Should this be here?

bderby66 · May 21, 2015

I have it hanging on mine also. It's pretty poor design to have anything hanging below the axle like that on a 4x4. I'll probably only be off-roading on the beach but I would still expect a better design from GM engineers. Shame on them!

Skeeter McSkeet · May 21, 2015

I am in the timber industry and I am in WV quite a bit (along with 4 other states) and I go from riding 5 hours straight on the interstate to climbing some goat path or muddy logging road in 4wd the rest of the day. I always get a chuckle out of friends and family who insist that one particular brand or truck/car is better than the other. I put around 50k a year on a truck and get a new one every 3 years (150k miles) and myself and the guys I work with have had good ones to really bad ones, no matter the brand. We never have engine problems but at around 120k miles we usually start getting front end, transmission, and transfer case problems. We also get the oil changed with what ever is on contract which is usually no name dyno oil and we rarely get the oil changed on time. Makes you take a different look at vehicle reliability and how funny the "what oil do you use" threads are. My silverado though is a garage queen that rarely sees nothing much worse than a muddy field during hunting season and spends most of her time staying parked (about 4k miles a year). I don't tow much or haul a whole lot, just like full size V8 trucks. Kept my 2002 for 12 years and would have kept it longer if it had not started to rot out on me, hope to keep this 2014 for 12 or more years as well.

Small world man I'm in timber now as well. We mange land for The Forestland Group in WV, KY, and VA. I'm the GIS Coordinator though and not a forester by any means.

Out guys have tundras, f150s, and Chevys and all swear by each of them haha. I know they dog them out as well on harvest sites.

-Skeet

tnchevy · May 22, 2015

It is a small world! I know your company and I also dabble in a little Arcview myself! I am a forester (VT grad) and my first job out of school was for a small sawmill in Varney WV (near Williamson KY) buying timber in WV, KY, and VA. I don't know your age but when I was learning GIS in college we loaded it up on 3.5" floppies!

Silverado-Hareek · May 22, 2015

It is a small world! I know your company and I also dabble in a little Arcview myself! I am a forester (VT grad) and my first job out of school was for a small sawmill in Varney WV (near Williamson KY) buying timber in WV, KY, and VA. I don't know your age but when I was learning GIS in college we loaded it up on 3.5" floppies!

Hey I went to VT as well! Class of '07. When did you graduate?

SLESierra · May 22, 2015

It is a small world! I know your company and I also dabble in a little Arcview myself! I am a forester (VT grad) and my first job out of school was for a small sawmill in Varney WV (near Williamson KY) buying timber in WV, KY, and VA. I don't know your age but when I was learning GIS in college we loaded it up on 3.5" floppies!

I live about 30 minutes north of Williamson. Small world indeed. I have several friends in the timber industry and it seems it is making a comeback since coal is on the down turn around here.

tnchevy · May 22, 2015

Hareek, class of '98 so I've got a few years on you.

14LTZ, Yeah the timber industry is coming back but coal is struggling. Most of the people in my family are in the coal business in one way or another (mining, driving trucks, making equipment, etc.) so it is tough but it has always been a boom or bust industry and I am sure it will come back again. I apologize to the OP for hijacking this thread but we have a couple of 2014 trucks that have been abused so I'll try to remember to look at the brake line on those and see how much wear and tear are on them.

20L8TSierra24 · May 24, 2015

Just an FYI, discount tire will give you a credit on the good years, I got $200. Not much, but better than $0 and I wasn't a fan of them.

I sold my goodforoneyears on Craigslist for $450

Skeeter McSkeet · May 27, 2015

It is a small world! I know your company and I also dabble in a little Arcview myself! I am a forester (VT grad) and my first job out of school was for a small sawmill in Varney WV (near Williamson KY) buying timber in WV, KY, and VA. I don't know your age but when I was learning GIS in college we loaded it up on 3.5" floppies!

I started at Marshall University in 2002, we were past the floppys by then lol! I'm going on 31 years old this year.

I live about 30 minutes north of Williamson. Small world indeed. I have several friends in the timber industry and it seems it is making a comeback since coal is on the down turn around here.

Timber can be grown again haha as long as you manage the type of cuts properly I'm told. I'm from Princeton originally and just moved back from Huntington last year. When I was with the DOH I was in Williamson many a day, and anywhere from there and between Huntington and Charleston really. We had cabell, Wayne, Lincoln, Logan, and mingo counties in our district.

Hareek, class of '98 so I've got a few years on you.

14LTZ, Yeah the timber industry is coming back but coal is struggling. Most of the people in my family are in the coal business in one way or another (mining, driving trucks, making equipment, etc.) so it is tough but it has always been a boom or bust industry and I am sure it will come back again. I apologize to the OP for hijacking this thread but we have a couple of 2014 trucks that have been abused so I'll try to remember to look at the brake line on those and see how much wear and tear are on them.

I don't care about the thread jacking stuff as I like to ramble about randomness, and my question was answered a while ago. So anyone needing the answer to my question in the future won't need to read through all this haha!

-Skeet