Ford F-350 Rescues Toyota Tundra from Highway Mishap (Video)

Ford F-350 saves the day while coating the Toyota in a thick layer of mud, adding insult to injury.

cThe video above comes to us from the ViralHog YouTube channel, but if you are an active social media user, there is a good chance that you are already familiar with this particular Ford F-350. The video surfaced online on New Years Day, showing a high-riding Super Duty dragging the Toyota out of the grassy highway median, but while an American pickup pulling a Japanese pickup is humorous enough, it gets even better.

Due to the loose footing of the median, the Ford is forced to drag the Tundra back to the road with its wheels spinning, leading to the Toyota being coated in thick mud.

The Highway Median Strip

Most major highways in the United States have a large median strip separating the opposing lanes and in many cases, this dividing area is a deep, grassy valley. These areas often look like nice, smooth ground that you could easily drive across, but in addition to offering some division between the vehicles heading in opposite directions, these areas are often designed to offer a place for rain water to drain from the roadways. As a result, what looks like firm ground is often marshy footing that will swallow up just about anything, as the owner of this Toyota Tundra learned early this year.

Trucks Vs Mud

When the video begins, we can only see a Ford F-350 playing in the mud, first slinging slop high into the air as the driver tries to move forward, followed by a long period of backing up. At one point, we see why the Ford is backing up, as there is a Toyota Tundra buried in mud to the axles. We don’t know what caused this Toyota to spin off of the highway into the median, as the weather appears to be clear, there is no sign of snow or ice and even if there was slick footing, you would think that a new, four-wheel-drive Tundra would be able to handle a little winter weather.

However, something happened that sent this Tundra spinning into the grass and when it came to rest, the footing was too sloppy for the Toyota to dig itself out. That is where the big Ford comes into play.

The video description explains that this Ford is a 2018 F-350 with 22-inch Fuel Maverick Rims, 40-inch Fury Off-Road Tires, a 6-inch Superlift lift kit and Patriot Tuning, so it rides higher and packs more power than a stock Super Duty. That extra power and the huge tires don’t help a whole lot as the driver backs down the valley to the Toyota, but once there, the folks on hand get the two trucks hooked up and the Ford driver begins to pull the stuck truck out of the muddy grass.

Mud-A-Plenty

The F-350 Super Duty has a hard time getting traction, but the driver keeps the wheels spinning and bit-by-bit, the two trucks head up the hill towards the paved roadway. As they move along, the Super Duty’s huge tires sling tons of mud onto the front end of the Toyota, coating it in slop, but in the end, the F-350 does get the Tundra up out of the sticky situation.

Mind you, the Toyota likely sustained some damage from the off-road excursion, but at least the owner didn’t have to pay for a tow truck to save him from the mud.

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Patrick Rall

"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.

"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.

"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.

"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.

"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.

"Being based on Detroit," says Rall, "I never miss the North American International Auto Show, the Woodward Dream Cruise and Roadkill Nights, along with spending plenty of time raising hell on Detroit's Woodward Avenue with the best muscle car crowd in the world.

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