Trial By Fire!!! Maxx Powell's Toyota Tacoma Gets An Offroad "Shake Down Run"

a lot of people ask why would you do this why would you take a perfectly good rig and destroy it in the woods somewhere and i challenge you guys to just come and try this yourself i was born up in the mountain raised by an old grizzly bear [Music] i was born up in the mountain raised by an old grizzly bear [Music] i swear by mother nature and i breathe fresh clean naturally [Music] my friend max just picked up his first true trail rig and so today we're gonna head to a local spot put it through its paces and give him a little bit of a test as well today on dirt lifestyle we are at lb we're gonna do max's inaugural run we got my homie franz you guys have been asking for him here he is everyone knows kelly muddy beards and we have max max doesn't know it yet but when i was growing up in order to get into the gang you had to get what was called jumped in so today max is going to get jumped into being a true rock crawler that's pmwa possibly the best pnwa possible that's pacific northwest we have people watching from like i mean or israel and stuff so pnw is the pacific northwest corner of of the united states and um we have certain traditions around here yeah you don't have to if you don't want to but no we're um the whole idea today is we're gonna put him through the ringer i think i'm gonna title this video trial by fire because we want to push max to his limit this is his first time he's been off road lots of times he's a fine driver and everything else but we're gonna put him on a trail that he has never done anything close to we're gonna do the busy wild today this time of year it can be as screwed up as it could possibly be and so we're gonna sandwich him right in the middle so we have lots of ways to pull him uh forward and backward i think we're gonna end on boat ramp it should be an epic day i can't wait to get started the busy wild trail is located in a place called elbi hills orv and like many of the trail systems in the pacific northwest this isn't a very big area all of the trails in lb combined equal about eight miles but that doesn't mean this is going to be a short day if you come here in late winter early spring these trails will be as nasty as they can be and we couldn't be more excited to show max what he's in for [Music] leave all out this place i ain't gonna go hell no are [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] um um it wasn't very long until we had to start pulling cable and if you wheeled up here as long as i have you know that this is an inevitability i've seen people on 44s and even pull cable on this trail during this time of year and serves no shame in getting a little bit of help to make sure you can get to the next obstacle max and kelly both gave this obstacle a ton of effort banging revloner with multiple tries but in the end they had to just take the bypass and go around in reality this isn't the metaphorical or literal hilton dion because we're only a few hundred feet into this trail and you don't want to break here but in my opinion optional sections are what make trails like these so fun and there's no way i'm going to take the bypass [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] oh dude that's a hole that is a hole oh my gosh man i hope you can see in the camera i just don't think it's going to do it justice how deep this is [Laughter] wow and there's snow and ice in it you know because mud's not slippery enough you're six three and you're you're nestled down in there as one might say can you taste the mountain dew a bear pass through here about a half hour ago oh my god he actually licked it that's so mud there she's gross sorry what do you think franz you ready you ready show us how it's done [Music] [Applause] so uh it's hard to overstate just how difficult a trail like this can be this time of year you're watching a very seasoned driver on this trail in which he is very familiar on 43-inch tall tires and plenty of belly clearance and he still is just getting absolutely buried in this stuff this is exactly what we live for up here in the pacific northwest we don't want to go to trails where it's easy and you just idle through everything we want it to be challenging we want to have to drive we want to have to fight and even though there's a second here where franz might look like he's a little bit discouraged believe me this is exactly what he loves this is what we all love and he's having just as much fun as the rest of us well nope we're doing it again this doesn't look good for the rest of us does it these 43-inch super swamper sx's are not just much larger than the rest of the tires in the group but they're a great mud tire so we all know exactly what the future holds for us and that is lots of deep sticky mud go ahead let me see that gopro oh it's a little a little sticky a little sticky oh yeah a little crazy well bronze made it through because it means it's my turn yeah that's it's it's all you man you got this we will see mud it's like that movie there will be blood except this one's there will be mine there will be mud and then um there will be black smoke and we'll see well that's what we're here to see we'll see how it turns out i'm gonna roll all the windows up yep and then roll the coal then roll [Music] whew [Music] wow hi logo go go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that winch is doing a lot of the work all right well this is the part where we see if my little toyota can get through this and i don't have high hopes [Music] [Applause] oh you're already bare yeah the thing is the hole keeps going lower than your tire does like i said before max has just picked up this toyota tacoma and he's done nothing to it so there's no winch there's no real self-recovery system so that leaves it up to the rest of us which is something we're completely prepared for i'm just going to hook a strap for me to him and we're going to use my winch to pull both of us through this mud hole and hopefully once we get out of it we'll be back to wheeling under his own power i got nailed kelly made the best attempt out of all of us which is really surprising but at the end of the day he still ended up with the same result sometimes no matter what you do you're going to leave on the hook if you're built for it and you can make it through this first tough section the rest of this trail is really cool it's beautiful it's not very difficult and it's a cool place to spend the afternoon [Music] [Music] all right [Music] where are we going next france all the rocks and then boat ramp older rocks than boat ramp all the alders and all the boat ramp yeah have you heard of either one no have you ever ridden an older it's already shimmy to the top of an older tree and then you shoot your body out sideways and you let it bend down it's fun yeah just drive sometimes you're too extreme for us he flies and his paramotor rides wild trees you gotta ride those trees [Music] this is a quarter wall too that is can't buy it yeah this is this corner it was ever removed without tools that's efficiency yeah dry bottom riding birds honey berry counting dogs i do what i want to do quick at night [Music] oh [Music] yeah yeah [Music] bless you once you're done with your sneeze it stuck me up so you guys uh would you guys want to go hit up boat ramp and see what it's all about yeah cool just to see it yeah right yep i think after seeing franz break and then you struggle i think i'm just gonna save my parts for for both another for a boat ramp yeah you know might as well dude it is extra slippery out here today you can't tell sitting at home because you could be in southern california but it's like it's been in the 30s all day it's real cold all the rocks are slippery because it's a super cold and b they're all covered in like a light dusting of you know mud and stuff so and you know gear oil from from mud stuff and gear oil and stuff like that so everything's extra slippery today so now that my excuses have been fed into the internet we can talk about going to boat ramp uh my friend franz down here has some wounds he is licking do not i did not [Laughter] and uh so i think that he's just gonna let back to the trailer he has spare parts but because it's the end of the day i've convinced him i think nate's tired he wants to take a nap i want to take a nap and have some food so we're gonna go hit boat ramp and see if we can make it in my opinion boat ramp is the most difficult obstacle in this entire park i've had long stretches where every time i try it i do it in one shot i've had long stretches where i can't make it up at all today who knows what's gonna happen but at this part in the day max is clearly ready to show us that he's not scared and he definitely wants to be a part of this group i think max did an amazing job trying to fight his way up an obstacle like this he didn't have bead locks so he's only aired down to about 10 psi he doesn't have experience going up an obstacle that's this complicated and this is literally the worst i have ever seen it between the way the rocks have been shifted around the cold temperatures and the crazy amount of mud that's stuck to the surfaces of these rocks this is almost impassable right now once again for some reason this is exactly what we're looking for up here and i was happy to see that this is what max is looking forward [Applause] the to [Music] [Applause] [Music] as you can see i got a rock stuck between my tire and my front shock and this is just par for the course when you're wheeling on wet loose cold rocks they're going to find their way into places and they're going to bash up the most expensive gear on your rig lucky for me after putting a little bit of tension with the winch and then driving forward i was able to get the rock to eject out of the rear of the front axle freeing me up to continue to work my way up the rest of boat ramp but not without the assistance of a winch of course [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i know [Music] it's your bumper [Music] okay [Applause] [Music] today was awesome this is exactly why i love lb i want it to be hard i want it to be fun it's unfortunate that fronds had a little had a little break but let's talk about that right now but he has the extra parts to fix it not a big deal so what do we think is our new friend max a part of the club is he he's definitely going to get a jean jacket he's a dirtbag like the rest of us i think he did great dude it was a blast yeah i mean i bring people up here sometimes and they are stressed out but he was cool the whole time he enjoyed using his new truck and positive attitude all around you know cheese sticks or something i'm real hungry we're all hungry we're gonna go get something to eat so if you like the video thumbs up subscribe all that other stuff if you want to follow me on social media i'm at your lifestyle mate if you want to follow max he has max it's just he is i can't speak he is he is max powell if you want to follow my friend kelly where are they going to find you kelly muddy beards 4x4 muddy beards 4x4 and fronds hi tell the people where they can follow you well at the moment i know i'm not on youtube i keep getting it from everybody but uh if you want to follow me on tick tock i'm frizzle underscore d underscore nizzle frizzled nizzle see you next time i got nailed

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Id: iGcyPq2Ku3k

Length: 21min 29sec (1289 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 21 2021