Heh heh heh. I can’t remember if it was Joe Bonamo or someone else that published a 25 cent book back in the 50’s on “Feats of Strength”. One of the feats to impress your friends and enemies was to single handedly pull a freight car. He told the tricks on how to do it which I don’t remember anymore and never tried. You could find all kinds of stuff in the back of a Popular Mechanics magazine back then. So at any rate, it wouldn’t be a sales point for me and I certainly wouldn’t want to buy a used one that had pulled a train.
I better leave now and go cut the grass with my IC twin engine before I upset everyone.
You can mow mine too if you want. I’m too lazy to even use a zero turn after the day I’ve had!
Does anyone remember the commercial in the 80’s where a Chevy truck hauled a Ford truck crosswise in the bed up a hill? Maybe it was vice versa, Ford hauled Chevy. At any rate, I did that with a couple of scrap trucks at work years ago. It feels a little more “tippy” than the commercial would lead you to believe. Ha!
lol If they want to impress me, have them pull a PU out of a mud bog, buried to its axles.
We got 2 trucks mired down, hooked to each other, trying to pull a third out. Along comes a farmer and says he’ll get his tractor. We were thinking of one of those monsters, but he showed up with an old Ford… maybe from the 50’s.
I’m not overly impressed by ads for towing. For all we know, the Tundra and F150 needed a new transmission afterwards. As Bing said, I’d hope my truck had more pulling power than a HS football team.