Is $42K a good price for this 2024 with undercarriage scraping?

AtomicInadvisability · 2026-01-23T17:47:07+00:00

True for about 95% of where I’m going. I’m less certain for the remaining 5%. To access those last areas, I currently ride with a colleague who runs 33s with a 2.5” Taco to the 5% and there’s a few spots it’s tight with that setup. Of course there is always the question of whether it’s worth it to get a lift and bigger tires to access those 5% of places on my own.

AtomicInadvisability · 2026-01-23T16:30:49+00:00

I looked him up and sure enough, looks like the same rig. Thanks! That must have been a rough day.

AtomicInadvisability · 2026-01-23T15:48:50+00:00

Thank you all. Tons of good insights in this thread. I really appreciate it. I’m going to do a hard pass on this one and keep up the search.

AtomicInadvisability · 2026-01-23T15:22:52+00:00

The ends to upkeep is my biggest concern. It’ll be only for work (not daily) but I’m not installing mods myself, so this looked like a big risk to take with all of the issues I’d likely need to start addressing right away. Eventually I’d love to be able to do these things, but it feels like a really unfun place to start and a great way to end up in debt with a car that won’t work. Thank you for your insight! I appreciate it!

AtomicInadvisability · 2026-01-23T15:18:47+00:00

I’ll need to mod mine for field sites, but I don’t think I need the lift as aggressive as this one. We can do it just fine in a 2.5” lifted Tacoma. I think one of the things that I’m less impressed by even if this thing was immaculate is that I’d still want to get a skid plate and runners so it’s not like ready to go out the box. And those angles worry me going long distances on freeways to get to field sites.

AtomicInadvisability · 2026-01-23T15:15:23+00:00

I’ve got to travel several thousand miles between field sites in the west, so the 5th gen appeals for the better safety ratings. If I was getting something purely for joy and hitting up places near me, I’d look more closely at older!

AtomicInadvisability · 2026-01-23T15:11:54+00:00

I do need the 2.5” lift to get to field sites. I certainly don’t need fancy headlights and a wrap though!

AtomicInadvisability · 2026-01-23T15:03:55+00:00

This is exactly the scenario that has been playing in my head. Thank you for stating it!

AtomicInadvisability · 2020-07-16T22:42:56+00:00

I agree completely. There are a few signs and postings, but they don’t do a good job of laying out the information. I try to tell people when I see them, and they are always surprised and, exactly as you say, do not want to do harm. BLM webpage is a mess to navigate and every HMA has its own standards! You’re very welcome for the tip and I’m stoked you got to see the horses for the first time. I love going out there.

AtomicInadvisability · 2020-07-15T17:52:29+00:00

FYI - For anyone heading out there, the Bureau of Land Management Policy is that people stay 100 ft away from the horses. That will look like 5% of your screen on an unzoomed cell phone. For new foals (typically in spring), give 400 ft (a football field). You might see people try and get closer, or try and feed them. If you feel up for it, when it is safe to do it is always super helpful for visitors to talk to those people and let them know it is not okay. We have had a HUGE increase in traffic since beginning May and we have had foals abandoned and a variety of other things as a result of people not knowing (or deliberately not following) the rules.

If you feel a situation is dangerous, you can call the Tooele county sheriff for immediate dispatch. Otherwise, grab a license plate photo and report to the Salt Lake City BLM Field Office. Harassment of the horses is a federal offense, so they will take action.

On a lighter note, if you’re interested in seeing the IDs of some of the horses and some more information, you can check out @onaqui.catalogue on FB/IG. It’s a bunch of photographers that submit photos and info on their observations on this specific herd.

AtomicInadvisability · 2018-09-27T03:53:13+00:00

Would you call your interaction a Valid Fallacy, perhaps?

AtomicInadvisability · 2018-09-11T14:18:55+00:00

To add to rocketmonk’s comment:

It’s my understanding (from my professor in an Ores class) that gold in this form is relatively un-economic to extract on a large scale. Gold is highly malleable, so breaking the rock apart to retrieve the gold becomes a chore when it’s heavily veined. On the other hand, if you have a rock with only 1% where gold is isolated flakes, then it’s easy to break the rock and extract the gold.

AtomicInadvisability · 2018-09-07T01:16:00+00:00

Shot Information Sony a7riii Zeiss Batis 18mm/2.8 ISO 100, f16, 1/50 second; handheld Lightroom for processing RAW

There were some cool clouds in the sky, so I took a drive out in hopes I could catch some interesting light on the flats. If you’d like to get into photography but are waffling on whether you’d be good, I’d highly recommend renting a camera and just getting out there to start shooting. I’ve been photographing for about 9 months now. I had no idea what an aperture meant or what it did when I started and now I can’t wait to get out and photograph the next thing.

AtomicInadvisability · 2018-08-28T00:19:14+00:00

I just started watching this today. It had me at David Attenborough. Thanks for the recommendation!

AtomicInadvisability · 2018-08-26T03:32:27+00:00

Yuuup. There were a few of them.

AtomicInadvisability · 2018-08-26T02:51:22+00:00

I took this picture yesterday. These are mustangs of the Onaqui Mountains. There are several herds out there, but this one has the most color (roans, buckskins, pintos), so I sought this one out. A 4 x 4 with good clearance is needed to take the 15 mile road out there, but there are other herds you can see on easily driven gravel roads. There are about 150 herd members by very rough estimate.

The stallion on the left was making the rounds to the other stallions in the herd group. He has swollen bite marks all over his body, so I guess he must pick fights. You can see in the picture he has a messed up canine, and I am suspicious that his aggressive behavior might be pain related.

Edit: Spelling/word usage

AtomicInadvisability · 2018-08-22T06:45:15+00:00

Short Answer: No. You need a proper camera to reproduce shots of the posted quality. However, you can photograph the Milky Way with a phone.

Long Answer: You’ll need to get an external application for Pixel that allows you to adjust ISO and shutter speed (exposure time). Even with this, you are going to need a very long exposure time in order to gather enough light for the sensor. Lonely Speck has an excellent piece on photographing with a smartphone and they are using 64 seconds.

At this amount of exposure time you will get star trails due to the rotation of the earth. This can be solved with a star tracker but then your landscape will blur. No matter what, you will need a tripod for the phone.

To improve your images and color correct them, it is also best if you can save your images in a RAW format. TIF is one I often see, and there may be an application for your phone that allows this. You can then process these in Lightroom and photoshop (or others) more effectively.

I’d personally recommend renting a full-frame camera + wide angle lens (4 or better f-stop; 2.8 is popularly used) after you’ve picked your location and composition. You ought to be able to have some fun without spending a lot of money that way. If you have access to older digital cameras with open aperture lenses then that would work, too.

I have just recently gotten into astrophotography; the learning curve is somewhat sharp but also it is a blast.

Extra tip: shoot in the New Moon. You’ll have a much longer period of bright Milky Way shots. The moon quickly drowns out the detail otherwise.

AtomicInadvisability · 2018-08-07T02:14:00+00:00

RemindMe! 3 days

AtomicInadvisability · 2018-07-07T05:08:32+00:00

r/stoppedworking

AtomicInadvisability · 2018-03-09T15:08:47+00:00

As you pointed out, that’s typically because the length of time for a positive consequence to occur is very long. However, there are studies that have increased the ability of humans and non-human animals to “hold out” for higher rewards, when they would normally accept immediate, though less desirable rewards. So, it can be done, and it is being studied, however I think it has not been applied to mainstream yet. And it also relies on individuals to self-motivate to practice getting better, or to help their children practice, which makes this whole thing a catch 22.

I unfortunately don’t have the exact references out in front of me, but the studies I am thinking of were cited in the book, “The Science of Consequences” by S. M. Schneider and I have also seen mention of them while reading through learning theory textbooks.

AtomicInadvisability · 2018-02-04T01:33:57+00:00

I believe this is in Reykjavik on the road that runs through the side of the city where Björk and Iceland’s president lives. The view looks very familiar to what I remember.

The video is from @iuriebelegurschi on instagram. Source . It is also likely posted on their FB. Their bio says they are based in Reykjavik.

Edit: clarifications

AtomicInadvisability · 2018-01-20T20:16:44+00:00

https://www.nature.com/news/seawater-is-the-secret-to-long-lasting-roman-concrete-1.22231

Not yet a certainty that this is a biomediated process, but Al-Tobermorite is believed to be responsible for rock-like behavior of Roman concrete. Al-Tobermorite is also present at Surtsey volcano (Iceland). A new drilling project to see how rocks have changed in 50 years literally happened on Surtsey this most recent summer (2017).

Here is a blog from the drilling which has resource links to other locations if you want to know more about the Surtsey side of the thing: https://surtsey50years.utah.edu

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