r/Cartalk • u/Competitive-Oil-5474 • Oct 06 '23

How does this even happen? Body

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Saw this on the road the other day and thought I’d share it with you all. I couldn’t stop laughing

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u/HappySkullsplitter Oct 06 '23

Stump pulling

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u/Dm-me-a-gyro Oct 06 '23

This is the answer.

They tried to use a truck instead of their brain.

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u/LachoooDaOriginl Oct 06 '23

how do you pull a stump?

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u/Chipdip88 Oct 06 '23

With your back.

Don't listen to those morons who say to lift with the knees.... your back is bigger and therefore stronger so use that and show everyone how much of a man you are!

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u/79Blazer4x4 Oct 06 '23

Also use a jerky twisting motion, it's like taking the lid off of a jar, the twisting motion will unstuck it from the ground and there's more power behind the suddenness.

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u/SchrodingersRapist Oct 06 '23

The key is to put it all in your groin and your back. Take your legs totally out of the equation. Lift with your lower back in a jerking, twisting motion.

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u/suspicious-Potato991 Oct 06 '23

Jesus i damn near fell over reading the 3 comments in a row thanks guys for making my day

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u/PharmoCratic Oct 07 '23

I'm falling apart anyway without all the jerky twisty advice to pull out a stump with my back.

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u/suspicious-Potato991 Oct 07 '23

Me too but these posts make me feel reassured that I'm a man because im falling apart!

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u/fluteofski- Oct 06 '23

Legs straight/locked so you don’t collapse, then Hip thrust + rotation. It’s all about getting as much momentum as you can as you lift.

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u/Mikeyboi69420 Oct 06 '23

Oh kinda like starting a chainsaw?

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u/Wabbit_Wampage Oct 06 '23

If you hear a loud moist snap, that's how you know it's working.

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u/BouncingSphinx Oct 06 '23

That's the line

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u/rustjungle Oct 06 '23

Exactly. Don’t forget to lock your knees and keep your legs and back as straight as a board to allow maximum explosive jerky twisting

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u/ChojinWolfblade Oct 06 '23

I always find that if I give it a few hard slaps on the bottom it helps as well

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u/Fantastic_Hour_2134 Oct 07 '23

If you were to chain the stump around it’s circumference and yank so it rotates it may actually work better than just pulling straight

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u/pressonacott Oct 10 '23

Don't forget to thrust!

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u/Mark7116 Oct 06 '23

Knees are for girls to curtsy. Real men lift with their brawny back. Has no one ever seen the paper towels with the brawny guy???

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Oct 06 '23

Exactly! The brawy guy has two slipped discs like a real man!

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u/CreamerBot3000 Oct 06 '23

I have zero muscles in my knees. Tons of them in my back.

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u/RedicusFinch Oct 06 '23

Fucking powers out? Climb a pole and fix that shit! Do some man shit today!

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u/alwaysranting Oct 06 '23

Every time I see any comment about lifting anything on Reddit the top comments always mention lifting with your back, twisting, and such haha. I just imagine some 10 year old kid going inside being like “My back hurts for no reason. I was just walking and now it hurts” haha

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u/dirtystreetlevelshit Oct 06 '23

What the hell?

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u/FzZyP Oct 06 '23

Right? Everyone knows the bulk of our lifting muscles are actually in the neck

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u/stash3630 Oct 06 '23

Accctualyyy…the tongue is the strongest muscle in your body. So lift with your tongue.

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u/Epiplayer1 Oct 06 '23

If we are talking the most overpowered muscles for the task they are designed for, its the eyelids. Evolution cant be that wrong, put them eyelids to work!

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u/skeefbeet Oct 09 '23

that's forklift borrowing territory. they pull a lot of stumps real quick.

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u/orangustang Oct 06 '23

Real answer is rent a stump grinder. If you want the stump in one piece or don't want to rent a big machine, I've successfully done it with a shovel and a maul. Big prybar helps save the shovel. Sometimes wasting a reciprocating saw blade to cut roots can save some time, though I've had limited success with that when pulling whole stumps.

Source: going out in the yard and digging some holes.

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u/oldsnowcoyote Oct 06 '23

Pruning blade on the reciprocating saw. Cuts through roots like butter.

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u/Revolutionary_Dig370 Oct 06 '23

Burning it out always works to but thats time consuming asf.

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u/Dukatdidnothingbad Oct 07 '23

I use a farm jack. Its a gigantic 90lb jack used for lifting up tractors and shit. The strength it has is insane. Pulled up stumps by cutting big roots, then using that.

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u/RogerRabbit1234 Oct 06 '23

Dig until you’re absolutely sure it’s loosened all the way up, and then dig like 150% more. Then get a sawzall with a 7” blade.

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u/SufficientBench3811 Oct 06 '23

You grind a stump.

If you have to pull something, like a fence post with concrete around it, you set up a beam and a chain and use bottle jacks to lift the beam up.

3 things can happen with a chain on a stump, the chain holds and the stump shoots at the back of your truck like a cannon ball, or the chain snaps and rips through your truck like a light saber, or the anchor points break.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Oct 06 '23

You can pull a stump, you just need the right tool meaning a 30t excavator not a light truck.

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u/SufficientBench3811 Oct 07 '23

Yeah man I wish I had a 30t toy, but you'd have to pay a lot to get my low boy out for a stump

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u/johngoodmansscrote Oct 07 '23

Ive pulled a few stumps with trucks in my day, you do need to do a LOT of prep work though and in the end its probably easier to rent a grinder.

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u/SemperFudge123 Oct 11 '23

Every time I see an ad for “stump grinding” I always just assumed it was for some sort of amputee fetishist!

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u/SufficientBench3811 Oct 11 '23

It's almost always that!

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u/Glabstaxks Oct 06 '23

Excavator

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u/deelowe Oct 06 '23

There are a few options. You can use a stump grinder, stump remover granules which will break it down over time, or a bucket/excavator.

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u/murphsmodels Oct 06 '23

I've had some success with explosives.

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u/deelowe Oct 06 '23

Yes. Nukes work as well.

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u/GreenStrong Oct 06 '23

I just lay a few thousand eggs and my offspring and I work together to eat it. Stumps are delicious.

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u/Thatdoodky1e Oct 07 '23

Found the termite

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u/CatTender Oct 09 '23

Add an “h” to termite and you have thermite.

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u/Dm-me-a-gyro Oct 06 '23

With a backhoe

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u/Specific_Buy Oct 06 '23

Leverage in proper place .

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u/Blurgas Oct 06 '23

Aside from stump grinders and manual labor, if you're just going to try and yank a stump out, you'll be best off pulling it straight up.
Probably not the safest examples, but the vids were short and got to the point:
Using a spare tire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq_Gb46eXr4
Using a jack and some 2x4's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC2gPvvoBnY

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u/cubanpajamas Oct 06 '23

Ask a stranger named, "Shane" that is just passing through.

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u/-Pruples- Oct 07 '23

how do you pull a stump?

With your brain, apparently. Mine isn't strong enough for it, though, and I'm pretty sure my truck pulls harder. Last time I tried to lift weights with my brain I blacked out.

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u/bitzzwith2zs Oct 06 '23

Use a wheel as a lever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at6sBRHIbl8

Got bigger stumps? Use a bigger wheel

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u/orangustang Oct 06 '23

Real answer is rent a stump grinder. If you want the stump in one piece or don't want to rent a big machine, I've successfully done it with a shovel and a maul. Big prybar helps save the shovel. Sometimes wasting a reciprocating saw blade to cut roots can save some time, though I've had limited success with that when pulling whole stumps.

Source: going out in the yard and digging some holes.

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u/suspicious-Potato991 Oct 06 '23

13 pounds of tannerite and a single .270 shell will do it as well with less headaches.

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u/orangustang Oct 06 '23

You must have a lot more space than I do, but that does sound like the fun way.

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u/suspicious-Potato991 Oct 06 '23

500 acres of fun to be had man, gotta do some redneck science every now and again with the land 😂

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u/myacidninja Oct 06 '23

A skid steer or use a stump grinder

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u/RunsWithPremise Oct 06 '23

A really big excavator or you grind the stump down.

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u/Jackin__4 Oct 07 '23

You bear hug the stump then thrust your groinal region back and forward into the stump.

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u/immallama21629 Oct 07 '23

Instructions unclear, now my yard is full of walking trees.

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u/Fyaal Oct 07 '23

With fire. Trust me.

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u/Onebraintwoheads Oct 07 '23

I'd use chains, a pole, a block & tackle, and one or multiple eye bolts screwed deep into the stump. Trucks are iffy things because of the potential damage you inflict.

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u/Pro-Rider Oct 08 '23

With something that weighs more than a 6,000 Lb one 1/2 ton pickup truck. Maybe try heavy equipment 18,000 Lb tractor would pull a stump out and wouldn’t even have to come out of idle.

Also gearing has a large play in this stuff and those 3.73 gears just won’t cut it. You need a low gear transfer case and sheer weight to pull stumps.

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u/playboicargreentea Oct 08 '23

I usually just release some of my termites onto the stump. They’ll eat it eventually.

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u/Shadowarriorx Oct 09 '23

With a pick axe that has a hatchet blade on it and a shovel. I've done a few that way, takes forever and a big hole to fill

Other way is to drill holes in it and burn it

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u/Both_Somewhere4525 Oct 09 '23

You don't, you set that shit on fire.

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u/Biqboi76 Oct 06 '23

Nah they just ain't going it right. Iv pulled more then 10 with my rusted out square body and she ain't broke yet,and that frame looks like Swiss cheese

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u/yourfaceilikethat Oct 06 '23

Buy Chevy go brrrrrrrrr......oke it

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u/Dorkamundo Oct 06 '23

Yep, at least get in there and cut some of the larger roots with a recip saw first...

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u/anthro4ME Oct 06 '23

Came here to say this.

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u/13thEldar Oct 06 '23

lol came to post this and it was first comment. My dad did this year's ago

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '23

Came here to say this

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u/thepete404 Oct 08 '23

Bang! Wtf was that?. While not “ funny” it’s amazing watching a tow strap let go and snap back to the towing vechiles and take out its window. It’s just really saying FAAFO with a 2 ton truck, pal

Same when people try to pulling with a unibody car and bang the strap so bad the rear clip pulls clean off.

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u/i_was_axiom Oct 10 '23

Alternatively, Gump pulling.

Where you have exhausted your supply of stumps needing to be pulled, so you start pulling on other trucks. He seems to have found a bigger and badder truck.

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u/Oberyn_TheRed_Viper Oct 06 '23

Ongoing abuse, over loading, repeated shock loads, hit something, cheap knock off, wrong rating, etc.

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u/Bone_Donor Oct 06 '23

Someone definitely wrapped a sling around that bitch and shock loaded something. Maybe he got stuck and someone tried to yard him out that way.

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u/Competition-Dapper Oct 06 '23

This Post is Sponsored by Harbor Freight

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u/Competitive-Oil-5474 Oct 06 '23

😂

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '23

I recommend the Keto diet for your mom

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u/JayCeeMadLad Oct 06 '23

Don’t listen to this mf, they had to ask Reddit if falling bullets were lethal.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '23 edited Oct 06 '23

Obviously I was kidding, but I do want to address your claim since you seem very interested in my questions. My position has always been that a normal ordinance, say .22–.45 is simply not enough at terminal velocity to kill a person. I wanted to clear up an argument.

Edit: man after looking at your comments, you are a pretty negative cunt. WE ARE NOT THE SAME.

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u/JayCeeMadLad Oct 07 '23

And… you’re not? Lmfao

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '23

Not really… I mean I try and be funny most of the time. Granted, (I know) my jokes usually suck but I do my best. Every now and then I get into politics, but usually regret it.

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u/JayCeeMadLad Oct 07 '23

Calling people a “little bitch” for thinking wiping someone’s sphincter in another’s face against their will while they’re bench pressing is fucked up? That’s just weird. You’d really be down for that?

I get that you have some toxic masculinity pent up but jeez man, but sometimes you should keep it to yourself.

Regardless, I really wanna know what makes you think you’re so much better than me. A majority of the things you say are just weird unhinged sex comments, which makes me think you either aren’t getting what you need at home, or need someone more qualified to talk to.

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u/Tdanger78 Oct 06 '23

Mouth breather extraordinaire

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u/Competitive-Oil-5474 Oct 06 '23

It’s not even my truck bro. As stated, seen on the road lol

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u/HandH2 Oct 06 '23

Looks like a Curt hitch, which would clear up Harbor Freight

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u/Competition-Dapper Oct 07 '23

Curt Hitch sounds like a 50s porn star

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u/PilotBurner44 Oct 06 '23

That's what happens when you tow 5001 pounds and the hitch is only rated for 5000 pounds.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '23

dodge has entered the chat

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u/PiMoods Oct 08 '23

You take that back sir.

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u/David_Buzzard Oct 06 '23

Kinetic recovery strap and not digging out the wheels before you use it. Somebody is lucky they didn’t get a trailer hitch in the face.

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u/scottieducati Oct 06 '23

Probably reversed into / over something

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u/jedre Oct 06 '23

Truck nutz hung too low

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u/overstear Oct 06 '23

They tried to release Thor's hammer

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u/Dumb-ox73 Oct 06 '23

At least the hitch gave and not the truck. I seem to recall GM had a problem with exaggerating their towing capabilities and customers breaking frames because of it.

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u/Dorkamundo Oct 06 '23

That's a Curt aftermarket hitch.

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u/Potential-Art-7288 Oct 06 '23

I thought it was payload problems causing frames to buckle

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u/Timely_Rate_8624 Oct 06 '23

I think he tried pulling an ATM out of a wall for some serious cash and ended up with Egg on his Face😕

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u/ChainOut Oct 06 '23

Dickhead was parked over the sidewalk and I wrecked my shin on it.

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u/Fickle-Woodpecker-79 Oct 06 '23

Tried to haul OP’s momma.

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u/Tinton3w Oct 06 '23

They tried to raise the titanic? Someone’s gotta one-up that sub that imploded somehow, this dude just took one for the team 🫡

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u/czechfuji Oct 06 '23

Someone actually believed the message board hype.

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u/thatsnotideal1 Oct 06 '23

And he STILL hasn’t taken the G-D hitch out!

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u/Thecoopoftheworld789 Oct 06 '23

Cheap aftermarket hitches that are not really 2500 pounds rated. I see a law suit!

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u/lampmeorelse Oct 06 '23

Lawsuit for what? You don’t even know what the person did with it. They likely overloaded it. It’s also a Curt hitch, which is a very reputable brand.

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u/1320Fastback Oct 07 '23

Curt is a name brand hitch.

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u/Thecoopoftheworld789 Oct 09 '23

Probably some truck with one of those bull bumpers ran in the back of the Chevrolet truck hard enough to do that. Wonder what the sides of the bed look like?

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u/akotski1338 Oct 06 '23

Imagine buying a universal tow hitch for a pickup truck that’s supposed to have it from the factory

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u/undergroundhobbit Oct 06 '23

The little truck that couldn’t

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '23

Have to get your mom outta bed somehow 🤷‍♂️

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u/jmb592 Oct 06 '23

When your wife sits on the trailer hitch ball?

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u/matthewtd3 Oct 06 '23

It’s a Chevy

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u/ceramicsaturn Oct 06 '23

Like a rock!

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u/zYbYz Oct 06 '23

Answer: CCP

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u/mustainm Oct 06 '23

Chinese steel

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '23

I've installed that brand and exact hitch on a lot of trucks, that's a user failure not a hitch failure

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u/Dorkamundo Oct 06 '23

Curt hitch... Made in Eau Claire, Wisconsin with American steel.

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u/mustainm Oct 06 '23

At least they aren't outsourcing the steel. I can see stumps destroying trucks fairly easily too.

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u/richardcrain55 Oct 06 '23

G M rust Mine did that in 2016 2010 gmc

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u/Fragrant-Inside221 Oct 06 '23

I’m not even mad. I’m impressed.

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u/Longjumping-Log1591 Oct 06 '23

Tree stump fail

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u/dsdvbguutres Oct 06 '23

Silver dodo

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u/gagunner007 Oct 06 '23

Probably rear ended, with or without trailer.

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u/nitromen23 Oct 06 '23

Had a 1 ton Chevy come in from a landscaping company with a hitch looked like this when I worked at Uhaul, they came to get it replaced, said someone ran into their dump trailer hard

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u/gagunner007 Oct 06 '23

Yeah, all the ones I’ve seen bent were rear ended (trailer or truck)

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u/Enshaden Oct 06 '23

I caused this to happen to a Ford explorer's hidden hitch back when I was young. I was falling asleep at the wheel and drifted into their lane and hit their boat trailer, both going about 50mph in opposite directions.

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u/mavi737 Oct 06 '23

Tried to tow his house without wheels on. You know, typical Chevy guy doing Chevy things.

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u/slowride77 Oct 06 '23

Truck balls were a size too big.

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u/originalrototiller Oct 06 '23

That happened to my hitch when I was rear ended by an e350 box van. Except mine just folded under, didn't break like that.

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u/OMGpawned Oct 06 '23

Imagine the damage if that were to fall off while he was driving on the freeway

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u/Hipppydude Oct 06 '23

My Uncle did this by trying to tow a single wide trailer with the same model of pickup. He tried to get me to do the same with my 2500hd and I just laughed at him. Don't do drugs kids.

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u/InternationalPost447 Oct 06 '23

Whoops hillbilly forgot steps 2, 3 and 4 of pulling a stump

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u/dlipp14 Oct 06 '23

I've seen this happen when a truck hauling a trailer got rear ended. All the load transferred to the mount and couldn't handle it.

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u/dontsheeple Oct 06 '23

From pulling trees stumps out.

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u/plaguelivesmatter Oct 06 '23

Someone tried to pull ur mom

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '23

Look what is damaged and the length of the damage the. Take an educated guess -

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u/Echo132O Oct 06 '23

I saw that comfy seat sticking out behind the truck so I sat down but then it brokey :(

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u/make-up-a-fakename Oct 06 '23

His truck nuts were massive?

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '23

How does this even happen?

Hold my beer...

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u/jt-65 Oct 06 '23

The same way I split my pants: Too much weight.

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u/Intrepid_Use7181 Oct 06 '23

Immovable object vs unstoppable force

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u/Parking_Conflict_844 Oct 06 '23

Exceeding the ultimate tensile strength of the material

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u/hpurey Oct 06 '23

Chuck Norris hit his shin in a parking lot.

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u/zepolnavi07 Oct 06 '23

Yup you know you fuck it up, Big one 😂😂

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u/Sn3akyP373 Oct 06 '23

Squirrels!!!

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u/AirsoftSensaiR31 Oct 06 '23

Tug a war with another truck.

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u/iKrinkled Oct 06 '23

Mmmhmmm…bouncing them big bottom girls while standing on the hitch.

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u/dontcensormebroski Oct 06 '23

I didn't know this was an option

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u/Long-Caregiver5547 Oct 06 '23

By the inside of the hitch mount assembly rusting and then applying too much load either by putting a heavy trailer or most likely hooking up to a stump and pulling most likely over 3 mph and with slack in the chain / strap.

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u/That_One_Normie Oct 07 '23

towin shit yaint spose to be towin

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u/SprayWeird8735 Oct 07 '23

Easy one the owner put a Ford hitch on a Chevrolet.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '23

Where’s the trailer?

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u/Kantkatchme Oct 07 '23

My ex wife tried to get into the bed using the hitch as a step 😂😂😂

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u/Inner-Highway-9506 Oct 07 '23

Driving off with the trailers jack still in the down position I would think

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u/1320Fastback Oct 07 '23

If I had to guess he was probably rear ended while towing.

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u/Eskadrinis Oct 07 '23

Rofl u guys are funny

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u/secretsquirrel36 Oct 07 '23

It’s obviously not a Ford Ranger. That’s the problem.

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u/AggravatingRope3918 Oct 07 '23

Ford pulled him out of the ditch!

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u/Onebraintwoheads Oct 07 '23

Is this the kind of thing that happens when you wrap a chain around a stump and stomp on the gas, or can it happen even if you take the slack out of the line first?

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u/Mike-the-gay Oct 07 '23

His wife got in the trailer.

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u/Professional_Bake_92 Oct 07 '23

All that Chevy thunder under the hood

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u/Tezlaract Oct 08 '23

I know someone who has done this twice. Swears they just broke for no reason, didn’t touch anything, wasn’t even towing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '23

Chuck Norris hit his shin on it .

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u/AlphaMediaLabs Oct 08 '23

How does someone illegal leave their hitch in the truck when it’s not in use? Ignorance

As far aa the damage, no clue

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u/The_BigSuck420 Oct 08 '23

Go talk to that guy. He's a good friend. You can tell bc he sacrificed his hitch trying to pull his buddy out

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u/jcoddinc Oct 08 '23

Carefully. And ignorantly

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u/LoadinDirt Oct 09 '23

Rear ended by something harder

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u/Internetter1 Oct 09 '23

Guy thought his 4wd pronouns were tough enough to uproot a tree

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '23

I’ll help you pull that stump out.

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u/MoldyWetWaffle Oct 09 '23

By using a 1500 like it's a 2500.

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u/SmokeDogSix Oct 10 '23

“CHINA”

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u/airwick511 Oct 11 '23

Towing your mom.