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[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 137 points 1 week ago (40 children)

They could get a crew van, fit more in it, and still fit in a standard parking spot.

Probably also quite a few thousands of dollars cheaper.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (14 children)

No ground clearance on van, gona get stuck in the mud. less payload on van, can't just drop a skid of what ever or extra long things like hydraulic cylinders into a van with out akward fucking around. less tow capacity on van, notice the tow bar on the back... What are you gona put a welder, diesel cans, gas cans, pales of hydraulic oil for equipment/ slip tanks, pumps and what not into the van too with the occupants? What about the greasy and oily ass clothes. Throw em in the van too? So they stain and fill the cab with VOCs?

This is a purpose built one off, and alot of you are out of touch with how work gets done. Not evey job is hauling standard 8x4 drywall. Alot more trades work than just slinging plaster around.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This is totally a male enhancement device due to the lift and frame length. It's weak in the frame and real regular off-road use will crack it.

It's a fucking joke just like the joke that drives it. "Look at me! I'm such a tough manly manchild. My beard is huge and I listen to country music even though I've never owned a cow and live in the suburbs."

Real working 4x4/dually trucks tend to be factory height (little higher than factory rear wheel) as you don't want to lift heavy shit higher than you have to. They're also beat to hell because they do real work.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess you also didn't notice the tow bar in the back. Huh. Trucks tend to sit high. So when you load them the truck levels out. Instead of squatting down in the rear. Also I don't know if this truck is a legit tow truck but if it is, say you had a family of 5 or 6 are on a road trip in your grand caravan. Get into an accident with a dumb shit wild deer/fucking phesant/ windigo w/e or brake down cause budy guy at the last gas station was dumping a bit to much home brew corn gas in the tanks. A regular tow truck fits only 4 people. Plus driver. So now you got to wait for another veichle. Out there shits so remote that could be 30 min or 2hrs depending on the stretch of road. Now you got this pigfugly monster. Your Pacifica/oddesy/Siena is on the hook. You and your family are all in the warm cab and no one is freezing. Because it's January. Yeah I forgot to mention it January in Alberta -30ΒΊC

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most male enahncement devices have towing crap on them so they can tow a boat or a camper once or twice a year. It also makes the manchild feel like a big boy.

Lifted and that long means it absolutely isn't a real truck. It's a stupid toy.

Again, real trucks are also beat up as they're tools, not toys.

I grew up working on a farm, I've been around industrial trucking my whole life since then. This isn't a truck, it's a toy owned by a boy with a masculinity inferiority complex.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bud, how can you not tell that that is not a ball hitch or pintle hitch? It's tow stinger, Mr. Farm. Also, the attitude of beat-up trucks is long gone. Turns out you can get more customers and sales when you don't show up looking like Harry and Marv.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

This one of my trucks, it's a 98 chevy 3500.

I'd post another pic of my 98 ranger with mud, carry rack and towing hitch as well as my play farm but Lemmy isn't taking it right now and i have shit to do.

That asshole isn't driving a real truck otherwise he wouldn't be taking up four spaces like that in the middle of the parking lot. He'd be parked in tne back row like not an asshole.

The frame is too long to be a real truck. He spent over $100k to have people that actually work for a living to build it for him.

If you think spending tons of money on equipment that looks pretty and makes the job harder because you have to baby it is a good marketing tactic, you're never going to survive as a business owner.

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