great to meet you and Gavin.

[phoenix37]

couple quick clips for you guys. the second one is a disco on 38 swampers. Snapped both axles on this attempt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCkEFBNQrio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8WVwpEafeo

[Ren Ching]

hey justin, thanks for the beer!

I have about a 100 extra winter romp stickers. If you want some shoot me an email Justin@Lucky8LLC.com I wanted to bring them to breakfast on sunday But Rover Dogs head hurt from going out drinking with VTXS on saturday night

[Fivespddisco]

You need to blame that on the Bob Inn and Chez Paris....

:)

It was great to meet you and Gavin.

Chez Paris
:confused We where gone so fast I dont think i counts.
A great time had by all.

Follow-up Post:

hey justin, thanks for the beer!


The pleasure was all mine. :toast

[Fivespddisco]

My winter romp review

http://lucky8llc.blogspot.com

Enjoy

[130Tdi]

Rover Dog eats well. I took mine wheeling a couple of weeks ago and after about an hour getting thrown around the back of the 110 he was terrified. Those Winter romp stocking caps look cool.
Cheers