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Camping on a sand bar is flirting with disaster...ditto in a dry wash. Mother Nature is unpredictable...and unforgiving...
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The Building of the Banana Jeep
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Camping on a sand bar is flirting with disaster...ditto in a dry wash. Mother Nature is unpredictable...and unforgiving...
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BananaJeep
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Amen to that.
The sand bars and dry washes always look so inviting - sandy, no rocks... they always look like the perfect place to pitch the tent. They are perfect - until the wall of water comes downstream from the rain upstream that you didn't even know about. Then you're miserable (and maybe dead).
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BananaJeep
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Ordered a mobile UHF/VHF radio to throw in the Jeep, along with a NMO style antenna. My local Jeep club has switched over to using these UHF radios, and I've ran a BaoFeng portable for awhile. It has worked great, and it's awesome to be able to get out of the Jeep and still walk around with a radio. I've settled on a TalkCoop KT-8900 with a TRAM Dual-Band NMO antenna. I don't know tons about this style radio, or really radios in general, but it's been a fun learning process. Will post pics when everything gets in!
rumblebee3
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Very nice! How about a cobra handheld that was basically brand-new here a couple weeks ago and it works really well just running up and down the highway. Can't wait to get it on the trails and see how it does.
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BananaJeep
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VeruGE*144
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Nothing to see here, just a flex ramp on a random parking lot somewhere in Nebraska.
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BananaJeep
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The Cobra 75wxst? If so, that's the same CB I have in my Jeep. I love it, it's not the most powerful radio out there and it's stupid expensive brand new, but I love not having a box to mount anywhere. I keep mine on a gearkeeper so it's always there ready to use.
Thanks
Lol at a mall of all places. #MallRated :crazyeyes:
BananaJeep
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I put my new UHF/VHF radio in the Jeep. Love this thing. I wish everyone would switch over to UHF radios, much clearer than CB and with so many frequencies you're guaranteed to find at least one without static or other people on it. Plus, at 25w, they get out pretty far.
So after that was all buttoned up, I got bored and took the Jeep about an hour north of Omaha to Fort Atkinson. Fort Atkinson is in Fort Calhoun, NE, and was the first U.S. Army post established west of the Missouri River. It opened in the early 1800s and closed in 1827. It has been mostly rebuilt, but still a cool place to check out.
Also, got my Taco cleaned up. So that's that.
So after that was all buttoned up, I got bored and took the Jeep about an hour north of Omaha to Fort Atkinson. Fort Atkinson is in Fort Calhoun, NE, and was the first U.S. Army post established west of the Missouri River. It opened in the early 1800s and closed in 1827. It has been mostly rebuilt, but still a cool place to check out.
Also, got my Taco cleaned up. So that's that.
BananaJeep
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Had a good time wheeling this weekend with some good friends. Overall, a pretty fun day. We had one guy break a u-joint, so that ruined his afternoon but other than that, no breaks. We were all able to drive home under our own power!
Banana Jeep leading the way....
I got pretty stuck trying to exit a hard line out of the mini rock garden. I think if my Jeep was a few inches taller I could have made it out without winching. :crazyeyes:
And us fixing Richard's Jeep.
Banana Jeep leading the way....
I got pretty stuck trying to exit a hard line out of the mini rock garden. I think if my Jeep was a few inches taller I could have made it out without winching. :crazyeyes:
And us fixing Richard's Jeep.
BananaJeep
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Some more pictures....
rumblebee3
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Looks like a good time! Wish I could have gone. I really want to go to smorr and Central Missouri off road park now too! And hot springs off road park as wellSome more pictures....
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BananaJeep
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Looks like a good time! Wish I could have gone. I really want to go to smorr and Central Missouri off road park now too! And hot springs off road park as well
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Yeah, I have to get down there and check it out soon.
Stotch
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Looks like a good time! Wish I could have gone. I really want to go to smorr and Central Missouri off road park now too! And hot springs off road park as well
When you guys finally decide to come hit SMORR, keep me in the loop! I'd love to go back out anytime.
BananaJeep
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For sure! Would love to wheel with you.
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BananaJeep
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I'm heading down again on the 14th of October. We leave Omaha at 7am and come through Lincoln about 7:30-7:40ish.
BananaJeep
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