Gallery of Car vs Wild episodes at Discovery Channel

It is more fun with four wheels.

December 9, 2013

 

Link from FHM

Discovery ran a 10 week series of Car vs Wild featuring 3 characters:   Bill Wu, a 4x4 fanatic, Gary Humphrey, a retired SF veteran, and Ruby Jeep.  The  series ran a behind the scene feature show and it could be the end of the series. (They started in September 2013. So it must be the end of the series?)

It is a fascinating series about off roading. Some of the amazing things done:  winching up the Ruby up a 45 degree incline to the top of volcano, doing pendulum for the ruby, hanging it from top of the tree, righting up the ruby using winch and pulleys and straps,   lowering the ruby from edge of the cliff using straps, ropes and the winch.  Pretty scary and dangerous stunts? Maneuvers.

 

Car vs wild - some ingenious tactics in off roading

 

I learn a lot from this car vs wild episodes at Discovery Channel. The main protagonists here are Bill Wu and  and Gary Humphrey.   Take this river crossing for instance using empty drums.

Some ingenious solutions:

1.  The Jeep's engine took in water. There is a danger of hydro lock and wrecking the connecting rods and the engine.  Solution:    remove the spark plugs and have the engine spew out the  water from the spark plug socket holes.  To finally remove the water, Bill put in tequila in cylinder and incinerated the same to vaporize the water.  The engine finally restarted.  Wow.

2.  There was an almost 45 degree drop and could not go down further without endanger the vehicle falling off the steep grade.  Solution:  Bill removed the two rear wheels, had them dragged as anchor.  The friction of the rear drums slowed down their descent.  wow again

3.  There was a scene too where the Ruby was tilted dangerously to a dangerous side (drop off to a river) after the Ruby slipped or made the wrong turn.  The vehicle was righted through an ingenious system of pulleys and straps.   About winching, we were advised not to anchor to trees.  But when your life is in danger, you forget about the trees -  you watch our for your survival

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