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Old Jan 6, 2007
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Pulled out a superduty today

Got to say, I am fairly impressed with how stong this thing is. My buddy with an 05 superduty 4 door buried himself in his back yard trying to turn around and didn't know when to quit. He had managed to go back and fwd enough to where the truck was just rutted in something rediculous. I went over and hooked up the tow strap to him and in 4wh, I managed to drag him completely out and back to the road without even grunting. I was just surprised since the SD weighs like 8k or something.
 
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Old Jan 6, 2007
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lol nice got to love showing up the bigger crowd!
 
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Old Jan 6, 2007
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Sweet deal! Any pics?
 
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Old Jan 6, 2007
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Originally Posted by xtremeranger
Sweet deal! Any pics?
Hell no man, I was thinking that when I was draggin that thing out, I should have taken pics to post just for the entertainment factor but I didn't have my cam and it would have been pretty rude on my part to drive 15 miles to my house to take pics of his opps lol.
 
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Old Jan 6, 2007
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dude that is awsome
 
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awesome. sounds like you had a good day then
 
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Old Jan 6, 2007
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Ha ha! We've just has a SLEW of our members pulling out bigger trucks than their own lately! Good job and go Rangers!
 
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Old Jan 6, 2007
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awesome man!!! just goes to show, that bigger isn't always better! and dynamite does come in small packages!!!
 
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Old Jan 6, 2007
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Sweeeeet! I'd jump at the chance to do that, especialy being 2wd.
 
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Old Jan 6, 2007
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This has happened to me too many times, now I keep a camera in the truck : )
 
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Damn no pics.
 
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awesome! haha, i loved doing that when i had my ranger! ... sucks now cause not many things are bigger than my truck grrr haha
 
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Old Jan 6, 2007
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Cool deal.

I think it wouldve been appropriate to go get your camera though, since he was on his own private land.
 
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Old Jan 6, 2007
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Saweet!

I broke a tow strap doing that with my old ranger, talk about wild day.
 

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Old Jan 6, 2007
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We used my ranger many times to pull out cars, trucks, etc. We have a looping on ramp on the south side of columbus (for anybody that knows, 270 & 23). We had a call one day for a car deep off the road (about 350 feet down in the bowl). we sent the F550 with twin boom lines after it, and he got stuck. I was on scene in my ranger and ended up pulling the tow truck back to hard ground. Then, dropped it in 4l and went down in the bowl and brought the car up. Ranger 2, tow company, 0!
 
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Old Jan 6, 2007
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Originally Posted by Rangerboy03lvl2
awesome! haha, i loved doing that when i had my ranger! ... sucks now cause not many things are bigger than my truck grrr haha

Yeah, unless you find a buried Kodiak or something, you are SOL lol.


I LOVE bigazz trucks, had several in the past but the only down fall is, they weigh soooo much that if you don't have some serious width to the tires, they sink like rocks in soft ground and he was rolling stockies. Never had a chance.
 
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Old Jan 7, 2007
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awesome
 
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