I have a hose clamp on the RH hinge on my tailgate. On my last F150, I was closing the tailgate one time and it popped out and was hanging like yours is in the picture. At least it was in a busy parking lot and a bunch of people saw it happen:o .

About a week or two after I put the hose clamp on my '04, I was on my way to work and I noticed that my soft bed cover seemed awfully loose. When I go to work I noticed that somebody had unlatched the back of the bed cover and there were hand prints all over my tailgate, especially all along the bottom. Somebody had tried to steal my tailgate that night/morning right in front of my house. That cheap little hose clamp saved me the price of a new tailgate. Judging by all of the handprints literally all over my tailgate, the person had to have spent several minutes trying to get the tailgate off before they gave up. I wish I could've seen the look of confusion/frustration on their face when it wouldn't just come right off. Plus, this is Texas and a lot gets excused for messing w/ a mans truck.......

 

Oh don't be such a bunny hugger. Dogs have been living outside for millions of years. It's probably better that the animals are accustom to the environment that being sissified like us humans anyways.

 

Yep, installing a hose clamp around the right hinge will do it. If you bought 1 or 2 of those tailgate assist deals that are on e-bay, that will hold the tailgate down and won't let it bounce around.

 

exactly what i was thinking, my girlfriend gets mad at me for paying more attention to 2 of her 3 dogs she says the other gets jealous......seriously its a dog they dont care

 

Unless it's a chihuahua, but who has one of those in snow?

 

You can freeze a dog to death in the bed of a truck. At nowhere near as cold as in the picture.

Dogs in the wild don't sit in the back of a steel box, with no shelter, and wind chills down below -100 F.

And house dogs don't develop the thick fur of outside dogs.
You can kill a house pet, even a big breed in about an hour of freeway cruise speed in freezing weather.

Even worse, we import breeds of dog, short hairs, to super cold climates.

They have little more protection than a human. Strap a human in the bed of the truck and go cruising in the snow, see how he does.

Idiot tourists kill their pets all the time in cold country.
They kill them where I live because dogs also ain't equipped to take 120-130 degrees in direct sunlight.
Sure if the dog is loose, used to living in a cold or hot climate, and can seek shelter they do pretty well. But tied up in a bed? Not so good.

taterthedog, that’s a great looking moose. I miss hunting, but I never took down anything that big. Great place to live from the looks of it.
Chris

 

hunting pics?

got a funny one from this weekend

 

Was there anything in front of your quad im surprised your tailgate didnt close, I have a 2006 TRX 250EX and it fits on my 05 SCrew FX4 and I can still close the tailgate.

 

Damn that sucks, hopefully it didnt get messed up

 

Damn that dose suck but that Moose and Raccoon pics

 

I have a truxedo tonneau cover rolled up in front of the quad so I can't put it as far forward as I would like. But even with nothing there, I have to run the front of the quad up on ramps to put it at an angle so I can get the gate closed. That puts the front bumper of the bike VERY close to my back window so I don't do that anymore.

 

I have a great pic of a falo deer I shot but I can't get it to work on here. Anyone wanna tell me how?

 

https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=259118

 

What is all that white stuff?

 

Why were you taking the dead coyotes home? To feed the dogs ?