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fj40john · 03-21-2004, 11:38 AM

Even though I was only able to make it up for Saturdays events, the run was great. It was my first time to see Katemcy, I will be going back with a rig next time, but we ran a few different trails and got a pretty good tour of the place in just the 1 day.

I think everyone there enjoyed the event.

Thanks to Eric, who drove his chop top 60 on 38s in from Florida to wheel, for hooking me up with a passenger seat for the trails and a meal ticket when I lost mine.

PICS HERE

fj40john · 03-21-2004, 11:40 AM

here's eric's rig...didn't catch a last name, but he mentioned this board, if you see this, email me at fj40john@yahoo.com

Rev. Parsley · 03-21-2004, 04:27 PM

sweet pics.

it looks like everyone was having a good time.

fj40charles · 03-21-2004, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fj40john
here's eric's rig...didn't catch a last name, but he mentioned this board, if you see this, email me at fj40john@yahoo.com

His name is Erik Jones from Florida. I had a chance to wheel 3 days with him. He is not afraid to take his 60 anywhere. This rig made it though Klunetic trail which is pretty difficult. Here is a pic of him climbing out of the "V" on Klunetic.

kling-on · 03-21-2004, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fj40charles

His name is Erik Jones from Florida. I had a chance to wheel 3 days with him. He is not afraid to take his 60 anywhere. This rig made it though Klunetic trail which is pretty difficult. Here is a pic of him climbing out of the "V" on Klunetic.

He also DROVE it to and from ..no trailer .

Great time nice to meet ya'll just got my POS home 600 miles

and i live 200 miles away

wngrog · 03-21-2004, 05:14 PM

Yeah it was bad ass....

Here are my pics

Lone Star Cruiser Roundup

TxCruzr · 03-21-2004, 07:34 PM

Had a great time...all i broke were 2 tail lights

And did some fender and body molding

Joseph

texican · 03-21-2004, 07:38 PM

We (Kowboy myself and the Tornado Alley bunch) arrived late tues evening, it is a long drive thru many small towns requiring stops.....we had barely arrived inb the lot of the motel and a big friendly guy, and a young kid pulls up in a new Dodge, stuck his hand out and introduced himself as Randy, the owner of K Rocks....we made arrangements to meet at 7 Wed morning and have breakfast and he would take us out to the property so we could begin setting up.
It was not long after we arrived at K Rocks that other LSLC members began filtering in.
We were set up and ready when the first guys wanted to start signing in
Major props to Garth for the nicest, classiest packet any of us had ever seen.
Tony Twiddy arrived with Hunter later that day, gosh what energy, he ought to come with an OFF switch!!!
Tom Pennington (FJ40tom) and Kowboy discussed inspections and made ready for that to begin at 7 Thurs morning
Driver meetings, inspections, and registrations went very quickly, and trail rides departed camp only 15 minutes or so behind schedule.....
Edwin Kincaid, Randy Kruse (Krus-ee) and his partner Shane led the first 3 while several LSLC members hung around to catch latecomers.
Midmorning those of us left in camp left on a wildcat run led by Casey Kruse, Randy's son, driving his propane powered, dual cased 85 Mini.
Much later I find out the kid that led us, all day long quite capably was 12 yrs old

(only in Texas)
His truck experienced a propane solenoid problem on the run so he climbed in my truck, we soon caught up to Shanes run, who had way too many vehicles and was moving at a snails pace, he asked Casey (12 yrs old) to take some of his rigs another more challenging route, which we did.....
We took some wagons and an open 31" tire 40 places they should not be going including one steep ass descent with a ledge and hole to the left complete with an off camber turn halfway down. it was scary to say the least.
Only 2 wagons needed a tug, when they got wedged on the ends and all the tires were dangling. (Got to use my new plasma rope, and the protective abrasion guard works well....
I think the granite here offers more traction than Moab, even in the steepest ascents, there is no "Bark" only traction, and my tires show visible signs of this. Many portions remind me so much of Moab.
Friday was much of the same, only Nolens hard core buddies were really having some carnage, and Kowboys " Monster Garage" on wheels was in use, with the Premier, OBA, powering grinders, air tools, weding and it got to the point guys stop asking "IF" he had a special tool, only where it was.
David Dearborn broke 2 BF's, and I know of 3 rear pinions, one radiator, a couple of alternators, Klingon had fuel issues all week...
Sat rolled around way too quickly and after morning runs for us involved in it........... it was the time I think all of us working on the event were a bit apprehensive about, as we have run events close to this size just fine, but had never ran the crown jewel of most, the Raffle/Dinner.
Rain met us around noon, and we started exploring options, as the park has no shelter........scheduled to start at 4 Nolen and I decided by 2 we had to make a call on keeping it at KRocks or moving it.
Randy Kruse had hooked my wife Deb up with a lady that owned a barn 2.8 m from the park, we stayed in the apartment at one end thru the event, and phone call got us the barn, if needed to hold the Raffle inside.
Nolen and a couple of others made the call at 2 to move it.....and by 3:30 we had everything set up and ready to go at a new location, signs, and my wifes FJ60 with an event banner on the side made the turn off easy to locate.
More later.........................it only gets better.
Butch

TxCruzr · 03-21-2004, 07:39 PM

oops

rest of the pictures are are HERE

dd113 · 03-21-2004, 07:51 PM

The best Land Cuiser event I have ever been too. Super.

Speaking of tards. I am busted in Dallas wih a dead charging system but I think CCOT will help me out in the AM.

Thanx so much to all of you. For Texans you aint a bad bunch

texican · 03-21-2004, 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dd113
The best Land Cuiser event I have ever been too. Super.

Speaking of tards. I am busted in Dallas wih a dead charging system but I think CCOT will help me out in the AM.

Thanx so much to all of you. For Texns you aint a bad bunch

My phone at the shop is 903 583 9079 if ya' need me.
Butch

texican · 03-21-2004, 08:41 PM

I bought a new hat just for this event....

Butch

texican · 03-21-2004, 08:46 PM

David Dearborn

texican · 03-21-2004, 08:47 PM

Spooky ascent

texican · 03-21-2004, 08:49 PM

Kristie doing a ravine

texican · 03-21-2004, 08:50 PM

Gary Wagoner's pix here.

texican · 03-21-2004, 08:56 PM

Kowboy has a soft side..........

texican · 03-21-2004, 09:00 PM

I like this pic....

kling-on · 03-22-2004, 03:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by TxCruzr
oops

that was a nice hole if it wasnt raining i think you would of walked it ... but the two truck recovery was fun

glad to meet ya in person your are fearless and one hell of a driver

mantis · 03-22-2004, 06:10 AM

I am officially exhausted... waking up at 2:30 am Saturday to get to K-rocks by 9, then wheeling all day, and partying like a rock star all night.

I have a bunch of pictures, but I screwed up copying them to cd to upload from work, so I can't share until tomorrow.

Thanks to everyone for the fun time.

later,
mike.

High5 · 03-22-2004, 06:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by TxCruzr
oops

ouch!

High5 · 03-22-2004, 06:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by High5
ouch!

i just wanted to say that this was one of the best events i have been too. lots of wheeling and lots of cool cruisers and people.

i'd also like to thank kowboy and his rolling work shop. it really helped me fix my 14bolt in a timely mannor. also i want to thank edwin for letting me use his welder to weld up my detroit locker. Jim (big red TJ and i don't know his last name) jumped in and started pulling axle shafts while i was working on pulling the diff cover and diff. there were alot of great people there ready and willing to jump in and help and i didn't even ask. not only did i get it fixed but i got it done in plently of time to get a good nights sleep and i was ready to wheel th next day. thanks guys.

fj40charles · 03-22-2004, 06:41 AM

I too had a great time. The LSLC did a great job!

Here is a pic of my juck on "High 5 Hill." I got stuck and had to winch out.... I guess I could have used wider axles....

You can see Edwin's truck in the backgound going up to winch me out.

fj40charles · 03-22-2004, 06:42 AM

Another pic.. backside of TP's head...

fj40charles · 03-22-2004, 06:45 AM

Edwin on Klunetic

03-21-2004, 11:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
fj40john I sell guns... Join Date: Oct 2002 Member # 14560 Location: Cypress, TX Posts: 2,883	post round-up thread Even though I was only able to make it up for Saturdays events, the run was great. It was my first time to see Katemcy, I will be going back with a rig next time, but we ran a few different trails and got a pretty good tour of the place in just the 1 day. I think everyone there enjoyed the event. Thanks to Eric, who drove his chop top 60 on 38s in from Florida to wheel, for hooking me up with a passenger seat for the trails and a meal ticket when I lost mine. PICS HERE __________________ John W. 07FFL/02SOT TXCHL Instructor john@flyingbrassarmory.com Facebook! If you are from the PBB, send me a message with your screen name so I know who you are. SEND LETTERS TO YOUR REPS TO PRESERVE YOUR 2A RIGHTS HERE! All things NFA explained here... Last edited by fj40john; 03-21-2004 at 12:10 PM.

03-21-2004, 11:40 AM	#2 (permalink)
fj40john I sell guns... Join Date: Oct 2002 Member # 14560 Location: Cypress, TX Posts: 2,883	here's eric's rig...didn't catch a last name, but he mentioned this board, if you see this, email me at fj40john@yahoo.com Attached Images __________________ John W. 07FFL/02SOT TXCHL Instructor john@flyingbrassarmory.com Facebook! If you are from the PBB, send me a message with your screen name so I know who you are. SEND LETTERS TO YOUR REPS TO PRESERVE YOUR 2A RIGHTS HERE! All things NFA explained here...

03-21-2004, 05:14 PM	#6 (permalink)
wngrog Moderating Midget Join Date: Jun 2000 Member # 1154 Location: Canton, MS Posts: 22,057 Blog Entries: 4	Yeah it was bad ass.... Here are my pics Lone Star Cruiser Roundup __________________ Nolen Grogan 1997 FZJ-80 Land Cruiser, 37's 2010 RZR-4 www.cottonlandcruisers.com www.rockmidgetphotography.com USAF Veteran 1988-1998 GOD Bless America

03-21-2004, 07:34 PM	#7 (permalink)
TxCruzr Wait this ain't Tx.. Join Date: Jan 2002 Member # 9380 Location: Del Boca Vista, AZ Posts: 2,191	Had a great time...all i broke were 2 tail lights And did some fender and body molding Joseph __________________ "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter." -Ernest Hemingway '69 FJ-40 - under construction

03-21-2004, 07:38 PM	#8 (permalink)
texican Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Member # 12349 Location: Bonham Texas Posts: 6,609	We (Kowboy myself and the Tornado Alley bunch) arrived late tues evening, it is a long drive thru many small towns requiring stops.....we had barely arrived inb the lot of the motel and a big friendly guy, and a young kid pulls up in a new Dodge, stuck his hand out and introduced himself as Randy, the owner of K Rocks....we made arrangements to meet at 7 Wed morning and have breakfast and he would take us out to the property so we could begin setting up. It was not long after we arrived at K Rocks that other LSLC members began filtering in. We were set up and ready when the first guys wanted to start signing in Major props to Garth for the nicest, classiest packet any of us had ever seen. Tony Twiddy arrived with Hunter later that day, gosh what energy, he ought to come with an OFF switch!!! Tom Pennington (FJ40tom) and Kowboy discussed inspections and made ready for that to begin at 7 Thurs morning Driver meetings, inspections, and registrations went very quickly, and trail rides departed camp only 15 minutes or so behind schedule..... Edwin Kincaid, Randy Kruse (Krus-ee) and his partner Shane led the first 3 while several LSLC members hung around to catch latecomers. Midmorning those of us left in camp left on a wildcat run led by Casey Kruse, Randy's son, driving his propane powered, dual cased 85 Mini. Much later I find out the kid that led us, all day long quite capably was 12 yrs old (only in Texas) His truck experienced a propane solenoid problem on the run so he climbed in my truck, we soon caught up to Shanes run, who had way too many vehicles and was moving at a snails pace, he asked Casey (12 yrs old) to take some of his rigs another more challenging route, which we did..... We took some wagons and an open 31" tire 40 places they should not be going including one steep ass descent with a ledge and hole to the left complete with an off camber turn halfway down. it was scary to say the least. Only 2 wagons needed a tug, when they got wedged on the ends and all the tires were dangling. (Got to use my new plasma rope, and the protective abrasion guard works well.... I think the granite here offers more traction than Moab, even in the steepest ascents, there is no "Bark" only traction, and my tires show visible signs of this. Many portions remind me so much of Moab. Friday was much of the same, only Nolens hard core buddies were really having some carnage, and Kowboys " Monster Garage" on wheels was in use, with the Premier, OBA, powering grinders, air tools, weding and it got to the point guys stop asking "IF" he had a special tool, only where it was. David Dearborn broke 2 BF's, and I know of 3 rear pinions, one radiator, a couple of alternators, Klingon had fuel issues all week... Sat rolled around way too quickly and after morning runs for us involved in it........... it was the time I think all of us working on the event were a bit apprehensive about, as we have run events close to this size just fine, but had never ran the crown jewel of most, the Raffle/Dinner. Rain met us around noon, and we started exploring options, as the park has no shelter........scheduled to start at 4 Nolen and I decided by 2 we had to make a call on keeping it at KRocks or moving it. Randy Kruse had hooked my wife Deb up with a lady that owned a barn 2.8 m from the park, we stayed in the apartment at one end thru the event, and phone call got us the barn, if needed to hold the Raffle inside. Nolen and a couple of others made the call at 2 to move it.....and by 3:30 we had everything set up and ready to go at a new location, signs, and my wifes FJ60 with an event banner on the side made the turn off easy to locate. More later.........................it only gets better. Butch __________________ Conflict is inevitable..... Combat is optional.... Tires are like boobs, they always look big until you have played with them for a while, then you just want a bigger set. [URL=http://www.lslc.org/]Lone Star Land Cruisers[/URL] [URL=http://www.khyi.com/]Support Texas Music[/URL]

03-21-2004, 04:27 PM	#3 (permalink)
Rev. Parsley Registered User Join Date: Feb 2000 Member # 161 Location: GHQ Posts: 794	sweet pics. it looks like everyone was having a good time.

03-21-2004, 07:39 PM	#9 (permalink)
TxCruzr Wait this ain't Tx.. Join Date: Jan 2002 Member # 9380 Location: Del Boca Vista, AZ Posts: 2,191	oops rest of the pictures are are HERE __________________ "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter." -Ernest Hemingway '69 FJ-40 - under construction

03-21-2004, 07:51 PM	#10 (permalink)
dd113 Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Member # 19837 Location: atlanta Posts: 1,371	The best Land Cuiser event I have ever been too. Super. Speaking of tards. I am busted in Dallas wih a dead charging system but I think CCOT will help me out in the AM. Thanx so much to all of you. For Texans you aint a bad bunch __________________ If it does not go easy just force it David Dearborn Atlanta GA www.urbanlandcruisers.com TLCA Associate member Got a question, need an opinion, do you love puppies, just want to talk or stage a cage match? For all of these issues and more PM Mark, 65SWB45. Last edited by dd113; 03-22-2004 at 06:10 AM.

03-21-2004, 08:41 PM	#12 (permalink)
texican Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Member # 12349 Location: Bonham Texas Posts: 6,609	I bought a new hat just for this event.... Butch Attached Images __________________ Conflict is inevitable..... Combat is optional.... Tires are like boobs, they always look big until you have played with them for a while, then you just want a bigger set. [URL=http://www.lslc.org/]Lone Star Land Cruisers[/URL] [URL=http://www.khyi.com/]Support Texas Music[/URL]

03-21-2004, 08:46 PM	#13 (permalink)
texican Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Member # 12349 Location: Bonham Texas Posts: 6,609	David Dearborn Attached Images __________________ Conflict is inevitable..... Combat is optional.... Tires are like boobs, they always look big until you have played with them for a while, then you just want a bigger set. [URL=http://www.lslc.org/]Lone Star Land Cruisers[/URL] [URL=http://www.khyi.com/]Support Texas Music[/URL]

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texican Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Member # 12349 Location: Bonham Texas Posts: 6,609	Spooky ascent Attached Images __________________ Conflict is inevitable..... Combat is optional.... Tires are like boobs, they always look big until you have played with them for a while, then you just want a bigger set. [URL=http://www.lslc.org/]Lone Star Land Cruisers[/URL] [URL=http://www.khyi.com/]Support Texas Music[/URL]

03-21-2004, 08:49 PM	#15 (permalink)
texican Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Member # 12349 Location: Bonham Texas Posts: 6,609	Kristie doing a ravine Attached Images __________________ Conflict is inevitable..... Combat is optional.... Tires are like boobs, they always look big until you have played with them for a while, then you just want a bigger set. [URL=http://www.lslc.org/]Lone Star Land Cruisers[/URL] [URL=http://www.khyi.com/]Support Texas Music[/URL]

03-21-2004, 08:50 PM	#16 (permalink)
texican Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Member # 12349 Location: Bonham Texas Posts: 6,609	Gary Wagoner's pix here. Attached Images __________________ Conflict is inevitable..... Combat is optional.... Tires are like boobs, they always look big until you have played with them for a while, then you just want a bigger set. [URL=http://www.lslc.org/]Lone Star Land Cruisers[/URL] [URL=http://www.khyi.com/]Support Texas Music[/URL] Last edited by texican; 03-21-2004 at 08:52 PM.

03-21-2004, 08:56 PM	#17 (permalink)
texican Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Member # 12349 Location: Bonham Texas Posts: 6,609	Kowboy has a soft side.......... Attached Images __________________ Conflict is inevitable..... Combat is optional.... Tires are like boobs, they always look big until you have played with them for a while, then you just want a bigger set. [URL=http://www.lslc.org/]Lone Star Land Cruisers[/URL] [URL=http://www.khyi.com/]Support Texas Music[/URL]

03-21-2004, 09:00 PM	#18 (permalink)
texican Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Member # 12349 Location: Bonham Texas Posts: 6,609	I like this pic.... Attached Images __________________ Conflict is inevitable..... Combat is optional.... Tires are like boobs, they always look big until you have played with them for a while, then you just want a bigger set. [URL=http://www.lslc.org/]Lone Star Land Cruisers[/URL] [URL=http://www.khyi.com/]Support Texas Music[/URL]

03-22-2004, 06:10 AM	#20 (permalink)
mantis Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Member # 13322 Location: Needville, TX Posts: 1,537	I am officially exhausted... waking up at 2:30 am Saturday to get to K-rocks by 9, then wheeling all day, and partying like a rock star all night. I have a bunch of pictures, but I screwed up copying them to cd to upload from work, so I can't share until tomorrow. Thanks to everyone for the fun time. later, mike. Last edited by mantis; 03-22-2004 at 06:11 AM.

03-22-2004, 06:41 AM	#23 (permalink)
fj40charles Zeus of the Sluice Join Date: Oct 2000 Member # 1926 Location: Dallas, TX USA Posts: 3,254	I too had a great time. The LSLC did a great job! Here is a pic of my juck on "High 5 Hill." I got stuck and had to winch out.... I guess I could have used wider axles.... You can see Edwin's truck in the backgound going up to winch me out. Attached Images __________________ '69 FJ40 with very few stock parts. 2000 Cummins with some goodies to make it smoke..... Trail Gear's Bad Ethics=Bad Business.

03-22-2004, 06:42 AM	#24 (permalink)
fj40charles Zeus of the Sluice Join Date: Oct 2000 Member # 1926 Location: Dallas, TX USA Posts: 3,254	Another pic.. backside of TP's head... Attached Images __________________ '69 FJ40 with very few stock parts. 2000 Cummins with some goodies to make it smoke..... Trail Gear's Bad Ethics=Bad Business.

03-22-2004, 06:45 AM	#25 (permalink)
fj40charles Zeus of the Sluice Join Date: Oct 2000 Member # 1926 Location: Dallas, TX USA Posts: 3,254	Edwin on Klunetic Attached Images __________________ '69 FJ40 with very few stock parts. 2000 Cummins with some goodies to make it smoke..... Trail Gear's Bad Ethics=Bad Business.

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