How do you get a snowmobile into the back of a Super Duty without metal ramps? Just flip a switch and back up to a snow bank.
Ford builds its Super Duty trucks to work hard, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to work hard if you’re driving one. If you figure out a way to work smart, you can get stuff done without busting your back. We can confidently say the driver of this modern Super Duty discovered a clever and easy way to get a snowmobile into the back of his rig.
We found this amusing video on the Instagram page of a company called Any Level Lift. As its name implies, Any Level Lift is in the suspension business. This particular Alumiduty is fitted with one of its suspension setups that allows the truck to ride nice and high over its aftermarket wheels and tires, but go low when it needs to.
This is one of those times when the Super Duty needs to dip down. Otherwise, how are its driver and a nearby snowmobile rider supposed to get the winter fun machine into the bed of the truck? We’ll tell you how they’d have to do it: the hard way. To make the process go faster, the Super Duty driver would have to get out of their truck and the snowmobile operator would have to dismount so they could team up to unfold a snowmobile loading ramp and get it into place. Then the two of them would have to go back to their vehicles to get the snowmobile into the cargo box and the truck where it needs to go with its new payload.
Fortunately, the person behind the wheel of this Super Duty knows how to work smart and the truck’s suspension lets him. As he backs up toward a snow bank, he drops the cargo box down on the truck’s hydraulics.
Right before he gets into his final position, he remotely lowers the tailgate.
A few seconds later, the snowmobile rider pulls up to a mound of powder directly behind the truck, scales it, and slides right into the bed of the F-Series.
He dismounts, climbs into the cab of the truck, and the driver raises the back end of the truck to its normal height. Even with all of that weight in its bed, the Super Duty doesn’t seem to break a sweat. That’s kind of fitting, though. Neither one of the guys in this video did, either.
Derek Shiekhi's father raised him on cars. As a boy, Derek accompanied his dad as he bought classics such as post-WWII GM trucks and early Ford Mustang convertibles.
After loving cars for years and getting a bachelor's degree in Business Management, Derek decided to get an associate degree in journalism. His networking put him in contact with the editor of the Austin-American Statesman newspaper, who hired him to write freelance about automotive culture and events in Austin, Texas in 2013. One particular story led to him getting a certificate for learning the foundations of road racing.
While watching TV with his parents one fateful evening, he saw a commercial that changed his life. In it, Jeep touted the Wrangler as the Texas Auto Writers Association's "SUV of Texas." Derek knew he had to join the organization if he was going to advance as an automotive writer. He joined the Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA) in 2014 and was fortunate to meet several nice people who connected him to the representatives of several automakers and the people who could give him access to press vehicles (the first one he ever got the keys to was a Lexus LX 570). He's now a regular at TAWA's two main events: the Texas Auto Roundup in the spring and the Texas Truck Rodeo in the fall.
Over the past several years, Derek has learned how to drive off-road in various four-wheel-drive SUVs (he even camped out for two nights in a Land Rover), and driven around various tracks in hot hatches, muscle cars, and exotics. Several of his pieces, including his article about the 2015 Ford F-150 being crowned TAWA's 2014 "Truck of Texas" and his review of the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider, have won awards in TAWA's annual Excellence in Craft Competition. Last year, his JK Forum profile of Wagonmaster, a business that restores Jeep Wagoneers, won prizes in TAWA’s signature writing contest and its pickup- and SUV-focused Texas Truck Invitational.
