2019 Build-Off Discussion

Lets do our parts in trying to keep the Build Topics uncluttered with random discussions.  Please feel free to bring those build off discussions to this topic!

Build Off starts in 1 week, February 1, 2019!

Good luck to the participants!

wow already haha...... I have a wheel horse I might need to enter to keep the motivation to work on it...... I have 6 or 7 other candidates as well...

I wish the build off season could be shifted to take place over the winter instead of the summer.  How it is currently set up is great for the younger guys that have summers off, but I work myself to death that time of year.  The only time I realistically have time to build a build off machine as a self employed handyman that could actually place is over the winter when my work is slower, but that's between build-off seasons. 

Mud Rat is still for sale by the way and would make a great build off machine for someone.  I'd be willing to meet someone halfway for the right price.

I do have a question for the admins running the 2019 build off, I know using a atv frame is not allowed, but is using the front section of one grafted on to a lawn mower chassis allowed? I was thinking of doing my little JD82 with full front and rear suspension and entering the build off but want to know if my plans to use the entire front end off an atv would disqualify me.

well im going to join the build off one more time !! i have a bad a#$ build in mind and i have never done this type of build before so this year will be very interesting to watch , im a very fast builder and i know it wont take me to long to start it and to finish it , this will be a good year for me and what i have planed for this year STAY TUNED BECAUSE IT WILL BE VERY INTERESTING !!

I personally do not think a whole piece grafted on would be allowed.  Maybe @Doug, @Doc Sprocket can chime in.  I know @Doc Sprocket grafted "pieces" of an ATV suspension in, but not a whole section last year.

If I hear otherwise, I will update.

EDIT: Moving posts to Build-off discussion

Crazy_Carl wrote:

How it is currently set up is great for the younger guys that have summers off, but I work myself to death that time of year.

Haha, Carl, the old man!! 

Seriously though, I don't get summers off either.  I school year-round to make up time for ranch work.  The only time I get time to work on stuff is mostly in the early colder months (November, December, January) when there's no work to be done (February I'm staying up all night with newborn lambs LOL), so I agree with this.

bow tie mud guy wrote:

well im going to join the build off one more time !! i have a bad a#$ build in mind and i have never done this type of build before so this year will be very interesting to watch , im a very fast builder and i know it wont take me to long to start it and to finish it , this will be a good year for me and what i have planed for this year STAY TUNED BECAUSE IT WILL BE VERY INTERESTING !!

MightyRaze wrote:

I personally do not think a whole piece grafted on would be allowed.  Maybe @Doug, @Doc Sprocket can chime in.  I know @Doc Sprocket grafted "pieces" of an ATV suspension in, but not a whole section last year.

If I hear otherwise, I will update.

OK, here is the Ruling on the Question!

@Doug wrote:

Depends on how much of the frame. Like if it's just the frame where the suspension brackets are that would probably be fine so long the vast majority of the new frame is inherently within the rules

Crazy_Carl wrote:

I wish the build off season could be shifted to take place over the winter instead of the summer.  How it is currently set up is great for the younger guys that have summers off, but I work myself to death that time of year.  The only time I realistically have time to build a build off machine as a self employed handyman that could actually place is over the winter when my work is slower, but that's between build-off seasons. 

Mud Rat is still for sale by the way and would make a great build off machine for someone.  I'd be willing to meet someone halfway for the right price.

Double W Cross Ranch wrote:

Crazy_Carl wrote:

How it is currently set up is great for the younger guys that have summers off, but I work myself to death that time of year.

Haha, Carl, the old man!! 

Seriously though, I don't get summers off either.  I school year-round to make up time for ranch work.  The only time I get time to work on stuff is mostly in the early colder months (November, December, January) when there's no work to be done (February I'm staying up all night with newborn lambs LOL), so I agree with this.

Year one started Jan 1 and went to Oct 31. :-)

@Crazy_Carl yeah I agree. Spring summer and fall I'm booked every day of the week mowing lawns. To get anything done on the mowers I got to be up late at night plus make time for night school. October-April would be ideal for build off but for us that don't have heated places where we could spray paint becomes a problem. I really like the idea though of a winter build off.

Really diggin the VIDEO updates to the threads!  Keep up the good work!

@MightyRaze Thank you sir.

Hmm...  I'm gonna need to join the build off if we don't see some more people!

@MightyRaze heck yeah you better. Over the years has the participant number gone up or down?

I’ll be in....but priorities. I’ve gotta get some more parts ordered for the impala. I want that car running by the end of next month. The ranger is good where it’s at, gotta fix both snowblowers (by the time I fix them next weekend we will probably be done with snow for the year), but the mk2 is going to haspin. So it’ll get done in a timely fashion....once I start on it lol

Also on the subject of haspin I’m hoping to have my diesel generator running and I’ll bring it and the box trailer. I’m gonna be livin the high life, no leaky tent for me hehe. Might even have my fridge and microwave. At least the microwave...

Jeremiah R. Cooper wrote:

@MightyRaze heck yeah you better. Over the years has the participant number gone up or down?

It's been up and down year to year.  This year seems to be a slow start.

That's a good thing and a bad thing.

OK, I think I have about talked myself into entering. I wasn't going to, but what the hey!... I have a Dr appt this week, so after that I will make a final decision.

@MightyRaze awesome! Who will approve your built? Lol.

Either Doug or Doc.

@MightyRaze Since you already have a couple of nice off road tractors are you going to build something for one of your kids that's also a build off rig?

I'm going to go ahead and enter this one.  No, this will be more of a utility build.  The interest appears to have been lost with the kids for the time being. 

Man, everyone in the Build-Off this year has a pink username except for me! What is going on here??? This sucks!! This completely unfair and unneccessary treatment will not go unforgiv- err.... wait a minute.... oh yeah, Mod thing. I remember now........

Mod trumps build-off!  LOL I could remove your mod-ship if you really want that purple/pink name.

Now that's funny. I figured out a long time ago why you 2 wasn't pink. I don't see why we are pink anyway. We are just normal form users even though were in the build off.