Recent content by ultraclyde

I'm a hat guy. Even before I went bald, lol. I wear a hat every day I leave the house and my collection keeps growing. My goto for summer adventure and boating is a Shelta Seahawk with boonie style crown: Yeah, it's pricey. But all their hats have a molded plastic insert in the brim that keeps...

We just added a windows 2-in-1 laptop to the household, and one of my plans for it is a GPS add-on so that the missus can be navigator with it in the tablet form. I've seen some cheap ($25) usb cable GPS receivers on Amazon, but I like the idea of bluetooth connectivity. For those of you using...

What's my dog doing in your truck?

Most online ads around here list the VIN number, and you can quickly get a copy of the original window sticker from Ford's website somewhere. A little google work will find you a link to the look-up page, they tend to move it around some. I spent months comparing window stickers on used trucks...

I had a Super Cab 8' bed, OBS F250 and now have a 5.5' bed Crew cab '13 F150. Overall physical size of the trucks is shockingly similar. For what I do, the 5.5 is better. The one down side to the 5.5 is that my mountain bike barely fits in the bed with the tailgate closed and the front bike...

Towing the train is just a stunt. We all know that electric motors make tons of torque - that's why they use them in...uh...trains. The rest of the "prototype" could built any way they need to to roll a train. You could probably do it with any HD truck on the road today, at least for a little...

I just bought a Lenovo Yoga 730 laptop. The screen folds over completely so it can be used as a tablet too. So far I love it, gives a lot of use options from desk to couch to sitting in the truck. Plan is to add a GPS unit and let my wife run Nav on it as well as general household use. Anyway...

I wish ARB made a bumper for my 2013 F150. I like the way they look, but not the Ranch Hand ones. Honestly, not a fan of anything I've seen on the same year model truck actually.

that is the ONLY deer-moto story I've ever read where someone stayed up. Hell, it's one of the FEW I've heard where the rider walked away.

As I mentioned, I've seen about 1mpg drop in my calculated average fuel economy. I think this is partially from rolling resistance of the tread and partially from weight. The weight increase was made worse by going from P-rated tires to E-rated. We're talking adding 20 POUNDS PER WHEEL in...

Is this the thread to check in and recommend whatever tire you're currently running? Good, just wanted to make sure I was in the right place. I just put 175/70r18 Cooper Discoverer AT3 XLTs on my '13 F150. They are probably a step more aggressive than you want, but "ve been impressed with them...

I've seen plenty of deer around here whose body would clear that lower bar when they're running, at least on a mildy lifted or stock vehicle. I think having something at least as tall as your hood line is a lot better.

Westin HDX with optional winch mount. Probably the best looking one I've seen for my truck which is the same bodystyle. Best comment yet. So what about increasing the chance of frame damage in a vehicle-vehicle accident since they're tied to the frame?

A lot of the guys in my area (SE US) that have brush bars on their vehicles never set a tire in the dirt. When asked about the brush bars they usually tell me it's to prevent damage from hitting whitetail deer - we have a LOT of them down here, often well over 100lbs. But every vehicle I've...

Good to note. For hooliganism, add 5psi.