Im impressed.

 

It looks like Coke should contact P-Diddy and buy one of those lifted Pepsi trucks to run on the beach Nice pull, you should send those pictures to Rick Titus so he can put it on his next Ford commercial

 

Cool pull man glad to see these fords pulling more than there weight once and a while. From some of those picks that coke truck doesn't look like it's stuck. In the one picture you can see the rear passenger side tires and they don't look buried. Maybe it's just the angle of the pic.


James

 

These pics are great! But for another reason. Let me just tell you, that specific part of the beach, in front of the empty lot on the left, that is next to the pink hotel, is one memorable place from spring break 1999. Oh to be young, dumb, and well you know, in Daytona again. Thanks for the trip down memory lane

 

After these were taken the tow truck driver got in the Coke truck and thought he could drive it out. It moved forward about six inches and sank. Like an idiot he kept trying until the passenger side tire was just spinning freely.

When it came down to it, the tow truck was the harder pull between the two. At first he was about 10 feet inland to where he is pictured above. When I hooked up to the Coke truck he just gave it a little throttle until he felt it catch. Then he gave it just enough gas to keep the line tight until I stopped.

It was fun. I asked how much they typically charge to pull something like that out, and he said Coke is free because they do all the maintenance on their trucks in this area. I asked how much it is for anyone else and he said no less than $150.

Rochester,
Yeah, we were less than 100 yards from the SunGlow (Port Orange) pier. You can only drive one mile south of that pier now. AND you cannot drive under the Daytona pier at all anymore!!! They've seriously restricted the driving space in Daytona. It's good in a way, but I loved being able to cruise from the inlet to SR-40 (Ormond Beach).

 

That is a lot more impressive than me pulling my friend's Hemi Dodge out. Nice job

Joe

 

Sweet story.

 

Well weaseled, I'm impressed. I tried to pull out a stuck tow truck, I used to have the photos in my gallery (he was stuck in a ditch pretty bad). Well, that was until the chp arrived. Talk about jerks, it was Christmas night and they were giving him hell for getting his own truck stuck. He ended up with a $400 bill or something, I posted about it. I let the driver in my truck for the entire 4 hours so he could have some cover for the rain and a person to talk to. I could have strangled that young cop for him...idiots with a badge I tell ya. I'm sure you had to yank if he was stuck, but how hard? Is that the pics when they were stuck? Either way, great story.

 

Nice pull!
These trucks kick **** in 4Low

 

Nice job!!
The only things I've pulled out are a couple of cars that were stuck in the snow, which was way too easy.

 

These trucks are pretty impressive. I had to pull out an explorer that went into a 3 feet deep ditch. And like you said before there was a chevy guy there just complaining and wouldn't help, so I took care of it. I was really surprised when I hooked up to it and started taking the slack out of the strap and waiting for the wait of the explorer to show and I started thinking that the strap broke because I never felt it, but when I looked back I just about had it out of the ditch and I didn't even feel it. I know it is nothing like your pull but I thought I would have felt something and then truck just pulled and never felt it. I love these trucks.

 

I have been impressed by the many pulls as well, the truck weighs a ton. There was one time I could not pull an Avalanche out and thats because it was on ice and I had bald tires, to make things worse he was 2wd (but had chains). I couldn't even get near him without sliding so there was too much of a risk of sliding into him (I had to pull him up a hill). The guy was sweating in negative degree weather just about. I was parked on that hill and it started sliding the minute I got out, we threw in the towel and called it a night. A stock jeep with chains was trying to plow me a space to pull, but my tires were literally BALD.

 

I know for me on a recent trip to Moab, UT with my dads 97 F150 (did not have mine then) on a acess road that was steep and narrow heading back up from the Hurrah Pass trail that we did in the truck, we came across one of the sharp turns their was a young lady drivin a stick shift jeep in the group of two and from what I was told she poped the clutch and it jumped to the right on her and almost sent her down a 300' drop into the rocks.

The sencond jeep was to light to pull the jeep and the one that was hanging almost off the edge was older with out fuel injection and they could not get it to fire. Well when we came around the corner I asked if they wanted help (girls were scared and crying) and they said please they had been trying for a hour and cound not get it out. I pulled up to the jeep and the guy hooked on to the front tow hooks, the other jeep said he would hook on to my rear for a ancor.

Stuck it in four low left off the break and just touched the gas and it started to pull the jeep back, I stoped because the guy had to strighten the tires out over the big rocks and he said to hold up a min. Mean while I was waiting and my wife said to look in the mirror, the jeep behind me did not see my break lights I guess and was spinning all four trying to pull me, ha I did not even know it. Anyway pulled him out and he thanked me and we all went on our safe ways.

Sorry no pics, gotal love these trucks, btw after the trip with my dad's truck me and my wife decided to sell our 99 Explorer and buy a F150

Great pics Rochester and good story.

 

In these pictures the tow truck has already been pulled out, and he had the Coke truck pulled out of it's first set of ruts. Just after the picture the tow truck driver tried driving the Coke truck out, but just buried it's passenger side tires again. If it would have had a locking diff. it probably would have been okay.

I actually didn't yank on either one of them. Even with a 30' 30,000 pound strap I was afraid the weight of them would have snaped the strap & caused damage to something. I pulled in at an angle so I was on hard packed sand, tightened up and went at it. The tow truck driver helped drive both trucks out...

Earlier in the day I did hook up to a smaller RV type thing. As I was hooking up to it Beach Patrol drove up to help. I yanked pretty hard with my 20' 20k pound strap and the Beach Patrol said it looked like it was about to snap. (I was pulling from the rear.) The Beach Patrol pulled out what looked like a 1" nylon nope with a hook on one end & a loop on the other. We put the hook on the RV's front straight axle, and the loop around a hook reese receiver I have. On that I yanked with about 5' of slack between us, and the recoil of the rope just pulled the RV out smoothly. I want to replace the hook receiver I have with either a receiver with a shackle or a pentle -- so the rope doesn't come off when I back up. Although the pentles have the cooler look to them, the shackle would be cheaper.

There was an older Bronco out there that had a winch mounted to its front bumper pulling people out. It was nice to see how smooth that thing was pulling. Although it would take me forever to make my money back on it I'm seriously considering the Warn hidden setup. They're $1,200 from 4wheelparts, and I have a 10% coupon. The only two problems I see with it is it only has a 50' lead, and it's only rated at 9k pounds. For what I'd be using it for 50' is more than enough, and I don't think I'd exceed it's 9k # capacity.

 

These trucks are very impressive. I pulled out a buddy of mine's 05 FX4 SCrew from a ditch today. It drew quite a crowd. No pics though it was raining really hard. Built ford tough!