Why you dont back up behind a F450

[mckeeland]

i was looking though some old pics and found this from an accident at a WaWa(convience store) i had a couple of years ago. the woman in the min van thought it was a good idea to back behind me as i was backing to a parking space, 100db back up beeper and all. when the truck hit her i thought i hit the curb and let the clutch out a little more until i heard beeping and saw her there in my passenger mirror. it kinda funny now, i hate those parking lots, people are so stupid some time. caused a couple thousand dollars worth of damage to her van, i think i had some scratches on my paint.

[SCgreenscapes]

Great Example Of Peoples Own Stupidity. I Will Send Some Pics Of What It Looks Like When A Car Gets Hit By A Dually With A 12k Lb. Skidder Behind It. It Probally Won't Be Much Longer Since Every Day Some Jack Leg Thinks Its No Big Deal To Jerk Over In Front Of Me And Slam On The Breaks.

[zedosix]

One of my guys was backing up on the street and a lady out of her driveway. Its the worst you could of imagined. The lady completely freaked out. Her car was jammed under the ford. I had to take it out for her. The back end was crushed, had to floor her car just to get it too come out. Totaled the entire rear end. :loco:

We should start a thread on this, cause I've got ALOT of stories.

[mckeeland]

i wish i had a pic of the car that stopped short on me at a yellow light when i was like 19. i had my 450 loaded with mulch and it was raining, had plenty of distance between us. light turns yellow and i figured i could make it from where i was, well the guy at the light slams his brakes on to stop at a yellow. long story short, i put his trunk in his back seat and sent him across the intersection. thank goodness no one got hurt. it bent my bumper a little and cracked my grill, i need new ones anyway. learned a valuable lesson from that one, never assume people on the road think about the cars around them when they do stuff.

[lawnkid]

A couple years ago I drove an F-450 salt truck for a company that plowed a lot of tight apartment complexes. One afternoon after a snowfall I happened to be salting an apartment in East Cleveland. As I made circle around a row of cars I was gonna turn around and go in the other direction. Well just before I was gonna turn around my phone rang and I took the short call. Ok done, checked the mirrors, no one behind me so I put the truck in reverse and hit the pedal pretty good because I was on a decline. Not a second after I put the truck into reverse I heard a pretty loud crunch. So I get out of the truck and see that I smashed the hood of a rustbucket minivan. I'm thinking how could this have happened, she clearly wasn't in my mirrors when I put the truck in reverse. Well from what a witness said she got within inches of my bumper to where I couldn't see her with the westcoast mirrors therefore I hit her. She made a huge deal out of it saying she was honking yada yada yada even after the sign on the truck says stay back 100 ft. So we had to go to the police station down the street where I was the only white person there, haha. The cops were the only white ones. Mind you this is labelled as a bad neighborhood with a lot of drugs, gang activity, and shootings on a daily basis. Turns out the lady didn't have insurance so she actually got fined and I got away without having to pay anything but only two points on the license. It's not so much that you have to be paranoid about your driving skills but more of what other stupid people do. Always be aware of your surroundings.

[CaptainsLS]

Almost sounds like she tried to set that up, but forgot the insurance factor LOL

[-EGLC-]

lol, dads done something along those line before. Back in '97 I think it was he was driving down the road with a F-350 dump full of wood & towing a chipper. Some young girl pulled out in front of him with a Mustang (he was going about 60mph) and totaled her car. Luckily she was unhurt & the only damage to the druck was to the fender, front right lights & front right panel.

[Evening Star Lighting]

HAHAHA... I still have my F-550 Dump from my Hardscape business. I backed into a idiot doing the same thing. My bed is a Rugby bed.. and the back edges taper to a point.. Tore her car wide open!!! and...... she drove off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zedosix]

Tell me thats not overloaded!

[mckeeland]

come on thats a Ford, not an Isuzu! all he needs is some bigger cheater boards and he could get a little more in there. its mostly air with all of those little pieces of concrete in there. LOL

[zedosix]

What is the legal payload of a f550. I know when you stack asphalt like that, it is deceiving because there is alot of air, but a load like that attracks the wrong crowd if you know what I mean.

[mckeeland]

i was half joking, but the squat is not nearly as bad as are 450 was at times. it should be around 19,500 with a net of 9,500. thats a joke though, that truck can easily take 5-6 tons. we had 7+ one time on our 450 when they over loaded us and couldn't get the hoist up to dump it off.

[zedosix]

i was half joking, but the squat is not nearly as bad as are 450 was at times. it should be around 19,500 with a net of 9,500. thats a joke though, that truck can easily take 5-6 tons. we had 7+ one time on our 450 when they over loaded us and couldn't get the hoist up to dump it off.

Let me guess, its a scissor lift?

[mckeeland]

thats the only thing they put on small dumps down here.

[Evening Star Lighting]

Mckee, your right on the ball with that. This picture is from 2000, when I first purchased it. Yes, its a bit overloaded and averages 20,000 to 22,000 lbs. Gross on the scale!. It drives like a limo! NO problem what so ever. It doesn't even sway!. I have an electric 20 hoist. It'll dump concrete loaded like that, but if you overload it with topsoil, you gotta hop out and push up on the cab protector. (that's only when I ask for 2 3cu.yd. bucket fulls.

I custom ordered this truck. It's a 2000 F550. 7.4 turbo diesel. I have every option (PS,PB,PW,PL,PM,A/C,XLT interrior, Tow package, HD cooling, I have the extended height bed, 3/4 cab protector, cantilever tailgate release (the best) tilt in tailgate, Pintle ball hitch, 4:11 gears, 4WD.

Not shown: 9' Western plow with wings, Dual 5' aluminum toolboxes under bed, stainless steel dual wheel fenders & wheel simulators, strobe lights in the headlights/tail lights, Sirius radio.

I might have a new pic someplace....

Blizzard of 2005, my rental house & yard.

[zedosix]

that would be a 7.3 litre motor.

[mckeeland]

looks like you got caught with ur pants down on that storm. LOL

[Mbella]

What is the legal payload of a f550. I know when you stack asphalt like that, it is deceiving because there is alot of air, but a load like that attracks the wrong crowd if you know what I mean.

Mine, with the GVW upgrade kits are right around 4.5 tons. Like Jay said, that is a joke. They can handle much, much more.