One of these has definitely hauled more than the other, and i guarantee you it’s not the ford.

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    I would love to see the smaller car that can tow a 35 foot 5th wheel trailer.

    Or the van that can haul 12 foot logs stacked 6 feet deep.

    Or carry two 1000liter water totes and allow them to be filled from the overhead hose that is provided by the municipality.

    Or pull a trailer with a rented excavator.

    The point here isn’t to argue. But I do get pretty tired of these threads just shitting on trucks for fun. They don’t make sense for non tradespeople living in a city. But I could not do with one vehicle if that vehicle wasn’t a pickup.

    I’m building a homestead from scratch where I had to cut the trees of the forest down in order to make room to put my trailer to live in. Without the truck I could not haul the trailer all the way to the mill, all the milled wood back, and carry all of the things that I need to build the house. While still giving me 4 seats so that my nephews have a seat when I pick them up.

    Edit to add: Mine is also dirty, dented, scratched, and abused. I don’t have time to make a work machine shiny, I have work to do.

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      Yeah but people are specifically criticizing the people who buy trucks to show off in the city, not people who actually use them for what they were made to do

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      You can tow an excavator, etc etc, with a Ford Transit. Hell, they can still drive ok if you stuff enough crushed cars in the back to get a curb weight of 3 tons.

      Meanwhile a 1/2 ton pickup looks like it’s struggling with half a ton in the tiny tiny bed.

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        You are going to want to check your numbers on that transit van.

        My 250 has three times the towing capacity of the transit, and the transit can’t pull a 5th wheel.

        And an E45 bobcat (which is small relative to some machines I pull )is twice as heavy as the tow capacity of the transit, without considering tongue weight or the bulky trailer needed to haul such a thing.

        I get it. Most people don’t need it. I do.