F-150 Raptor Helps Fellow Ford Get Out of Sticky Situation
Super Duty can’t free itself from Mother Nature’s sticky fingers. Luckily, second-generation Raptor comes by and claws it out of mud.
Every Ford truck has its strong suits. The midsize Ranger is a peppy, turbocharged alternative to all of the Nissan Frontiers and Toyota Tacomas out there. The F-150 offers a mix of usable space and capabilities. For outright hauling and towing grunt, there’s the Super Duty lineup. The Blue Oval engineered the F-150 Raptor to be the ultimate off-road truck in the half-ton segment. It may not be well known for its towing prowess, but it can pull hard enough to get the Super Duty in this video out of the sticky situation it finds itself in.
Instagram user Ryan Zonca (aka raptorrenegade) recently took his first-generation Ford Super Duty out to the Holly Oaks ORV Park up in Michigan for some wheeling. But you know how that can be. You always plan to have fun; you never plan to get stuck. Sometimes it happens, though. As this video posted on the Midwest Offroad Expeditions Instagram page (aka bad_rap_gen2) shows, it definitely happened to Zonca. The earth under his truck wound up being too soft – and too hungry.
If you’re prepared to get stuck, you bring the hardware you’ll need to get yourself free. Short of that, the next best thing you can be is lucky. Maybe someone will be nearby and capable of pulling you to firmer ground. We’re willing to guess Zonca had recovery gear, but he didn’t need it anyway. Another Instagram user who goes by the screen name michigan_raptor was in the same park in – you guessed it – a Raptor.
After both trucks are connected with a tow strap, the Raptor driver throws their transfer case into 4LO and gets to work. According to Ford, the 2020 Raptor SuperCrew can conventionally tow up to 8,000 pounds. The Raptor driver needs every ounce of that rating because Zonca’s truck is dug in.
The Raptor’s first attempt to pull Zonca free doesn’t go that well. All it really manages to accomplish is spinning its own tires deeper into the ground. But Fords are built for hard work and hard work seldom translates to “everything goes exactly the way you want it to the first time around.” The Raptor driver backs up and tries again. This time, they charge into the same ruts they cut into the terrain a few seconds before, but they make a little more forward progress.
As the saying goes, the third time’s the charm. The Raptor changes course slightly and yanks hard. Zonca’s truck rocks noticeably and its front end inches forward. With encouragement from someone off-camera, the Raptor driver stays in the throttle. Their tires bite into the ground under them and keep eating until Zonca’s Super Duty is able to move ahead under its own power.
If the Raptor can be this helpful on rough terrain, just think of what a 2020 Super Duty Tremor with the more powerful Power Stroke turbodiesel can do. It’s only a matter of time until some unfortunate off-roader finds out – the hard way.
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