Man Tries Using Tree To Lift Ford F-450 Super Duty Cab And It Goes Horribly Wrong
“It was a great idea … until it wasn’t” said Jordan Jensen, a Texas-based drift-car enthusiast who attempted to take the cab off of his 2009 Ford F-450 tow rig using a big tree and a chain hoist. The tree branch snapped, denting the Super Duty’s roof and dropping the cab into a precarious position on the frame.
This went down in Jensen’s backyard in Boerne, Texas. “[The truck is] a daily/tow rig for the race cars. I needed to get the cab off to replace up pipes, manifolds, turbos, vgt actuator, and do head studs,” he said.
“All of my friends were busy and I got impatient, so I tried to get creative and do it myself.” Jensen told me the tree branch was about 20-inches in diameter, so he figured it’d be able to handle the load of the Crew Cab. And at first, it was, until Jensen had to lift the cab up a bit higher to clear the 6.4-liter diesel’s turbochargers. “Then it was a cab half off, tree on,” he said.
Why did Jensen decide to remove the cab to do the motor work? Well, it turns out removing a Super Duty cab isn’t all that hard (well, if you have the right equipment), and wrenching on that motor in-vehicle can be a pain in the butt.
