We think it’s useless. My great grandfather ran a farm with a 1955 Chevy short bed 2 wheel drive truck with a sparse interior and a straight 6 engine.When I was over there in 2015 i only ever saw a Ford ranger tow truck which was funny as anything below 3/4 ton is useless over here.
Or perhaps a Ford Ranger is useless as a tow truck in America because just about everything is as large and heavy if not larger and heavier than it. I don't know where I said i didn't believe a Ford Ranger would be insufficient for farm work. I literally owned a 2000 Ford Ranger 2.5 4cyl AT 2wd and own a small farm. I used to use that thing to haul fence posts and planks to built my own fence and to haul a trailer with cut up tree trunks and limbs. But that doesn't mean it would be a good tow truck. It would be useless as a tow truck over here.We think it’s useless. My great grandfather ran a farm with a 1955 Chevy short bed 2 wheel drive truck with a sparse interior and a straight 6 engine.
Now the average farm KID has a 3/4 that rolls coal and is lifted with rubber and tires.
It’s about showing who’s who, not what you need.
UK farms are smaller and use more specialized equipment rather than useless 3/4 ton pickups.
A 10k acre farm in the US still doesn’t need to daily drive a 3/4 ton either. They chose to.
My reply wasn’t personal. Sorry you were offended.Or perhaps a Ford Ranger is useless as a tow truck in America because just about everything is as large and heavy if not larger and heavier than it. I don't know where I said i didn't believe a Ford Ranger would be insufficient for farm work. I literally owned a 2000 Ford Ranger 2.5 4cyl AT 2wd and own a small farm. I used to use that thing to haul fence posts and planks to built my own fence and to haul a trailer with cut up tree trunks and limbs. But that doesn't mean it would be a good tow truck. It would be useless as a tow truck over here.
My reply wasn't personal either. I don't know what it is you found offensive in it. But if you did that's a little sensitive on your part. Nothing personal there either so no offense.My reply wasn’t personal. Sorry you were offended.
The streets over there were built for horse drawn carriages and the Roman army 2000 years ago.Seems like most countries place much more importance on efficiency than we do here in NA. Likely because of the high fuel prices and narrow streets.
I lived most of my life in Va and always thought the roads were well maintained. Even the gravel roads are well maintained. Maybe that's a county issue on Poplar Rd.?? I do know that all new road construction or major repairs have cheap inadequate bases. SC has a fairly new seamless concrete stretch of I-95 where chunks of the concrete are collapsing in the lanes. Talk about damaging chunk holes.I was just telling a friend of mine that Virginia 2-lane roads are pretty bad (despite VDOT claiming otherwise), and I hit 3 potholes in 3 miles (it was at night) on a road known by the locals as Pothole Rd (it's really Poplar Rd). And these are the sort of potholes you'd rather hit in a pickup truck than a car. Seriously, one of those think tanks (maybe it was Cato) ranked Virginia roads among the best in the nation. Since nobody from Cato probably actually checked, I expect that they were using data supplied by the DOTs and I suspect that the data VDOT fed them is nothing more than bovine excrement. Baghdad Bob has nothing on your average Virginia government employee (or politician).
I lived most of my life in Va and always thought the roads were well maintained. Even the gravel roads are well maintained. Maybe that's a county issue on Poplar Rd.?? I do know that all new road construction or major repairs have cheap inadequate bases. SC has a fairly new seamless concrete stretch of I-95 where chunks of the concrete are collapsing in the lanes. Talk about damaging chunk holes.
I would think I had died and gone to heaven if the roads around here were that nice.It's most of the 2-lane roads in the general area. I believe it's a combination of a bad subgrade and poor drainage. Also, VDOT paves the road in layers and often a chunk of the topmost asphalt comes off (delaminates?). I've rarely seen that problem in other states but it's common on VDOT maintained roads. Maybe they should find out how other states get their asphalt layers to stick together???
This VDOT road was repaved about two years before this August 2021 street view. Its worse now:
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Nah. Bikes and kayaks need a place to travel. Trailer needs to be hauled.The traditional pickup with Sheetmetal (or aluminium bed) is pretty useless, to be honest. It's a giant p----g contest anyway. Our trucks have way too much capacity for what they do anyway.
If I didn't need to tow a vehicle around for a hobby, I'd never have a need for a truck. A small utility trailer behind my daily driver car would be all I need.
I would think I had died and gone to heaven if the roads around here were that nice.
Freeze/Thaw cycles are murder on Calgary's roads. A Normal pothole in the spring. Hundreds of them on many roads:
And this is not at all uncommon:
They repave your roads!? Here they paved them once in the 70s and we drive on what’s left lol.Given the cracks, it won't be nice for very long. It was also repaved 2 years prior. That's pretty pathetic that the road starts cracking like that after only 2 years.
They repave your roads!? Here they paved them once in the 70s and we drive on what’s left lol.
The UK vs USA issues seem to me that. Americans want bang for the buck as we drive much greater distances. I remember a top Gear episode where Clarkson was testing out a new focus. It seems like it was significantly more expensive than the US version and had leather seats and power everything.Brits laugh at USA people who use their large PU trucks for nothing but commuting. They kind of have a point. I told them at the time all the other stuff I use my truck and they understood. So they only laugh at people who live in rented flats who commute in trucks.