I like your style!! I guy I worked for started logging in the 80s when he was a young guy and would pull his skider with his 70s ford pick up. He told me once he was trying to get over flint creek pass in Montana and was in 4 low 1 gear and has to zig zag across the road to make it up.
Lucky there young man, you can blow head gasket that way. The extra heat results in the cylinder head and engine block expanding too much which results in a failure in the head gasket.
Is this what the new generation is all about? I’m baffled by this, unprofessional and unsafe. I use a real truck and trailer to haul loads like this daily. Never start a job if you aren’t going to keep your word.
@@Jlevi17 naw it's true, if he wins willing to overload this truck, a bigger truck would also get overloaded, it's the operator behind the wheel not the vehicle
While I am all about getting the job done...it seems to me like it would be safer and cheaper in the long run to buy bigger equipment if you are going to haul that big.
Yea typical Ford guy thinks he can tow everything. Would be a lot cheaper and save everyone time if they would of called a real trucking company with a low boy or detach.
@corey Babcock you'd be surprised I can put 20000 behind my srw f350 so figures if that's a 450 550 he's legal to anywhere between 35 and 40 something gross. Nowt he very well may be illegal on individual axle weight
The mileage is blurred for legal reasons in case there are legality issues with this wild mess of a run . I hope you guys enjoyed the video without the odo 😂
How do you justify the patriot part of your name with that mindset? No other was harmed in the pulling of this mass. Wanting government intervention in free mens lives goes counter to patriot actions. See the tea party at boston Mass. Modern patriots who want gov. intervention are statist scum not patriots. Imlo.
Dude.. its so irresponsible.. Buy a Kenworth and do real heavy haul.. All I see is a un-experienced person trying to make content, at the cost of others lives.. If your brakes glaze, or blow, you are a run-away freight train.
Also, next time you haul anything Articulated such as a skidder or loader, or rock truck.. You need a bar and bolt that holds the front and back sections together... Thats why it walked sideways on your deck.
If he bought a Kenny he would overload it as well, better that he just stay off the road, but at least with a 450 he is staying away from potentially more dangerous loads
Great video. Glad the equipment hauling went well. You did what you needed to and got the job done! Thats a win in my books. Hello from a fellow Canuck. Beautiful spot you’ve got out there on the Rock
One thing all of us pulling heavy have to keep in mind, engine/jake braking heats up differential fluid quickly. This is because there is so much extra friction and heat buildup in the gear set, and the fact that you’re now using 10-40% less of your brakes, which gives you a false sense of how hard the ENTIRE drivetrain is working. The use of brakes also adds heat to the axle, so you have a compounding heat generation. Your gear set in the diff breaks in overtime generally towards acceleration/pulling type forces, and not descent/retarding type forces. This can also cause a slight variation of heat buildup. Usually at 250° it’s already starting the process of degrading, and by 300 it’s usually toast, and most heavy haul trucks have gauges.
Yea, I'd suggest a true medium duty truck considering the high limit loads you pull in combination with the rough roads you are hauling on...Regardless, I dig your vids. I'm from the south (US) ..been through most of Canada...Beautiful place and wonderful people.
You never turn the motor off on something hot. You’re only cooling your heater core while the rest of the motor is building pressure on the head because it’s not circulating
this is correct, my engine overheated one time because and i turned my heat to max air and kept the truck on, it really helped bring it back to operating temp
Are you going to have your main fuse box looked at like workandplay? It wouldn’t hurt and may fix your fan issue. Of course I’m not a certified mechanic looking at the truck and all, but it would be something to look at. Running hot is not good at all.
I'm interested in chatting about your gross weights, I have a 22' f450 and a 40' float in Ontario and have a few questions about your trailer and what not, any chance we can chat?? Thanks! Love your videos
This dude is an absolute clown he’s crying it’s too big and too wide you didn’t know that prior to loading and leaving their yard? Wasted your and the customer times this is why you call a real company with real trucks not these lowballing hotshots who try to do everything with the absolute bare minimum equipment always some bullshit with them
So just looking at the load, could you have reversed the skidder, putting the heaviest part directly over the axle? Did your trailer spring back? Sometimes after something like this you permanently damage the trailer losing the upward bow. A chassis cab Ram 4500 would have handled the load as well as the Ford. My next truck would be a Ram 5500.
If this is real, this is a life sentence waiting to happen. But these kids with their toy trucks seem to know everything. Good luck with the judge when you kill someone.
Yep...the good ol' open the windows and turn the heat on to max trick always works. But definitely take care of that fan issue - frequent overheating will shorten the lifespan of the engine by a lot.
That f450 indeed does have an "engine exaust brake " .. it legit has a switch you flip that causes the engine brake to adjust the vanes on the exaust side of the turbo which in turn produces engine pressure/resistance which slows the engine/drive train ..that's like the definition of an engine brake lol🤦♂️
@@polarisboy67 yeah a real compression release brake (jacobs brake )which bleeds of cylinder pressure right before tdc turning your engine to a power sapping air pump basically.. I've never seen a true jake brake on a pickup truck diesel as far as i remember . Could be wrong as I haven't been around too many new new diesels but I always thought that style of engine braking was more of a big rig only thing
@@brocks692 As far as I know they don't make them for pick up truck diesel engines probably due to packaging restrictions because of size but if they did that would be awsome. They could try to use the mack powerleash concept which in my experience works alot better than a Jacob's brake and is a smaller package
I know my 2016 f450 has an engine intercooler problem which causes the engine temperature to rise, intercooler has a micro crack which causes a coolant leak, I don't know if this applies to the newer model
i rarely comment on videos, but i am intrigued as to why you blurred out the trucks mileage. do you not want us to know how many miles you put on the truck in this trip? not hating, just genuinely curious.
Alex: It has to do with DOT and insurance. When you are in the trucking industry there is so many ways they can come after you for things that most people cannot imagine. Here in the states they are using “any combination of weights to equal the most weight” which means they can fudge the numbers in different ways to get you for over weight and get you put out of service. On paper you can be legal but when they do what they want you become stranded with a big ticket..
In my experience the customer will lie 90% of the time so they save a few bucks. But that won't mean shit if i end up dead or worse killing someone else. Picked a load of golf carts from company over in Georgia. Dimensions were all wrong and the weight per unit was almost 450 pounds more than what they had listed and I asked Dimensions to confirm those specs before I accepted the job. So it went from 8 golf carts with a total weight of 7040 pounds to 10560 pounds. So I took my sweet time getting there. I don't work with big companies anymore and am taking a break from hotshotting
Late to this video. Glad it all worked out man. Could you or anyone else here tell me where to find that gear lockout lever device you have? Tried to find one after watching this video but found nothing. I’d love to get one for my F450!
yet you mentioned there’s an issue with the fans so it might overheat. Thus you knew of an issue and still decided to take on the load before making sure the truck that pulls can handle it. I mean that’s like knowing your belts are showing on the tires, dry rotted tires and still driving down the road saying “hey well if they still hold air then it’s fine we will find out” Don’t be that dude that ruins it for the rest of us. People like you are the reasons why insurance rates continue to rise. As well as accidents on the rise due to pure negligence. If there’s an issue with the cooling system on the truck, have it addressed before even going out to the fuel station. Let alone put a load behind it. Do you live under a rock? Sheesh people are dense as a door knob!
Never mind. Just realized you’re in CANADA! THANK GOD WE DO NOT HAVE TO SHARE THE ROAD WITH YOU! STAY THE HECK OUT OF THE USA! WE DONT NEED YOUR NEGLIGENCE!
What did it weigh? I've printed up a "Rate Conformation" agreement with the pickup and delivery locations, contact info etc. I also added declared weight and and additional charge for over weight at $25 USD per 100 lbs. Last load was listed as 10,000 lbs but I could feel it was heaver. CAT scale said it was 11,680 lbs.. I charged the customer 16 x $25 or $400 extra. I'm tired of getting clipped with extra weight. On a semi it's a problem BUT on a pickup it's a danger and can break your equipment. Last piece of heavy heavy equipment I hauled was a belt press. Was told it was 12,000 lbs. and it scaled ate 18,000 lbs. Hauled it from NJ to MT over 2,000 miles. 500 miles from delivery my RAM transmission blew up even though I was taking it very easy. Cost me over $10k plus a mouth or more of down time. Made the delivery but decided I needed to have a formal transport agreement that gave me extra money when overweight. My observation; 2 out of 3 loads are overweight. John 406 Hot Shot Missoula, Montana
550 just has bigger spring packs to haul heavier PAYLOADS such as rollbacks, bucket truck, dump truck, etc., not tow more. As martin said. It’s the same drivetrain. I am not sure if he has the 4.88 gears vs the 4.30 as that would help it pull better, especially on some of those hills.
…oh, this is sketch af…. Lets back it on and off like 8 times. God, I dont know why I click on these videos…..maybe to see if one day he’s balled it up, finally got arrested and put out of service forever, or worse, killed someone. Just the audacity of this punk to say on the record that this is dangerous, I’m only doing this for you (my RU-vid channel), this is illegal, this is stupid….. and still do it. The lack of professionalism is beyond measure. I just hope the cops can get to him before he kills someone.
For future reference man, never shut off a motor thats hot. Run the fans on full blast but leave her idling. No coolant is getting circulated, no oil is getting circulated, nothing.
Haha no 1500 is made to work on the tung. It’s funny how that big F-450 couldn’t accomplish what a RAM 3500 could do daily. But you never have any problems in that Ford ....do yah?
im not trying to hate because i like to do crazy sh** too but since i have a love for diesel engines i dont think i would have pulled a load or probably even driven the truck that far without a cooling fan. that can be a real quick 12k engine plus labor that is being risked and im sure the prices have went up since shortages.
You act a lot like me. I’m not doing it long distance, but I’ve pulled 40k with my LB7 Duramax. Took me 3 hours to make 20 miles and I had to rebuild it a couple months after but she got it done.
