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Summary: Excellent for beginner and experienced alike
Review: Great little book, with top to bottom sound advice on how to select and use your SUV off road. Harry clearly explains, with the help of cartoons, how the cars work and how to and not to apply them in the field. Very practical advice from packing a cool box to preparing for emergencies and for once strongly recommending that the women get to drive. Some of the best 4x4 drivers I see are women by the way. I really liked the emphasis on safety and preserving the environment once you are out there. Follow the advice and you are almost guaranteed to get in and out safely. I guarantee you, you can use your car to visit some of the most beautiful country in the world and find some really peaceful places away from the daily stress. Best 4x4 book x far that I have found. Check out Bill Burkes getting unstuck video to see similarly good advice in action. Come on out and run around at 1-10 mph for the day, you'll be amazed. If I were a dealer I'd put one in the glove box of every car I sold.
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Summary: Belongs in the Center Console of Your SUV!
Review: Harry Lewellyn's handbook will get you home (or at least back to the pavement) the next time you try one too many stream crossings while exploring the back country. The book is loaded with hundreds of practical tips and suggestions for safely operating a SUV off pavement. His wry sense of humor enables a sense of fun and the confidence to hit the road as soon as possible.Lewellyn also presents an eloquent case for environmentally responsible behavior and trail etiquette for all users of off-highway roads and trails. This is the best book I have ever read on the subject of driving vehicles off-road. Buy it. Try the excercises. If you do, you will be ready to leave the pavement with confidence.
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Summary: Belongs in the Center Console of Your SUV!
Review: Harry Lewellyn's handbook will get you home (or at least back to the pavement) the next time you try one too many stream crossings while exploring the back country. The book is loaded with hundreds of practical tips and suggestions for safely operating a SUV off pavement. His wry sense of humor enables a sense of fun and the confidence to hit the road as soon as possible. Lewellyn also presents an eloquent case for environmentally responsible behavior and trail etiquette for all users of off-highway roads and trails. This is the best book I have ever read on the subject of driving vehicles off-road. Buy it. Try the excercises. If you do, you will be ready to leave the pavement with confidence.
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Summary: Excellent book for beginning/intermediate off-road drivers
Review: I like this book a lot: it's packed with useful and practical advice. It's directed towards people who want to get the most out of their SUV. It is NOT aimed at people who plan to spend thousands of dollars building the ultimate rock-crawler rig. Lewellyn's advice is always sensible, with an emphasis on safe technique. I enjoy his light, clear writing style, and the illustrations are entertaining and informative. I like the way Lewellyn analyzes and demolishes "old husband's tales": widely-held but misguided views. My only complaint is that there are frequent references to "volume 2", which apparently hasn't been published yet. I'll buy it when it is.
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Summary: Missing Large Sections
Review: The book says it's for beginner to advanced, but I felt it was more beginner to intermediate. He does not cover using a winch at all, just tow hooks and straps/chains- sort of. If I got stuck in the back country and this book was the only reference I had, I might stay stuck. The author expects me to shell out an additional twenty-five dollars for Volume II which contains the recovery section along with more advanced techniques. I felt like an someone was telling me the first half of a set of directions. That's not helpful if the directions run out long before the job is done. The book contains some tips that an advanced 4wheeler might use, but perhaps not enough of them to justify the cost of Volume I for an advanced user. Beginners might also become frustrated at the lack of sketches of some pieces of equipment that are listed as necessary. I got bogged down with the chatty, disordered style of information sharing. I had to take notes to sort out the decision trees, because I couldn't track them otherwise. If you want a good description with lots of clear diagrams on how differentials and transfer cases work, this is a good book. If you want excellent information on airing down your tires for improved traction, this is the book to get. Other references quote this author on tire pressure.
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Summary: The Definitive Off-Road Handbook
Review: The Definitive Off-Road Handbook that should be read and in everyone's glove box, bought for daughters, sons, granddaughters,grandsons, cousins, nephews, uncles, brothers, fathers, wives, girlfriends, buddies, rangers, deputy sheriff's, linemen, fishermen, photographers, rock hounds, hunters, rock- climbers,cattlemen, ranchers, foresters, miners, desert rats, adventurers, the retired, the American people who love and respect America's great outdoors. Insightful, wry discourse about understanding & using off-road vehicles as they were originally built & intended to be used; safely, carefully; blending humor, physics, gears, tires, traction, torque, angles, weight& balance, with common sense that only comes from long experience in deep deserts of the Southwest and its high mountain ranges. This kind of knowledge needs to be aquired, considered & passed on ...thanks for listening.. j
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Summary: good Information
Review: This book contains a lot of good commonsense information for the new or experienced 4X4'er. The author covers many aspects of driving off-road in all kinds of terrain. There's also advice on emergency repairs and getting "unstuck."
However, once you start reading through the book,the author keeps referring to a mysterious "Volume 2" of this work for more detailed information. Volume 2 seems to be available only directly from the publisher for another $[money].
This seemed to be an unfair catch to an otherwise excellent book.
Rating:
Summary: good Information
Review: This book contains a lot of good commonsense information for the new or experienced 4X4'er. The author covers many aspects of driving off-road in all kinds of terrain. There's also advice on emergency repairs and getting "unstuck."
However, once you start reading through the book,the author keeps referring to a mysterious "Volume 2" of this work for more detailed information. Volume 2 seems to be available only directly from the publisher for another $[money].
This seemed to be an unfair catch to an otherwise excellent book.
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