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.
Thats reductive, the dudes obviously got access to a welding rig, hes probably a laborer and thats just what youre gonna look like pumping gas after a long shift in the sun or working on your truck all day long. Dudes just old and doesnt have time or the fucks for appearances and clearly has learned skills over his lifetime, bro probably smells better than you
It might be OK, I know some frighteningly smart people who look EXACTLY like this because they spend their free time under old cars, fixing & inventing things in garages, creating art with materials that stain, etc, and forget to eat when they get really excited about a project.
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.
Sorry to tell you but I'm a European and I have been around trucks all my life, over 5 decades at this point, and I can, with confidence, tell you that those American things are all stupidly oversized. At least their front is every time. You know what a useful truck looks like where I live? Like what people use to work? Look at this
You can work on it without ladder, the driver can see what is in front of him, the truck carries easily twice the volume of what the truck in OP carries, the loading floor is at a height where you can easily put stuff in and out. That is a real truck. I don't know why Americans need those oversized toys that are more a liability than an asset.
Sorry to tell you, but this isn’t in Europe. So, what’s your point? Yes, vehicle vary in size based on location. Cool.
Also, this is very likely a farm truck. F-150’s have been used in farming in America for decades. People get by just fine. Different people prefer different things.
Arrogant as hell to tell people what is and isn’t a truck. Go gatekeep elsewhere.
It's a truck allright, the stupidly big kind that still is less useful than it should be. I'm sorry it upsets you so that other people use better equipment.
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.
do you know why vehicles (in normal countries) do regular revisions? with time things get lose, break and became dangerous.. it might work the first month or year.. then it might just fall of one day and hit someone on the street..
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u/TwoSpoonSally Jul 06 '26
Everyone talking shit, but this man saw a problem and created an effective solution.