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How do you drive through deep snow, go pick up a half ton of top soil, make a lumber run, pick up a load of stone, hook up a trailer to take your lawn tractor to mow an old lady's grass for her, or drag a ton of tree around with a chain if you don't have a big truck?

I just don't even.

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Do people do those things outside of truck commercials?

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Do people do those things outside of truck commercials?

Only as a precursor to man orgies.

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How do you drive through deep snow, go pick up a half ton of top soil, make a lumber run, pick up a load of stone, hook up a trailer to take your lawn tractor to mow an old lady's grass for her, or drag a ton of tree around with a chain if you don't have a big truck?

To each job the right tool.  I don't do these things, so as an urban commuter and occasional road-tripper my smart car is the ideal tool.  I think most of the people driving big tucks around where I live and work don't do any of those things either, they just wish they did.

Are these things you regularly need to do?

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Do people do those things outside of truck commercials?

That's my life, dawg.

Sometime this week I'll be hooking up some massive chains between my truck and a massive tree that fell last Fall, slapping her into 4 wheel drive, and dragging that piece of shit away from one of my pine trees.  Then I'm grabbing my chainsaw off the tailgate and cutting that son of a bitch up.

This morning I made a lumber run.

Lol, just lol if you don't have a truck with which you do your manly things.

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This morning I made a lumber run.

Lol, just lol if you don't have a truck with which you do your manly things.

You just stepped out of this, didn't you?

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Even for the urban dweller, there are times you wish you had a pickup.  Not even 4 wheel drive necessarily.  But yeah, it makes you feel manly doing manly things with your pickup truck.

I feel even more manly when I'm clearing the path on my dad's UTV out in the woods.  Using the wench to pull felled trees out of the direction in which I wish to travel.
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Fuck yeah.

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You dudes need some pretty big engines to feel like men.

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Need a lot of HP to haul my massive balls around.

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Need a lot of HP to haul my massive balls around.

If you wouldn't stick them in the microwave so much, the radiation wouldn't do that.

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Lol, just lol if you don't have a truck with which you do your manly things.

Pretty sure I don't need a truck to bone my wife.

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It's really a strange thing.  I never felt less like a man before I started doing stuff like that, but you pull up in a pickup with a chainsaw, a wood splitter and a trailer and take a cord or two of wood back to the house to unload and you feel like you should be in a Marlboro ad.
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but you pull up in a pickup with a chainsaw, a wood splitter and a trailer and take a cord or two of wood back to the house to unload and you feel like you should be in a Marlboro ad.

Not always a good fit.

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you pull up in a pickup with a chainsaw, a wood splitter and a trailer and take a cord or two of wood back to the house to unload and you feel like you should be in a Marlboro ad

It still works if you're stacking the cord or two of wood into the back of a Subaru station wagon.  Especially if you've driven it up into the mountains and off into the woods to cut your own.  

No pickup required.

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Not required.  But it adds testosterone points.  Mine is a 4w drive, banged up with peeling paint, a big dent in the driver's side of the bed and burns through oil like you wouldn't believe.

I love it.
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The station wagon in question was similarly well-used.  The big dent was on the passenger side and both the gearshift and steering wheel would sometimes fall off while driving.

That last fact made a good theft deterrent.  I once had to leave it running while I went inside somewhere (starter had gone bad and no hill to park on) and when I came out it was about 100 yards down the road with the gear shift sitting in the driver's seat.

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you pull up in a pickup with a chainsaw, a wood splitter and a trailer and take a cord or two of wood back to the house to unload and you feel like you should be in a Marlboro ad

It still works if you're stacking the cord or two of wood into the back of a Subaru station wagon.  Especially if you've driven it up into the mountains and off into the woods to cut your own.  

No pickup required.

I cord of wood is 4x4x8 feet.  You aren't getting a cord in a station wagon.

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You can if you lay down all but the driver's seat and don't mind driving home completely surrounded by split logs.  Although it's not good for your suspension.

Subaru station wagons - the olds ones, at least - are very roomy in there.

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I remember one of my teenager jobs was a wood cutter, and one day in a raging rain storm me and my (carpenter) buddy had to load, deliver, and unload 5 cords of wood to a guy because of masculinity in the proper, classic sense.

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