Pickup truck snapped in half - photo

[Altair]

Pickup truck snapped in half.




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Loading a boulder onto a pickup truck - GIF
Overloaded flatbed trailer snapped in half - GIF
Flatbed trailer bent in half - photo

[TrickieDickie]

What is that container about 250 gals or more, that is around 2000 pounds, well above a half ton.

[hemmjo]

That used to happen a lot. Tacomas had bad frames and recalls. I have purchased 3 used. 1995 owned it for about 4 years before Toyota bought it back for $2000 more than I paid for it. Had a 99 for about 5 years. It started making “crunching” sounds when it went over bumps. Unfortunately I missed the frame replacement recall date by 6 months. My fault, I should have paid more attention to the frame. I sold it to a guy but would not let him drive it off my property. He had one that had a new frame under a bad body.

I have had my 2005 for about 6 years now. Bought it right after the previous owner had the frame replaced by Toyota under the frame recall program.

Good little trucks with bad steel in the frames.

[nova_robotics]

Toyota Tacomas, Tundras and 90s Nissan trucks were horrible for this. I had a 1994 Nissan pickup and the frame snapped. Toyota in incapable of learning and just makes the same mistakes over and over, so they had thin badly designed frames in the late 80s and early 90s and got sued. Then they made thin badly designed frames from about 2003-2008 and got sued. And they'll do it again because the engineering mandate is to reduce weight and increase fuel efficiency.

I learned how to weld boxing in that Nissan frame.

[Gadgeteer]

I learned my lesson... won't use old bed frames for projects.

[mklotz]

What is that container about 250 gals or more, that is around 2000 pounds, well above a half ton.

The container looks to be a cube about four feet on a side => ~64 ft³.

Assuming the liquid inside about the same density as water at 62.4 lb/ft³, that's about 4000 lb or two tons.

[hemmjo]

Those totes are typically 275 gallon, so a bit more than 2200 pounds full of water.

[Ralphxyz]

I had two Nissan pickup that the frame rusted away. My mechanic welded them up extending their life but both eventual had to be scraped.

[nova_robotics]

I had two Nissan pickup that the frame rusted away. My mechanic welded them up extending their life but both eventual had to be scraped.

And that's when Nissan was good! You should see them now with those awful CVT things.

[sossol]

Aren't tacos supposed to fold the other way?

Neil