Is "Overlanding" a thing in your area yet?

[4WD]

Saw a fairly new Rubicon with a 48” HiLift jack mounted to the rear - lots of iron on a so-so bracket. Of course it had plastic bumpers and a suspension system made to stretch out like crazy …
I ordered this 36” and a spectra choker to grab the wheel spokes

 

[dumkid]

i just use a peice of 4x6 as a footplate and use the factory bottle jack, i never saw much use for a hi lift

 

[chrlsful]

"...get serious money into this.
Like this..."
Nah, new name ("I overland. I'm trendy") old game.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/165198872247
AND
now in hi competitiveness ("And spent more") like much of merica. I say
"How can I have the most comfort at least cost/environmental degradation/'other human' contact?
I can climb in the back of my 'wagon', flip dwn the seats, air up the mattress and stuff spring loaded screens in the windows...
Do it anyway U can "hi or low", get out there, see this amazing planet, get some exercise. No screen or cellie allowed. Do it several times a month (no less), once a week but do it. (I try end of each wrk day, several hrs, but also 'live in it already').

Most of heu hes hay (even the right coast megalopolis - portland to jacksonville) is w/in a 30 to 60 min drive to nice more desolate expanses. Just ask anyone from "that big family" where they dump 'their problems: "Take the caddie, open the trunk, no more problems, fagedaboudid !"

 

[4WD]

i just use a peice of 4x6 as a footplate and use the factory bottle jack, i never saw much use for a hi lift

Where do you put it when buried to the frame … ?
PS: I also carry a 5T BJ (it came w/ a screw jack) …
BTW: A HiLift can be used as a winch …

 

[Astro14]

i just use a peice of 4x6 as a footplate and use the factory bottle jack, i never saw much use for a hi lift

How many times have you changed a tire in serious off road situations? Like a truck buried to the frame, or on a lifted truck?

Either the bottle jack won’t fit under, or you’ll be playing Jenga with a bunch of your 4x6 pieces, which is really dangerous.

The High Lift has a lot of recovery uses beyond just lifting for a tire change.

There’s a reason that serious off road folks have a high lift.

 

[dumkid]

How many times have you changed a tire in serious off road situations? Like a truck buried to the frame, or on a lifted truck?

Either the bottle jack won’t fit under, or you’ll be playing Jenga with a bunch of your 4x6 pieces, which is really dangerous.

The High Lift has a lot of recovery uses beyond just lifting for a tire change.

There’s a reason that serious off road folks have a high lift.

that's valid. when the truck is buried, i use a winch to pull it out. the hi lift does have it's uses, but I've always got by without it. and the bottle jack is a small one that fits under the car quite easily, and has two rams (one inside the other) so it can lift higher than a single ram bottle jack of similar size.

the first time I changed a flat tire i was offroad and instead of using a jack i drove up a ledge to lift the flat tire off the ground.

edit: i didn't use my bottle jack because I had just bought the car and hadn't checked if the jack had fluid in it, so of course the jack was low on oil and couldn't lift the car. a hi lift jack would have come in handy but wasn't needed

 

[WeyounDS9]

just my 2 cents on the term.

"Overlanding" is not the same thing as offroading (and i think most posters here understand this), yet all the "overland modded rigs" in magazines and offered FS. are heavily modded for offroading when a stock 4x4 Tacoma or Frontier, or Tundra or Titan, or am rebel, etc etc, would have plenty of off roadiness for overlanding.

The "mod" I want to see for overlanding is expanded fuel capacities, either via well made, jerry can racks or, better yet, via button switachable aux tanks.
Anything else can be just a sleeping bag in the bed of the truck.

 

[chrlsful]

yup, "overland" is more for post 98 type stuff. I carries a science lab or other specific app. One, more recient, is a simple recreation trip. Those folk have co-opted the phrase for themselves. Y it looks re-dic-u-loss, over the top, etc (2 me)~

farmer jack = get sheet metal offa a tire to cont. passage, all sorta stuff (& quick/easier than winch) beside vehicle tire change lift.
Example? C nxt post. Specific app? Killing mo`chene (well, may B recon?)

 

[RooflessVW]

@Astro14

How about this one?

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/36NnobVn/1997-stewart-and-stevenson-m1087-fmtv

 

[4WD]

@Astro14

How about this one?

https://carsandbids.com/auctions/36NnobVn/1997-stewart-and-stevenson-m1087-fmtv

No tent on top ? Simply not qualified

 

[Allaneddie]

I've seen one Gladiator around here decked out like that. It was in a mall parking lot. He wasn't living in the vehicle ASAIK

 

[Snagglefoot]

Overlanding is still alive and well in the Canadian Tire parking lot. Check the full tint on the driver’s side window and also the wire supports for the rack.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Overlanding is still alive and well in the Canadian Tire parking lot. Check the full tint on the driver’s side window and also the wire supports for the rack.

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The wires are brush guards - to push branches over the truck on an overgrown trail - not there to support the rack. You usually run them from a front off-road bumper though - so they don't hit the paint at all.

But yes, looks like not enough trail pinstripe to actually be used? Maybe he is picking up supplies for his maiden voyage?

 

[_Will_]

Just part of the spectrum of comfort, less comfortable than a hotel and more comfortable than sleeping under the stars. I look at it and think, are they just paying thousands of dollars to not have to set up a tent on the ground? is this the entry level budget form of the behemoths from post 98?

I occasionally see a rig in the northern suburbs at ATL, I've never seen one with signs of use offroad. If we're driving down a forest road in the SE (GA, NC, TN), I have never seen an overland rig and usually see fathers driving their family to some adventure; sometimes in an F350 and sometimes in a Honda Odyssey.

What I do know is it isn't for me, if I'm in nature I want to be IN nature and not bringing too much civilization with me. My idea of getting into nature is a day hike with water, snacks, some first aid, and time (btw, If someone is the type to play music while on a hiking trail, I'm off the opinion they should be banned from trails and forced to listen to bad renditions of obscure Bjork songs sung by a tone deaf karaoke singer) .

Done plenty of camping sleeping under the stars, in tents, or a hammock. Probably get into dual sport moto camping in the next year or so and will have a hammock rig.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Well, in 1978, me and my buddy drove from Fort Nelson to Skagway Alaska in a 64 two door Pontiac Parisienne and hiked the Chilkoot trail in oilfield workboots. Those were the days.

 

[02SE]

I've been driving for decades on 4wd trails, and BLM land. All that time I was "Overlanding", and didn't even know it.

I'm looking at all the Overlanding gear I didn't know I needed, as we speak...

 

[Chris142]

I see one or 2 occasionally. We call them homeless here

 

[wavinwayne]

There a guy who lives near me who has a Mercedes van that looks like it would be at home in a Mad Max movie. He's constantly taking it on trips. It's a very neat looking vehicle.

 

[IndyFan]

I see overlanding rigs and trailers here in Indiana, even though you have go go a ways to get to the best places, but there are some opportunities within a few hours.

We also have a big off-road trailer dealership in my town. They sell small to large trailers that are designed in Australia. They are really neat, but they are too heavy, in my opinion.

My rig doesn't have all the crap all over it. I'm VERY obsessive about keeping weight down and having a good compromise of off-road capability and on-road drivability. I don't have a mile-long equipment list because of that.

Typical equipment is as follows:

Vehicle:

• 2.5" lift, 35" tires, some small but critical added skid protection.
• Aggressive all-terrain tires (Kenda Klever AT)
• High powered lighting (in-progress)
• GMRS radio and CB radio.

Equipment:

• Ground tent. (light, easy, cheap, flexible)
• Camping gear (stove, sleeping bags, Buddy heater, potty stool, etc.)
• 35qt refrigerator + lots of bottled water.
• 550wh battery and 100w solar panel.
• Life Straws, a few MRE's, Emergency water, ponchos, 1st aid kit, etc.)
• Recovery gear. (straps, shackles, chain, Hi-Lift Jack, AEV Jack base, gloves, Spetznaz shovel, traction boards)
• Small battery powered chain saw or Sawzall.
• Basic mechanics tool set.
• Lanterns, lights, extra batteries.
• Fishing rods (collapsable).
• Other small, less important gear.

I have a 2018 4 door Wrangler and a 2021 Gladiator. Which I take depends on the needs of the trip and how many people are going. But the Gladiator is really taking over this role. It has a tonneau cover that keeps the bed contents dry.

 

[E150GT]

I had a coworker with a jeep with 800 lbs of crap on it. I told him I liked his winch and he said he'd never used it. I believe that. I doubt it ever left the street.