Wild F-350 Owner Drives Onto the Roof of an Old Barn
Instead of using his F-350 to pull this dilapidated barn down, Cody Detwiler of WhistlinDiesel drives up a ramp and crushes it from the top.
Back in September, we told you about a beat-up old Ford F-350 named “Carl” that had 500,000 lumens of light bars bolted onto it. Carl’s owner, Cody Detwiler, the fun-loving madman behind the YouTube channel WhistlinDiesel, used Carl to take part in a (well-lit) nighttime water balloon fight. That wasn’t the only crazy thing they’ve done together, though. Check out what they do to this hog barn.
If you look long enough on YouTube, you’ll find several videos of people yanking derelict barns down with their trucks. The 30′ X 10′ one you see here is way beyond saving. It’s buckled or completely disintegrated in more than one spot. The doors and windows are long gone. The ends of some of the rafters don’t have any load-bearing structure to rest on. Detwiler decides to speed up the doomed edifice’s decaying by driving Carl up onto its roof.
With the barn in the horrid shape that it’s in, it won’t take much to do some serious damage to it. Carl is well prepared to put a hurting on it. The old F-350 has a chunky front winch, a heavy 460-cubic-inch V8, and 40-inch tires. That should do the trick.
Detwiler may be wild, but he’s not clueless. He knows how dangerous what he’s about to do is. Standing on the roof of the barn, he says, “There’s a very good chance someone’s going to get sent to the emergency room tonight.” That doesn’t deter him, though. Detwiler fires Carl up and slowly drives up a makeshift ramp and onto the roof.
Before Carl’s rear tires clear the ramp, the top of the dying building caves in under the weight of Carl’s front end. It only gets uglier the further he goes. The metal curls up like a rusty wave in Carl’s wake.
At one point in what could be the most unique thing an F-350 has ever done, Detwiler and Carl reach a point where the roof can hold up their weight. Detwiler emerges from his truck screaming with delight. He goes to the ground to admire his progress. “That is so cool. That building is supporting an entire truck right now.”
While backing Carl down from his hero pose, Detwiler drops one of his wheels off the side of the roof. He gets temporarily stuck, but it’s not a problem that plenty of throttle can’t fix. Detwiler rocks Carl and powers out of the barn’s clutches.
Back on solid ground, it sinks in that Detwiler was right about someone having to get medical treatment because of his stunt. That “someone” is Carl. Detwiler says, “That was super hard on the truck.” Carl’s rooftop antics caused him to pop a tire, spring a couple of leaks, and lose his brakes and steering.
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