YOUTUBE VIDEO: Ranch Hand "Summit" front bumper replacement-deer guard
Posted on 01/09/2010 11:48:57 PM PST by Jeff Head
On the lighter side, and for those interested in outfitting their vehicle (particularly pickup trucks) with the necessary implements to address global warming and climate change, I offer the following video:
Ranch Hand pickup truck accessories are made in Texas. So, while we are down here, GAil (aka the boss) gave me permission, purely as a cost saving measure you understand, to purchase a couple of long desired accessories for the truck.
I didn't have to be told twice...hehehe.
Here are some more pictures.
Unless you want to carry a load, or set some sheets of T&G plywood down on the bed where they can slide under the saddle box... :o)
Just one comment:
“ROUGHLY MOVING ASIDE ONE MARXIST AT A TIME” should be in MIRROR text! :o)
Hehehe...that one is trying to avoid/repair a hit to the rear. What does it’s front bumper look like?
That pickup is definately a keeper.
It's clean now because of the trip down...but give me a few days back in Idaho in the hills and mountains there and I'll get 'er dirtied up all right and proper! LOL!
I will hold ya to that getting it dirty comment when ya get home ! I want a picture of that !
Stay Safe my friend !
Birthday present.
hehehe...Gail told me it’s birthday-Christmas-birthday-Christmas. LOL!
No problem with Chevy, that don’t work with your ford?
Works fine for us with the Chevy.
Unless you want to carry a load, or set some sheets of T&G plywood down on the bed where they can slide under the saddle box... :o)
When you load 4x8 sheets, you slide them under the saddle box, and close the tailgate
Same for tongue and grove (cool that you know the TG abbreviation for tongue and groove dude, I'm impressed!) .
Fords have too short of beds to do that?
Get a Chevy...
She covered all the bases, kudos to her!
With the long bed version (97 1/2" long), you can fit an 8 foot plywood length within the bed...but not on the normal (78 1/2" long) or, as I say, on the short beds. In both the latter cases you have to put the tail gate down.
But, I knew that going in and it works for me.
For me, it's a very nice Z71 offroad 4X4 crew cab truck outfitted with a Flowmaster twin pipe exhaust system, 10 ply on/off road tires, the Westin tube step-side full length runners, the Ranch Hand Summit bumper replacement deer guard, and that Ranch Hand lourvered headache rack and tool box.
I've owned and driven Chevy, Ford, and Dodge. All of the new versions are very nice. My brother's new Platinum Ford crew cab 1/2 ton is a GREAT truck. I believe the Z71 is the best off road package out there, and the Chevy generally retains its value a little better. But any of the new model 4X4, crew cab, off road trucks are fine vehicles.
Having spent a week or so on a new layout for the PMT yard in Milpitas, where the new GM vehicles are taken off the rail cars and stored for distribution, I can attest to the high rate of failure of the frames of GM trucks (buckle in the middle) simply from the tension of the tie-down chains during transport. There were several that failed just during the time that we were laying out the yard, and more stored in the same condition.
This has never happened to Ford or Dodge trucks; just GM, Toyota, and Hondas.
If you need to cary a load, get a Ford!
Yup, now that they are Government Motors they are stamped FAIL!, like Present Obama and the leftists
We have a ‘98 chev 3/4 pu up at the ranch that has about 42 inches between the wells. The only way that thing can carry plywood is if we put crossbars in the notches in the side of the bed to hold the load above the wheels.
I can’t gripe too heavily since it was a freebie, but still, it seems absurd.
Jeff - I’m not into pick-up trucks - what I “enjoyed” was seeing you happy with your wife - and standing in front of your pick-up - and not mentally picturing you under an MRI machine. You’re both looking great - and you’re both still in my prayers...
I have my own solution. Got these little bitty deer whistles mounted under the turbo intake. Just missed a moose in the pitch dark a couple of months ago. The whistles worked - he was staring at me. :-)
My wife is the one who suggested I finally go ahead and get those additions to my pickup which I have talked about for a long time and slowly been making progress towards. She knew it would be a needed and happy distraction for me. She's a wonderful woman, , my sweetheart from our youth, and great friend and companion who knows me so well.
Thanks for your concern and faith and prayers.
...and Bill, The whistles worked - he was staring at me. :-)
LOL! Exactly.
Jeff, God love ya. Prayers up!
You're life has been blessed... thanks for sharing.
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