first real tow today

[alaskanexpy]

we had to take our '69 cougar xr7 which has been in storage since 1997. did not feel it was in driving condition so we rented a u-haul trailer and i put the expedition to work. i would have used my excursion but its sitting on jackstands waiting for parts to come in

anyhow, she pulled great! you could def tell it was back there but had pretty good power except on the biggest of hills(had to take them in 1st with it too the floor and doing 35mph)

trailer alone 2,200lbs

car weight 3,500

so a combined trailer weight of 5,700lbs and the little 5.4 did wonderful!








oh and a shot of the miles...its getting up there

 

[jacks3am]

Nice! Dont worry about the mileage, I have 160,000 on mine and no problems!

 

[walnuts4x4]

i miss fred meyers... was good store...lol.. the "alaskan walmart" lol

 

[alaskanexpy]

fred myers is allright for groceries that and carrs but i do enjoy walmart and target.

 

[KWT2000]

i like freddy's too and their gas is cheap.... but can't replace the walmart

 

[panda24619]

my aunt worked at freddys for ever. then her bf left her and she had to move. but she worked there since last year. dont remember it too much. a lot of famous people would walk into her store and she would know them and they were mostly *******. like the little people big world, umm... midgets? haha the dad was an ass to everyone. but the crocodile hunter did go in there before. his widowed wife's family lives up there. o this is Portland OR too.

but back to the pictures.
thats a nice cougar you got there. how old is she??? haha get it??? nvm... but i know about that weight. ive towed a heavy trailer before. not too sure how much it weighed but it was heavy. luckily i got a running start up a big long hill on the freeway. pretty sad when i was passing people.

 

[alaskanexpy]

shes the perfect cougar age...42! lol

 

[Canadian Expy]

Nice car

 

[alaskanexpy]

little updating on the car....shes purrrrring right along couple grand in work an shes ripping the roads up.

where it has sat for the last 14 years



the day we got her out, 2 1/2 months ago



pics from this weekend





the cougar and the reason it sat for so long...the '56 bel-air

 

[panda24619]

dam thats a nice car! ive always liked those older cougars.

 

[walnuts4x4]

i just like the scenery.... i miss AK....

 

[alaskanexpy]

little more towing....did some logging today lol

 

[panda24619]

logging. expy style! haha

 

[2000eb]

you have been watching ecoboost torture test too much lol

 

[alaskanexpy]

lol i thought of that as i was yanking on that damn tree in 4low spinning all 4 tires!!!!

it was really wedged in there. after i cut the last 6' off it, she came right out! lol

 

[panda24619]

looks like you should have used the other ex... haha the V10 should have more tq to rip that out no problem. haha

 

[alaskanexpy]

you are correct, 425 lbs of TQ is a bit better then the expy lol


yeahhhh....only thing was... i have a white knight rear lighting system on the excursion and it takes like 1/2 min to remove that from the hitch and i was like naww thats to much work lol so since i have nothing blocking the hitch on the expedition it was clearly the best truck for the job today haha!

 

[panda24619]

dont blame you. i love trying to see what my limitations are. pulling a 2wd chevy burried down to its frame in 4lo in the same soft sand is my limit. haha took about 1.5 hours to get him out. a jeep came and got me out when i went to my frame and took him out no problem too. haha but what you doing with those logs? its not THAT hot in AK is it?

 

[alaskanexpy]

i'm removing down'd trees and cutting a few along with a bunch of brush from a family friends house. there driveways were getting over grown. i get the wood, the next few trips will be with my f-250 as i'll have to take all the brush and junk to the local wood lot.

its been a very warm summer here in south central alaska , yesterday was 75* day before was 72* we have seen alot of days hit 70 which is damn hot up here. idk, they say dry heat is not as bad..and its dry here. but 75* here feels like 90* w/humidity down south.

if you go up north it gets much hotter, Fairbanks can see 100*. i took a trip up there last summer..but last summer sucked! rain rain rain. pic from my trip last summer with my old '00 excursion


more pics here if you'd like to see.
http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/979257-got-my-new-excursion-4.html

 

[panda24619]

is that the infamous intersection ex? wasnt that the rainy summer last year? it was winter here last summer and summer last summer. weird. but yeah the heat down here sucks. when it hot at my house its DRY! SD is a desert. when its humid it sucks ass! but rarely is it humid and hot here. usually just dry. had a few friends go to the desert last week, they went at night. said it was nice. 72 and dry. nice since the sun wasnt out. haha 110+ out there. NO THANKS!