🦾 Cybertruck doing truck stuff! Post your photos!

[Jcoverton]

We heat our cabin in Colorado using firewood collected from dead-standing trees in the National Forest. The permits are easy to obtain and inexpensive. We use a battery-powered saw in the woods and an electric wood splitter at the cabin. The Cybertruck increases our productivity. We can now cut and split in the woods and carry 3/4 of a cord home. The Cybertruck charges the saw and powers the splitter. It can also power our 120v chainsaw. Here is a video of our testing the cybertruck powering the splitter.




I will post videos from the woods as we process a tree

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[The Tumbler]

This count?

 

[Loudness]

My Cybertruck giving birth ?

 

[Phillip24r1]

 

[Fabville]

Hauling band equipment for the middle school again, this time for both the jazz and concert bands so had to use the 6x12 enclosed cargo trailer. Wasn’t told there’d be two timpani drums this time (unlike last year) - but they still fit in the trailer!

 

[GrandEnigma]

 

[OMFG]

I got a second load of firewood for my ski cabin yesterday. The Cybertruck packs a heavy load in such a superior manner compared to our F-150 that it's not even a contest. This thing is amazing when heavily loaded. The driving dynamics around tight corners, the bump compliance, the quietness, the power and performance, it's unreal compared to any other truck I've driven. That makes it safer too, especially when fully loaded.

This was far easier to load/unload than my F-150 due to the lack of wheel wells that will typically mess up my loading pattern, as well as the low bed height (when dropped to Entry Mode). The lack of wheel wells means I was able to fit more rounds in because they make the bed very difficult to load compactly and always greatly reduce the amount that will fit (unless hauling loose materials like bark or soil). Even with bark and soil the wheel wells make it more difficult to unload.

I could not agree more with the above two paragraphs. To the second paragraph first… From my experience fully loading my tools, ranch equipment, saws etc in the bed without wheel wheels has been big improvement. Lifting the big chests that are full of pretty much every m18 made to date, with low entry mode enabled sliding in without hitting wheels on side well…saves me 2-3 trips into bed to straighten out after already sweating my ass off just to get on the road.

Now to the first paragraph…I agree 1000%. Though range takes a 50% hit at max load (pay + tow …. See my other thread), this is the best towing truck I have ever used between 2500 HD, f-250 SD and 2014 6.2L raptor. Sure the HD and SD could pull a house down, but how often ppl running around towing 15-25klbs if they aren’t contractor, cattle/horse rancher who must have it. I almost pulled trigger on F350 or Raptor R (both fully loaded are about $110 out door not counting fuel, much less airbags on the SD).

I threw dice on this based on stainless durability and I can hit it with a 5k psi washer at end of week with no worries. But my biggest shock was towing. Holy shit it is smooth as it is not towing. Yeah you can feel the load is there…but just so easy and smooth…couple that with drive by wire….i will never go back to traditional truck and will rent SD when I rarely need that much towing capacity.

Another side bar benefit…no more cranking trailer tongue. I just back up in entry mode, raise to High with easy to see cam, and latch up lol. The live driving view of seeing hitch and straps is icing on top (though others have that).

Nice write up HaulingAss.

 

[HaulingAss]

I could not agree more with the above two paragraphs. To the second paragraph first… From my experience fully loading my tools, ranch equipment, saws etc in the bed without wheel wheels has been big improvement. Lifting the big chests that are full of pretty much every m18 made to date, with low entry mode enabled sliding in without hitting wheels on side well…saves me 2-3 trips into bed to straighten out after already sweating my ass off just to get on the road.

Now to the first paragraph…I agree 1000%. Though range takes a 50% hit at max load (pay + tow …. See my other thread), this is the best towing truck I have ever used between 2500 HD, f-250 SD and 2014 6.2L raptor. Sure the HD and SD could pull a house down, but how often ppl running around towing 15-25klbs if they aren’t contractor, cattle/horse rancher who must have it. I almost pulled trigger on F350 or Raptor R (both fully loaded are about $110 out door not counting fuel, much less airbags on the SD).

I threw dice on this based on stainless durability and I can hit it with a 5k psi washer at end of week with no worries. But my biggest shock was towing. Holy shit it is smooth as it is not towing. Yeah you can feel the load is there…but just so easy and smooth…couple that with drive by wire….i will never go back to traditional truck and will rent SD when I rarely need that much towing capacity.

Another side bar benefit…no more cranking trailer tongue. I just back up in entry mode, raise to High with easy to see cam, and latch up lol. The live driving view of seeing hitch and straps is icing on top (though others have that).

Nice write up HaulingAss.

Your post didn't format correctly, so I quoted the entire thing above. ^

The superior towing of Cybertruck is due to the stiffer chassis than body on frame trucks have. The ladder frame acts like one big spring that your heavy trailer can play with. I've been trying to dispel the notion that body-on-frame trucks tow better than unitized construction for nearly 5 years now. But too many luddites have been convinced by Detroit that body on frame is better, even though the basic engineering and technology is well over a century old.

What body on frame trucks do well is tow a big load without having to put any sophisticated engineering or modern materials and construction techniques into the vehicle. That doesn't make it better, it makes it cheaper. But body on frame trucks are not very cheap anymore, due to the massive inefficiencies of the companies who make them. That's why every new truck is made basically the same as each previous truck. They just add some high strength steel or use a thicker beam so they can up the tow rating each year. The trucks keep getting heavier. New truck buyers are paying high prices for outdated technology.

When Tesla looked at how much legacy auto gets for their crude designs, they knew they could do better for less. It's just a matter of getting Cybertruck to high volume and paying off all the design, engineering, materials testing, vehicle compliance, etc. etc. etc. that went into bringing such a modern truck to market.

 

[OMFG]

Thank you sir! At a conference at moment and was using the time between presentations to read through posts…thought I cropped all of yours out in reply to keep my agreement shorter for others to see overall. 110% agree with your analysis and excellent points.

 

[shankyleaks]

 

[getsometom]

Always nice to see a truck doing trucking things

 

[GFleck]

So yesterday my overpriced toy / not a truck was caught actually doing the kind of truck thing I bought it for ? AND nothing broke, the wheels didn't fall off, there appears to be no permanent damage, and I drove all the way across town and back and even had enough battery to take the wife for dinner after! We did only have like 50% battery at the end of the night but luckily we made it back into the garage. I hope I have enough gas to get to the gas station in the morning to fill up. Oh wait ?... Maybe it was all a fluke or I just got lucky, time will tell. I'm as shocked as you...

Maybe next weekend I'll double down and really push my luck and try hauling some lumber or a new water heater. Should I or am I just being crazy?

 

[HaulingAss]

I used to use my Model 3 to access a bunch of local alpine trailheads but there were some that were too rugged, the Model 3 simply couldn't get there. And the roads it could navigate took extra driving skill and often extremely slow speeds over the constant hazards. It was not uncommon for me to slow down to 0.5 mph to get through drainage swales, etc. (and I would have to pick the perfect line or bottom out).

Now the Cybertruck takes me on the most rugged roads in the local network, including many abandoned roads without maintenance (overgrown with shrubs and alder saplings) The Cybertruck just mows them right down! I generally don't fight the thickets to get out and snap a photo when I'm bushwhacking in the Cybertruck so you will have to settle for these static "beauty shots".

 

[Jackfiji]

Today I made multiple trips with the bed open. I don’t know or care about range for daily driving, there is plenty. I will do my best to keep the bed closed on long hauls. That’s not always possible with gear.

 

[Jackfiji]

2800 pound nothing for this beast

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