The Undisputed KING of Moab! #rollingstrong #bigiron

my name is Natasha Peterson my name is Shaye Swenson and we're on Hell's revenge and welcome to jailbreak nice thank you ladies so here we go another video from Moab Utah but this time around I'm going to show you the biggest baddest Undisputed heavyweight king of Moab Utah period no other truck can claim what this truck can claim nobody else can do what this truck does period and we're going to get to that Moab is a very specific place it's considered the mecca of four-wheel drive and lots of people build their trucks all season long just to take it out to Moab and test it against the gravity defying balls and the crazy slick Rock and the jagged rocks and the canyons and everything else and a lot of them don't make out to well I've seen way too many rollovers in Utah over the years and the reason for that is simple Moab has a lot of places where there are trails that have incredibly steep drop offs on either side and if you don't know the trail or you don't know exactly what you're doing this is what can happen now we're talking regular size SUVs and and Pickups that are turned into buggies or truggies with full roll cages and things of that nature and sometimes you've got the guys in there with the full-size pickup trucks and they do what they do and it is what it is but here's one thing that goes without question the larger you make the truck the bigger and heavier it is the more difficult and Incredibly dangerous this entire thing becomes [Music] but to Mike bigger is better and there was no convincing him of otherwise he was building these trucks all of them were made by the factory for the most part to be off-road and then they are quote unquote enhanced by the owners and Hance and Hance and Hance like myself and many others but this truck and this actual Fleet of trucks is on an entirely different playing field it is insane and when you look at this truck when you're in a vehicle where you can actually look down into the front seat of an 18-wheeler passing you and then you go up hell's revenge in the same truck that that's the king period straight up no two ways about it and I'm going to show you the truck I'm going to show you the owner and then we're going to take this truck on a sunset trip through fins and things and hell's Revenge this is the entire package ladies and gentlemen so here as they say we go but first in the next video you're going to want to check this out because I'm going to be giving away a bone Valley handmade knife sheath and a bone Valley uh saw I forget the exact name of it right now because I'm an idiot and that happens but in the next video all you got to do is comment to win you know have to buy any merch none of that crap comment and you can win a $500 handmade knife or not but here we go here's Mike and here's Big Iron tours so if you've ever been on the Slick Rock of Moab you may have seen something like this this is Mike and Brutus Mike is the owner and operator of Big Iron tours and Mike is a two-time Iraq veteran he's a helicopter pilot which has nothing to do with the military and he's the owner operator of Big Iron tours it's veteran owned veteran operated and they do some of the craziest things in the biggest machines running on the Slick rock period these trucks are on 53 in tires which make my 37s look like Child's Play so I actually went on a sunset tour with Mike I got to meet the people on the tour and I videotaped everything but first let's hear from Mike and how come he decided to go this particular route being a Hilo pilot and all you'd think that he'd want to stick to something like that but he told me it was just too high stress and apparently this this is a lot easier to do okay I'm here with Mike and this video has been 5 years in the making because 5 years ago in 2019 if memory served I met up with you and you had a monster truck called The Pain Train that's right and we took it over hell's Revenge we did some footage we did a little bit of an interview and I promised you that I would get that out there well I took my footage and I headed back east and when I got home I realized that half the footage had zero audio yep it was basically useless and this time around we bumped into each other a couple of times as I've been passing through and I promised I would get this video done well I'm glad I did stick around because I actually went on the tour last night in this truck dude that was absolutely insane pretty epic huh I have done some of the best I've done all the best trails in the United States in one vehicle or another but I have never gone through fins and things or hell's revenge in something this big that was insane dude let me ask you what made you think that doing this was a good idea well you know it's it's kind of a it's kind of a story of wanting to do something a little bit different cuz you know there's plenty of Tours that doing this very similar and some of the some of the same routes as me um but I kind of wanted to give people a different View and a different experience and and which type of vehicle does make a difference right now of course you're going to be sitting on your tail in most machines um but there's a there's a vast difference between sitting in a side by side where you're where your butt's about couple feet off the ground versus something like this you're a good six plus feet off the ground let me interject real quick we were on the highway in this coming back to your shop and we passed an 18-wheeler yeah and it was the first time in my life that I actually looked down into the cab of an 18 wheel this is a big truck I mean those are what are those 53s yeah 53 in tires look at the size of those and they're 800 lb a piece correct with the rim they're about that with the rim installed they're double bead locks with run flat so the weight's stacking up on that um yeah they're for my estimation about 800 lb a piece okay now that I've interrupted you and sidetracked you let's start with what is this so this is an m923 A2 it's an old military truck started out as a 6x6 uh we had a bob down to about 4T less frame so that means you you cut 4T of the frame off to make the truck shorter exactly okay yeah put on a rear steer put rear steer on it so we basically took the front axle off another truck that was timed out and put it on the rear this did a whole refurbish on the axle made it brand new again same with the front okay put hydraulic in the rear and standard power steering in the front the same the same that it came with and it was crazy because we were moving down some sand Trail some whoopy do and such that you can have fun on but you can also get in trouble on and this thing I mean we were rolling dude it's stable and I mean the way you were steering the front and rear at the same time was pretty epic man it was pretty amazing it sort of gives you a bit of a when you kind of come up on some of these little side Banks where the trail just naturally tilts y um when you use that with the with the rear ster kind of gives you a bit of a snap roll moment where you just kind of go oh crap pop and it that's crazy it's fun so this is a military truck what year is it uh this one is a 1990 1990 were you in the military I was yeah I did four years in the morning cor well maybe that's probably what the banner directly behind you is representing that's my unit third L I forgot that was even there that's badass uh light light armored vehicles with the so third La is the Light Armored reconnaissance Battalion and those are the guys with the guns that are ex dead nuts accurate are yeah big 25 mm chain guns as turrets chain guns now I mean we're in we're in your shop right here I see a helicopter on the wall did you fly a helicopter in the military or you infantry so I was infantry in the Marines but that's where I learned I wanted to fly helicopters cuz I got the chance to fly in the back of a big you know Marine Corps Bird right right and holy that changed my world that gave me a new Addiction so I ended up uh while I was still in the mar I had a couple years left decided I had to fly uh order all the books all the information just kind of studied up on helicopters until uh when I eventually got out I went straight to school privately got all my ratings got all my certifications flew for six years and then ended up starting this getting away from helicopters you learned how to fly a chopper from books well I went to school too so I learned a lot of the ground information School type you know classroom knowledge and then all my actual application came afterwards nice or Technical Training I should say so and then after that you decided the helicopters weren't scary enough you wanted to take the biggest machine you could POS possibly find and do the scariest trails in Moab in them that's right and fill it with people yeah well we did that last night and it was phenomenal the people were so happy um the one thing is I sat in the front with you and I actually know the trails the people in the back really couldn't see yeah how bad it looked from the front and I guess that works to your advantage but man you were doing it basically eyes closed no big deal the the the view they get is because they're so far up and the truck so big they can see all the way across and outward of where we're roughly going right but once we get to them the details can show up they don't see the immediate details so when that Fern suddenly dips they're just like off guard so it's kind of exciting for them to not be able to estimate exactly what's happening from moment to moment it was amazing man I mean I did not realize how well these things would handle you put new rubber on these and you broke them in you aired them down um it was just absolutely phenomenal okay so when you originally started this Scuttle butt around town was that ain't going to work that's not going to you know that's it's going to be something horrible is going to happen well since I saw you last you don't even have the original truck anymore M you've moved on big time we've upgraded our trucks a little bit um yeah so there was there were some naysayers that thought it was a bad idea even people personally that I knew in my life that thought hey this might not be a good idea so those are that's that's equipment like it is capable of off-roading but probably wasn't designed specifically for that I make the differ because in Vietnam that's almost exclusively what like that truck behind you did is it would be pretty much always off-roading really y yeah I mean the the the the roads the the roads that they use in Afghanistan and Iraq are what we would consider Moab yeah Offroad serious type altitude game right right and they're up Rocky trails and they don't exactly have road crews in in Iraq and Afghanistan right so they're going to be about as rough as you could imagine to get to certain places so tell me whatever you want to tell me sure have at it so let's let's do a walk around with this truck so the the power plant is an 8.3 turbo cumin diesel uh it can easily carry a truck about twice this weight so we actually have one outside that's about twice the weight of this truck and it could it totally pulls that thing across the Earth no problem uh then uh stra to that you have a 5-speed Allison Transmission automatic and then the original axles we've got the original transfer case so the stuff that would have been on this during Vietnam type era was all Rockwell equipment okay um relatively very very few leaks you'll ever track from this truck they're they're pretty sealed tight after we've gone through them we did put an aftermarket exhaust on um because we didn't want we didn't want a loud vehicle we did that for the sake of being able to have a casual conversation in the truck on a tour and also for the you know all the locals and all the people who are going to be around this truck and not necessarily in they don't want to hear these things they don't want to hear noise all the time right so we with all of our trucks go out of our way to make sure it's quiet because the goal is not to be loud and obnoxious and I've noticed there's some some people out there that they they'll make it the opposite way they do go as loud as they can yes and it's just annoying because there's 150 loud vehicles on the trail every day right it's just to the point of come on you know so in in the truck in the truck in the bed that you've bobbed you shortened this thing 4 foot MH you put in professional racing seats or off-road racing seats with real safety harnesses I was actually here when the first cage you guys designed was being done mhm that roll cage is its own entity correct can you am I saying that right yeah so this this is basically its own pod the whole cage the cage the seats the seat belts if heaven forbid in the event that this truck just gets shredded the cage and the seats will all be safely protected and stay with it even no matter what happens up in the front of the body of the truck not that it would separate we do a pretty good job attaching everything um but in the event it is its own little pod for safety it's like an escape pod built right in and this uh this cage is very well engineered very well built specifically for this exact size of truck just huge and heavy so it will handle a rollover and on this particular vehicle there's one thing that I noticed that's in the rear well we haven't got to the rear yet go ahead continue yeah don't let me interrupt it's still early for me no worries so yeah nice big 53s I mean that's amazing how big I mean it's to your shoulder almost almost and I mean I'm not a tall guy but I'm not the shortest neither am I but it's a big big big big tire so to put that in their perspective I'm about 5'9 right all right Jo us okay four point harnesses of course with the bucket seats um this is how we Mount most of our passengers with a ladder so we'll just kind of demonstrate that for you okay we've got a nice collapsing ladder it hooks on every single row and then when it's time to on board we just set the lther up and we haven't had really hardly any issues with Mobility as far as people getting in and anytime we do have mobility issues we have the second best way to mount this truck or possibly the first best we have a wheelchair lift that can deadlift 800 lb okay so if you have anybody with mobility issues where they can't do the ladder you've added one of these bad lades on the back yep so this is a fold out wheelchair lift uh basically it'll fold flat it'll drop all the way down to the ground we can get whoever in with wheelchairs or if they're having other type mobility issues like they can't really we had a gal the other day so with this Millennium 2 setup you made these trucks handicapped accessible have you had people on tours that came on board with wheelchairs yep we've had quadriplegics um we've had people who just had every type of mobility issue from they can't use their arms to climb up very well because they had shoulder issues or they' got other other types of issues um this wheelchair lift is slow steady and very powerful it lifts up a couple bodies effortlessly that's crazy that is crazy and I do like to point and give a shout out to # rolling strong that's not ours that is wheelchairs for warriors so that's an organization a 501c3 that goes out of their way to provide these top shelf off-road wheelchairs for veterans right I've seen some of the the setups they're coming out with and they're insane they are they are insane so rolling strong people you know you've you've done it you've been overseas you've seen what happens to people and it's good to support them when they get back home because sometimes sadly the government doesn't actually pick up the slack like they should yep in some cases and that's all I'll say you hear you hear real horror stories about that right and this is one of the one of uh one of the organizations that we like to cooperate with and help out any way we can cuz they're just a great group great people I've met almost everybody in their entire organization every one of them are just salt of people nice nice I love the license plate too it took me a minute to decode it tons of fun y the little seven-year-old girl that was on there figured it out right away I'm like yeah it took me a day that little seven-year-old on here last night awesome she was awesome nothing got over her head nope not at all okay uh we're looking right at it yeah that's the rear steer so there we are that's the package right there that's what really sends this truck over the edge um hopefully not literally but not literally but yeah I mean we this the steering on this thing gave you capability that was insane like I saw it in action and you were Wheeling it like it was second nature no big deal you know driving the group in the truck and steering front and rear that's that's quite a bit of things it's a lot going on you feel a bit of a train conductor for the first while pretty soon it be natural uh but yeah so we we of course always overbuild whatever we're doing we want to make it stronger and more powerful and more tolerance than anything we'd ever possibly need right for two reasons one it's going to reduce maintenance substantially two safety right you know safety is second right did it take you it did it scratch that did it take you a while to find somebody to work on the truck that you were actually comfortable with they'd get it done for a decent price but in a in a time frame in a timely manner I got lucky um I ran into a group called Midnight 4x4 and uh those guys they flat do solid work I mean voice equipment as well they do excellent work um and I've had a very long standing continuing relationship with both organizations voice equ midnight 4x4 I'll tell you what they do put out a good product it looks beautiful everything that's under here is beautiful you know what I mean mechanically speaking the truck looks brand spanking new yeah and I mean you've got a massive is that a 6x6 in the back the white one oh it's a 4x4 it's that's a 4x4 that's a massive truck until you see this next to it it's just it's insane dude it's insane it almost doesn't exist in the same room when it's with this thing and I love your shop this is like a uh this is like a pharmaceutical Place yeah we try to keep it clean and organized it is nice it's nice all right go uh you want engine bay what do you want to do um what whatever you want to talk about cuz I I will keep distracting you and sidetracking you for no reason that's what I do that's what we're doing here it's getting questions uh so yeah it Sports a 70 gallon diesel tank which we I really don't have to fuel up too often it's surprising how far the struck will go on 70 gallons wow it's unreal like sometimes it's so far I go oh when's the last time I put fuel and I better check and it's always got plenty of fuel what did you say about the tree everybody do what did you say can you say that again at good I will admit her logic is far more sound than mine I agree I agree how old are you seven a seven-year-old with better logic than me imagine that you all should be very scared that I'm driving instead of her [Music] so with all that in mind let's get to the actual off-roading and unlike other dudes I've rolled with that are in the service industry we'll call it in Moab Mike actually cares about his uh the people that pay him for his service to the point where he literally picks everybody up all the guests that are booked for the tour for the night the day whatever type of tour it may be because he offers all types of different toys you can find them right on his website he picks them all up individually at the hotel room and Mike's demeanor as serious and straight laac as he seems to be when he's behind the seat it is entertaining not only does he pick you up not only does he entertain you but he takes you around and actually explains the history of what it is you're seeing in Moab which is phenomenal in my opinion so here we go so after he picks up all the guest for the tour for that night he explains to them where they're going what they're doing he shows them how to lock themselves into the safety harnesses he shows them that there are snacks and beverages available and he introduces them to Brutus who will be your tour guide because the truck literally follows Brutus the entire trip if you look to the left at 9:00 you can see Brutus out in the lead and the tour has officially begun here we go I would expect this is right this is like right [Music] they ask so many [Music] questions all right you see the sign here we got a decision to make oh boy we going the most interesting thing to me about this entire tour was the diversity of people on this tour we had it we had from ages 7 years old to 81 years old male and female all different walks of life all different parts of the country and everybody absolutely loved this you would have thought they were on a bullet train or something else instead of a massive truck the biggest truck in Moab doing the toughest [Music] Trails the craziest thing I've noticed about this is that his truck with a load of passengers there's 14 people total in the vehicle if memory serves correctly and this truck literally handles better on the trails as far as tipping side to side front to back whatnot than my vehicle does in my last vehicle in the last jeep that I was in on fins and things now fins and things isn't the worst Trail but it I've absolutely without a doubt seen every other time I've been on it somebody's flipped over you know so you can absolutely get hurt Mike has has been able to dial these trucks in amazingly because he's this is his fifth truck and he has one hell of a sense of humor if you listen closely in this uh clip right here he scared me [Music] all right should we crab walk this [Music] hill That's crazy dude I can't handle one steering wheel you're doing two at once nice a lot easier the helicopter I would expect this is relaxed right this is like the helicopter I on the ground type [Music] right what is that I'm here is that your transfer case or your brakes yeah is that what it is the truck's just bringing his temperature down got a clutch on it gotta so it kicks on when it's a little hot turns off when it's not I ask so many questions cuz when I start editing I just start blathering you know what I mean all right you see this sign here yeah we got a decision to make oh boy we going easy or hard hard it is you wish every now and again it's fun to pretend like you get a choice that's right that's right [Music] all right every now and again all right that bad feeling I have okay you know the bad feeling I mentioned earlier oh it went away turns out it was just gas when I get when I become gassy I get to be a fussy little guy I thought this was pistol good point petrol petrol all right here we go let's get on the good stuff huh like I said you guys are all welcome to the video once it's done that way everything I video all six cameras you got it [Music] [Music] too I'm glad this worked out man yeah the weather's cooperated you what I complain about him like how do I it's too high it's going to be an outrageous Sunset I'm [Music] [Music] sure oh my all right now if you look straight ahead where Brutus is at you're going to notice the trail takes a turn for the worst not youo worry about that little guy that little guy wor about that little guy the beauty is they can't see the trail come back there see what way it this was scary in my Haiti because I couldn't see over the hood yeah that's what got me you know like how Brutus is using the environment to his Advantage yeah [Music] [Music] rain we are now approaching Dead Man's drop yep just don't looking it's not real it's not really cold that I just think it sound sporty well regardless of what it is called good luck and may the odd be ever in your favor also remember your training that's right notice the angle of the [Music] camera all right so maybe it's not that big a deal which you could imagine if it was right un dude you scared the out of me scared me a little bit too the agility of this truck and the ability of the driver is absolutely there's no one that comes close and I know I've said that about others but here's the deal and everybody should understand this when you're doing things like this any type of an off-road Trail the smaller the vehicle the more agile and easy it is to do the larger the vehicle the more ridiculously dangerous it gets and now you've got other people's lives hanging in the balance and Mike makes it look like a walk in the park I asked him why he stopped flying helicopters and he said because of the stress this to him like he said is simply a walk in the park this truck on its 53in tires handled things that other vehicles would have a really hard time on this particular drop he's doing right here your truck any average vehicle ends up doing a nose stand on the front bumper until you finally fall out unless you do it wrong and then you [Music] crash so the cage go down to the I know I know that I remember that so if the cage gets ripped out the seats the same they right I remember that remember that was your biggest [Music] conc all right Dr No brother the Drone just takes 1 minute to start up so here it is here's where he made the iconic hell's Revenge look like Child's Play everybody that four-wheels everybody that's into Adventure or highrisk dangerous type activities this is the motherload right here and he's doing it in a 13 14,000lb vehicle on 53in tires like a walk in the park and the beauty part about this is he's rolling directly into the sun this is a sunset tour so I'm kind of freaking out because I'm sitting right next to him and I can't see a thing I cannot see a thing the sun's directly in his eyes but he's prepared for it and like he had said previously this truck is an extension of himself if you've driven any type of a vehicle of this caliber of this nature you understand that after a while things just become second nature and if you have the type of a mindset where you can learn how to fly a helicopter from books and schooling on your own simply because you want to you are usually above most others you know what I mean people that think loud exhaust are amazing people that don't you know I don't know Mike's just a different type of guy that's all there is to it I'm going to leave it at that but but this is the bread and butter and I got as much footage as I possibly could and some was lent to me we'll call it that how about that for the people that want to you know you know who you are also once he gets to his objective which is the dinosaur tracks he does a tour and gives a very comprehensive very well-spoken portrayal of what the people are standing on what they're looking at and what it meant in our history and we'll get to that in a little bit I'm putting all this footage in because this footage took a lot of work so it is what it is you can skip there's chapters in this video Feel Free or don't but this is amazing stuff and nobody else can say they did this doing this in a big Hummer is cool but it still is not a bobbed 6x6 at all there's just no two ways around that so there it is [Music] he [Music] hey hey [Music] hey [Music] he [Music] all right so that's the dark and jury let's talk about the cool stuff so what we've been driving on tonight is known as the Petrified sandings that's all these rocks but what we're standing on is not a part of that formation at all now this formation that we're on about 190 million years ago this was the top ler in Moab and that kicks off the early Jurassic Period now during the early Jurassic Period Mo was much closer to Sea right where we're standing would have been less than 500 ft above sea level pretty close now where we're standing right now is about 4,700 ft above sea level so huge about 4200 ft in variation going down going back into the [Music] you w [Music] [Music] oop dude well done on a few occasions I accidentally drove out of here in rear whe drive cuz I forgot I didn't have everybody does that though they just don't say it yeah everybody does that my point is I was fulling loaded and I couldn't even tell oh oh my bad okay I didn't catch that far climbing at that and two drive along yeah wow I mean you can do a lot of stuff in two will drive with these trucks but a great way to take one some of the stress from your tail in as being four driver right you know right it's good to de-stress your vehicle where you can now everybody likes the new exit I don't yeah but I only ran it a few times going out coming in coming out my worst part of the day for me yep I hear you through w [Music] hey what help get into [Music] that you got to love everybody stacked up on you right behind you like you're getting ready to go through a door normally I let him go by but yeah but it doesn't matter it is what it is they saw you [Music] there up there had to get you one last time got me okay that's what I'm good at I'm a professional than speed rers when we get down to the parking lot I'll tell you something I wasn't going to say till we were done yeah usually I let the guys if anybody catches up to on the trail I usually let him get by oh I yeah he yeah we're filming somehow let's keep it going and they should be using you back up there's too many guys that have ended up eating the truck in front of him lost his drinks or whatever and you would pancake that oh man they'd learn a valuable lesson yes so I kept thinking all the uh all the ill all the ill will I have towards the recer guy watch us get up here and need him you know like don't say it don't say it actually i' go get my own I hope so so after doing what seemed physically impossible we simply air the truck up we meaning Mike and his dog and send everybody on their way and everybody was happy it was amazing how well he interacted with the guest and how much the guest enjoyed this trip and like I said the guest ranged from 7 years old to 80 years old and everyone had a great time if you want to book your own tour this is something like hang gliding or bungee jumping this is insane and again Mike and Big Iron tours are literally the kings of Moab period there's no two ways around it if you enjoyed that video hit the like share and subscribe leave a comment below and I will return the favor all links will be in the description box below I am out

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Length: 41min 56sec (2516 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 24 2024