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Well shoot, you should have sent a message. I could have brought Goliath and helped recover. Goliath has the Self Recovery Winch and I’ve got lots of extra toys that I’ve added to the inventory for recoveries. Good on you for self extricating!

Lake Lahontan, east of Reno and Carson City, has become so full that the beaches have disappeared. Which forces people to try to skirt the lake in deep soft powder-like sand. My M1081, “Goliath”, has no problems with those conditions, and so yesterday did my first recovery of the year. An “4wd”...

Thx to fly fish trailer, my girlfriend and I had a great drive through western Nevada, including a stop for lunch in Genoa, and the new trailer pulled like a dream. Finding parking was tricky…

Today I took a seven hour drive through mountains and desert of North-Central Nevada. Went through Carrol's Summit east of Fallon, then back south through Dixie Valley, part of the Navy weapons range out here. Lots of parked vehicles that pilots are supposed to find and identify. I know of at...

Pics coming soon - but several days ago helped my local Sheriff Office recover an old pickup truck from a former open mine/now lake. Pickup truck had been shot up significantly, and Sheriff was concerned it was part of a criminal case. I needed all 300+' of my SRW and extra straps to get down...

Today was a beautiful day in northwest Nevada. First open day at Lake Lahontan State Park, a local reservoir used by boaters, fishermen, picnickers, sunbathers. Churchill County Search and Rescue, of which I am a member, spent the day patrolling the beach, assisting Park Rangers, and helping out...

Nevada Day Parade 2019, Carson City Everybody loves a parade, amiright? The Military Vehicle Preservation Society here in Western Nevada participated in the Nevada Day Parade in Carson City on Saturday. My LMTV was the largest vehicle in the MVPA section, and almost the newest. Was an excellent...

Coincidental with my little burg of Fallon, NV having a 9/11 memorial event yesterday, an unnamed alternative to SS (no names but the initials are MVPA) was holding a cross-country expedition. The expedition was the 100th anniversary of a military cross-country drive in 1919. About 50 mil...

One of the branches twisted open an air tank drain petcock. I could hear the air leak and pressure was slowly dropping on the gauge. Realized there was a leak, I was worried I'd ripped open a CTIS line. But was just the petcock. Quick and easy to find and fix.

Heh. You can bust through trees and do some pretty impressive dirt embankments in an LMTV. A modified Suzuki Samurai had just blitzed down the embankment, through the trees and back up to the road. Goliath (M1081) just bulldozed through them. At the end of the video, you hear an air leak and I'm...

I can confirm from experience, you can get an LMTV stuck in snow. During the March blizzard in Colorado, I got my M1081 stuck twice. First time I tried to punch through three feet of snow drift. It was well-packed and after skimming the surface for a few feet, the weight dropped the front into...

Sounds like we've covered some territory very close by. I'm new to the area though, am spending more time farther north along Hwy 50. But would like to explore more near Walker Lake as well. I was looking, there's Cotton Wood Canyon trail that meanders quite a way west from the town of Walker...

Last weekend: About 2000' climb from the highway to a remote cabin outside Hawthorne Army Depot, NV. Goliath (my M1081) did fabulously on the climb up the dirt road. My buddy's F350, not so good, overheated (cracked radiator).

I'm one of the schlubs in Colorado that got hit with the massive blizzard last week. Tuesday evening I plugged in Goliath's (M1081 A0) block heater. Wednesday worked at home. Snow day Wednesday: 0930 - rain changed to snow 1230 - cabin door on 5th wheel I live in could not be pushed open...