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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:
Doxies is so beautiful


Thank you for allowing Ollie to adopt you

Thank you and so true. He was found on the streets of Columbus OH and we met his foster Mom in Louisville KY for the transfer just this past March.

He rode on my lap the whole way home back to St. Louis and has become my shadow.

Wonderful. It was meant to be.

The greatest thing i learnt from fostering is that God puts them where they are supposed to be.

You and Ollie were meant to be together.

Daughter says "They're not dangerous if they're raised right. The dog's not bad either..."

Kids took me and the husky camping for my birthday today.

Great photo. Your pup's ears say "swim time"!!!!

Yeah, I'm seeing that dog doing a Dukes Of Hazzard number off the end of that pier. YEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAWWWWWWWW!

Wasn't this in a James Bond movie once? Yeah, The Man with the Golden Retriever.

The one where Sheriff Culpepper makes an encore appearance?

I could have posted this in a FedEx rant as I ordered 4 tires, 4 tires were shipped, arrived in Orlando, and left Orlando at the same time, yet this is what the FedEx guy dropped off. But, I'm not mad and Maggie isn't quite sure what to make of her new chew toy.

Maggie has a perplexed look on her face as if to say: "Where are the other 3 toys?"

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Originally posted by trapper189:
I could have posted this in a FedEx rant as I ordered 4 tires, 4 tires were shipped, arrived in Orlando, and left Orlando at the same time, yet this is what the FedEx guy dropped off. But, I'm not mad and Maggie isn't quite sure what to make of her new chew toy.

Off topic but my favorite tire wholesaler (I used to deal with them through work) offered that same tire as an alternative to the Duratrac. How was your decision made to use those?

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Thanks Jeff. Hunter is my 11 month old Boy.

I'm messing with imgur for the first time.

here he was the day we brought him home.

Cute pup!

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Originally posted by shovelhead:

Off topic but my favorite tire wholesaler (I used to deal with them through work) offered that same tire as an alternative to the Duratrac. How was your decision made to use those?

My truck came with Michelin LTX AT2s which were only ok traction wise and had chunks of rubber coming off when driving on gravel roads. Michelin's current marketing says the AT2s resist chunking, but that was not my experience.

I tow a 5th wheel and when it came time to replace the Michelins at 25,000 miles, I found some brand new takeoff 18" wheels with the Wrangler Adventures for less than the price of tires for my 20" wheels. They were 1" smaller in diameter as well which got the 5th wheel as close to level while towing as I'm going to get it. Their wet and dry traction was better than the Michelins and they didn't chunk on gravel roads. When it came to replace them at 60,000 miles on the truck, I went with a Toyo highway tread tire thinking I'd get better fuel economy and treadlife. I don't really need an all terrain tire and I paid $160 apiece for them. I hate them. It's like driving on marshmallows. Truck was rock solid towing my 5th wheel until the Toyos. I thought they might get better, but they didn't. I have 95,000 miles on the truck and could get another 10,000 miles out of the Toyos, but I'm done. My fuel economy didn't improve one bit either.

All of that ^^^ to answer your simple question. Of the three set of tires I've had on my truck so far, the Goodyear Wrangler Adveturers have been the best tire in every respect except tread life. After the Toyo fiasco, I don't want to risk trying a 4th tire. At $175 each, they were significantly less than any other comparable tires.

I've never driven my truck in though.

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That post made me dog tired...