What chores has your Patriot done?

johnda · May 4, 2010

I am very happy with my Patriot and it has performed duties as my cow pony, doing all types of hauling jobs without complaint. This spring was especially heavy with jobs. It carried on different occasions:

800 pounds of gravel (10 bags 80 pounds each)

A batch of 4x4x8' posts which slid right into the car using the fold-down front passenger seat.

400 pounds of varied seed and topsoil bags

two 1x8x10' long strips of lumber to rebuild a bench. These fit into the car by sliding them up to the windshield.

Numerous small trees and plants.

During the severe rains and flooding here, it became a water taxi. The only problem I had was a noise caused by heat shielding being bent down by water pressure so that it touched the exhaust system and rattled. My dealer fixed it for $35.

It seems that there is no task my Patriot is afraid of. How about you folks? What chores has your baby done?:smiley_thumbs_up:

UA_who · May 4, 2010

Very similar stories here. Many many trips to Home Depot with everything from plywood sheets on the roof rack to 5 or 6 bags of concrete in the back.

The best stories though are on my trips up to our church camp that we are restoring. It's about a 2-hour drive up into the mountains (6000-ft elev at the camp). The pat is usually pulling a trailer loaded with equipment and supplies - maybe 1000lbs worth. I usually have 3 or 4 adults inside with all of their personal gear. And the Pat performs flawlessly. Up the freeway hills at 65mph. On the dirt roads and even rough roads that require 4wd... pulling the trailer... and getting an 22mpg for the whole trip.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTater180 · May 4, 2010

My next accessory will be a hitch followed by a trailer. I need something to haul the lawn mower and whatever is needed for yardwork. A 5x7 trailer should do but I'll measure the mower first.

I have taken several trips with the back full of luggage for 4 people. The Pat handles well fully loaded.

johnda · May 5, 2010

Cool!

jepstr67 · May 5, 2010

I had to yank the CJ-8 out of a snow bank last winter when the plow got hung up on the snow pile.

UA_who · May 5, 2010

jepstr67 said:
I had to yank the CJ-8 out of a snow bank last winter when the plow got hung up on the snow pile.

LOL. I had to do that too!

Oh wait. Nevermind. But I did SEE snow once.

Rskitall · May 5, 2010

biggest chore was pulling this log that was huge I have an 18" chainsaw and it wasn't long enought to cut through it.I cut it into a 12 foot log in order to pull it but my patriot did it! I go on logging roads to get firewood.I know I have said this in a lot of posts but nobody thought my patriot was going to be able make it up those roads and with a trailer I said if I could make it past the first water burrow I can do it 5 miles later I found tons of firewood

KazJeep · May 5, 2010

I asked my Pat to vacuum the other day and it refused

Rskitall · May 5, 2010

KazJeep said:
I asked my Pat to vacuum the other day and it refused

The Pat doesn't have thumbs ask it to stay still

robi454 · May 5, 2010

I used it when I moved to put all of the breakables in that I didn't want in the UHAUL.

deepnite10 · May 6, 2010

several trip up to the snow..moving her up to Alturas to take
on a yr. contract job as a nurse..

then there s daily trips hauling Toby the therapy dog around..

Krocker · May 6, 2010

several trip up to the snow..moving her up to Alturas to take
on a yr. contract job as a nurse..

then there s daily trips hauling Toby the therapy dog around..

that sounds productive, mine is for fetching or service drive for my neighbors.

Tater's Dad · May 6, 2010

The 'Riot is always lugging something from the lumber yard....
And on most weekends the crap the wife buys at auctions....

JodyV · May 6, 2010

sad but true

Trips to B&Q (home depot) or Wickes.... a few taps, copper pipe and paint :doh:

Sad but true.

(It'll be carrying Kayaks though when the weather warms up

)

FreeLantz · May 7, 2010

My Patriot serves as a mobile office, at least five and often (too often) six days a week.:smiley_thumbs_up: It's loaded down with cargo which is probably why I've rarely seen better than 24 mpg.

deepnite10 · May 7, 2010

lets see ????????????? :icon_rolleyes:

this weekend will be my turn to clean the Russian Hill apt. house the wife & her sibblings own..so i ll be loading up all the cleaning supplies to celebrate
mother s day with the mother-in-law..:notworthy:

then the next day we ll be loading up the dogs to pay my parents a visit..

johnda · May 8, 2010

The Jeep Patriot, the most useful aid to the farmer/rancher/cowboy since the quarter horse!

todde702 · May 8, 2010

My 'Riot often becomes the party bus. Especially when my wife takes it for Girls Night Out. She'll pick up her friends and be the DD for the evening (mainly because it gets way better mileage then her crew cab S-10, oh and there's not a ton of crap clutter in my riot so people can actually sit down).

Kaz beat me though, I was going to say I have it doing the dishes and cleaning the bathroom.

Dawson · May 10, 2010

Today we had to return some extra concrete from our fence install.

16 bags x 80 Lbs = 1280 Pounds - loaded over the back seats folded down.

Also during this work, it hauled 500 Lbs of scrap chain link fence to the yard (put a hole in my headliner; DOH!), and we picked up some more wood yesterday. This is the most WORK Hernandez has seen. Usually it's fun and games out camping and off-roading.

Rskitall · May 10, 2010

here is what I did last year

What chores has your Patriot done?

johnda

UA_who

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTater180

johnda

jepstr67

UA_who

Rskitall

KazJeep

Rskitall

robi454

deepnite10

Krocker

Tater's Dad

JodyV

FreeLantz

deepnite10

johnda

todde702

Dawson

Rskitall

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