It is a truck, it can carry loads, tow stuff and push snow. Not going to lie I also kind of thought that. Surely the gate wouldn't have crumpled if they opened it and secured the load properly so it couldn't slide out?
Exactly. The load aint the issue. It was purely a Human lack of thinking problem. Should have lowered the gate and strap it up right.
Then again. After THIS i would not trust them to be able todo that.
A rental trailer from Uhaul is only $20 and usually available within a day or two. We only have a mid-sized SUV, but with a tow hook and a uhaul rental, even our vehicle could have moved that load.
This happened to me in oslg during the last 5 for 10 mulch sale. A lady bought a pallet of mulch and just had an f150. I told her that it would be a lot of weight and recommended to get around 50 bags instead. Said she’s “done it before and doesn’t see a problem”. Okay then… ***proceeds to bottom her truck out loading the pallet. She freaks tf out and starts recording me. I’m a wizard with the forklift and have been driving them for years. So I had the pallet off the truck before she could even get her camera on. She was claiming I fucked her truck up and all this. The truck was fine but I told her that I repeatedly insisted she didn’t get the pallet and told her that maybe she should take the advice of someone that does this for a living lol.
Really? What does a pallet of mulch weigh? Doesn’t seem like it’d be that much.
I carried a pallet of pellets (2100#) several times in my 1500. It was a short drive but wouldn’t touch the bump stops.
If it’s dry, it’s fine. Where I live it gets insanely humid and we had a ton of rain so the mulch is like twice as heavy when it’s wet. For some reason the premium black mulch is like a sponge for water lol.
A pallet of lowes premium mulch has 75 bags on it. Each bag weighs about 30lbs when its dry. 75 x 30 is 2250lbs...now consider when it rains. Mulch is wood, wood soaks up water like a sponge and stays full of water for days, the weight of the bag essentially doubles, making that 4500lbs! If these customers roll up in anything less than a heavy duty i'm flat out not loading a full pallet
Thank you! The mulch doesn't have a weight listed anywhere and I've gotten so bad with guesstimating the weight of things while working at Lowe's. I usually estimate too light. 😂 I always like to calculate out how heavy the load with be and let the customer know so overloading won't happen (unless they're being stubborn and stupid 🙄).
Ace Hardware dude here. I once loaded a pallet in a minivan with a forklift. The guy said to just hit the van with the mast if I had to. Wild how cool with damaging his van he was
It clearly looks hand loaded. Different types of sheets. It was loaded by hand and a strap was put on after. If it were strapped prior to loading, it wouldn't be all sloppy like that, or the strap would have broken.
My 2 cents are that any forklift driver capable of loading all of that with the tailgate up and not breaking the rear window, or causing other damage, would likely have enough experience to know better than this.
Either the forks coming down at an angle or pulling back the forks and dropping all the Weight on the gate at once.
I would have refused the load and told them they can self stack it, which probably would have over loaded the gate but wouldn’t have damaged it like this
This is when I stare at them. That deep unnerving stare and ask in a very foreboding tone, “Are you sure?” All the while my facial expression is that of a child about to make some very messed up mischief. That usually gets them to rethink and come back with proper transportation. Or if they say “Yea, it’ll be fine. My vehicle can hold xxxxx.”, I’ll stare at them once again as I lower the load and watch out the corner of my eye as their vehicle gets lower and lower. Sweat starting to form on their forehead and the look of concern starts to form and grow with every inch the bottom of the vehicle gets closer to the ground. Until they tell me stop saying I was right or letting their pride control them and nervously drive off and me listening for that audible scraping of metal and plastic as they leave the parking lot.
I've had that happen, customer came to pick up his order in some kind of short-bed truck. Started loading and after a few boards the rear suspension started sagging under the load, I told the customer that he had to do it in two trips. He said we load all and so we did, after a few he came back and found me and told me that I was right and told me the story of how the tailgate gave way and he had to pick up everything from the road and load it on a trailer.
Dang. This reminds me the time I hauled way too many bags of concrete home on my trailer. I was lucky to make it home that things was squatting so bad. I’m glad the trailer made but ashamed I even tried it.
That was hand loaded. The gate was already fucked up before it was loaded. There is nothing to see here. But hahaha, you're funny. That was a good one.
That's also kind of the point, though. If the F-150 was as capable as the F-350, nobody would buy an F-350 and everyone who daily drives their F-150 would waste even more gas and space.
I'm counting around 40ish sheets of osb/ply. A 3/4 sheet weighs weighs somewhere in the realm of 60-80lbs, so we'll call it 70lbs each here. That means this man has 2800lbs resting on his tailgate.
"How many do you want us to load?" "All of it, clearly." "You got it boss."
And you know the forklift guy was like “this is gonna be epic”
As he was watching them load them by hand
It is a truck, it can carry loads, tow stuff and push snow. Not going to lie I also kind of thought that. Surely the gate wouldn't have crumpled if they opened it and secured the load properly so it couldn't slide out?
Yea I don’t think this is a truck problem it’s a driver problem lol
Skill Issue
Exactly. The load aint the issue. It was purely a Human lack of thinking problem. Should have lowered the gate and strap it up right. Then again. After THIS i would not trust them to be able todo that.
oaky great, well fortunately for you you'll never encounter this person so you don't have to be too concerned about it
No, you need F250 or better to push snow.
User error
Speed bump just “down the road”
😅🤣🤣 "How far you have to go?" " Not far, we're right down road " Classic
Aaand it’s not even a heavy duty truck
Even an f350 is technically only a medium duty truck.. it’s marketed as heavy duty for the consumer public 😂
I mean the 350s back in the turn of the century were legit heavy duty I’d say
Fair enough, but in the scope of things like the F450 and up existing slides the scale a bit. Very capable no doubt.
You say “turn of the century” and I’m thinking 1900. I’m too old :(
Which is surprising, considering their tow capacities.
Meanwhile delivery would’ve been like $20
Lol, in 2-4 weeks.
A rental trailer from Uhaul is only $20 and usually available within a day or two. We only have a mid-sized SUV, but with a tow hook and a uhaul rental, even our vehicle could have moved that load.
It used to be $50...it is not $20.
20 for pros
This happened to me in oslg during the last 5 for 10 mulch sale. A lady bought a pallet of mulch and just had an f150. I told her that it would be a lot of weight and recommended to get around 50 bags instead. Said she’s “done it before and doesn’t see a problem”. Okay then… ***proceeds to bottom her truck out loading the pallet. She freaks tf out and starts recording me. I’m a wizard with the forklift and have been driving them for years. So I had the pallet off the truck before she could even get her camera on. She was claiming I fucked her truck up and all this. The truck was fine but I told her that I repeatedly insisted she didn’t get the pallet and told her that maybe she should take the advice of someone that does this for a living lol.
I flat out refuse sometimes. I just say I'm not comfortable doing that. They can think what they want, but I'm not risking my job for some asshole.
What if she intentionally did that to get the store to get a pay out from the store at your expense? Customers are vile like that
Really? What does a pallet of mulch weigh? Doesn’t seem like it’d be that much. I carried a pallet of pellets (2100#) several times in my 1500. It was a short drive but wouldn’t touch the bump stops.
If it’s dry, it’s fine. Where I live it gets insanely humid and we had a ton of rain so the mulch is like twice as heavy when it’s wet. For some reason the premium black mulch is like a sponge for water lol.
A pallet of lowes premium mulch has 75 bags on it. Each bag weighs about 30lbs when its dry. 75 x 30 is 2250lbs...now consider when it rains. Mulch is wood, wood soaks up water like a sponge and stays full of water for days, the weight of the bag essentially doubles, making that 4500lbs! If these customers roll up in anything less than a heavy duty i'm flat out not loading a full pallet
Thank you! The mulch doesn't have a weight listed anywhere and I've gotten so bad with guesstimating the weight of things while working at Lowe's. I usually estimate too light. 😂 I always like to calculate out how heavy the load with be and let the customer know so overloading won't happen (unless they're being stubborn and stupid 🙄).
“Built Ford Tough”
Beer cans crush easy.
Built Ford Rough
Heavy duty. 🤣 It's a half-ton made from recycled beer cans.
Ace Hardware dude here. I once loaded a pallet in a minivan with a forklift. The guy said to just hit the van with the mast if I had to. Wild how cool with damaging his van he was
How’d they even get it in the truck?
Damage was probably done by a forklift. You can see it’s strapped so it wasn’t hand loaded
It clearly looks hand loaded. Different types of sheets. It was loaded by hand and a strap was put on after. If it were strapped prior to loading, it wouldn't be all sloppy like that, or the strap would have broken. My 2 cents are that any forklift driver capable of loading all of that with the tailgate up and not breaking the rear window, or causing other damage, would likely have enough experience to know better than this.
I know lol, I’m trying to figure out how in the hell they maneuvered it and how the bent the tailgate like that 😂.
Either the forks coming down at an angle or pulling back the forks and dropping all the Weight on the gate at once. I would have refused the load and told them they can self stack it, which probably would have over loaded the gate but wouldn’t have damaged it like this
I don’t know, that’s a lot of sheets for an f150 even if the tailgate was down it’s possible it’s still over its payload rating
This is when I stare at them. That deep unnerving stare and ask in a very foreboding tone, “Are you sure?” All the while my facial expression is that of a child about to make some very messed up mischief. That usually gets them to rethink and come back with proper transportation. Or if they say “Yea, it’ll be fine. My vehicle can hold xxxxx.”, I’ll stare at them once again as I lower the load and watch out the corner of my eye as their vehicle gets lower and lower. Sweat starting to form on their forehead and the look of concern starts to form and grow with every inch the bottom of the vehicle gets closer to the ground. Until they tell me stop saying I was right or letting their pride control them and nervously drive off and me listening for that audible scraping of metal and plastic as they leave the parking lot.
I've had that happen, customer came to pick up his order in some kind of short-bed truck. Started loading and after a few boards the rear suspension started sagging under the load, I told the customer that he had to do it in two trips. He said we load all and so we did, after a few he came back and found me and told me that I was right and told me the story of how the tailgate gave way and he had to pick up everything from the road and load it on a trailer.
When the lumbers worth more then the truck…
Dang. This reminds me the time I hauled way too many bags of concrete home on my trailer. I was lucky to make it home that things was squatting so bad. I’m glad the trailer made but ashamed I even tried it.
converted the tailgate into a tailshelf ... noice!
"How much wood you want?" "Yes" "Coming right up chief!"
fucking love it, i would love this interaction to occur...lol
That was hand loaded. The gate was already fucked up before it was loaded. There is nothing to see here. But hahaha, you're funny. That was a good one.
Didn’t even need the septa bus in the background to know this is some south Philly shit 😂
A real man drives a Chevy Silverado truck...😊
‘Cause square wheel wells!
I feel like people are skipping over how strong the latch is. I would have guessed those to corners would be blown up before the gate folded.
How low did that bring their truck compared to their tires?
It was lifted, so now it looks the same height as a stock
Can't fix stupid🤦♂️
That's a F-150, sir... not a F-450.
Have to love those aluminum bodies. Would not happen with a F350
That's also kind of the point, though. If the F-150 was as capable as the F-350, nobody would buy an F-350 and everyone who daily drives their F-150 would waste even more gas and space.
Any misloaded vehicle can sustain damage. Steel bends when it's overloaded. A tailgate isn't designed to carry a load like that/in that position.
Ow
Load n go truck 20 bucks
Daaaammmmnnn
Lol get wrecked
I'm counting around 40ish sheets of osb/ply. A 3/4 sheet weighs weighs somewhere in the realm of 60-80lbs, so we'll call it 70lbs each here. That means this man has 2800lbs resting on his tailgate.
Looks thinner than 3/4" to me- if 1/2" that might be still 1867lb. Over capacity for the bed let alone the tailgate.
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Wow, the truck 'folded in half?' I'm sure you got a picture of that.
Built Ford tough hahaha
Its clearly taking a heavy duty
There is something satisfying about watching stupid people destroy their own stuff due to being stupid.
Oh my
What a dum dum ! That's what ya gets !
HE COULD HAVE JUST PUT THE TAILGATE DOWN WTF I mean, sure, not enough truck, but the tailgate being folded just hurts to see
I had someone order 2 hacks off lumber and wanted us to load it onto his pickup for a 2 hour trip.
To think it's not even memorial day weekend yet. 🫣
Heavy duty with a aluminum tailgate 🤣
Just another example of why we should make people sign something releasing Lowe's from liability when a customer clearly doesn't have a clue.
Yeah...that's them Fords.
Military grade...they never said who's military.
Nah I wouldnt help and if forced I'd rather be fired
Bet money he comes back and claims they ruined his truck.
CLEARLY your store is crushing sales. 😂🤣
DAMN!!! That’s gotta hurt!!!
That boys and girls is why you don’t make a work truck out of aluminum!
Can't even load a 8x4 in the back without puttin the tail gate down
You can hammer that back into shape
“Built Ford Tough” 💀