Rocinante

[paulnb57]

At the risk of being a party pooper, did you consider the damage the seat belt would have done to your little boy if you had to perform an emergency stop?, your weight pushing him into the seatbelt. While fun it could have ended in tears.......thank goodness it didn't......

Paul

 

[rover4x4]

At the risk of being a party pooper, did you consider the damage the seat belt would have done to your little boy if you had to perform an emergency stop?, your weight pushing him into the seatbelt. While fun it could have ended in tears.......thank goodness it didn't......

Paul

come on dude

 

[plainjaneFJC]

Yeah I have a son about that same age and I enjoyed the video. A slow drive around the block, no harm at all.

 

[Antichrist]

I decided on my last trip that I will never run a dual cardan driveshaft again after seeing them fail on two friends' trucks despite their regular lubrication.

By "regular" I assume at a minimum of every 5,000 miles, but were they lubed correctly and did they have a greaseable CV head?

 

[Antichrist]

come on dude

Come on? It doesn't take much force to snap a toddler's neck. Even at that slow a speed many 100's of pounds of pressure (possibly exceeding 1000) isn't out of the question in a crash.

 

[benlittle]

Love the video, Chris.

A drive around your residential neighborhood block at 7:00 am is harmless.

 

[chris snell]

Come on? It doesn't take much force to snap a toddler's neck. Even at that slow a speed many 100's of pounds of pressure (possibly exceeding 1000) isn't out of the question in a crash.

Wow.

Relax, Tom. This was in my quiet residential neighborhood at 7AM on a Saturday morning. The streets were empty. My wife, the chief arbiter on child safety in our house, approved.

The heart of the matter is that sometimes you have to take risks to give your kids an awesome childhood. I'd rather accept the minute risk of driving my son around the block on my lap than raise an unconfident pantywaist who never took risks as a child.

 

[java]

Great story. Where in WA are you, I want to say I spotted your truck recently. I dont remember where at but there cant be many ex MOD OD rovers around here.

 

[chris snell]

Great story. Where in WA are you, I want to say I spotted your truck recently. I dont remember where at but there cant be many ex MOD OD rovers around here.

I'm down in Tacoma. The 110 doesn't make it up to Seattle very often, although I have driven it up to Kent a few times.

 

[Antichrist]

Wow.

Relax, Tom. This was in my quiet residential neighborhood at 7AM on a Saturday morning. The streets were empty. My wife, the chief arbiter on child safety in our house, approved.

The heart of the matter is that sometimes you have to take risks to give your kids an awesome childhood. I'd rather accept the minute risk of driving my son around the block on my lap than raise an unconfident pantywaist who never took risks as a child.

I'm not tense, no need to relax.
I wasn't commenting on the rightness or wrongness of the activity, I was merely pointing out to the naysayers that there actually is a risk, and likely a greater one than many realize.
I've taken plenty of risks with my kids, but never deny there's actually a risk.

I'm actually more interested in the DC propshaft topic.

 

[ZG]

I feel like some people on here missed out on a fun childhood... if I posted videos of the things he let me drive/operate apparently he'd be exiled.

Nice video Chris, your kid doesn't know how good he has it, yet!

 

[hks3sgte]

The look on Evan's face is priceless!

 

[java]

I'm down in Tacoma. The 110 doesn't make it up to Seattle very often, although I have driven it up to Kent a few times.

Hmmm, I dont get down that way much, maybe there is another one around here!

 

[Mack73]

Hmmm, I dont get down that way much, maybe there is another one around here!

I believe there is. I spotted an ExMod 110 on I-5 south at the U-District about 6 months ago.

 

[rijosho]

Is it still OK for Dad's to strap a line to the back of the truck and pull his kids around on sleds behind the truck in the snow? Because that was my childhood. Funny, I don't have any memories from sitting in my babyseat, but I can vividly remember the snow "sleigh" rides behind the old pick-up.