MAX Update No. 30: When in Deer Country, Roll with It

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Man, I sure hope I don’t get kicked out of PETA for this.

I’m replacing MAX’s aluminum windshield frame with something more substantial — a steel tube the same size as the roll bar. It will support the roof (coming soon) and provide a smidgen of side impact protection (more of that coming soon, too).

The trouble is that I live in deer country, on Eight Dollar Mountain in rural southern Oregon. It’s bear country, too. I’ve seen bear in the Kinetic Vehicles driveway and our secretary, Jacky, shooed one away from her trash cans last winter, “Bad bear! Scat!” I suspect the bear ran away out of fear that Jacky was rabid.

It’s even cougar country — my friend Dave, who has appeared in this blog a couple times, dang near tripped over one in his mud room this April.

But mostly it’s deer country. Seeing a deer here is no more surprising than seeing a cow in Wisconsin.

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