Strange Things You've hauled or towed with your RBV

[Hopman]

I know that we all use our trucks for many different things, but once thing I'm pretty sure we've all got in common is that we use our trucks to haul STUFF.
Some of it is mundane like furniture, lumber, engine parts, anf groceries what what about the oddball things? Stuff that didn't quite fit or made other people think WTF?

I've had a few of these situations. I used to work for a butcher shop that only had it's own store, but supplied products to seven other locations. I worked on the supply side of the shop. Plus, I was the only one of those guys who had a truck. Guess who got sent out to other stores to pick up things like extra totes (crammed my Ranger to the brim and had to srap the dolly to the back of the truck), to the wholesaler for extra boxes of meat and buckets of sausage casings (ruined one of my favorite shirts bleaching ans sanitizing the bed after that one!)?

I also work with a local community theater group. Ever seen a 12ft flat and a 14 ladder in a 6ft bed?

 

[mn_smokeater]

bronco II an i stuffed a motercycle in it!

 

[wrecking-crew]

before i had my rackbody, the p.o. put 2 tons of brick on the back........the bumper was on a lower step. he puled up and did a wheelie.

 

[Mac]

A full size, 31" wide refigirator, in a BII and had the rear gate closed. Kind of tight shifting but it fit.
Dave

 

[GMWIGGS]

Well about 12 yrs ago my pop was in the middle of leaving his second wife and needed my help to pick up a engine and tranny and tow his truck 35 miles to where he could swap motors. The truck used was a standard cab 1988 ranger with the 2.0 engine and 5speed manual tranny. We went and picked up a dodge 318 engine with auto transmission attached, put it in the back of the truck. It squatted down too! Then we went to his ex-wifes home and chained his full sized dodge truck (with engine in back of my truck and his dodge still had his blown motor in it as well) to my rear bumper. I towed that truck 35 miles to its new home. I was pulling it 45 mph or so at times, believe it or not. Now the truck was definately grunting! I stopped at a stop sign, and was waiting for all the traffic to clear before we turned on another road and this guy stops his car, gets out and starts taking pictures of us! I'm not sure if he was making a ford advertisement or looking for the idiot of the year. The little truck got the job done though!

 

[edgerunner]

hauled a hummer h1 that was broken down on the side of the road...poor little truck struggled with that

 

[BeaterMan]

before i had my rackbody, the p.o. put 2 tons of brick on the back........the bumper was on a lower step. he puled up and did a wheelie.

We used to do that with old 3-wheel golf carts when I worked at a golfcourse. Some of them carts could ride wheelies for hella far.


The weirdest thing i've towed i believe was a pretty big go-kart with the rear of the kart in the bed and the two front wheels on the ground. People gave me the weirdest looks but it was what needed to be done.

 

[mc_muench]

0ver 1200 cans of RedBull Cola...plus ice

 

[bcost882]

Well you know how in the nevada desert, people leave random crap out there well I hooked up to a boat laying out there and towed it around while people rode in it. haha

 

[idriveafordranger94]

I pulled my friend's 1989 Mercury Tracer 15 miles back to his house hahaha that was such a funny sight. I just let off of the brake and the 4.0L pulled it. Such a light car though haha

 

[heptofite]

a freightliner.

 

[Dweano]

0ver 1200 cans of RedBull Cola...plus ice

That is one of the most epic stories I've ever heard. Like...I want that to happen to me haha

 

[LittleBigFoot]

I've pulled out plenty of my dumb ass friends that get stuck in the snow. I towed a jeep a few miles on just a strap with someone riding in it to brake and steer. I've had enough parts in the bed to assemble another vehicle.

When I was building my ZJ a while ago, I had to move it around to keep the HOA happy. So I used the ranger.

 

[Teddyzee]

Coolest thing I've hauled was a pair of N.O.S. '65 Mustang quarterpanels this summer...
But I have no pics. This will have to do:

 

[aaron_ariens]

wood, lots of dump runs, tranny and other parts for a blazer (prob my heavyset load), moving friends, etc...