A bunch of my own dash cam videos......

[kamkar]

These railroads / roads running parallel, and crossings, seem like they have a steady number of events, with cars and semis getting T-boned big time.

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Went for a little ride through the parks and threw together a this uncut vid

Camera(s) used:

BlueSkySea B4K

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

This is actually a video from February of 2020, but for some reason it was blocked on YouTube (guess it was my horrible singing)

Uploaded to Vimeo, but had to re-render in 720p just to cut upload size (limited account)

Anyhoo, I was speeding (guilty), but the nice officer let me off with a warning 😎

Camera(s) used:

BlueSkySea B2W
BlueSkySea B1W

 

[thomas-dash]

SBA = Sergeant's Benevolent Association? What was the speed limit? The last I was pulled over and got a ticket. I hired a lawyer to fight the ticket and was able to win with an appeal. I just had to do a online safety driver's course and take a multiple choice test at a local library.

I'm guessing YouTube didn't like the music playing in the background due to copyright issues.

 

[kamkar]

Damn,,, you almost sing as good as me, and i often rock along when i am driving.

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

So this happened this morning about a mile from the SC/GA border

Driver was trapped and gas leaking from the tank, but we managed to pull him out through the passenger side window

Camera(s) used:
BlueSkySea B2W
BlueSkySea Mini0906
DJI OSMO Pocket

 

[Nigel]

That is a huge trailer for a car to be towing on its towbar!

OK, it's not exactly a car, but it does have 4 wheels and presumably fairly normal "car" suspension.

Must be pretty difficult to load properly...

 

[Dashmellow]

That is a huge trailer for a car to be towing on its towbar!

OK, it's not exactly a car, but it does have 4 wheels and presumably fairly normal "car" suspension.

Must be pretty difficult to load properly..

That's no "car".

That vehicle "appears" to be a Ford Super Duty F-450 XLT pick-up truck with a PowerStroke 6.7-liter V8 turbocharged diesel engine. It could be a different model Ford, but heavy duty trucks like this are designed to pull extremely heavy loads and trailers. And trucks like this have specialized suspensions, not normal "car" suspensions.

The trailer also appears not have been loaded with anything which may have contributed to the accident. Depending on the load it would have been more stable with some weight on it. The trailer appears to be a gooseneck design. A "gooseneck" coupler is designed to clear a pickup's (closed) tailgate, and it connects to a ball or king pin inside the bed for a frame-mounted hitch that is positioned over the rear axle. It doesn't connect to a towbar or standard trailer hitch.

Goose neck trailer

 

[Nigel]

but heavy duty trucks like this are designed to pull extremely heavy loads and trailers.

Ahh, specified to tow 17 tonnes... Must be safe then!

 

[kamkar]

If there is a FORD in my future, aside for some of the classics from the venerable brand, then it must be a F-650 XXXXXXXLT.

Towing like that / the option to do that, i dont even think exist here in Denmark, i have never seen other than semis connect to a trailer like that.
And i assume if you are going big / heavy, the standard town hitch ( nicknamed a Jut hitch here as most Juts have a option to tow where as people in around the capitol do not )

 

[DT MI]

That is a huge trailer for a car to be towing on its towbar!

OK, it's not exactly a car, but it does have 4 wheels and presumably fairly normal "car" suspension.

<SMH> Yet more 'Nigel Knowledge' (uninformed opinion versus facts).

The 'car' in question is (minimally) a Ford F-250 Super-Duty crew cab pickup truck with a 6.7L turbo diesel with a towing capacity of 20,000 pounds. It's designed for exactly what it was doing.

https://www.ford.com/cmslibs/content/dam/brand_ford/en_us/brand/resources/general/pdf/guides/21Towing_Ford_SuperDuty_PU_Dec3.pdf

 

[Dashmellow]

<SMH> Yet more 'Nigel Knowledge' (uninformed opinion versus facts).

The 'car' in question is (minimally) a Ford F-250 Super-Duty crew cab pickup truck with a 6.7L turbo diesel with a towing capacity of 20,000 pounds. It's designed for exactly what it was doing.

https://www.ford.com/cmslibs/content/dam/brand_ford/en_us/brand/resources/general/pdf/guides/21Towing_Ford_SuperDuty_PU_Dec3.pdf

It's a good question as to which particular model Ford truck that is, as it didn't seem to have the usual medallion on the side of the hood with the model number. At first I thought it was a F-250, then I decided it was at least a F-350. Then after viewing the video a second time so I could have another look at the type of trailer it was towing I noticed that the front bumper and grill more closely matches the style of the F-450s I'm familiar with, especially the integrated fog lamps and access to the frame mounted towing hooks. Then again, maybe the bumper style is optional across all models?

Edit: Further scrutiny of the video reveals that it is indeed a Ford F-250! You can just barely see it upside down partly hidden behind the rear view mirror.

Flipped image:

 

[DT MI]

I didn't think it was a F-450 because every one of those I've seen had the real 'beefy' truck wheels, while the 250's and 350's I've seen all had the more stylish ones.

Good catch on the badging. 👍

 

[Dashmellow]

I didn't think it was a F-450 because every one of those I've seen had the real 'beefy' truck wheels, while the 250's and 350's I've seen all had the more stylish ones.

Good catch on the badging. 👍

I dunno, those tires looked pretty beefy to me. 🙂 True, the wheels are kind of stylish.

The screen shot is interesting. I wanted to document what the tires on the truck looked like but I saw that you also get a good view of the goose neck trailer design as well as the blown out rear tire. I wonder now, if the blown rear tire might have been the cause of the accident.

 

[DT MI]

I'd imagine losing a rear tire with that trailer would definitely cause some serious stability issues. Looks like the entire tread came off, almost like it had retreads on it.

Definitely some beefy tires for sure but I was referring to the wheels themselves.

F450

Versus the F250/F350

 

[Dashmellow]

Definitely some beefy tires for sure but I was referring to the wheels themselves.

That's interesting. I looked it up and the F-450 can come with 19.5 X 6 inch rims or 17 x 6.5 inch rims. (depending on year and model) The F-250 is available with 16, 17 or 18 inch rims. My Toyota Tacoma (a smaller truck) came from the factory with 17 x 6.5 inch rims. Other Tacoma models came with 16 inch rims.

 

[DT MI]

That's interesting. I looked it up and the F-450 can come with 19.5 X 6 inch rims or 17 x 6.5 inch rims. (depending on year and model) The F-250 is available with 16, 17 or 18 inch rims. My Toyota Tacoma (a smaller truck) came from the factory with 17 x 6.5 inch rims. Other Tacoma models came with 16 inch rims.

Not a Ford expert by any stretch (in spite of working there for about 4 years) but it appears to me that the F-450 has 10 lug wheels/hubs while the 250 & 350 series have 8 lugs. That's what caught my eye initially.

 

[Dashmellow]

Not a Ford expert by any stretch (in spite of working there for about 4 years) but it appears to me that the F-450 has 10 lug wheels/hubs while the 250 & 350 series have 8 lugs. That's what caught my eye initially.

Yeah, the F-450 is a much heavier duty truck in every way so it would makes sense that the wheels are beefier. With the 6.7 liter Power Stroke V8 Turbo Diesel it generates 475 horsepower. And it has a 48 gallon gas tank! At today's prices where I live a complete fill up of diesel would cost $288.00! OMG!

 

[Nigel]

If you look at the FRONT tire in post 494, looks like the tread on IT may be starting to separate too?

Or maybe a DIY remould!

 

[kamkar]

Those tires look like some Mickey Tompson i use to run on my scale 4x4 RC truck, but in all fairness is is a decade or so since those tires spun under any little truck i controlled remotely.