Two purpose-built Ford mud trucks are joined by a work truck in attacking this sloppy mud hole.
This week’s Muddy Monday video comes to us from the 802 Diesel Crew YouTube channel and it features three different Fordtrucks playing in the mud. There are no details provided on any of the trucks, but we can see that two have been modified for playing in the mud while the other appears to be a work truck that got lost and ended up at the mud bog.
Unfortunately, one of the three Ford trucks is unable to capture the mud, but it isn’t the truck that you would expect to get stuck.
Ranger in Action
A Ford Ranger is the first truck to take to the mud in this video. It has clearly been lifted and it has a rear-mounted cooling system, so the owner has modified this midsized pickup to handle miserable conditions. However, after a successful first pass across the bog, the truck begins to smoke quite a bit. On the second pass across the heart of the pit, the truck continues to smoke from the engine bay and the Ranger struggles to clear what looks to be fairly shallow mud, with the clip ending with the pickup seemingly stuck.
Finally, the Ranger makes one more left-to-right run and as the smoke continues to flow from the front end, the smaller Motor Company pickup is left stranded.
The World Truck
Next up, a Ford F-250 Super Duty takes to the mud, intentionally cutting across the deepest part of the pit while fighting through deep ruts. This truck looks like a stock-ish work truck, complete with a ladder rack hovering over the cab and bed, but it cruises across the pit without any problem.
Super Duty Mud Truck
The last Ford pickup to take to the mud in this video is an F-250 or F-350 from the pre-Super Duty era. This truck has stacks sticking up through the hood, a bed that has been gutted to nothing more than a shell and huge mud tires, making it clear that this is a purpose-build mud machine.
As it turns out, this big blue Ford is good at what it does, cruising back and forth across the mud pit as what is left of the bed dangles from the chassis.
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