Chasing a dream

orange150 said:
How has your learning curve been with shooting and editing videos?
I decided to give it a try just to learn something new and it definitely takes an unexpected skill set.
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I’ve always kinda had a thing for getting a cool shot, from different perspectives and different angles. Things like being zoomed in down in a stream and then panning up to the trail above as someone comes by. And when I was at Goforth there’s a big water tower behind the shop, I thought to myself “that’d be a cool shot to start there and then fly thru the shop”
I’m good with that and getting better.

The editing is all brand new to me. Like 6 weeks ago could barley stitch two clips of video together. But I get better the more I do it and if I get an idea I just google how to do it in iMovie and watch a YouTube video on it lol. I still have so much to learn, but it is a lot of fun learning it all and making a video. It has certainly been a huge learning curve.

I do need to consider getting some external hard drives for video or something because my phone and laptop is filling up fast.
 
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Well, folks wanted to know how I would deal with buggy repairs while out on the road. I didn’t expect to get balls deep in it this soon but here I am with a torn apart buggy at Windrock, just days before I’m supposed to be at Choccolocco.

 
I don't have much of an opinion on which shafts to run, but I can tell (show) you what a shaft breaking will do to a Detroit! Or, perhaps, the Detroit broke and took the shaft out with it. Unsure, but the result was this. Granted, I was dragging a sled...

At least I had some spare shafts and it was a 14 bolt, so I just tossed it all back together with a new locker. Been fine ever since.

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I seem to remember a rash of front 60 Detroits and shafts getting broken a number of years ago and a lot of guys swapping to a Lock-Right. I think there's a handful of similar ones now. Spartans and such? I seem to remember reading that if they ever broke after that, they didn't break shafts and usually got away with replacing the four drive/shear pins between the two halves.

Surely someone will have a better idea or say why that's a bad idea, but it's still an idea!

I don't think I have any 60 parts laying around or I'd offer to send them out to you.
 
Man, that sucks.
 
That crazy thing is I wasn’t beating on it hard or anything really. It popped super easy, I have video of it. The way the splines are twisted makes me think that shaft has been fatigued for a while before letting loose.
 
77GreenMachine said:
That crazy thing is I wasn’t beating on it hard or anything really. It popped super easy, I have video of it. The way the splines are twisted makes me think that shaft has been fatigued for a while before letting loose.
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Time for some rockwells or axletechs :stirthepot:
 
Another vote for a spool
 
BIGWOODY said:
Detroit is garbage when axles break. Air locker or spool. I went through 3 Detroits before being a believer .
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Pretty sure you or post on here are the reason I have a lock right in my front 60. I have seen way too many Detroit's and other "case" lockers over the years go boom when they loose and inner axle shaft. For the record I have never broken my D60 lock right pins. I have bound up a cromo shaft and snapped it like a twig though. I would recommend a lock right all day long.
 
ghost said:
For the record I have never broken my D60 lock right pins.
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I'll put a case of beer down as to the next thing that breaks
 
rcalexander105 said:
I'll put a case of beer down as to the next thing that breaks
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ghost said:
Pretty sure you or post on here are the reason I have a lock right in my front 60. I have seen way too many Detroit's and other "case" lockers over the years go boom when they loose and inner axle shaft. For the record I have never broken my D60 lock right pins. I have bound up a cromo shaft and snapped it like a twig though. I would recommend a lock right all day long.
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I started to recommend that , but didn't want to try and convince people that was really the way to go if you want something cheap that doesn't break. I carried a spare one in the tool box and was able to replace it at camp fairly quickly. I wore out a side gear, never broke any pins, but I was pretty easy on my stuff. 🤣
 
Just watched your Windrock video. I swear, at times when narrating, you are channeling Frank White. (I think you are old enough to get the reference).
 
kaiser715 said:
Just watched your Windrock video. I swear, at times when narrating, you are channeling Frank White. (I think you are old enough to get the reference).
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Watched that last night. I had that problem with a race. I will share what I messaged you here for others too. Was a D44 spindle. I took a piece of scrap and welded it across the race and used that to hammer it out. Much easier than cutting and chiseling it apart.
 
ghost said:
Watched that last night. I had that problem with a race. I will share what I messaged you here for others too. Was a D44 spindle. I took a piece of scrap and welded it across the race and used that to hammer it out. Much easier than cutting and chiseling it apart.
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Take piece of tube, stick through long end of spindle place end of tube on spindle bearing.. Turn upside down and hold spindle while hammering tube into hard surface.
Walks right out w/o fear of chisel damage.
 
Jody Treadway said:
Take piece of tube, stick through long end of spindle place end of tube on spindle bearing.. Turn upside down and hold spindle while hammering tube into hard surface.
Walks right out w/o fear of chisel damage.
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IIRC my race was about flush with the internal bore of the spindle so that wasn't an option. I could be remembering wrong.
 
kaiser715 said:
Just watched your Windrock video. I swear, at times when narrating, you are channeling Frank White. (I think you are old enough to get the reference).
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I must not be old enough lol. Not sure if that was a compliment or not, and google left me more confused as Frank White is a common name. :laughing:

I have had to work on the voice overs, because when recording I think I sound normal and just like I'm talking to anyone in person, but I play it back and I sound like Eeyore. Just flat and boring. I've tried to be a bit more lively, works a lot better if I write down the basics of what I want to say and not just wing it.
 
77GreenMachine said:
I must not be old enough lol. Not sure if that was a compliment or not, and google left me more confused as Frank White is a common name. :laughing:

I have had to work on the voice overs, because when recording I think I sound normal and just like I'm talking to anyone in person, but I play it back and I sound like Eeyore. Just flat and boring. I've tried to be a bit more lively, works a lot better if I write down the basics of what I want to say and not just wing it.
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Definitely a compliment. Franc White (misspelled in my post) had an outdoors show on WRAL back in the 70's and 80's. Most all his video from fishing/hunting trips didn't have audio, so everything was narrated.

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I wound up staying at Windrock an additional week. There was a lot of rain heading thru Choccolocco and with the repairs I would have been a day late and then it just didn't seem worth loading it all up and going to stay in the rain. I did get to wheel an extra day at Windrock though and had a good time.

I went with a Grizzly Locker and Chromo Shafts with Yukon SuperJoints. There is now a video about it on the YT channel, and a couple more.

I'm now in Alabama and 1.5 hours from Hawk Pride, which I'm going to try to go Saturday. May try to slide down to Stoney Lonesome as well while in this area.

 
77GreenMachine said:
I'm now in Alabama and
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Some eats as you make your way westward,:

We took 82 across MS, much better road than the interstates. If you happen to get near Greenwood, MS, do yourself a favor and eat at Drakes BBQ. Good stuff. Cookers are out front in the parking lot. Take-out only, and look at the satellite pics to plot your path in and out of there (I pulled into their lot in the m/h towing the jeep, but it was mid-afternoon and not busy at all).

West of Little Rock, not too far off I-40, in Ozark, AR, there is a nice COE park (Aux Arc Park). Great italian place near there -- I got 2 more meals out of my leftovers. Roma Italian.
 
kaiser715 said:
Some eats as you make your way westward,:

We took 82 across MS, much better road than the interstates. If you happen to get near Greenwood, MS, do yourself a favor and eat at Drakes BBQ. Good stuff. Cookers are out front in the parking lot. Take-out only, and look at the satellite pics to plot your path in and out of there (I pulled into their lot in the m/h towing the jeep, but it was mid-afternoon and not busy at all).

West of Little Rock, not too far off I-40, in Ozark, AR, there is a nice COE park (Aux Arc Park). Great italian place near there -- I got 2 more meals out of my leftovers. Roma Italian.
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Awesome, noted!

I’m visiting “home” for a few weeks and then I’ll be leaving Greensboro and driving to Wide Open Design in TN straight thru. That’s going to be a long travel day that I kind of dread, but that means we can make it to St Louis, MO with not nearly as much of a drive.
 
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