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Lawnmower Mudding?! It’s A Real Thing…Who Needs A Lifted Truck When A Riding Tractor Can Do The Job?


Lawnmower Mudding?! It’s A Real Thing…Who Needs A Lifted Truck When A Riding Tractor Can Do The Job?

As I type this, the area that BangShift Mid-West is situated in is currently under flood watches. I’m grateful that it’s not snow, but instead we are forecasted to receive as much as three inches of rain by the time the storm system moves on early Monday morning. Where we live, the ground saturates and in some places, just liquefies into pure slop. It’s the kind of muddy mess that really makes me want to go raid the junkyard for some mud tires off of a Chevy truck to bolt onto the limo for some “Welcome to Kentucky!” kind of fun, but I’m afraid that the USS d’Elegance would sink to the framerails and not be able to be extracted until sometime late May.

Mudding is awesome. It’s a good time playing in the dirt, it’s one of the few times you can keep the throttle pinned without needing to worry about distance or speed, and there’s nothing technical about it up until the moment forward momentum ceases and gravity becomes your enemy. There are people out there that spend tons of money making specialty rigs meant to go play in the slop, and we show them on occasion. But do you really need a dedicated mud truck if you just want to go play every now and then? Nah, not really. Save your pennies, take a good look on Craigslist, and use an old riding mower instead. They’re pretty much a purpose-built go kart anyways…just ditch the mower deck, beef up the engine, get some digger tires onto the back and go tear some stuff up!

And if you don’t like the idea, you can send your complaints to me after the dove I send from the limo’s rear window returns with an olive branch.


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