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Evolution, your car has it.
Way to ruin your truck, genius.
But this way they don’t need a lengthwise strap to keep the whole mess from sliding back and forth. Or something.
That truck’s about ready to fall apart anyways. If you look at the bottom of the big dent on the light blue it’s pretty much rusted through anyways. Probably why the strap caused so much damage.
I bet you would yell this out your window while passing the truck, right? WAY TO RUIN YOUR TRUCK, GENIUS! ZING!
Small town, Saturday night? Absolutely! There ain’t much else to do but drink and drive up and down Main Street, you know.
there, it should be tight enough, now
It’s gonna take more than those two plasters you put on the door when you scratched it to heal this one.
Those are plastic clips that formerly held a strip of trim.
i told ya, don’t let hulk to load the truck!
This performs two functions. I keeps the pallets from moving, and it provides a place below the bed to mount the 5 gallon plastic gas can.
Win
FTW!!!!!
Combo Kludge, FTW!
I’m pretty sure that dent came from some previous accident, not from tightening that belt. It’s rusted along the fold seam.
nah. the strap was flapping loose and the tire ran over it. jacked it a couple notches tighter and crushed the bed.
Built Ford Tou…. never mind. The driver is a strapping lad.
Awesome.
Good… that truck needed to lose a few inches ’round the middle anyway.
It’s called the bed-band repair. Guaranteed to shrink your gas tank and shed those extra pounds for a more curvy frame.
Ford: Fix Or Repair Daily
FORD! FIRST ON RACE DAY!
Frickin’ Ole Rebuilt DODGE
Ya mean “Forgotten On Race Day”?
Found On Rancid Dump
Found On Road Dead
Reversed: Driver Returns On Foot
This kludge is going to be this month’s Glamour Don’t in Glamour Magazine.
Naw, yellow strappy numbers are totally in this spring.
We wuz on our way to the infield at the NAS-CAR race, and the feller at the gate sed we needed them things ankered down if we wanted to sit on em so Cletus dug out this strap from the back. Heck, those tickets cost more than the truck did anyway.
Cletus, where y’all be from? Skid row?
*snicker*
Spoken like a true NASCAR fan. Plus, now you know that all those cases of beer will stay put underneath the pallets.
National Association of Spit Cups And Rednecks? “All y’all get Betty Lou away from that Busch Ice afore she ……”
Spills her own spit cup in the cooler ice again? “Jeez, Betty Lou, ease up on the drinkin’ already. And no, I don’t think Earnhardt wants to see your…”
“Busch again. The last time that happened …”
“Hey, when we get to the scrap dealer’s, which’ll fetch more, the pallets or the truck? A fiver says it’s the pallets!”
My money’s on the strap.
Just guessing that there’ll be some damage to the exhaust, too…and, at what point, as the metal is screaming and rending do you say “whoa”?
Can’t imaging someone doing this (“Oh, it’s starting to crumble, lets tighten in even more”). Maybe this happened during transport, ie. lot of movement and the car (rust) not handling the stress.
-x
Noooo!! You idiot! I said use the ratchet to CINCH it…not PINCH it!!
And once he receives the estimate for the repair costs, the owner of the truck will find out just how unpalatable this job truly was.
Um, ok. I’m going to take a SWAG that this isn’t the first time he’s done this, he had something reaaaly heavy in there the first time, it worked so well he did it again, and it takes a shorter piece of strapping every time. Add a multiple to the recommended car lengths of following distance…
Wait.. when did train B leave Chicago?
The truck is just learning to swim, so his mama strapped all those pellets onto him to keep him from drowning.
“It lifts as it enhances your truck’s busted lines…”
I’m convinced! Now…what to do about all that junk in the trunk?
Considering that is probably plastic and not elastic deformation, the pallets in the middle will *still* probably slide out if they’re not stacked properly.
You’re right, I think he needs to tighten the straps.
Getting the gasoline in the filler neck must be a real trick – Find the hole. Here’s a match.
This guy deserves retroactive tickets for every day he drove like that – He has the proper commercial duty ratchet strap, but the sheet-metal is not a proper anchor point. Considering its moved up about a foot…
You guys are assuming too much. Who says it was the strap that bent the metal? It could be from a previous accident (like when he jumped off a cliff and landed on some power lines) and he is just taking advantage of it.
(welcome back, Daniel!)
What do you mean? I’ve been posting every day for the last 3 months.
Really? Under an alias or on a different site?
nah, j/k. I have been lurking quietly and intermittently.
It’s from the previous time he hauled pallets … and the time before that … and the time before that … and the time before that…
This strap is so tight, that when he moves down the road at 60 mph, the strap plays “I wish I was in Dixie” in C minor.
aww, I just got a pic of the same car too. Someone had to beat me to it.
This truck is driven by a pair of Mexicans in the Provo/Orem area of Utah.
Is the truck bed holding the pallets, or are the pallets holding the truck bed?
Neither. The strap is holding everything together, once released the pallets and truck parts will be strewn over a quarter mile area.
Much like the lap band used on humans, this automotive model will not only reduce the amount of gasoline consumed by your pickup truck, but it will even reduce your truck’s APPETITE for fuel.
Yeah, but this one has an Appetite for Destruction.
He thought delivering the pallets would be a cinch but the deck was stacked against him.
The dude is just using the dent to it’s fullest advantage!
From the other side he says: “I click and click but the darn thing just won’t tighten, well it’s got to get tight sometime!”
Stack them high, the end is coming.
And that’s how you make a 21st century siege tower.
Traditional siege towers were pushed by men hiding behind it to the enemy fortress.
Judging by the owner’s respect for his truck, this modern version probably needs to be pushed too.
This is a prime example of the modern siege towers used in World War Z.
“I make the BEST pallets in the world, watch this….I’ll prove it!
Everyone laughed at my portable deer stand until my cousin put it in drive and we chased down a herd
And ran over the herd in the process? Saves bullets.
That is a factory dent. This truck came off the assembly line as a Ford Pallet Mover.
This takes the strap-on idea waaaaaaaay too far
His attempt to lower his truck’s fuel consumption by installing a gastric band had less than satisfactory results.
HEY GUYS!!! WATCH THIS!!!!
Ford Truck $500
Cargo tie down Strap $25
24 wooden palettes FREE
A way to make a living!!! Priceless!!!
at $2 a palette Juan has $48 in that F_cked Over Rebuilt Dodge to buy cerveza y tortillias para la famillia!
Dainty Truck lifts its skirts to cross a puddle.
I suspect a Toyota “unintentionally” accelerated into it first. No one is stupid enough to keep anchoring to the same non-anchor point. Right?
I suspect that tow strap is always there now, whether the pallets are or not. (It would be sort of funny if a Toyota had managed to SKID into it first, though. If that’s what you’re a-drivin’ at.)
Genius
” THATS MY TRUCK ! “
Not a person on earth could tighten that enough to bend the metal. Funny, until you think for a second, then it’s not even the least bit humorous. A set up and poorly done.
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Dammit, all those cars I nearly bent in half at the body shop with a come-a-long. Actually, a ratchet strap is strong enough to bend metal. It might take a hundred tries, but you’ll eventually crush the bedside like that.
Considering the tethers’ proximity to the gas cap, exactly what kind of damage are we talking here? I don’t know much about where the fuel system is located, or how it is designed, but I’m guessing its only a matter of time before something important is unable to function properly.
I guess nobody here noticed the REALLY scary part. The fact that all of this is PRESSING ON THE GAS TANK! :O
Yikes!
Wow, a bunch of people on here have never tightened a ratcheting tiedown. There is no way that even repeated use of this (admittedly moronic) strapping strategy would result in the fold seen in the body panel. Ratchets are designed so you can’t put that much force on them–if you were to, say, use a stick or piece of pipe to gain leverage, the ratchet would skip before the metal folded like this.
Now that’s what I call a wedgy
Man that’s toight… like a toiger
what should i do with this stack of wooden boxes?
im thinking about fixing a gas station…