This has been one terrific week for me ... one thing after another, all good! This afternoon I was helping a friend pull his boat out of the river and his pickup truck got seriously stuck in loose gravel and would not move. So he went home and got his competition "tractor pull" type of truck and hitched it to the stuck truck. I asked him if he wanted me to drive the stuck one but he said "Have a little fun" and I got to drive the competition truck. I have towed heavy boats before with my F-150, and always was careful to give it the minimum of throttle so as to keep traction. This time, Rick told me there's not going to be any traction and to try and dig her in til she reached solid ground a foot or two down. So I got in and stepped on it ... huge roar, tons of flying dirt, lot of bouncing ... the truck dug down to solid ground and pulled both the stuck truck and the heavy boat behind it out of the river. That was a total blast! Here is the same truck last month competing in the county fair truck pull event: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=696396513708509 Yes, life is good. Fred Tug 44