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Anybody seen the 2013 Chebby truck commercial pulling a stump out of the ground? Look close,bottom of that stump is so clean it looks to have been power washed and replanted.
 
Those city dudes just don't know that ole farm boys got a better grasp of reality than they do.I told my wife, "That's hokie. Who do they think they're foolin'." I personally like the Latest Dodge commercial.
 
could that be any worse than a pos of toyota supposing pulling a space shuttle, [ten feet], with a cheap pin hooking the pull-bars together...
 
I noticed that, figured a good sized tractor wouldn't pull that stump out. Pickup wouldn't be a power issue, it's always traction, or lack of it.

--->Paul
 
There isn't a pickup made that will pull any reasonable sized tree out of the ground. My boss has a hundred and fifty horse, turbo, diesel, German Unimog with twenty four gears, four wheel drive and four wheel all locked, and new tractor tread tires on it. Somebody wanted him to try to pull a twenty inch diameter tree stump, cut off about six feet above ground, out of their front yard last week. He said he tied on to it every which way and it wouldn't move. I tried to pull my 706 Farmall on the level with my new Nissan pickup a few years ago. Wouldn't move it.
 
i saw that, its pretty lame, but i guess 20 something city dudes might believe it, i once tried to pull a tree about half that size out of the ground with a loaded dump truck, and that wouldnt do it, so there is no way that pickup would especially empty,
 
The first time I saw that ad I told my wife to look at the bottom of the tree. I couldn't pull a 12" stump with my 6x6 road grader with a 471, and chains. I takes a lot with a track hoe. Ad's are a joke now days.
 
30 years ago there was a chevy commercial with a pick up pulling a 4 bottom plow. If you looked close the trees in the back ground were on a slant. Must have been plowing down hill.
 
I just saw one this moring about a Ram 1500 said to get 25 MPG. I couldn't read the fine print. Wonder if any actually can get that good of MPG ?
 
Did you notice the guys sitting in the seat weren't bouncing around in there like they would be if the pickup was actually trying to pull that stump. Jim
 
Wait till some idiot tries that and the chain breaks, wipes out the tail gate, rear window, and bashes in the passenger's skull.
Only way I'm trying to remove stumps is with a dozer or a back hoe.
 


Has anyone seen the truck commercial with the truck flipping a tractor around. Not even sure what brand ,just caught a small glimpse of a tractor rolling on the ground.haven't seen it since .
 
I tried to pull a 4 inch apple tree stump, cut off
3 feet above the ground, with a 1965 IH Scout,
in 4 wheel drive, low range. It sheared off four
grade 8, 1/2 inch bolts,(2 on each side) and took
the rear bumper off,(chain was hooked to trailer
hitch), but the tree stayed where it was!
 
The Dodge ad has made a huge impact. The GM ads are forgettable. The GM executives heads are probably spinning.
 
Did their ad work? Think about it. Here we are talking about their ad and Chevy trucks and the ad isn't even showing on here. PT Barnum get's the credit for saying "There's no such thing as bad publicity". Is he right? Maybe, maybe not. Jury is still out. But the jury is still thinking and talking about the Chevy ad.

A friend of mine works for a major advertising firm. They represent a number of liquor and tobacco companies, plus a long list of other brands. He once told me people remember an ad just as long for it's pure stupidity as they would for it's genious and originality. And it's easier and cheaper to write stupid ads.

All things equal, I like my Dodge trucks and I LOVE the "God made a farmer" ad.
 
Commercials are there to sell you something. And 98% of the population is urban or suburban. If there wasn't a tree to pull out, perhaps a fire plug could have been found.... How many salesmen do you know that are actually honest???
 
Most of those truck commercials are so phoney anyone with any sense at all will realize it. Of course there is "always that ten percent" who won't and soak it up....that's probably who the ads are for. Really it's nothing compared to the "spin jobs" some of the people in our government put out to us these days.
 
There"re not the first tree pulling truck commercial. Forget who did that just a few months ago, Ford or was it Dodge? Anyway, Think the guys who have posted have it pretty well figured out. Ain"t gonna happen!

But, I"ll say, not the first foul called.
 
Kinda funny but I would never buy a vehicle based on an ad. I would never have considered a Dodge before Fiat got em. Now even less so. To keep it tractor related I wouldn't look at a CaseIH built after Fiat bought them.

Like I said before, Dodge had to go to Cummins to get a decent engine and not to the Harvey estate to get s decent ad.

Rick
 
Yeh when I saw that I thought "you could have hooked up a garden tractor and had the same result". If it was a REAL stump why would you use a pickup?
 
This just reminded me, once I wanted to remove a long vine hanging to the ground from the top of a tree. I had fun hooking the atv to the vine. I took off full tilt but it was like a rubber band, the vine stopped the atv and pulled it back. The good thing was there was no "jolt". That would have made a video, after several tries the atv won and the vine came down.
 
Be carefull pulling on those vines in the tops of trees, I did that with a log skidder one time on a oak tree. Pulled the top of the tree off! Lucky I had enought cable out that it didn"t hit Me, Ruin the tree though.
 
I always laugh at the car commericals. the people are always out in the great outdoors, beautiful scenery, nice windy road with not another car in sight. Now when does that happen? Never!!. Why dont they show the same car in bumper to bumper, smog covered, traffic on 12 lanes of packed highway in LA? Cause 9 chances out of 10 that is where the vehicle is actually gonna spend its time.

Gene
 
I loved how they needed the toyoduh to pull the space shuttle when it was sitting on self-propelled collies.

And the new GMC commercial showing how tough their hydro-formed frame is, by putting a chain on each of the four tow hooks and lifting it, but they didn"t even pull hard enough to actually get a good pull on the frame.

And the F-150 commercial where they push on each end with a D6, to show how tough it is. On concrete.

Or any truck commercial where they are running across open ground with some scrub brush on it. Just once I would like to see a truck in a commercial go someplace I couldn"t get a front-drive car into.
 
I pull lots of stumps with my old fords and my Jeep. Not like the big stump (obviously staged in the commercial) but I put in a little elbow grease to get some of the roots and have pulled dozens of 5-6 inch around tree stumps with the Jeep; like in the pic (if it uploads, pic is from 4 years ago)
jeeppullinnoplate_zps56449baa.jpg
 
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