Ford Super Duty Yanks School Bus Back Onto All Six Wheels
School is back in session thanks to this first-generation Super Duty that works hard to get this bus off of its side.
Ford builds its Super Duty trucks to do just about everything, whether that means carrying a cabin full of people, hauling heavy cargo, pulling a huge trailer or all three at once. The catch to their versatility is that many of them wind up doing almost anything. That can be as harmless as some impromptu off-roading through mud or what this first-generation model is doing: rotating a school bus 90 degrees – the hardest way possible.
We found this industrial-grade odd job being performed on the thetrucknation_ Instagram page. Not only has the school bus on the left been involved in a collision that damaged its front end, but – for some reason – it’s also been turned onto its passenger side. It’s up to a first-generation diesel Super Duty to get it back on all six of its wheels. We’re not sure if it needs to be righted or if the people involved are just doing it for sport. Either way, it’s fun to watch.
View this post on Instagram
Only a Ford!!! Chevy or Dodge could never pull a school bus back over 😂 Follow 👉 @thetrucknation_
The Super Duty starts perpendicular to and a few feet away from the bus’s undercarriage. A chain connects the truck’s back end to the bus’s highest side. You could say the rest is just simple physics, but that’s glossing over just how much brute force is going to be required to get the bus’s tires back in touch with the ground.
After pulling the line taut, the Super Duty driver holds down the brake and gas pedals at the same time to build up a head of steam, then lets off the brake. The truck launches forward, flinging dirt out from under all four of its tires, but it only rocks the beached bus slightly.
The Ford driver backs up a little, then charges ahead again so hard that its back wheels get airborne. Despite the dramatic effort, the bus stays where it is.
Clearly, it’s going to take more than just the Power Stroke‘s diesel grunt. If the Super Duty is going to rotate the bus onto its rubber, it’s going to need a running start that pulls the bus so hard that the yellow kid-hauler’s own weight finishes the job.
After two more violent pulls that send the F-Series’s wheels into the air, the Ford truck owner makes one last attempt to get the right mixture of running distance, speed, and follow-through. The final pull takes everything the truck has and sends its back end up higher than ever.
It returns to Earth and bounces a second time before all four tires dig in to help the Power Stroke muscle the bus back into a more useful position. In fact, right before the footage ends, it looks as if the bus might’ve gotten yanked too hard and is in risk of rolling onto its driver side. If it did happen to roll that way, at least it was close to a truck that could help it get right-side-up…again.
Join the F150online.com forums now!
