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Old Jun 18, 2006 | 10:59 AM
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Was out last weekend prarie ******* out in the ND badlands. Many of the towns wehunted you had to use trails to get to and withthe 2 days of rain they had before we got there they were a bit slick. I tell you that clay they have out there just cakes to your tires immeditately. Never got stuck but controll in this stuff was near impossible. Comming out of one town we were sliding down the hill at a 45 deg. angle till the ruts caught us and straightened us out. Not a fun place for muddin.

Wasn't able to get any good picts as noone would get out and walk through the stuff to take a pict for me. After photo's weren't great, stuff is so heavy it woun't fly up good just cakes badly on the runningboards and underbody, (me and my boy spent an hour just breaking off chunks so I could wash it).
 

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Old Jun 18, 2006 | 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by JollyWhiteGiant
Was out last weekend prarie ******* out in the ND badlands. Many of the towns wehunted you had to use trails to get to and withthe 2 days of rain they had before we got there they were a bit slick. I tell you that clay they have out there just cakes to your tires immeditately. Never got stuck but controll in this stuff was near impossible. Comming out of one town we were sliding down the hill at a 45 deg. angle till the ruts caught us and straightened us out. Not a fun place for muddin.

Wasn't able to get any picts as noone would get out and walk through the stuff to take a pict for me. After photo's weren't great, stuff is so heavy it woun't fly up good just cakes badly on the runningboards and underbody, (me and my boy spent an hour just breaking off chunks so I could wash it).
They have that out here in the mountains, it's rediculous. I hate clay as there is almost nothing you can do to control unless you're running deep treaded MT's (even then it's sketchy). I went up a hill this winter with wet clay...well I didn't make it up half the hill and the Jeep on MT's I was with couldn't either, on the way down we just slid into the ruts as our only way of controlling our direction. I plan to go back to that same hill this winter and try it with the Mud Grapplers I'm running now, I still don't expect much. I wish you would have taken pics, threads won't get many replies without them.
 
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 11:19 AM
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Here are theafter picts. Stuff didn't fly up very well but you can see how badly it caked in the wheel wells.



Here is a good use for the bed of a truck. Wife is 4 months pregnant so laying on the ground for hours wasn't too apealing to her.
 
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