WE ROCK at Spring Creek

[flexicokerboy]

World Extreme Rockcrawling Championship Series Grand Nationals

September 14-16 at Spring Creek

Spike TV will be there too... so hope to god for Jesse

heres the link for info

http://www.tx4wd.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2631

[BMFScout]

Is this the one near your house Jerry? There is a FTA Football Game that weekend, maybe we combine both?!

[jerryg79]

yeah it is by my house....let's do dis. :beer:

[CRaSHnBuRN]

would this mean a permanent rock crawl course would be built there?

[8Runner]

I'm there. I sent them a note about volunteering too.

[jerryg79]

Depending on how things pan out, i might skip the football game that weekend. It's Louisiana-Monroe, and that will be 3 games in a row.

Once it gets a little closer we can figure something out.

[Reckless]

Its my 21st bday that weekend. hmm decisions decisions

[CRaSHnBuRN]

I'll be there

[J Cooper]

sounds like a plan... speaking of football did you notice ALL the home games blow except for texas this year?

[uglyota]

Austin City Limits weekend. Talk about conflicting events. Nobody's gonna be at ACL this year

[JeepPhisherman]

Lineup for ACL sucks, but I'll probably go. Eric, give me a shout if you decide to.

[uglyota]

Bob Dylan does not suck, even if he is 180 years old :flipoff2:
Yeah I'll give you a call if I can make it and get tickets :gigem:

[agjohn02]

im gonna check it out

[8Runner]

I've been talking to some of the organizers via pirate and am planning on judging at the event. I told them I might have some other folks interested in helping out too. They need about 10 more secondary judges (little experience required, if you have more experience or can BS well there may be more primary openings). Obviously you get in free for the full weekend, and they are also talking about giving all judges free hotel rooms and possibly covering some/all food & drink for the weekend. This is a 2 day commitment so you need to plan on being there early for both Saturday & Sundsy. If you are interested, post up, email me your contact info if I don't have it already and I will send a list of volunteers over to the event organizers in the next week or so. If I don't know you, include a little bit about your wheeling experience.

[CheapJeep]

My dad and I will be going. If anyone needs a place to stay you're more than welcome to crash at my parents place, it's about 15 minutes away.

[Reckless]

Im in fo sho. Taking the following monday off.

[8Runner]

I have gotten a few responses to my volunteer request by email. Any other takers? I need to get back to her this week. There may be other opportunities closer to the event, but they may not include a hotel room or be quite as appealing.

[stx4wheeler]

i think i will drink beer and watch the event and the redneckness crowds

[jerryg79]

i think i will drink beer and watch the event and the redneckness crowds

good call, i can assure that the redneckness will be in full effect

[Reckless]

i think i will drink beer and watch the event and the redneckness crowds


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[robertf03]

yeah it is by my house....let's do dis. :beer:

its a 6pm game. I'm thinking its not going to happen. tailgate, post game celebration of fran's greatness, then sleep till noon

[JB]

good call, i can assure that the redneckness will be in full effect

Imagine Alto......then TRIPLE it.....and you get Spring Creek

[stx4wheeler]

i can picture it now, heey uhh baby lets go down to the creek with a case of budweiser and check out that thare rock crawling thang, it aint no mud bog, but it'll git 'r'dun. This will be awesome, WEROC wont ever be the same again



The crew kab klogger must be made ready for this event :gigem:

[jerryg79]

Imagine Alto......then TRIPLE it.....and you get Spring Creek

i know, i see these people at wal-mart.

[jerryg79]

its a 6pm game. I'm thinking its not going to happen. tailgate, post game celebration of fran's greatness, then sleep till noon

maybe you missed the part where i said im not going to the game.

[fbronco86]

i can picture it now, heey uhh baby lets go down to the creek with a case of budweiser and check out that thare rock crawling thang, it aint no mud bog, but it'll git 'r'dun. This will be awesome, WEROC wont ever be the same again



The crew kab klogger must be made ready for this event :gigem:

I think we have a better chance of seeing kreb's dream buggy than the klogger. :gigem:

[KrazyKarl02]

I think we have a better chance of seeing kreb's dream buggy than the klogger. :gigem:

Hey Mike, how is your rolling collection of iron oxide (early bronco)?

[fbronco86]

Hey Mike, how is your rolling collection of iron oxide (early bronco)?

After this weekend all that iron oxide should be painted up. I will try to post some pics if my BFF brings her camera over.

[BMFScout]

BFF, really means my "Boy Friend Frank" the "catcher" doesn't it Mike? Does this mean you are out on the cruise/boating this weekend?

[fbronco86]

BFF, really means my "Boy Friend Frank" the "catcher" doesn't it Mike? Does this mean you are out on the cruise/boating this weekend?

I got some family crap to attend friday night.

I am thinking about coming over sat for some boating action.

[jerryg79]

Mike and Karl, yall should bring your dirt bikes down and we can go ride on sat. morning. It finally dried out enough to check out the powerline by my house and it looks pretty cool. They've paved the streets back there so its easy to get to and you dont have to be out in the open like before. According to map quest the powerline goes all the way to jesse jones park in humble. I rode on my bike for a good 20 minutes and got up on a hill and didnt see any end in sight.

I'd even be up for riding it next sun. the 19th.

[jerryg79]

This is going to be greatness. According to the Spring Creek Offroad forum, they will be running the mudbogs sat. night after the Rock Crawling. The people watching should be exquisite.

I'll most likely be having a keg at my place in the very least. 2 spare beds and lots of floor space as well. Jimmy my offer to pick you up if you fly down still stands.

[BMFScout]

I'll probably make a decision that week whether or not to go to the game.

[stx4wheeler]

dibs on a bed at jerrys

[jerryg79]

so who all is going to this?

Samantha will be out of town, and im working on her to allow me keg privelages. (sp? that doesnt look right)

[BMFScout]

Probably going to the game, might stay in Dallas.

[jerryg79]

Probably going to the game, might stay in Dallas.

should've expected as much dallasita. :flipoff2:

[Reckless]

Ill prob be there more than likely.

[BMFScout]

should've expected as much dallasita. :flipoff2:

:rainbow: and unimaginative, come on Jerry you're better than that. Frommer's doesn't talk **** about Dallas?

[jerryg79]

:rainbow: and unimaginative, come on Jerry you're better than that. Frommer's doesn't talk **** about Dallas?


Shouldn't have expected anything less from the Houstonites.

it was like this, but funny.

-ita implies small and female. i like it.

[8Runner]

Hayley & I will be there, volunteering & staying in a nearby hotel.

[redcagepatrol]

Lynda, Jacob and myself will be there - unless Gma wants to watch Jacob... Cox is supposed to be judging too...

[agjohn02]

reverend horton heat is in houston somewhere the 15th, anybody wanna go?

[agjohn02]

details:

Reverend Horton Heat

September, 15 2007 at Meridian
1503 Chartres St, Houston, Texas 77003
Cost :

w/ Nashville ***** and Gore Gore Girls

[jerryg79]

details:

Reverend Horton Heat

September, 15 2007 at Meridian
1503 Chartres St, Houston, Texas 77003
Cost :

w/ Nashville ***** and Gore Gore Girls

Chatres St?

Sounds gay and french.

Apparently its by Minute Maid Park according to Samantha.

[agjohn02]

yep

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartres

even if you misspell it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2tres

[jerryg79]

sweet lu is headed out there right now to check it out I would meet up with them but of course i have gay scott's wedding stuff to do. He said they will have a booth tomm, and he thinks you can bring in coolers, if not i'll be flasking it.

I've heard you'll have to ride buses to get in too.

[jerryg79]

me and frick are gonna head out around lunch time. Still an extra bed if anyone needs one.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3596119

evidently the spring land owner lost his truck to Humberto....

[redcagepatrol]

fixn to head out to 4wp for the tech pretty soon. Might go to Molly's tonight too and say hi to some old friends

[jerryg79]

which molly's are they going to?

Have fun with 1960 at this time they're building an overpass at kuykendahl and its awesome.

[stx4wheeler]

jerry i think the spring crek site says no coolers.

[8Runner]

Sorry, no coolers & you do have to ride a shuttle. Let me know if you want us to take something in for you Sunday. John & I are judging & Hayley is playing water girl or something. See you there.

p.s. Molly's is next door to the pimp Super 8 we're at and is bumpin, but we've been drinking since 7:30 and us old peeps just can't hang...

[stx4wheeler]

See you there.



not if i can help it.

[8Runner]

not if i can help it.

I was talking to Jerry, as$hat.

Had a blast today, though I am exhausted & a few of the competitors were pricks. It's worth coming to check out if you've never been before and are not too hung over tomorrow.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

That probably was Jerry. ;)

[stx4wheeler]

yes it was jerry. Man me and jerry drank alot yesterday

[redcagepatrol]

I'm guessing that ya'll stayed for the mud drags?

[stx4wheeler]

yes

[JB]

Any pics from this? I dont understand how there are now rocks at Spring. I know someone said that they were shipped in, but it looks like one large slab of rock???

[jerryg79]

it was all sprayed in shotcrete so its rock walls not boulders. There is a thread in the competition thread of pirate that shows the course.

[jerryg79]

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=613709

Luis said they are suppose to pour footings at the bottom of each of the courses to keep the shotcrete from breaking up on the edges.

[Seth]

interesting.

[JB]

Cool, so I guess they do not break up the course afterwards? So SPring Creek has a rock course now? Despite what happened last time I went, maybe it would be worth a Saturday trip.

[jerryg79]

yeah it has a "rock" course. Some of the stuff looked pretty cool. Alot of people were excited about it. The only problem i see is rednecks with huge bumpers ramming the gunnite and busting it up as it only has chainlink for reinforcment.

[Cajun]

Is the course open for us normal folks?

[jerryg79]

as far as i know.

oh wait this normal "my normal" or normal "louisiana normal" :flipoff2:

[stx4wheeler]

some of the courses will be very tight for large and smaller rigs alike if not well equiped. That is if the shotcrete will last that long.

[fbronco86]

What the hell is the difference between gunite and shotcrete?

[jerryg79]

its the same thing, installed the same way, one is a wet mix, the other a dry mix. I googled it earlier cause i was curious.

[JeepPhisherman]

For more elaboration...

Shotcrete vs. gunite
Shotcrete is today an all-inclusive term that describes spraying concrete or mortar with either a dry or wet mix process. However, it may also sometimes be used to distinguish from gunite as a wet-mix. The term shotcrete was first defined by the American Railway Engineers Association (AREA) in the early 1930s.[2] By 1951, shotcrete had become the official generic name of the sprayed concrete process. [2]


Gunite refers only to the dry-mix process, in which the dry cementitious mixture is blown through a hose to the nozzle, where the water is injected immediately prior to application. Gunite was the original term coined by Akeley, and trademarked in 1909, patented in North Carolina. The concrete is blasted by pneumatic pressure from a gun, hence "gun"-ite.

The term "Gunite" became the registered trade mark of Allentown the oldest manufacturer of gunite equipment. Other manufacturers were thus compelled to use other terminology to describe the process such as shotcrete, pneumatic concrete, guncrete, etc. Shotcrete emerged as the most commonly used term after gunite and after the later development of the wet process came to used be for both methods.

[8Runner]

Finally uploading them - will post when they are all up

[bburris]

Cool, so I guess they do not break up the course afterwards? So SPring Creek has a rock course now? Despite what happened last time I went, maybe it would be worth a Saturday trip.

So does this mean there's another course out east of Dallas somewhere from last year?

[agjohn02]

i would assume so, but it must not be in good shape if they didnt want to use it again this year.

[BMFScout]

For more elaboration...

Shotcrete vs. gunite
Shotcrete is today an all-inclusive term that describes spraying concrete or mortar with either a dry or wet mix process. However, it may also sometimes be used to distinguish from gunite as a wet-mix. The term shotcrete was first defined by the American Railway Engineers Association (AREA) in the early 1930s.[2] By 1951, shotcrete had become the official generic name of the sprayed concrete process. [2]


Gunite refers only to the dry-mix process, in which the dry cementitious mixture is blown through a hose to the nozzle, where the water is injected immediately prior to application. Gunite was the original term coined by Akeley, and trademarked in 1909, patented in North Carolina. The concrete is blasted by pneumatic pressure from a gun, hence "gun"-ite.

The term "Gunite" became the registered trade mark of Allentown the oldest manufacturer of gunite equipment. Other manufacturers were thus compelled to use other terminology to describe the process such as shotcrete, pneumatic concrete, guncrete, etc. Shotcrete emerged as the most commonly used term after gunite and after the later development of the wet process came to used be for both methods.

you really should cite your sources, wikipedia whore!! ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotcrete

[8Runner]

Here they are:
http://imageevent.com/scotti/4wheeling/werocknationals

I'd love to make a trip back down there before the course gets too beat up. There is some stuff that is rediculously difficult, but there is also alot that many vehicles in our club could have fun with.

[agjohn02]

get out of the way judge!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufxbkcG4gqM&feature=related