Posts by Tugboat

  • Happy New Year 2025

    The lower well is for the tree farm and RV site's part of the property. The well at the cabin is at the top of the mountain and fine. Our RV site on the West side has a tiny house on it and has city water.

  • Happy New Year 2025

    Happy New Year

    To all DEJA members, family and friends.


    I still live in NC but have been spending a lot of time at our property in TN.

    We still have not finished cleanup and repair ftom the hurricane it is going to take years. Example our one well was damaged and the well repair company has me on his waiting list and it will probably take till next August.


    Have a great 2025 and keep it safe out there.

  • TN DEJA is there

    Good morning

    I am heading back to NC today.

    The jeep is back in the barn.

    For the last two weeks i have transported a lot of food, medicine and water to a lot of people who are still hard to get to up in the mountains of TN.

    Most of the mountain people don’t want to leave there home unless it has been destroyed.

    We are lucky our cabin had no damage and the tiny hose we installed a month ago had no damage. The RV port that we are building at the bottom of the mountain is a total.

    I was working with a neighbor out there that has a drone business and she helped plot the best way to get to people she would locate.


    It is going to take years to rebuild.

    Some people not only lost everything but the land under there house was either washed away or slid down the hilside.

  • TN DEJA is there

    I am in Mountain City TN. We have a cabin ao land out here.

    I still have DEJA stickers on the Jeep and people think that the club has sent a vehicle to help in the rescue effort.

    I will post pictures when i get to a good internet location

  • February Trail Ride Rausch Creek

    At this time i will be in PA around that time. If the club is ok with it i would like to Join the the Ride. I can Run out to TN and get the XJ and bring it up to meet with the club. I have not been out with a group on a trail ride in about 10 years.

  • Hello from Millsboro

    Still Have my 1996 XJ that i bought in 96 and i just turned 113,000 miles on her. It is now at my place in TN sitting in the barn at the bottom of the mountian with about a foot of snow to go and play in.

  • Two Way Radio

    yes the Repeater owner did not mind at first but then people started to abuse the repeater. Foul langue, tying up the repeater and telling Ham Orators to go somewhere else that they were using the channel. so he spent a month at the park is his side by side writing down numbers and recording. He turned it all into the FCC and they took action.


    the Baofeng UV-5R is a 5 watt radio it transmits and receives on VHF 136 to 520 megahertz and UHF on 400 to 520 megahertz. CB radio is 11meters that is 40 channels from 26.965MHz to 27.405MHz 2 meter band is 144.0MHZ to 148.0 MHz and the 70CM band is 420MHz to 450.0MHz


    the Family Radio Service (FRS0 is 462.5625MHz to 462.7250 and General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) overlaps 462.5625MHz to 467.7250MHz If you stay in the FRS/GMRS range there will be no problem and there are few FRS/GMRS repeaters. I myself think that it is stupid that FRS/GMRS needs a license it is to me the same type of use as CB. Any questions call me

  • Two Way Radio

    hi I have to comment on this subject.
    As some of the older members might remember I had both a CB and a mobile FRS/GMRS radio in my Jeep. Well now I have upgraded to add a 2m and HF ham in the Jeep.I did get my HAM ticket KN4JQU and it was not hard at all. Watch using a repeated I have land in TN and there is a off road park for quads near there and the owner of the repeated turned them into the DVD there was 87 people fined. The fined started at $2,500 per transmission it is legal to land any radio transmitting is the problem My first Ham was A Baofeng I have programmed it for FRS/GMRS, 2m, 70cm, and marine.

  • voice from the past

    I hope every one had a nice Thanksgiving. Rebecca and I spent it at our place in TN. We bought land out there no cabin on it yet but we do have a house also at the bottom in town.

  • voice from the past

    Hello from NC
    some of the old timers may remember me. and i still have my XJ and it still runs
    Well i am retired did not plan on it but had a hart attack and quadruple bypass back in May. i was unable to return to work so i took a 3rd early retirement i was working for a bridge building company. Just wanted to say Hi and miss the Jeep club.

  • State of emergency TAXI.

    When we were called out by the county or state we were covered by the state. That is why the ETC did not work derisively with the hospitals. After covering the cost from 2003 till 2012 I could no longer afford it after my work injures I had a income problem. When I moved no one wanted to take it over. I still get calls for the ETV

  • Mile Marker Hydraulic Winch

    That info was on Mile Markers site under Hydraulic vs Electric when I got my winch. It also had to do with the way thay test for Miltery specifations. The 9000 hydrauilic from Mile Marker is the same winch that is installed on the Hummer. (sorry for cursing on a Jeep site)

  • Mile Marker Hydraulic Winch

    I like the hydraulic winch. Slower but you can pull all day without letting it cool down.
    A electric winch is rated with a rolling load on a 45 degree angle. and a hydraulic winch is rated with a vertical lift.