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Title: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: digginfool on August 11, 2007, 05:15:06 PM
Who went to mudfest so far this weekend?  Post up!  The wife and I are thinking of running up there tomorrow but don't want to waste the time if it isn't worth it.  Might go to Suburban instead.  I'm on my way to the game so I'll check back in a few hours.  Go 'Fins!!!


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: jimmyt14 on August 12, 2007, 08:57:34 AM
WAAAAAAAAY to many people, very unsafe.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: neysnumber on August 12, 2007, 01:34:21 PM
way to many people to be dealing with. i had a great time but the maniac driving to get to the other side was crazy. does anyone know why the helicopter landed 3 times? i know someone was air lifted, i seen them load somebody. hopefully nothing to serious.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: jimmyt14 on August 12, 2007, 03:52:44 PM
Yeah at LEAST 3 people got tooken out by the copter and there was also more people taken out by the ambulense (sp?)


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: TRX450R_Racer on August 12, 2007, 04:15:01 PM
way to many people to be dealing with. i had a great time but the maniac driving to get to the other side was crazy. does anyone know why the helicopter landed 3 times? i know someone was air lifted, i seen them load somebody. hopefully nothing to serious.

Serious is why the helicopter comes. Those Drunkfests are nothing but an accident waiting to happen.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: jrpro130 on August 12, 2007, 04:15:25 PM
way too many people...but I still had fun.

Organization was really really really really bad!!!

I got there aobut 10am on fri.  We set up camp and started riding.  I had a path pounded out for us to go to the mudhole, a straight shot.  So some guys decided to park their two buggies in front of it, to block it from atv's going in and out.  He said he it was 'his camp' and he didn't want anyone romping through it.  Needless to say, we exchanged words and he put another truck in front of the buggies.

I got yelled at by security about 10x, cops yelled at me 3x.  They tried to ID me about 5-10 times.  Who the hell carries an ID with them when they are at a mudhole? I wasn't even drinking when they tried to ID me either!!! Anyways, security is a bunch of wannabe macho rent a cops that need to straighten up.  I'm tired of being harrassed for driving through a freaking mudhole.  Security was a joke their.  They were so worried about trying to catch underage drinkers that they didn't organize the event at all!!!

There should be a truck/buggy hole and an ATV hole.  CLEAR seperation between the two.  There should be parking for the two, screw the day parking!!

Don't get me wrong, awesome turnout, awesome event, etc, but I'm really pissed how they ran the show over there.  The cops should have just went up and down the camps to catch underage drinkers instead of sit out at the mudhole.  The security needs to lay off their high chair, they are nothing.  I got in a couple arguments with security who 'threatened' to make us pack up.  I think it's rediculous that they want to hassle me when I haven't been drinking and I didn't even have a beer in my hand. 

Meanwhile there are 15 year olds drinking beer in the middle of the mudhole on buggies and atv's that don't get messed with...go figure.  I guess you can't drive around the parking lot...

Then security came around to the camps on fri night and asked if we were drinking...duuuhhhh, it's a mudhole, what do you think we are drinking?

My neighbor was out on the buggy and he is about 30.  The security stopped him because he was drinking a beer, they called for the officers, asked for his ID.  He said the same thing as me...who the hell brings their ID to a mudhole, you know you are going to get muddy.  So the officer asked him if he had it back at camp or in his truck...of course he said yes.  The officer followed him back to camp to get his ID...thats a little rediculous.  He looked about 30 (my neighbor) and he was DEFINETLY well of legal drinking age.  The lazy officers could have just called dispatch and ran a name and DOB and got the info they wanted...they could even do it by social!!!

Ahhhh, I'm so pissed at how it was ran, but I'll definetly be up there in Feb.  I just wish they would do things better and make it sepearte for ATV's/Buggies.  I almost got ran over about 10x.  Then when we were in the jeep, people just cut out in front of you and slam on their brakes on their atv's.  We were in a jeep that was overheating with barely any brakes and these atv'ers were cutting out in front of us and slamming on their brakes...no wonder why there were so many accidents.

I can definetly say I was cutting in front of buggies/trucks, but I wasn't slamming hte brakes, I was weaving in and out and hitting the gas :) 


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: jimmyt14 on August 12, 2007, 04:37:41 PM
It was very dissorganized.I've already made up my mind on not coming back with my 4wheelers, i'm just gonna go out on our buggy.MUCH SAFFER!!!!
I remember last August was  GREAT not too many people plenty of room, but this one was just tooooo crazy.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: k.p. on August 12, 2007, 04:43:28 PM
its much funner when you are with people with their own equipment lol

since they are drunk they usually let us beat the hell outta their already beat up quads

my friend was with his dad in their big ole mud truck, some toyota got stuck and got set up to get pulled out...well in his drunken haze he just hooked it right up under the bed and they ended up pulling the bed off lol

so you can drink in drive in mudholes? that doesnt make much sense


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: KB on August 12, 2007, 05:30:08 PM
since they are drunk they usually let us beat the hell outta their already beat up quads
my friend was with his dad in their big ole mud truck, some toyota got stuck and got set up to get pulled out...well in his drunken haze he just hooked it right up under the bed and they ended up pulling the bed off lol

Reminds of a year at 98 Rock Livestock when a old '60 somethin white, Chevy 4X4, (w/air brush faces or whatever you call them) was stuck & somebody hooked the strap up to his tie rods & hanked them apart, he was stuck there untill a friend drove to St Pete.(6 hrs. on a weekend) to get him parts.
That was the year it rained really bad & everybody got stuck out there 'till days later, I remember a news reporter intervieving a local & he said " If you come to"crystal springs without a four wheel drive ,then you shouldn't a come to crystal sprinngs".

It was just that final stretch to get you thru it, seen plenty of 2x4's gettin thru it but people in there U Hauls was making me laugh.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: Turboderf on August 12, 2007, 05:47:03 PM
no thanks I will NEVER go to drunkfest even if they pay me them people are out of control  :drink.gif  :spit.gif :T


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: Ynot0323 on August 12, 2007, 06:10:18 PM
I have never been to one of these events, and NEVER will go.. I like riding in groups, but not like this..

It aint worth the drive from Miami, to waste all my fuel driving there, pay all that $$ to get in and have people harass you... SCREW THAT ...

This is all the more reason i want to go check out Underhill in Indiantown, i know they dont allow any of this non-sense , and it only cost about $10-15 to get in for the day..Which is all i would stay.. Some people dont have the luxury of taking 3 days off work...

tony ;D


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: 94Hardbody4x4 on August 12, 2007, 06:28:14 PM
To bad for you guys because I had a blast. I was able to get around all the traffic, it just required getting a little dirty.

I have a feeling they will add more property next time. I can't see then doing it again with that many people on 250 acres of land.

But for your information, one of the helicopter was for an idiot that didn't have his tow point attatched right. A hook flew off, went threw a back window, hit some chick, and then went out the windshield.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: qt314nfla on August 12, 2007, 06:50:27 PM
Had an absolute blast.  The dirty girls are a blast is all I've got to say!  Great ppl!  Y'all definately know how to have a good time.  Great meeting everyone out there.  Ran into all kinds of ppl I knew from the ranch and from other mudding events a couple years ago.

Security was a pain.  I was over by the bon fire last night and they were walking around carding ppl.  I'm 36 and was 100 feet from my camp but didn't have my ID on me.  They made me pour out the beverage and go back to my camp for my ID then were gone when I came back.  Oh well.  It was crowded and ya definately have to stay on your toes moving around there.

Still it was one of the best weekends I've had in a long time!


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: dirty1 on August 12, 2007, 07:58:34 PM
well it was awsome.  most of the bikes need to learn to look out especialy when bikes are cutting through big trucks that cant see them. we had bikes and trucks in our group so im not gonna favor one over the other, but it would help if the bikes didnttry to cut in and out of all the trucks.....  as far as the comment about two seperate muddholes , yes they should divide ti next time. i heard last night a girl feel in the bed of a truck that hit a hole and broke her neck on the tailgate.  here are some of the toys we had out..


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: grizzlyranger on August 12, 2007, 08:15:00 PM
i went to mudfest got there friday morning and was glad i did it would have ruin my weekend to sit in line on sat or friday night.  It was my first time goin i have to say i agree with everyone that it was very disorganized and after sat morning my quad didnt move to much, but i really wasnt planning to ride in pit to much after friday anyway but i couldnt even drive the quad to get to the mudhole to watch the trucks half the time.  After that being said i still had the best time ever i meet bunch of new friends and made better ones with the ones i meet before and would never trade it for the world.  im goin back in feb. 


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: fishfry on August 12, 2007, 09:11:35 PM
Let see more pic's of mudfest


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: qt314nfla on August 12, 2007, 09:19:31 PM
Here's me trying to balance and keep from falling off my buddies jeep.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: qt314nfla on August 12, 2007, 09:20:33 PM
My crew by the mudhole on Saturday


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: qt314nfla on August 12, 2007, 09:21:11 PM
DD's on 30's wanted a Dan Sammich.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: k.p. on August 12, 2007, 09:21:52 PM
didnt we have a topic about the tow strap thing? if only people read that we wouldve saved someone a trip to the hospital...


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: qt314nfla on August 12, 2007, 09:22:10 PM
The girls, well some of them.  Where are the rest of the dirty girls?


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: qt314nfla on August 12, 2007, 09:26:38 PM
My friends Dan, Dora and me.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: digginfool on August 12, 2007, 09:56:19 PM
We ended up going to Suburban which was a good idea.  I think everybody was at Mudfest.  There was only about a dozen rigs at the parking area and we only ran across a few other people all day.  The sky was cloudy, there was a cool breeze from a nearby thunderstorm.  Best time I've ever had there.  I think maybe I'll go to Mudfest in February and only take the big truck; leave the ATVs at home.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: fishfry on August 12, 2007, 10:00:01 PM
QT looks like you had fun, thanks for the pic's.
Anyone else have pic's.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: qt314nfla on August 12, 2007, 10:04:59 PM
QT looks like you had fun, thanks for the pic's.
Anyone else have pic's.

i'm waiting for the rest of the pics from everyone on myspace.  i'll post them as i get them.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: Palmettobay_recon on August 13, 2007, 12:45:19 AM
yep wayyyyy too many people. As far as bikes go, if you plan on riding and having space go early friday, thats what we did lots of time and space to ride around. Starts getting crowded friday night. oh crap! I'm inthat traffic jam pic lol! how cool im the chick in the camo shirt and visor w/ tha blonde hair.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: nascarfreak88 on August 13, 2007, 04:27:48 AM
http://www.stroid.net/mudFest_08_07_p2).htm


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: GrizzlyGator on August 13, 2007, 06:30:54 AM
sounds like it was fun...but if the organization of the event was that bad I'm glad I didn't go. 


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: sbripple on August 13, 2007, 06:52:27 AM
chaos yes,but wow was it fun.I didnt have any trouble from the security guys.The porto lets,which are nasty at their best ,were serviced better this time.The crowds were a little much late staurday but we just rode slowly and shook our heads a lot at some of the idiots.It was a great event and we are already planning the next one.If they had too many rules it would have really sucked.Cant imagine wearing a helmet in that heat or finding one to fit my big head.Sure some people got hurt,you put several thousand people in the country twiddling their thumbs and someone will get hurt.Hot? yeah  thats south florida.If you wanna live in a padded room in the A/c with yer helmet and pads on then go ahead,I enjoy being around the type of people that arent afraid to have fun.Cant wait til the next one.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: Joedirt on August 13, 2007, 09:46:13 AM
Glad some people had fun...I was gonna go but I decided to chew broken glass instead... ::) :ThumbsUp.gif....


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: 94Hardbody4x4 on August 13, 2007, 09:57:53 AM
I think some of you guys take it too seriously which is why your whining and crying. What is Mudfest? It's a cow pasture that the guy opens up to anybody that wants to get covered in mud and get drunk. I think it's the best idea ever but thats all Mudfest is. A cow pasture. Yeah, it's getting bigger probably because the word is starting to get out and TrucksGoneWild is starting to arrive in full force. But if you attended this last event and didn't like it, then stay home next time and make more room for the rest of us. I'm not gunna lie, it was a trip and a half to simply drive to the other side of the mud hole but the titties and badass trucks past the time ok.

If had one thing to bitsh about it would just be to make a defined roadway. Let campers park where ever they feel like but make them do it a certain distance from the hole. The campers on the west side started getting really close to the hole with all their crap which cramming all the people driving through.

Other than that it was great. I'll be their again in February.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: KAW3604x4 on August 13, 2007, 10:15:32 AM
Glad some people had fun...I was gonna go but I decided to chew broken glass instead... ::) :ThumbsUp.gif....

Sounds as if you were safer chewing the glass this weekend than going?!?!?!  ::)


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: JackL on August 13, 2007, 11:05:35 AM
I'm glad someone manned up and posted some pictures. Looks like a blast, sorry I missed it.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: raca65 on August 13, 2007, 11:07:19 AM
Did anyone bring up to the factory reps out there we need riding areas in Florida and if they wanted us to buy there quads to start forking so cash over for lobbiest???


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: Michael Bolton on August 13, 2007, 11:17:07 AM
Did anyone bring up to the factory reps out there we need riding areas in Florida and if they wanted us to buy there quads to start forking so cash over for lobbiest???

did you?


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: JackL on August 13, 2007, 11:27:31 AM
Did anyone bring up to the factory reps out there we need riding areas in Florida and if they wanted us to buy there quads to start forking so cash over for lobbiest???


They have plenty of lobbyists already, devoted to keeping insane laws off the books because people can't be trusted to not cry and sue about every little thing in life.



Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: raca65 on August 13, 2007, 12:24:42 PM
Wasn't there drove by and seen all the Can-Am stuff guess you answered my question.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: Joedirt on August 13, 2007, 02:05:44 PM
 :o


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: Zecura on August 13, 2007, 08:35:02 PM
I posted earlier today in the Group Rides & Events. It about 4 people viewed it and then it was gone. I didn't receive any message from a moderator and I didn't think anything was offencive. So why did it get poofed?

Here is the same post on another Forum:
http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=649422

Let me know what was wrong with it.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: dirty1 on August 13, 2007, 09:31:31 PM
i think 94hardbody got it right,   what alot of people arent even realizing is that the bikes had just bike day.  yay for them,  but did  the bikes get shut out for trucks, nope. so i feel that atv riders should be a little more thankfull for the event to do that for them. instead of complain about everyhting else.  i think it was one hell of a time and it went pretty well givin the mixture involved.  i think if you have an event anywhere and invite "trucks gone wild " and their followers then that event will look like this one did tooooo....


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: 561rincon on August 13, 2007, 09:35:16 PM
dirty we camped across from u but didnt know which one was you so never came over.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: 561rincon on August 13, 2007, 09:38:50 PM
dirty who was the veteran beggin for beer ridin with you?


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: dirty1 on August 13, 2007, 10:51:27 PM
he begged me for a ride,    my friend had the motor home with the white jeep on rocks that was the first one broken on sat morning. i had my truck by the entrance where we brought in the suburban to go back to our friends motor home.  which direction from the maroone motor home were yopu??


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: 561rincon on August 14, 2007, 08:55:24 AM
directly across we had the white 76' ford on 16.9x24 and black bronco with same tires with light bar on top


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: East Coast Dirty Girls on August 14, 2007, 10:23:05 AM
hey great meeting up with you QT sorry i left Sat morn, had a blast Fri though.  Glad you had fun with the rest of the crew.

It def was crazy there this time.  LOVED The friday with out the trucks.....fun fun fun!

i should be updating pics from there too on our myspace and website.

see you at the next one!

Atvgirl


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: dirty1 on August 14, 2007, 05:31:15 PM
hey 561 i think you might recognize this truck


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: qt314nfla on August 14, 2007, 05:46:05 PM
Kris- I had a blast.  I've never met such a fun group of chicks!  Sorry you had to leave Sat.  I hope everything w/ your father-in-law is ok.  You did miss Candy's jello shots, more crunk hootch juice, and wrestling w/ the guys Sat night.  They also lit up that big bon fire Sat night.   Poor Sonja kept getting hit on by some old guy so I had to send Dan in to run interference and help a girl out.

Can't wait to run w/ y'all again.  Hope your crew will make it to the Motoplex opening the weekend of the 24th!!


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: JackL on August 15, 2007, 12:39:14 AM
I posted earlier today in the Group Rides & Events. It about 4 people viewed it and then it was gone. I didn't receive any message from a moderator and I didn't think anything was offencive. So why did it get poofed?

Here is the same post on another Forum:
[url]http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=649422[/url]

Let me know what was wrong with it.


Probably no helmets. ;)


Nice pics BTW.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: 561rincon on August 15, 2007, 08:20:51 AM
hey 561 i think you might recognize this truck


yup thats my baby..lol


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: 94Hardbody4x4 on August 15, 2007, 04:52:14 PM
Looks like everyone finally took a shower and shut up. Until February.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: 561rincon on August 15, 2007, 09:36:30 PM
just when you thought it was dead...lol


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: 561rincon on August 15, 2007, 09:37:08 PM
when it broke the first time


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: quadracer1992 on August 15, 2007, 10:09:23 PM
way to many people to be dealing with. i had a great time but the maniac driving to get to the other side was crazy. does anyone know why the helicopter landed 3 times? i know someone was air lifted, i seen them load somebody. hopefully nothing to serious.

Serious is why the helicopter comes. Those Drunkfests are nothing but an accident waiting to happen.
wish i could go to drunkfest.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: jrpro130 on August 15, 2007, 11:57:31 PM
when it broke the first time

I love that truck!


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: crom A zone on August 16, 2007, 09:37:00 AM
i go twice a year to that evant and i love every sec of it. the problem is people did no go in the mudhole they just drive around the mudhole causing traffic. if they would have rode from camps to more deeper in the mudhole we would not have  had to big of a problem


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: 94Hardbody4x4 on August 16, 2007, 11:14:51 AM
"neysnumber" is a pansy. Can't handle the real deal of Mudfest.


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: Joedirt on August 16, 2007, 11:53:37 AM
"neysnumber" is a pansy. Can't handle the real deal of Mudfest.


You are the wind beneath my wings....


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: Joedirt on August 16, 2007, 12:19:47 PM
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Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: 94Hardbody4x4 on August 16, 2007, 12:45:43 PM
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Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: Joedirt on August 16, 2007, 12:49:31 PM
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Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: 94Hardbody4x4 on August 16, 2007, 03:05:20 PM
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Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: crom A zone on August 18, 2007, 11:29:30 PM
can we say get a life? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???







































j/k lol :D ;)


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: JackL on August 19, 2007, 02:30:07 AM
Too much indoor time will do that to you. ;)


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: greenmachine on August 19, 2007, 12:00:43 PM
My cousin owns the fulltrack, "Too Much Fun".


Title: Re: Okeechobee Mudfest
Post by: JackL on August 21, 2007, 09:30:40 AM
My cousin owns the fulltrack, "Too Much Fun".

I've seen that before. One badazz machine.