Channel surfing and there it was again Riggs doing battle with the evil forces, 20 yrs later ( 89 movie). Then I remembered he pulls the support tower with a dually and pulls the house down, gawd I had to watch the movie one more time to see

A What kind of truck it was?
B Was it a diesel?

It was a chevy, and it was a gasser, I think. I don't know if there were changes to the grill or bumper or what ev for those years as compared with the 6.5 and their bumper holes.

by the sound and the power to pull the house down, was probably the big block 454

file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/user/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.pngfile:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/user/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.pngHere you go, they call it a 3/4 ton but the picture is pretty good.

http://www.pickuptrucks.com/html/stories/lists/movie-trucks/top-10-movie-pickup-trucks-1.html

Pretty fun list too

OMG #1, back in the day it was awesome.

thats a nice truck, it was a 454?

Had to be, no way a 6.2 would do that......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOHvkZXnknk

the power of the vehicle had no bearing on the destruction of the house. it's all mass of the vehicle.
acceleration, and impact of the chain would have done that just fine with a 6.2.
impossible to tell from the sound track what motor was in the truck, canned engine noises for the movie render it impossible.
could have been hamsters under the hood, and it would have sounded like a caddilac purring under there for the theater.

ALso in that movie there was a Aspen Blue Typhoon. When leo brought the young couple to the house trying to sell the house.

Pretty sure that was a 92 gmc 3500 454bbc

I can't believe there's so much discussion of how much power it'd have taken. It's a movie, and thus, real world physics has little to do with what happens. It is hard to tell, but I'm going to guess it's a BBC, and not because "A 6.2 wouldn't have that much power."

Pretty sure that was a 92 gmc 3500 454bbc

Kinda hard since the movie was made in 1989.........

Plus it has the quads (88&89) instead of the composites.

I can't believe there's so much discussion of how much power it'd have taken. It's a movie, and thus, real world physics has little to do with what happens. It is hard to tell, but I'm going to guess it's a BBC, and not because "A 6.2 wouldn't have that much power."


What are you talking about??
Doesn't everybody with dullies go around trying to pull houses down??
Nnnooooo wayy that is fake. :)

I can't believe there's so much discussion of how much power it'd have taken. It's a movie, and thus, real world physics has little to do with what happens. It is hard to tell, but I'm going to guess it's a BBC, and not because "A 6.2 wouldn't have that much power."

Really? I had no idea my truck existed back then. Wow its even older than I thought!

on a more serious note what happens in hollywood, stays in hollywood. Haven't you ever watched the mythbusters epsidoe when they go smashing all those hollywood "stunts"? Its all smoke and camera's.

http://anythingonwheels.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/1986-gmc-sierra-3500-dually.jpg

If you are into movies and care (like I am) check out

http://www.imcdb.org/

They list it as an 89 Sierra 3500 Club Cab

http://www.imcdb.org/images/000/955.jpg

ahh that truck in the picture is from lethal weapon 3 (1992), which makes you right, about that, if you look closely at the video it is a different truck from a different movie.

Too funny and LMAO. I posted this with the after thought that, "man that was a bit goofy". It was a GMC and from the sound effects which you really can't trust, it was a gasser. I was looking for someone to tell me if there was a difference between the gasser and the old 6.2 on the body style. I had a 91, 2500 and it was a 6.2, no power but geez it did get the goods delivered. Does anyone know if the 6.2 back then had a different body style?

Given the weight of that boat anchor 6.2, it probably was a diesel pulling the house down!

Watching the movie and looking back at the time I tried to pull a small stump out with the 6.5 and had 4" cargo straps attached to it with most of the roots cut. The stump stopped me like a brick wall, so the thought of pulling down the house, well, I don't think so!

The old body style 6.2s (82-91) had the badge on the fenders, tailgate, and hood ornament, to distinguish them, but the NBS 6.2s had absolutely no distinguishing differences from the gassers, except for the noise of course!

Kinda hard since the movie was made in 1989.........

Plus it has the quads (88&89) instead of the composites.

Tuche on the 89 bit but i don't think those trucks were in production yet. The full size 3500 in that body style didn't come out til 92 so its the same difference. They did the same thing when they made leathal weapon four. He was driving a new body style gmc half ton gmt800 and they hadn't come out yet either.

Give me a 50 ft run with a Datsun and I'll pull some thing down! It physics boy's, big truck, lots of slack and somethings going to give. Doesn't matter whats under the hood, it's whats missing under the ball cap!

Tuche on the 89 bit but i don't think those trucks were in production yet. The full size 3500 in that body style didn't come out til 92 so its the same difference. They did the same thing when they made leathal weapon four. He was driving a new body style gmc half ton gmt800 and they hadn't come out yet either.

Actually they did..... I have a buddy who has almost the same truck, 1989 Chevy 1 ton dually.

The crew cabs and blazer/suburban bodies had not been revised yet, but the rest where actually the new style, not a whole lot of them, but they still existed.

Cool. I never knew that.

Give me a 50 ft run with a Datsun and I'll pull some thing down! It physics boy's, big truck, lots of slack and somethings going to give. Doesn't matter whats under the hood, it's whats missing under the ball cap!
yup.
it's not the amount of power the truck can put out. it's the amount of weight in the truck and the speed it's moving and how strong the chain is, and how much slack you have.
trust me.
if you have a 50' length of 1/2" chain wrapped around that stump, and you get up to 15 or 20mph when the slack is reached, one of three things are going to happen. stump out, chain break, or bumper ripped off.
6000Lbs moving over 15mph is a LOT of force!!!

yup.
it's not the amount of power the truck can put out. it's the amount of weight in the truck and the speed it's moving and how strong the chain is, and how much slack you have.
trust me.
if you have a 50' length of 1/2" chain wrapped around that stump, and you get up to 15 or 20mph when the slack is reached, one of three things are going to happen. stump out, chain break, or bumper ripped off.
6000Lbs moving over 15mph is a LOT of force!!!


Do people really do this very often? I just shudder to think of the frame damage you could do (with the chain attached to a frame-mounted hitch/receiver) to the frame of the vehicle. Am I wrong and the frames in these trucks (such as my C30) are capable of handling this shock force?

we use to pull out tree stumps a lot with trucks. Not whole buildings though.

Do people really do this very often? I just shudder to think of the frame damage you could do (with the chain attached to a frame-mounted hitch/receiver) to the frame of the vehicle. Am I wrong and the frames in these trucks (such as my C30) are capable of handling this shock force?

I would say no, the frames are not meant to take this, as a general you never take a run at stuff like. Whipping the chain like that will either brake the chain or rip through the frame.
I would assume for this stunt that they had the chain bolted to a boxed section of the frame to prevent it from just yanking the chain through the frame.

Straps and good tow ropes will take it. Chain is only good for high traction pulls. Hitting the end of slack chain = damage. I have a 75 tow rope that's about 3 in around. You can go bumper to bumper if you have to cause it has that much stretch. Really eerie feeling when ya hit the end at full throttle and you stop then go backwards!

I kind of thought as much. My father and I felled a tree which ended up getting caught up branches and all in a standing tree, so we tossed some heavy rope over it and I used the running start method to pull them apart with my Chev. I didn't worry about it as the rope would break long before it caused any damage to my truck, but pulling out the stump with a chain seems like a bad idea. I'm also pretty uncertain about tow straps & ropes for pulling out a stump - you'd lose a lot of your inertia in the stretch, and not put as much force on the stump as you had hoped.

I think. I'm pretty good with physics but there's too many factors involved with this for me.

We always use DuPont for stump removal. It's easier on the equipment.