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02-04-2014, 04:07 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: In the Middle
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|  How steep of an incline can a well built crawler climb?
I used a piece of plywood and slowly increased the angle of it to see how steep I could climb before flipping over backwards. When watching Youtube videos of well built crawlers it looks like they can climb straight up a wall... just wondering though how vertical can a good crawler go before flipping over backwards?
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02-04-2014, 04:08 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Australia
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| Re: How steep of an incline can a well built crawler climb?
it probably depends how tall the vertical part it or front dig with a little rear
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02-04-2014, 04:33 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: San Diego
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| Re: How steep of an incline can a well built crawler climb?
It also depends on what type of rig you are using: MOA or shafty. A well set up shafty can do some pretty awesome stuff, but an equally well built MOA will inherently be much better. The experience of a driver is fairly minor in this type of driving, but a driver who knows their limits and has good control will be able to climb steeper than the opposite type of driver.
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02-04-2014, 04:38 PM
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| Scale Detail Engineering Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Turtle Island
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| Re: How steep of an incline can a well built crawler climb?
I can climb 180 degrees effortlessly!
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02-04-2014, 04:41 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Oreganastan
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02-04-2014, 04:57 PM
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| Come and take them!®   Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Rolling Hill's of Maryland™
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| Re: How steep of an incline can a well built crawler climb?
Truth! I got a pic of him  .
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02-04-2014, 04:57 PM
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| MODERATOR™   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ohio
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| Re: How steep of an incline can a well built crawler climb?
This takes me back. Need sandpaper on your plywood. Think we were hitting about 70 degrees when focusing on this type of stuff. I used to drive an hour each way for this rock. |
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02-04-2014, 04:58 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Oreganastan
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180 would be upside down & parallel to the ground. | |
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02-04-2014, 06:06 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Earth?
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| Re: How steep of an incline can a well built crawler climb?
62-64 deg on plywood with grip tape was the best I could ever get. That was just straight driving up at low speed, no full throttle runs at the board or throttle hopping to make the rig jump.
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02-04-2014, 06:14 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Fairfield ME
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| Re: How steep of an incline can a well built crawler climb?
It all depends on what angle you hold the camera.  |
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02-04-2014, 07:20 PM
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| Wanna get? Gotta want.   Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: SLC, UT
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| Re: How steep of an incline can a well built crawler climb?
I will measure it next time I am out there but guessing about 80*? Without question the steepest thing I have climbed and close to un doable. To give an idea of how steep it was in person, I first set this obstacle up for the super class and the club got mad at me for thinking it was even possible with a super. |
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02-04-2014, 07:28 PM
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| Wanna get? Gotta want. Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: SLC, UT
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| Re: How steep of an incline can a well built crawler climb?
This one is a measured 77* on my phone and its not near as close to as steep as the climb above. Last edited by Erik D_lux; 02-05-2014 at 06:24 AM. |
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02-04-2014, 07:45 PM
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| Old guy  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Northwest Arkie-saw and we got ROCKS!
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| Re: How steep of an incline can a well built crawler climb? Quote:
 A REAL test is with the plywood and grip tape. If you can get 60 to 65 out of it, you doing great.  Out on the rock you might be able to do a 87* on the face of a rock, cause most the time the line the tire uses isn't 87*.  Quote:
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02-04-2014, 07:57 PM
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| RCC Addict  Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: British Columbia
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I'm an expert at that. | |
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02-05-2014, 02:32 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: In the Middle
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02-05-2014, 02:33 PM
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02-05-2014, 04:03 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: n. palm beach
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02-05-2014, 11:17 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Colorado springs
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02-07-2014, 07:44 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: In the Middle
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