Super Duty Put to Work as Unofficial Forest Service Truck
Diesel F-350 FX4 has to dig deep, pull hard and try a few times, but ultimately succeeds in yanking tall tree out of forest.
What makes hard work…well…hard? A lot of things. It often requires doing something in tough conditions, such as putting shingles up on a roof when it’s 103 degrees outside. Some hard work means using your hands and putting your back into getting the job done. And hard work, by definition, is not easy. It usually doesn’t go the way you want it to the first time around. You may have to try multiple times until you succeed. That’s the kind of hard work the Ford F-350 in this YouTube video from Stretch Show is doing as it pulls a tree out of a forest.
Half of the work has already been done because the tree is down and chained to the back of the truck. But that still leaves a lot to be finished. A 20-30-foot tree isn’t exactly light. It feels even heavier when you have to drag it across an uncooperative surface like dirt. It’s only a matter of seconds until at least one of the tree’s various protrusions digs into the ground and acts as an anchor to forward progress.
Luckily, this third-generation F-350 has a Power Stroke diesel under its hood. That’s a combination purpose-built for hard work. After getting behind the wheel, the driver releases the parking brake and adds throttle. That’s enough to rotate the base of the tree almost 90 degrees and into a better pulling position. Once the driver feels a little resistance, they back up to give the future firewood another yank. And another. And another. Not only is the tree being stubborn, but the F-350’s tires don’t seem to be doing it any favors, either.
The driver seems to reason that harder initial pulls will break the tree loose. Their logic proves to be sound. Each violent charge forward gets the tree further and further away from its resting place – an inch or so at a time.
It’s a bit of a slog, but after a certain point, it makes more sense to keep going than to give up and drive out of the forest defeated. The Super Duty driver perseveres. They lay on the throttle and finally force the glorified log into submission. One last pull and it’s off to whatever fate awaits it. Hopefully, the driver made things a little easier on themselves and chopped the tree into chunks and threw them into the bed of their truck. After what the F-350 just accomplished, it deserves a break.
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