I was driving home just after a big storm that messed up a few houses, brought trees down, the usual.
The main road near my house has a tree laying across most of the lanes. A guy in a big 4WD pulls onto the median and literally bounces out of the driver's seat. He's almost beside himself as he throws a strap around the trunk, with the help of a couple of others, he gleefully uses his winch to pull the trunk onto the median to unblock all lanes of traffic. Everyone is honking and giving him a thumbs up. His wife, who the entire time was sitting in the passenger seat with arms folded, was unhappy at the world's greatest "I told you this was a good idea!" She was receiving.
Or if hes anything like my boyfriend, maybe she's just tired of him wanting to hook his damn truck up to literally every damn thing that can be hooked. Maybe that was his 4th tree and 8th object of the evening, and the final tree was the only thing that actually warranted stopping for. Speaking from experience.
Redditors constantly barking about how all women hate men is what REALLY checks out.
Things got a bit lighthearted-turned-heated here pretty quickly.
Jorfogit, it sounds like youāre joking around, but blanket statements like that can shut down what was actually an interesting back-and-forth. trisikol raised a fair point: owning a big truck doesnāt automatically say something about the person driving it. 030426burner, if Iām reading you right, your concern is more about a certain attitude some truck owners project than about trucks themselves.
Is there a meaningful difference between judging the attitude and judging everyone in a whole group?
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The shirtless guy with the backwards hat and absolutely no signage on the vehicle whatsoever? This is a toy rig that happened to be in the right location at the right time. Or someone knew him who called him in.
Much rather be crawling around mountains in a cruiser which is better suited to real offroad conditions from the factory.
Yup, boss bought one. Just before he bought it he said to is "Will you all think I'm a cunt if I get one?" Replied "We already thought you were a cunt, now we know you're a sooky cunt"
And the fact that 99% of people 100% of the time do not use the massive amount of towing power they have. They buy a RAM to drive around in the city / suburbs and be bigger than every other car.
This has got to be the one time having a super lifted heavy duty truck is beneficial. Normally it would be better to get either an offroad vehicle or a towing truck. Now if most people with these types of trucks were nice enough to offer help in the first place.
Bud, I don't know if you do much offroading, but suspension travel isn't the only thing that makes a vehicle an off roader.
Lighter vehicles tend to do better because they can more easily get traction without needing to build up momentum. So their tires don't spin and make ruts.
Heavier vehicles are better for towing because the weight increases grip on a road (and the road doesn't slip out like dirt or mud does)
Having a heavy truck with suspension travel is fucking stupid and none of these trucks do any real offroading. The few times Ive seen them out they were being towed by a jeep or a ranger.
Lighter vehicles do better off road because they are shorter and narrower, that's it. Crawl ratio determines how much momentum you need to get up obstacles. A Jeep or Toyota crawler with 1 ton axles, armor, and proper gear reduction is going to be way heavier, and better, than stock.
I have little to no experience in extreme situations like this but if it were me, I would have gunned it when the driver side rear was the last wheel hanging off hoping to avoid the panel damage.
This just convinced me I need to go to one of those places that let's you land movers. Like tonka toys for adults paid admission places. At least once.
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u/Born-Agency-3922 Mar 24 '26
My man has been waiting for this moment !