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Alberta Phil 
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Posted: 23 May 2022 at 11:04am |
Don't look like a workin' farm truck to me!! Even tho I've usually had Ford trucks.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 23 May 2022 at 11:23am |
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he has to much money!
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Posted: 23 May 2022 at 11:25am |
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all new vehicles are not farm vehicles until.....the first BIG scratch or dent.
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PaulB
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Posted: 23 May 2022 at 2:05pm |
Must be one of those "welfare farmers" that gets all his money from government payouts. like those that make a profit from selling $3 corn when it cost at least twice that to grow it. Does that Ford come with the FAKE engine noise like the musjunk?
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If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere.
Real pullers don't have speed limits.
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Posted: 23 May 2022 at 2:12pm |
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Not af-Ford-able
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Posted: 23 May 2022 at 5:58pm |
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Well you take that truck camping and can power your camp site! Until the battery drains and then you plug it in your A#s! Power your house they say! I've seen the electricity off for a week! I don't believe that truck will power the house for a week!
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DiyDave
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Posted: 23 May 2022 at 6:09pm |
Is the blue oval on this one fade-proof? 
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 23 May 2022 at 7:09pm |
Shameless, you can buy one when you take the stockholders to the cleaners! A big propane generator for your house would be less expensive and more reliable.
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Posted: 23 May 2022 at 10:59pm |
 Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote:
Shameless, you can buy one when you take the stockholders to the cleaners! A big propane generator for your house would be less expensive and more reliable. |
Hey... there's an idea... put a 20KW generator in the bed, and a pair of 60-gallon propane tanks on the frame, then connect the generator to recharge the batteries...
Put a 5th wheel hitch on it, and a stock trailer, and pull a dozen heifers 80 miles to the stock auction in August, then tell me it's a 'farm truck'.
It's for 'urban cowboys'... just like all the crap features they've 'mandated'... overpriced junk.
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WF owner
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Posted: 15 May 2023 at 6:53am |
Personally, I think an electric truck would be well suited to farm use. Farm use is mostly short trips and it could be recharged from renewable sources; wind or solar power or a methane powered generator on a dairy farm.
The $90,000 price tag is for the high-end, absolutely loaded Platinum edition. F-150 Lightning Pro "work trucks" start at around $60,000, which isn't a lot different than a half-ton with a diesel engine.
Whether we like it or not, conventional internal combustion engines are on the way out. Electric and/or hydrogen powered vehicles are the future.
Global warming is definitely real. In my lifetime (in our area) I have seen winters go from snow from early November to early April in the 1960's to now when the local snowmobilers get periods of a couple weeks at a time that there is enough snow to ride. We used to get sub-zero weather for weeks at a time. This past winter, I think we had about 5 days below zero and every one of them ended up above zero during the day.
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Posted: 15 May 2023 at 7:56am |
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WF Owner, the world has been warming well before industrialization by 30,000 years, or so. We're coming off the 5th ice age (some say 7th). Those glaciers in Alaska used to run down to Yellowstone Park and across USA to Long Island - formed by glaciers melting at the ocean.
The danger is using one's life experience as a guide. We simply don't live long enough to judge such things. For exampke, the cold snaps in 1940-60's led scientists to predict we were entering a new ice age.
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Posted: 15 May 2023 at 8:39am |
KMAG wrote:
WF Owner, the world has been warming well before industrialization by 30,000 years, or so. We're coming off the 5th ice age (some say 7th). Those glaciers in Alaska used to run down to Yellowstone Park and across USA to Long Island - formed by glaciers melting at the ocean.
The danger is using one's life experience as a guide. We simply don't live long enough to judge such things. For exampke, the cold snaps in 1940-60's led scientists to predict we were entering a new ice age. |
That may be true, but we are talking significant change in 50 years, not 30,000 years. Also, in the last 100 years, we have used up a significant amount of the oil that took millions of years to form.
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Posted: 15 May 2023 at 8:46am |
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we have enough oil to last for HUNDREDS of years.... New Exploration finds NEW OIL all the time..... Of course the world is WARMING...that happens in cycles... has NOTHING to do with HUMANS..
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 15 May 2023 at 9:36am |
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It's called weather...and it changes... always has ,always will. They say it goes in cycles. 20,50,90 year? Info out there if you care to work at finding it. Global warming is an opinion not a fact.
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Posted: 15 May 2023 at 12:43pm |
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What's going to happen to global warming when we cover all this farmland with solar panels that only generate power during sunlight hours. Winter in the northern states that's only 8 hours of sunlight for 16 hours of dark.
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Posted: 15 May 2023 at 2:19pm |
From what I have been told the northern panels product better because in the south when it gets too hot they shut down and don't make any electric. I don't think they will ever shut down coal plant if they are operated right. The electric company that we are on clean the coal and the only thing the plant gives off is stream
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Posted: 15 May 2023 at 5:02pm |
I prefer the electric Duckoder...
FFWD to about 2:40... 
Edited by DiyDave - 15 May 2023 at 5:03pm
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Posted: 15 May 2023 at 11:46pm |
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when ya drive them things in rain and thru water puddles, ya'll know water finds its way into anywhere ona vehicle just to start the rusting process. what happens when the battery gits wet? KABOOM???
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Posted: 16 May 2023 at 5:29pm |
Vostok Ice core Data, we as in NOW are at the Far Left, Note the Beginning of the Industrial Revolution is where the chart essentially FLAT LINES, No appreciable Rise or fall, just slight blips all from roughly 8 THOUSAND years ago where was already in a Significant Rising Temperature rate. That is where Humans numbers became enough to create fire and SMOKE and other aerosol emissions that REFLECT Sunlight Back Into Space. WE as in US Humans have managed to STOP the Temp rise in 'K' or Kelvin as in the Three previous epochs at 130,000 240,000 and 325,000 years ago.
Also a Side Note, EACH serious significant almost Instantaneous Rise was followed by a Sharp and LENGTHY Cool Down, we are at that Doorstep.
As with Methane, CO2 FOLLOWS the Heatup, NOT causes it.
Edited by DMiller - 16 May 2023 at 5:36pm
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 16 May 2023 at 7:47pm |
what i want to know is that guy that was taking TEMPS 200,000 years ago... WHO made the thermometer he was using ??
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Posted: 16 May 2023 at 11:16pm |
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With the price of that truck I can't even afford to watch that video.
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Posted: 17 May 2023 at 11:20am |
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I think maybe a plug in hybrid is the way to go at this point. The best of both worlds if you have your own electricity source. Remember not that many years ago everyone was hot on making bio diesel out of waste french fry oil and such. This is just another way to self power your farm. There's no way on this green earth I would pay 90 grand for a pickup truck, but to each their own...
Edited by JohnColo - 17 May 2023 at 11:21am
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Posted: 17 May 2023 at 5:05pm |
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To me a working farm truck was considered a Ford F 600 or 700. Why they consider something like that a truck is beyond me. But as you can see, I'm old school.
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DMiller
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Posted: 17 May 2023 at 6:28pm |
Friend of mine bought a F550 Crew Cab, KNEW it was going to be better than buying a True Class 7. REGRETS that mistake every month. Will NOT tow, Adequately, the loads that are shown in the Owners manual, Has Juice Brakes, rotors when used as a REAL truck disintegrate at around 20,000miles, pads are Short Term life. Engine is a 6.4, Struggles but pulls and he is well aware pulling its own guts out, ZF Auto Trans has had several recalls and repairs.
His partner in their farm in Orchard Farm MO, bought a M102 Business Class Freightliner, roughly same dimensions, Same size Tires but AIR Brakes, Allison Auto not a ZF, bigger third member and yet still a Family Sized Crew Cab. Has 1/3 the expenses of repairs with a Cummins M Series even as both use DEF for a DOC System that one is not as problematic. He is currently selling his 550, and is working to find a adequate M102 Freight Shaker.
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