Moving camp - adding winch to off road machine pg. 7

May have to take it slow and start without fernwood.
So far this vehicle is at a low budget considering it's performance.
The recipe of modifications so far makes it a wicked off roader and a smooth street ride. Add Toyota reliability...
This is the land of off roaders, lots of uneducated clients spending 40K+ on 4wd's that won't touch this thing. A new wave of millennial folks with plenty of money.
Many of them won't take them where the action is because they fear scratches/small dents.

Betting some good video coverage of what it will do would sell them.
May buy another similar low mileage 2000-2006 Tundra(The Million Mile Truck !) and repeat the build and then offer it for sale at a decent profit.
Jeeps break down if you look at them crooked. Imported 4wd are pricy and many are not set up well for off road. Owners worry about denting/scratching.
There are many 'gentleman George' well maintained Tundra's out there that people used for getting groceries. Perfect base vehicles.

The smaller Tacoma is by far the most popular off road machine. Unlike this model, tons of aftermarket parts are made for them. They can hardly be purchased due to demand.
ACC Garage(specifically a Toyota off road builder catering to Toyota SUV's)just up the road has more work than they can handle. Their services WAY overpriced. And over do mods.
Their clients dropping 30K in mods without batting an eye.

With exception of welding/installing bumper all work was hired on this project. Local mechanics familiar with modifying trucks like this.
Could be a low hassle fun business.

Don't you dare go collect another truckload of fine Rio's, only to leave them sitting in boxes out behind the shed. The absurdity!

Find you an active gravel quarry owner around Zapata Texas Garage Rocker HankRocks
His quarry needs to be within a quarter mile of Lake Falcon or a 1/2 mile from the Rio for best Rio gravel deposits.
You will be safe on his property.
Pay him to have rights to sort thru his gravel piles and keep 1000-2000 pounds of gravel.
Bring like a 35 gallon barrel of water so you can fill your spray bottle to wet the gravel.
Stay at Holiday Inn Zapata.

The big quarry owner did not allow me on his property. It is just north of Zapata and right on the river where the lake begins. Closer to centerline of the river dang it.

Alternate plan:

There is a landscape supply yard in Zapata. Have him order a couple of dump truck loads of Rio's and have him deliver them to his stock yard for him to sell as plain gravel.
(If he doesn't already have a pile of them.)
With the understanding that you get to sort thru them at a fair price completely before he can sell them.
The landscape yard I stopped at had a real big pile of Rio's already piled in his stock yard. I asked to pick thru the surface of the pile.
He did no want to charge me for 2 - 5 gallon buckets, of course I insisted. Pretty sure he would have let me pick thru the whole pile for $200. A week's task.
He had loaders to re-stack the pile on site, no problem.
The larger sizes(3 to 6 inches) - #1-#2-#3, have the best agates and woods.

Or find out from the McDonalds where they ordered their gravel for their large gravel islands. It was super rich in fine rock.

The best mined gravel has been scrubbed or washed somehow to remove that nasty caliche for easier ID.

The I visited the 1st and 2nd time there was about 2 large gravel trucks per hour loaded with scrubbed gravel.
The pit was located 200 yards from Lake Falcon. They let me collect in the quarry the 2nd trip.
DOT was widening the main highway thru Zapata, so all the gravel pits were operating at full capacity.
I only spent a couple of my last days in the quarry. Shame I did not spend the entire two weeks collecting there. Hindsight. It was the goldmine.