EASTER JEEP SAFARI 2013 - AnAmericanFootprintInPrint.com

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EASTER JEEP SAFARI 2013 - AnAmericanFootprintInPrint.com Page 1
KB FOOTWEAR
Clarence and Elwin Knapp founded the
Knapp Shoe Company in 1921 in Brocton,
Massachusetts. They established themselves as the leader of protective footwear
with a line of exceptionally high quality
industrial work shoes and boots. Iron Age
Corporation, established in 1817, bought
the Knapp Brand in 1998 and moved the
production to China in what ended up to
be an inferior “Knock-off” of their own
products. As a result, once-loyal Knapp
customers began turning away to buy other
brands.
In 1996, while designing web-based ecommerce solutions, I adopted the Knapp
catalog into an online version. As one of
the first e-commerce sites, it was a tremendous success.
In 2007 Iron Age/Knapp closed its doors in
bankruptcy, ending 86 years of history.
In the early days of Knapp, the majority of
shoe sales was done by the traveling salesman going door-to-door in the community
in which they lived - covering every corner
of the USA. Some 2,000 Knapp Counselors sold Knapp Shoes from the quarterly
published catalog. In 1957, my father,
Louis Grossman, became one of these
Knapp counselors.
With Knapp Shoes now “dead and gone”,
I and a few others held on to the belief that
the superior quality of the former product
line could make a comeback - if we were
lucky. In late 2009 luck found us – a warehouse holding the original Knapp tooling,
dies, molds and patterns was found, which I
purchased and moved to a new manufacturing facility. In 2010 we started producing
footwear again, under the slogan “Made in
America, Again” - a registered trademark
of KB Footwear Company.
KB Footwear is
“Made in America, Again.”
…and we continue to receive phone calls
from former Knapp customers, some who
have been wearing Knapp Shoes for well
over 40 years, wondering when their longtime Knapp counselor is coming back –
stating, “I’m so glad you’re back. I really
need a new pair of shoes.” Well; you can
get them once again at www.kbfootwear.
com. If you are just starting out your career
and you need to wear protective footwear,
you’ll soon discover why our customers
won’t wear anything else.
Avram Grossman
President/CEO
KB Footwear Company, Inc.
www.kbfootwear.com
American
StarUSA
John Hankerd and his wife Sue have launched a
groups and sports teams.
“I was surprised at how competitive the pricing
was on American made clothing, we are able
new line of clothing made entirely in America.
to offer many of the same items that the
Fed up with the declining Michigan economy
importers offer at virtually the same prices”
and lack of available work, Hankerd went
said, Hankerd. Their store, and website,
into business for himself. He vowed to help
www.AmericanStarUSA.com, offers a full line
Americans retain jobs that are increasingly
of custom printed apparel for individuals,
being outsourced by offering as many American businesses, charity events, or any other groups
Made apparel as possible.
that would need apparel printed. American
The 46 year old Michigan resident was once the Star is especially proud to offer team uniforms,
manager of a Gateway computer retail store.
from jerseys, to shorts, to athletic socks. Now
Six months after he purchased a new home,
coaches and leagues can outfit their entire
the store closed, leaving Hankerd without a job teams with American Made uniforms.
and a limited income. “I looked for work for
“It’s been a struggle, but we’re hanging in
a while, “Hankerd said. “There wasn’t enough
there,” Sue Hankerd said. “Right now all of
permanent work to pay the bills. I started
the money goes back into the business.” The
printing shirts in the garage.”
couple has four children – two sons and two
In 2004, the Hankerds moved their T-shirt
daughters – between the ages of 13 and 22, and
printing business out of their garage and into a
the business is a family affair. “All 4 kids know
store called Hankerd Sportswear in downtown
how to print shirts,” she said.
Owosso. They mainly sold t-shirts to schools,
The Hankerd family believes that too many
college students, and individual customers.
people do not take the time to consider how
Frequent requests for American-made apparel
their purchases could positively affect their
sparked the idea to find and offer apparel
community. They’re trying to make that
made in the USA. After much research and
consideration an easy one by offering American
persistence, they created the line of American
Made quality at prices comparable to imports,
Star USA, offering printed apparel for individuals and keep more Americans working.
Red Rock 4-Wheelers, Inc.
The Moab Easter Jeep Safari was started in 1967 by the Moab Chamber of
Commerce as an attempt to promote something new for our economy.
With the help of the BLM and their dozer a handful
of Chamber members worked to connect the road
to Hunter Canyon with the road to Pritchett Arch.
Pritchett Arch Trail was the first and only trail that
year. I’ve been told about 80 participants showed up
that year.
It was such a success more trails were added the
next year including Moab Rim. The Chamber ran
the Safari thru 1984, when the BLM requirements including a permit made
it impossible to continue. With the help of a small new 4-wheel drive club
(Red Rock 4-Wheelers) the transition was complete. RR4W ran their first
Jeep Safari in 1984; we barely had enough members for trail leaders, lost
money that year, but the bug had bitten us all.
By 1985 we were more organized and printed our first Jeep Safari Paper.
Then the Safari was a few hundred participants on big Saturday only and the
Club was about a dozen families.
Now the Safari is over 9 days and includes 30 trails and the Club has grown
to over 600 members. We have seen many changes over the years, some
good, some bad. One thing hasn’t changed: We still enjoy sharing our love
of 4-wheeling with our old and new friends as much now as we did back
then.
Welcome all to the
47th Moab Easter Jeep Safari
Doug McElhany Vice President
Red Rock 4-Wheelers, Inc. www.rr4w.com
Bob and Shirley Keniston doing the “Mashed Potato” on 3D Trail
Jonny Cobia and his 2001 XJ doing Rock Chucker Hill
on “Metal Masher” Trail
An American Footprint...in Print
March 21, 2013
Easter Jeep Safari 2013 edition
For information call 503-338-6056 or
email
[email protected]
A copy of this paper is available online at AnAmericanFootprintInPrint.
com
William D. Brooks III 658 3rd St. Astoria, Oregon USA 97103
AnAmericanFootprint.com
Jonny Cobia in his 2001 XJ doing Rock
Chucker Hill on Metal Masher Trail.
ing close to 36 inches
tall, 15.5 inches wide
and mounting on a
20” wheel. So there
you go. Simple.
Tire Sizing 101
Are you having a hard time figuring out
how big your tires actually are? There
are two basic tire sizing methods these
days, and although, one is clearly easier
to understand that the other, both leave
a lot to be desired from a common sense
stand point. Of the two tire sizes being
used today, one is metric and the other
is SAE (standard American English).
The metric tire sizing method covers
most tires available today while the
SAE sizing method is only used for
light truck tires in “flotation sizes”.
SAE sizing is seemingly simple to
understand, and in reality, it does
give you a fairly accurate reference to
compare one size of tire to another. An
example of an SAE tire size would be
33x12.50R15. In this example, the first
number is the overall height of the tire
which in this case would be 33 inches.
The second number is the overall width
of the tire which in this case would be
12.5 inches. The “R” stands for radial
construction (which almost all tires are
today as opposed to bias ply, but this is
a subject for a whole other essay) and
the 15 at the end means that the tire
mounts on a 15” wheel (often referred
to as a rim). Seems simple right? Well,
not exactly because the tires don’t often
measure out what they claim to be.
As a matter of fact, most tires are shorter and narrower than the writing on the
sidewall claims, but you get the idea. A
35x12.50R17 is close to 35 inches tall,
12.5 inches wide and mounts on a 17”
wheel as opposed to a 36x15.50R20 be
Metric tire sizing is
a little more complicated and you do
have to be an ace
mathematician or at
least have one in the
family tree to figure
it out. The metric tire sizing method,
often referred to as p-metric actually
can have a “p” designation at the beginning, an “LT” designation at the beginning, or no letter designation at all.
Example of these three methods are as
follows: p205/75R15, LT265/75R16E,
205/75R15.
First, let’s discuss the letter at the beginning. If the tire size starts with a “p”, it
means that it is a passenger car tire and
usually carries a 4ply rating. If the tire
size starts with an “LT”, it means that
the tire is a Light Truck tire and will
most commonly have a 6, 8, or 10 ply
rating.
The first number in the tire size is the
overall width of the widest point of
the tire from sidewall to sidewall in
millimeters. The second number in
the metric tire size is what’s called the
aspect ratio. This means that the height
of the sidewall of the tire is a percentage of the width, and in the cases listed
above, would be 75%. Again the the
“R” stands for radial construction and
the last number is the diameter of the
wheel in inches.
You ask, “why inches, I thought this
was metric tire sizing?”, and I say
“good question!”(again a topic for
another essay). In the example given
above for the “LT” metric size, the
tire size is followed by the letter “E”.
That letter represents the ply rating of
the tire. A “C” equals a 6 ply rating, a
“D” equals an 8 ply rating, and an “E”
equals a 10 ply rating. “Rating?”, you
say. Yes, “Rating”. In the good old
days when all tires were bias ply (you
systems, etc, your best bet is to
stop by your local
PROFESSIONAL (there are many
that aren’t) and ask an expert.
You ask, “how do I know if they
are professional?” I say, “that is
the topic for a whole other essay!”.
got it… another essay) there was actually 2, or 4, or 6, or 8, or 10 plies in
the construction of the tire and as radial
tires came out, they were able to manufacture tires with equal strength and less
material, so the rating system was born.
A “Load Range E” tire is equivalent in
load carrying capacity as a tire that used
to be manufactured with 10 plies. So,
let’s do the math and figure out how
big an LT265/75R16 is. In order to do
this, it is necessary to know that there
are 25.4 millimeters in an inch. So,
here’s the equation: 265 ÷ 25.4 equals
10.43 inches which is the width of the
tire in inches. 10.43 x .75 (aspect ratio.
Remember?) equals 7.82 which is the
height of the sidewall from the bead
(where the tire mounts on the wheel)
to the tread surface. So, 7.82 (sidewall height) + 7.82 (the other sidewall
height, there are two you know ) + 16
(wheel diameter) equal 31.64 inches
tall. So we know that the tire is 31.64
inches tall and from the first part of
the equation we learned that the tire is
10.43 inches wide and we also know
that it mounts on a 16 inch rim. So an
SAE conversion of this tire size would
be: 31.65x10.43R16 or (rounded to the
closest inch) 32x10.50R16.
Here is the equation in simpler
terms: 265÷25.4=10.43x.75=7.82
7.82+7.82+16=31.64.
There you go, now you are an ace
mathematician! Not really, but hopefully you have a better understanding of
how tire sizing works. There are still
tons and tons of information regarding
ply ratings, load indexes, speed ratings,
tread designs, DOT codes, TPMS
Chris Boice,
Owner, Big O Tires and
Service Central
Roseburg, OR
(for more information, call
800-NEW-TIRE)

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