Originally Posted by suzzer99:
I hade to ride bitch from KC to Galveston and back - in between my stepdad and uncle in the front seat of an El Camino - as they bickered the entire drive. Can’t say I recommend it.
Agree. Bigger cab though and no transmission tunnel. No different than backseat bitch now.
makes me sad i used to have an 80 el camino. i loved it. I ended up selling it for reasons unknown to this day! i dont know what i was thinking! so mad at myself for that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by kcxiv:
makes me sad i used to have an 80 el camino. i loved it. I ended up selling it for reasons unknown to this day! i dont know what i was thinking! so mad at myself for that.
I have an 84 that just got back from paint about two weeks ago. [Reply]
To say truck boxes are dumb is as ignorant as shit.
Just because you or the people you have been around don’t know how to properly make use of them does not mean they are dumb. We have used them on our farm for years and have multiple trucks with them. I have made custom shelves to store batteries for power tools, shelves for ratchets and sockets, spots to hold the power tools that require the batteries. [Reply]
Originally Posted by mac459:
To say truck boxes are dumb is as ignorant as shit.
Just because you or the people you have been around don’t know how to properly make use of them does not mean they are dumb. We have used them on our farm for years and have multiple trucks with them. I have made custom shelves to store batteries for power tools, shelves for ratchets and sockets, spots to hold the power tools that require the batteries.
Cool. Put it under the hood. More functional and accessible anyways.
Originally Posted by aturnis:
Cool. Put it under the hood. More functional and accessible anyways.
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How is it more functional and accessible for me? How is it more functional for my tools to be in the front and my work area in the back? How is spending my time walking circles around the truck better than taking 2 steps to the side of one of the trucks?
I hope like hell this succeeds and they make a true 3/4 ton electric truck because I will definitely be interested in it. This thing just doesn’t do anything for me or any work I do with a truck, it has a long way to go until it gets to that point. [Reply]
Originally Posted by mac459:
How is it more functional and accessible for me? How is it more functional for my tools to be in the front and my work area in the back? How is spending my time walking circles around the truck better than taking 2 steps to the side of one of the trucks?
I hope like hell this succeeds and they make a true 3/4 ton electric truck because I will definitely be interested in it. This thing just doesn’t do anything for me or any work I do with a truck, it has a long way to go until it gets to that point.
Originally Posted by BWillie:
Hey Aturnis tried...but the oil lovers bias clearly shows.
Lol I believe Buehler when he expresses doubts when it comes to this kind of stuff and how it can affect farming. And I bet his doubts aren't based on loving oil or hating electric vehicles. [Reply]
If you want an itemized list I can do that for you.
But the important thing is for me in my line of work, I need this shit. I need this shit stable going down the road and accessible when it isn't. And I need the EV to handle the shit I put it through reliably.
But yeah. Your comments about toolboxes being impossible to organize is fairly offensive to a guy that has some cheap tools, put them in a cheap pickup and is trying to make a living with them. [Reply]
So while sitting in the hospital today I did some research on what I mean by this truck won’t work like my current 3/4 much less the 1 ton on the farm.
The Tesla would not work for hauling due to the time constraints and mileage we put in hauling to sale. It is around 75 miles round trip from the chute on the farm to the chute at the sale barn. I pass 4 gas stations on my way there and same 4 on the way back, 8 opportunities to fill up. Absolutely no chargers anywhere close to my route, it would be about an 1.5 hours out of the way to get to a charger. We load trailers up to 17,500-20,000 lbs each time, and we make around 5-6 trips the day before the sale. So roughly 350-420 miles in a day, while under the 500 mile range, it would blow through that battery way quicker. I’m expecting 250 fully maxed out for that trucks range.
I do not have time to stop hauling to charge a truck up for an hour, whenever I can fill the truck up a few times in a total of 30 mins throughout the day.
Now if it turns out the Tesla can still get 300 plus fully maxed towing, they start making a flatbed to go on the back, our contract with the current sale barn runs out, cattle prices rise, they put Super Chargers up instead of the Destination Chargers around the route, then I will seriously sit down and consider it [Reply]
Originally Posted by mac459:
So while sitting in the hospital today I did some research on what I mean by this truck won’t work like my current 3/4 much less the 1 ton on the farm.
The Tesla would not work for hauling due to the time constraints and mileage we put in hauling to sale. It is around 75 miles round trip from the chute on the farm to the chute at the sale barn. I pass 4 gas stations on my way there and same 4 on the way back, 8 opportunities to fill up. Absolutely no chargers anywhere close to my route, it would be about an 1.5 hours out of the way to get to a charger. We load trailers up to 17,500-20,000 lbs each time, and we make around 5-6 trips the day before the sale. So roughly 350-420 miles in a day, while under the 500 mile range, it would blow through that battery way quicker. I’m expecting 250 fully maxed out for that trucks range.
I do not have time to stop hauling to charge a truck up for an hour, whenever I can fill the truck up a few times in a total of 30 mins throughout the day.
Now if it turns out the Tesla can still get 300 plus fully maxed towing, they start making a flatbed to go on the back, our contract with the current sale barn runs out, cattle prices rise, they put Super Chargers up instead of the Destination Chargers around the route, then I will seriously sit down and consider it
Simple. Just install a 40 amp circuit near where you load. Charge while you load. You'll be good. You won't even need an electrician as I know you do as you damned well please. Farms are notoriously shady places to do electrical work.
