Southern Four Wheel Drive Associations Trailfest 2010 was a blast

Southern Four Wheel Drive Associations Trailfest 2010 was a blast. Lots of get trail riding in the Coal Creek OHV area also known as WindRock mountain area. Brent Galloway from Coal Creek OHV area did a great job with Event coordinator Chad Christman from SFWDA in putting on a GREAT event. The weather on Friday was fantastic and Saturday we were challenged by some weather issues but fared much better than our friends in Nashville did. Our prayers go out to all of our fellow Tennesseans that have had a terrible week from the 12 plus inches of rain Saturday. There was lots of great people and really nice off-road vehicles in attendance at the SFWDA.org’s Trailfest event. Suzy Duff from James Duffy and Corby Phillips from Warn were set up beside the PowerandPlay.com booth. Everyone had really cool booths set up with neat new stuff. The raffle was chocked full of great give away items. The PowerandPlay.com team is already getting excited about SFWDA Dixie Run 2010 coming in October at Golden Mountain Park.
This year has been a nice mix off Street and off-road events.. Well that is easy to say now after having to spend all afternoon Sunday re-setting up everything to dry out and get cleaned up. There are so many other events that are fast approaching – Jeep Beach in Daytona, Clemson 4WD poker run and the Borla exhaust car show in just the next couple of weeks. It is really cool having to make hard decisions on which great event to attend.
See ya in the woods,
Greg G.
Staff Writer
www.powerandplay.com

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Which Winch do you prefer, use or going to purchase?

Which Winch do you prefer, use or going to purchase?

Today while sorting out pictures from events we covered and attended this year 2009 - I noticed a new trend. In the old days, just a few years ago all you ever saw on the front of truck, Jeep or SUV was the big red “W” of Warn winches. Over the last couple of years it seems that there is a bunch of new winches appearing on vehicles everywhere.

That made me starting thinking –
• Which winch do you like?
• Why do you like it?
• What made you decide to buy the Winch that you have?
• If you are going to buy a winch what do you look for before purchasing?

We have been a fan of Warn winches and hubs since my first 8274 that I bought at Jims Off Road in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1982. Personally I have owned several different vehicles that have all had Warn winches on them. Except for a short while when there was a Ramsey winch on the front of my Camo CJ-7 Jeep. It was a good winch just so slow that you could shave while waiting on it to spool in. I have worked on Warn M10000 winches that were built in the early 70’s that only needed a little seal and solenoid work. Even on my current Jeep Grand Cherokee ZJ it has a warn M8000 on it with an ARB Bull Bumper. My son is looking to put a winch on the front of his Jeep Cherokee XJ and has looked at several different models that are much less expensive. He explained that the cost was a big part of him deciding which winch. Let me know your thoughts please – I would really like to know if there might soon be a new “King of the Hill” in the winch market~!

Greg G
Powerandplay.com