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[California]

Plus if he crashes he'll be decapitated.

 

[LouNY]

Plus if he crashes he'll be decapitated.

Would that be a plus?

 

[BigBlue1]

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??

Nah, he's probably just got air bags. Those are all the rage and they solve all the payload and towing issues like this.

 

[WinterDeere]

The kids that grew up doing nothing but holding a video game Joystick are grown up and trying to think. And failing!

I've long argued that the American ingenuity that has taken us to victory in most wars comes from being a nation of farmers, hotrodders, and other similar wrench-turners. The French may have had a phenomenal army, the the British an overwhelming Navy, and no one is going to out-work the Japanese... but there's a lot to be said for the problem-solving skills of a nation of kids who grew up with a wrench in one hand and a screwdriver in the other.

Or hit the first bump.

My thoughts, exactly. I imagine one hard bump might generate loading 4x or more higher than static loading alone.

 

[WinterDeere]

Thinking more on it, I probably should've said "a wrench in one hand, and their .22 in the other." There's a lot to be said for kids that grew up hunting, when you drop them into the middle of a foreign jungle in southeast Asia, fighting enemy guerillas.

 

[masseyrider]

fighting enemy guerillas.

would take an armed Merican to pick a fight with a unsuspecting ape in the jungle.

 

[mllud]

I've long argued that the American ingenuity that has taken us to victory in most wars comes from being a nation of farmers, hotrodders, and other similar wrench-turners. The French may have had a phenomenal army, the the British an overwhelming Navy, and no one is going to out-work the Japanese... but there's a lot to be said for the problem-solving skills of a nation of kids who grew up with a wrench in one hand and a screwdriver in the other.


My thoughts, exactly. I imagine one hard bump might generate loading 4x or more higher than static loading alone.

Agree 100 percent, from the early 1900's when machine tools were being improved and perfected and then the two world wars forced building bigger and better and accurate. Then the late forty's through the fifty's and sixty's were good for advancing machine tools and there were factories full of people operating them. They worked within a thousandth of an inch or less.
Farmers repaired their equipment, and people did a lot of their own car repairs. The fifty's and through the sixties and kids went crazy building fast cars. They taught their kids how to work.
For years after if you wanted a tractor for acreage all there was, was to buy were old farm tractors that you had to restore.
That was an amazing century of people that knew how to work and solve problems by doing.
There are still people with a lot of hands-on talent but technology has caused a major decline of mechanical thinkers.
The U.S. better bring manufacturing back to keep this country to stay strong.

That guy sat that wood on top of the bed because it easy for the fork truck to load it. No thoughts of consequences.
The fork truck driver should have refused to put it up there. Between the wheel wells only.

 

[dodge man]

I think the Ford Superduty is old enough it’s a steel bed. New bed time, I bet the tailgate gets trashed too somehow.

 

[mllud]

Thinking more on it, I probably should've said "a wrench in one hand, and their .22 in the other." There's a lot to be said for kids that grew up hunting, when you drop them into the middle of a foreign jungle in southeast Asia, fighting enemy guerillas.

I just missed my 18th b-day by a year of going. I always expected to go. That was a screwed up deal.

 

[California]

Incidentally, and way off topic - (yeah I do that a lot )

The 1999 Subaru Outback and 2005 Ford Focus Wagon in this 2005 photo are still
what we drive today. Neither has given a us reason to replace it. And they still look as good as this photo - California cars! I would love to buy a new car but can't justify that, so long these perform and look same as when I bought them new. -End of rant-.

Updating an old post. More off-topic rant.

I generally go for an oil change when a car is down a quart. But the 2005 Focus uses no oil. Today I checked it. It's 7/8 up to the full line and mostly clean, doesn't stain the wipe tissue much, @ 165k miles. My permanent file lists the last oil change was May 2022 @ 150k miles. That's 15k miles with near zero oil consumption! Ford-Europe wants 10k mile oil changes for this 2L engine. The 200 freeway miles RT between home/ranch must be good for it!

I want a new car! But these two elderly ones still run same as new so I can't justify that. -End of rant-.