by "I Will Always Be The Honey Badger" (iwillalwaysbethehoneybadger)
Published 01/28/2017 at 12:40
by "I Will Always Be The Honey Badger" (iwillalwaysbethehoneybadger)
Published 01/28/2017 at 12:40
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I have a 2001 Ford F250 extended cab long-box with a ton of rust. I also have many, many power tools.
2 minute MS Paint hack job. Not actual truck.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
01/28/2017 at 12:50, STARS: 7
Oh, like we use at the airport. Been there, wrecked that...
"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
01/28/2017 at 12:54, STARS: 1
This sounds like a story worth hearing...
"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
01/28/2017 at 12:56, STARS: 5
2 minute MS Paint hack job. Not actual truck.
"I Will Always Be The Honey Badger" (iwillalwaysbethehoneybadger)
01/28/2017 at 13:02, STARS: 1
I wonder if I could find some more details on that conversion. That’s pretty much the proportions I was going for.
"I Will Always Be The Honey Badger" (iwillalwaysbethehoneybadger)
01/28/2017 at 13:03, STARS: 4
Well, you know. It actually took like 20 minutes of thinking. But that sounded pathetic.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
01/28/2017 at 13:06, STARS: 2
No real story to tell. Airport vehicles take quite a beating from employees that don’t give a crap and thrash things to near death. We had one vehicle that we assigned to one employee, and it was not to be used on his days off. Not the most efficient use of equipment, but it was clean, well maintained and reliable when treated this way. When we opened it up for everyone to use it was quickly covered in garbage, scratched, dented and it quickly became an unreliable pile of crap like most of the other equipment.
The biggest problem we had with the bob tails was the center cap on the front wheels. They’re plastic, stick out past the wheel edge and at the right height to get smashed by the cargo dollies. All of the oil would leak out and we would experience bearing failures, as well as creating safety hazards from all of the oil on the ground. Nobody would bring up the issue until expensive damage was done, mostly because we were always short on equipment and didn’t want to take anything out of service unless it was DOA (dead on its axles).
We did have a fancy, made in France, widebody pushback tug that experienced major transmission failure. This unit cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $350,000. If we had performed the maintenance as required it would have been fine, but the boss cut back on that in an effort to stem the losses, and then tried to fight tooth-and-nail to get the gearbox failure covered under warranty when it was completely our fault. Idiot.
"punkgoose17" (punkgoose17)
01/28/2017 at 13:25, STARS: 0
This should be good for off road.
"My bird IS the word" (mybirdistheword)
01/28/2017 at 13:27, STARS: 0
no room for the gas tank. :(
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
01/28/2017 at 13:44, STARS: 1
Put the engine in the back. Make a modern Stubby Bob.
"I Will Always Be The Honey Badger" (iwillalwaysbethehoneybadger)
01/28/2017 at 13:51, STARS: 1
That’s the idea. I have a decent of amount of trails close to a major river and lots of forest to drive through.
"I Will Always Be The Honey Badger" (iwillalwaysbethehoneybadger)
01/28/2017 at 13:51, STARS: 0
It will fit somewhere.
i’ll probably switch to a smaller unit mounted in the bed.
"Noah - Now with more boost." (antriebverliebt)
01/28/2017 at 14:05, STARS: 0
proportionally I feel like if the bed was 50% longer it’d be perfect
"facw" (facw)
01/28/2017 at 15:34, STARS: 1
Here’s some old govplanet listings which will give you a shit-ton of pictures:
"I Will Always Be The Honey Badger" (iwillalwaysbethehoneybadger)
01/28/2017 at 15:46, STARS: 0
Thanks for that. I didn’t realize so many tugs were Super Duty based.
"facw" (facw)
01/28/2017 at 15:48, STARS: 0
Looking at govplanet, it looks like the military previously used Dodge trucks as the base, but switched to Ford: http://www.govplanet.com/jsp/s/search.ips?k=flightline&sm=1&mf=1
"TheD0k_2many toys 2little time" (thed0ck)
01/28/2017 at 18:52, STARS: 0
oh yea 7.3 powerstroke! welcome to the fam