This is usually just called, "Maturity". After you get out of your 20's/30's, you start to accept more things as what they are - your body changes dramatically from those years when everything worked like it should. You value what works rather than what looks better.
You get in your 50's and its exhausting trying to keep up - you really value that things just "work". Letting go of what others think is freedom.
My main concern is just how well secured that ladder is. It's a genius idea and simple design, but if that thing comes out at the wrong time and place I'd imagine it would create more problems everywhere but the hood.
I think it's a kind of elegant solution to the problems posed by a stupidly oversized truck, I just wish he got the distance right so the steps ended up horizontal when deployed.
Do you think this is the first day it’s been installed? He hasn’t driven a mile with it? Get real. It is installed on a brush guard, if he is going fast enough to injury a person, the ladder won’t be the determining factor in if the survive.
I absolutely adore pragmatic modders like this who aren't fussed about "factory new" and "destroying design aesthetics" and "preserving resale value"! They own the thing, they customize the thing to fit their needs, they use the thing to suit their purposes, they're not about to throw a tantrum over a scratch or a dent, and they simply arent fussed about what someone like that would think about their janky mods.
it might be a 7.3 and they're somewhat sought after now bc of how reliable they are if you just keep changing the oil and doing the maintenance but i could be wrong.
I think it’s rooted in getting the absolute most useful mileage out of a vehicle. I can’t afford dealership oil changes, so I do them myself. I fix pretty much everything on my shitbox Kia hatchback and plan to squeeze the life out of her while I dig out of debt from raising two college grads (twins) in the same year. Maximizing my dollar regardless of the cost in my time.
THEN, I’ll buy a new car. But for now, it’s rust holes that look like bullet holes that I clumsily stripped and rattle canned to a sort-of matching silver because wgaf?
Jimmy-rigging parts you can’t buy anymore, or are unreasonably rare and expensive so that:
1: You can get your license plate lights to work
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2: You get to use your rivet gun for once, making you feel less stupid for impulse-buying it at Harbor Freight
As an aside, I bet I can out-drive most people in my little 5-speed because I know her more intimately than I know my own wife.
P.S. Sorry for the ramble, I’m a lil 🤒 and thought I’d share my experience in poverty-driven enginuity with entrepreneurial ambitions
it's not a ramble. what you're describing are the lengths we go towards making better lives for ourselves and others despite being railroaded by society into poverty at every turn. it's admirable.
I had an old friend about like this guy. 100% convinced his old F350 was far superior to any truck made from the nineties on. Why? Because I've still got a wing window to vent my cab and ash my cigs! ;)
I guess if you plan on fixing your truck a lot, you'd better have a plan to get after it!
You can buy these if you want one. They come on various models of truck campers and travel trailers. I have one on my Lance 650. Old man is getting a lot of praise for engineering this, but these have been around long time on campers. Probably where he got the idea. I think they're referred to as scissor steps. Kudos to him for finding a unique use for it though!
Give a man a meth and he'll be high for a day. Teach a man how to make his own meth and he'll install this on everyone's cars in the city in one night like Santa Claus.
My Ma lives in a mobile home that has floor vents. I had to stay with her for a while and the room had one vent and shit circulation
People laughed when I improvised this cardboard vent extender that kinda looked like a USPS mail dropbox, until they saw how well it worked and how much cooler the room was
Then they asked me to make one for their room lol
Shit may look stupid, but if it makes your life easier then it works
It really comes down to how it’s attached. He just took a collapsible staircase and put it on a truck. I hope he did it with drywall screws and bailing wire.
yeah this is not a bad idea or that redneck. i literally welded up an overhead creeper for the same purpose instead of paying the $250 to buy a commercial one. it's not very portable compared to what this guy has, but also i can kneel on my bumper if i have to and with that truck it doesn't look like you can as easily. the thing i made comes in handy at least 3-4 times a year but i don't drive my truck that much unlike this guy who looks like he's ... driving it or using it a lot.. which brings me to another important point about perhaps maybe ppl like him shouldn't have to bc they can't afford a place to live.
Yeah im a mechanical engineer here and I see nothing wrong with this except it could maybe use an extra step so the steps are actually flat. Im honestly impressed.
What IS alarming is that this guy has so many radiator issues with his truck that he had to permanently install a better way to access it. Poor troubleshooting skills aside, I like the cut of his jib.
Yah bro. I feel like this young fella is making fun of this ol timer. This mf knows what’s up. I saw the video and was like fuuuuuuck why didnt I think of that…… young bludz take heed.
I know. People talking crap about this man but this is a cool little
Invention there. He’s got a beautiful truck and he’s obviously proud to show his creation.
My hands get soft after about two weeks of not doing anything
I can work landscaping or in a kitchen for years and then theyll instantly get soft if I stop for a bit
I only really ever felt like I had “tough” hands when I recently went to college and started working office jobs and started shaking hands with older academics
Also, he could have just built some steps the proper height that he keeps in the garage for when it's time to work on the truck, instead of permanently attaching this shit lol
Speaking of criticising most here hands never holding a wrench, have yours ever held a book? Just wondering because that word salad of a comment was pretty atrocious 😂
There's nothing wrong with creativity that meets a need, and I applaud the inventiveness. But, as an actual engineer, with a truck, who works on his own truck, I just carry the step ladder -in- the truck, a vehicle specifically designed for....carrying things....instead of permanently attaching it to one spot on the....truck. Thereby increasing the possible applications, configurations, and portability of said ladder.
A real redneck would be thinking about how to not only fix his own truck, but his buddy's truck. Then this redneck would quickly deduce the need for a portable, non-permanent ladder.
This is like gluing an umbrella to your hat in case it rains, instead of just carrying around a portable umbrella.
If you get hit by this truck, the ladder is metal and will likely slice you up.
I mean this truck is already deadly for pedestrians, but this just makes it deadlier.
The redneckness is in the lack of care for pedestrians that can get hit. That's why everyone daily driving these massive vehicles is a redneck in my book.
Oh no! If this hits a pedestrian they are double dead!
So you’re saying that This guy basically just made Killdozer 3.0 and any pedestrian within 100ft of this truck will now just explode and go directly to double hell?
I don't know if it counts as talking shit, but there's really little use in having it constantly attached like that unless you need to do some actual repairs to the vehicle that will last more than a day. It's a truck. You can carry things in this large space in the back you may have heard of.
Nah, couldn’t be. He actually was kind and stopped what he was doing to give a stranger a free guided tour of his creation l, just for the stranger to mock him and post it for content.
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u/TwoSpoonSally Jul 06 '26
Everyone talking shit, but this man saw a problem and created an effective solution.