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Wow, that is low!  I too am worried about the fire season.  No run off and July temps in May is setting us up for a nasty fire season.  The only saving grace is that the ground is still waterlogged from last years rainfall, but these high temps wont take long to dry that up. 

Nice pics, hopefully I will get to come play with you next weekend! 

Well looks like dresser is missing the boat.  By going to larger wheels, the side walls wont be so cushy.  They need to put these out for 6" wheels so everyone does not have to swap.  Why save 1000 bucks on tires when you now have to spend 3000 on wheels and brakes..  The math dont add up.  The target audience for these tires are going to be the back country crowd and most cubs and 180s etc are running 6" wheels.  I think Dresser has a marketing guy that needs his butt kicked.

The 850X6 "smooth tundra tire" that I liked are for 6" wheels so we should be able to run them on the Matcos.

The 27" are for 8" wheels or 6"? Are the 22" for the 6" wheel.

Our winter was -10 or windy. Now our spring is raining, windy and cold. Global warming! Nice pictures Randy!

I am not sure how to post this but if you look at the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman or the Anchorage Daily News, a guy landed his Taylorcraft in the top of the birch trees last Sunday out at Meadow Lakes.  The local electric company got him down from the plane in the bucket truck but the plane is in perfect flying position about 40' up in the trees.

Ed, see that you got crickets on this question.  You probably know more about aluminum than most of us. 

We had our last EAA meeting at one member's Glastar project.  He was using a neat aluminum coating wash that almost looked like a gold anodizing when it was done.  I didn't write it down but think it may have been a Martin Senior product.  JackAk may remember or I could ask at the next meeting if I remember too.

Awesome , hope you guys get some rain though or it might be a scary fire season

I built my 8" wheels on Douglas 8" wide wheels if you have teh KF hub already.  Jack and I talked to the Dresser dealer at teh trade show.  Those 27" tires for the 8" wheels should be a great tire for the money!  He said you will have to run them at about 11 or 12 psi since they are tubed, but will also make a tubeless one.  Still may have to use a rimlock of some kind if you want to run them down in the 4-5 psi range.

Thinking about it, you might have to check if these tires can be mounted on a rim that isn't two piece (the Douglas rims).

The are also coming out with a 30 or 31 to go on 10" rims.

Was flying back up the Knik last Sunday and it was really hazy so it made for a red sunset but the camera didn't do too good with it.  I still need to figure out the best settings on this new camera. 

I have never seen the river this low; this was kind of a neat spot in what is usually under water.  Fun coming around this rock and touching down.  You can see that there is hardly any water in the whole river.  Most the places I landed are normally under water.  Stopped to do a little practice with the 1911 in one spot and the sand was so soft and undisturbed the 45 cases would dissapear into little craters and I had to stick my finger into the crater to find them.

I didn't see any flying in the video?

Maybe instead of "Rock 'n Roll", he should be listening to the soundtrack from JAWS!

I really hope he makes his goal, if that is really what he is going to try.

I also watched "Forest Gump" last week, for the 6th time!

EDMO

Mack the knife....  Jim

Ordered one this evening.  Found some interesting places to land that it will come in handy.  Also planning a trip to Johnson Creek and the likes this summer.

The big wide tire slows the tail down quite a bit on pavement. You can also run it completly flat and barely notice it. I went thru 4 flats on my 7" pneumatic one before I tossed it. The 8" is a tubeless Carlisle tire. I am on my 3rd tailwheel set up and the 8" "wide" dual fork Matco has been by far my favorite. I hated my Maule set up.

I thought it was a low-wing.   Guess I better look again.  Oh, I hadn't seen the video - He should have painted a shark mouth on the front, because he may be among them halfway to Bahamas!

What was that old song?  "Oh, the shark bites, with his teeth man, and he shows them, pearly white...."

EDMo

:PWell that's a problem I can live with.

no problems on the pavement that I have noticed.  Other than I don't feel and hear every crack in the black top anymore!

I am thinking about the Matco 8" and wondering how it handles the pavement, I fly off of it most of the time.

Thanks for the replies. Next time, I will look for the placard.

Looks very similar to a Texas Parasol, if he is actually making 30hp he stands a chance at flying, I wish him luck.

Herman,

       Very nice bird - hope it finds a good home.

EDMO

You may have to wait a year for that report.

EDMO

9 oz back up battery... it just dont get much better than that!  Randy, your killing me!  That seems like the perfect solution to us guys running a clutch who are scared to death we are going to leave a master on or something stupid like that and find ourselves out in the middle of no where with no way to start the plane. 

Maybe even just plumbing it in so it will charge when the engine is running but be isolated and not subject to current draw when the master is on... for 9oz its pretty good peace of mind!

I started with the 6" hard tire Maul and then went to the 8" pnumatic tire Maul; that is a vast improvemetn and does pretty well.  After several years I bought the 8" wide tired Matco and have been flying it for the past couple of years.  There is not much difference in the hard stuff since myMaul always handled fine and unlocked just like it was supposed to (unlike experiences others have had with them) but like Leni said, the Matco wide tire really helps it stay on top of the soft sand.  landing in that sand it is funny to see the Maul TW's; in fact you can't see them at all, just a rooster tail of sand.

Ther are a couple of places in Anchorage who are dealers for them (can't remember who except ATV Salvage in ER) but they are on their web site as dealers.

They have a new jumper battery coming out next month and had one at the show; it is about 1" wide by 2" tall and 6" long and weighs about 9 oz if I remember right.  It looks kind of like a little flashlight and has an LED flashlight built into one end but the cool thing is it has a port that you plug one end of the jumper cable leads into and they have about a foot of cable with good high quality alegator clamps on the ends.  It puts out 220 CCA for jump starting.  Plus it has a port for charging /operating the typical electrical devices such as cell phones, camers, laptops, etc.  I think it might just take the place of my 20 lb jumper battery I carry in the plane in the winter.

I am sorry as well for lostman. I am curious if anything has been released about the cause of the engine out. B