5 Year Trip in a Grenadier Across the World towing a Patriot X3 Which We Live In.

[Zimm]

I never bothered with a website, it only encourages people to ring me.

Me either. I've never advertised. I was sitting in the stands Saturday watching one of the baseball teams I sponsor in a league I sponsor, and a mom is telling me how she spent an hour google searching the company name and logo, and for the life of her, she cant find any info on what the hell the company does that sponsored her sons team.

On topic though, I see Matt is still in Mongolia. (these IP address flags are awesome). Has your cart started to get rebuilt yet? Hows the frame? I was thinking how lucky you were the tires didn't catch with the fuel. Like a Haitian necktie that's typically all she wrote. Is there a lead time when it will be ready?

 

[CRH]

Me either. I've never advertised. I was sitting in the stands Saturday watching one of the baseball teams I sponsor in a league I sponsor, and a mom is telling me how she spent an hour google searching the company name and logo, and for the life of her, she cant find any info on what the hell the company does that sponsored her sons team.

On topic though, I see Matt is still in Mongolia. (these IP address flags are awesome). Has your cart started to get rebuilt yet? Hows the frame? I was thinking how lucky you were the tires didn't catch with the fuel. Like a Haitian necktie that's typically all she wrote. Is there a lead time when it will be ready?

I was genuinely laughing reading that, I have often read your comments and wondered if we would get on in real life, your outlook on life is just the right amount of skewed.

And you are right, we do need to get back to the main family and all their strife. I thought Matt looked like an ex-military type person, then I read his Adventure website and it just explained everything. What a lucky family even with the odd setbacks.

Showed the wife the bridge crossing as funnily enough earlier that day she said i wouldn't be going across a wooden bridge in the Grenadier that we have used previously. She said there was no way on this earth you would have ever got her on those crossings. Maybe it was a blessing in disguise that you didn't have the trailer with you. Do you have any idea on the weight limits or do much larger vehicles cross?

 

[Zimm]

Do you have any idea on the weight limits or do much larger vehicles cross?

I'm counting 10 main cables, they look to be 25mm'ish. That's 1,000,000 pounds of break to start with. If each suspender is the same, you're talking 100k pounds. I don't know about the design and workmanship, but the material is there. A Main Battle Tank could be a bit sketch, but overall I'd be more worried about the upkeep. I like everything about the floating design, except maybe the proximity of ones toes. That would irk an OSHA inspector.

 

[CRH]

I'm counting 10 main cables, they look to be 25mm'ish. That's 1,000,000 pounds of break to start with. If each suspender is the same, you're talking 100k pounds. I don't know about the design and workmanship, but the material is there. A Main Battle Tank could be a bit sketch, but overall I'd be more worried about the upkeep. I like everything about the floating design, except maybe the proximity of ones toes. That would irk an OSHA inspector.

I couldn't believe the floating part, I'm guessing it's easier for maintenance and movement but just looked terrifying. As you said, maintenance is always a worry in these remote parts of the world when their record is bad enough for everything else.

 

[Zimm]

I couldn't believe the floating part, I'm guessing it's easier for maintenance and movement but just looked terrifying. As you said, maintenance is always a worry in these remote parts of the world when their record is bad enough for everything else.

bridges are deigned to move. it takes tension off of the support cables. The vid doesn't show how the deck is held up, so there's guessing going on here. These types of structures are fascinating when encountered. Strong and they don't need heavy equipment to erect. I'll re watch that part.

 

[CRH]

bridges are deigned to move. it takes tension off of the support cables. The vid doesn't show how the deck is held up, so there's guessing going on here. These types of structures are fascinating when encountered. Strong and they don't need heavy equipment to erect. I'll re watch that part.

It can be an odd feeling when you drive across the joints but that looks extreme to anything I've come across (not worldly travelled, so just the local swing bridge etc.)

 

[JG4611]

Great watch. Amazing drone work that keeps you hooked and always great to see you guys putting the Grenadier up to the task. keep up the great content, I'm hooked.

 

[hightechcoonass]

Thanks for this. I think sometimes people forget the actual reality on the ground and expectations are BBC / Netflix / HBO / Amazon level documentaries.

The size of the teams, resources, budgets and time to execute these projects people expect these days is a whole different league to us. Even a lot of YouTubers you see outsource the editing etc.

We have a camera, a drone and a computer and we’re doing it all while on the road… it’s a lot of very late nights, not easy at all. Sometimes we question whether it’s worth it due to the additional strain it puts on the journey but we see it as memories for years to come and a lot of people have asked us to keep going and so we’re going to try our best.

We aim to keep improving all the time. The next project we hope will be very interesting, it’s pretty sensitive but we decided to go for it as the story is a special one and needs telling. A few interviews in that one.

I know the difficulties are enormous, hopefully your series will gain traction soon!