Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[mllud]

Parents on meth when the egg was fertilized.

 

[Engineer42]

It's amazing how stupid some people really are, when you see stuff like this. Yeah, let's reduce the surface over which all that weight is exerted to just four small 3.5 inch squares, and then stand it up on top of some 18 or 20 gauge sheet metal... no problem! Even if just regular KD lumber, the psi at those four contact points where the timbers cross the bed rails is going to be substantial.

Looks to be a Ford product, so aluminum bed? He was probably ok til he hoss'd on the ratchet strap. Or hit the first bump.

Either way, his man card should be revoked, and replaced with a forehead tattoo that states "I do stupid sh*t"

 

[LouNY]

Ah, but your missing the obvious. His mother/wife wouldn't let him get a flatbed for his pickup, now there is no reason not to.

 

[Rockbadchild]

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Bruce

that's a winner right there !!

 

[mllud]

He is really just DUMB

 

[Runner]

It's amazing how stupid some people really are, when you see stuff like this. Yeah, let's reduce the surface over which all that weight is exerted to just four small 3.5 inch squares, and then stand it up on top of some 18 or 20 gauge sheet metal... no problem! Even if just regular KD lumber, the psi at those four contact points where the timbers cross the bed rails is going to be substantial.

It was the pallet of Quikrete they had on top that caused the problem.

 

[Captain Dirty]

Damn! I had thought that the upward force on the tie-down strap hooks would have prevented the sides from collapsing.

 

[Runner]

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Bruce

Actually, this piccy looks fake to me. The frame of the truck is parallel with the ground. If there was enough weight on there to do that much damage, I would think it would be squatting. At least my Super Duty would be.

....or am I just being Mr. Naive and everyone else already sees this??

 

[Jstpssng]

Actually, this piccy looks fake to me. The frame of the truck is parallel with the ground. If there was enough weight on there to do that much damage, I would think it would be squatting. At least my Super Duty would be.

....or am I just being Mr. Naive and everyone else already sees this??

Your point is valid, until they cinched the load down with a 10,000 lb ratchet strap hooked to the fenders.

 

[ning]

Actually, this piccy looks fake to me. The frame of the truck is parallel with the ground. If there was enough weight on there to do that much damage, I would think it would be squatting. At least my Super Duty would be.

....or am I just being Mr. Naive and everyone else already sees this??

I think unloaded there'd be a rake with the bed higher. That's the look of a fully ballasted pickup there.
The shadows are right, the lighting is right, the perspective of the block of wood matches the view of the pickup.
I think what we've got is legit stooooopid.

The ridiculous thing is that that wood would've likely fit in the bed. So what's under it in the bed keeping them from loading it that way?

My guess would be 1x6 dog eared fence boards.
The 4x4s are new(ish). Are there more of them in the bed? Once again why not just drop the bundle on top of them?

He could get everything delivered for the next 5 years for less than the cost to repair that.

Rocks.
Dumb as rocks.