The Tucker Carlson Show - Maine Loggers Review the Cybertruck

Aug. 24, 2024 - The Tucker Carlson Show

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Maine Loggers Review the Cybertruck

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Tucker Carlson’s month-long Cybertruck review in Maine pits Tesla’s futuristic rig against rugged logging terrain, with Patrick Feeney and Irish Logging Company crews pushing it to 104 mph on slick roads while praising its off-road grip—though it struggles in mud, lacks winter plow compatibility, and falls short on range (200–300 miles) and towing. Loggers like Jason call it a novelty, not a workhorse, despite its fun handling, while Feeney hails it as revolutionary, clashing with their 4,000-gallon weekly diesel habits. The episode reveals how Maine’s harsh climate and high-mileage demands expose the Cybertruck’s limitations, leaving locals torn between curiosity and skepticism over its real-world utility. [Automatically generated summary]
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Meet The Irish Family 00:05:02
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I don't think people understand just how much open space there is in northern New England.
		Well, if you've got 1.5 million acres to mess around on.
		So we called Elon, can we borrow a Cybertruck, bring it up to Maine for a month or two, do a kind of rural review?
		And Elon said, okay.
		We're just going 104. Probably a little too fast.
		And give it to Patrick Feeney.
		Long haul trucker, a carpenter, fixed diesel engines in the first Gulf War.
		And just turn them loose with this thing.
		We're going up to meet the Irish family.
		It's a big logging company.
unidentified		I'm a little embarrassed.
unidentified		Oh, I live my life in my pickup.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Would you be nervous about taking something like this into the woods?
unidentified		I don't know that yet.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Well, this is real.
unidentified		Oh, it's done.
		They're going to pull us out with a machine.
		Yeah, I love it.
		To let the record reflect that we are stuck momentarily, leaving us out, and then we'll hit it harder.
		This is awesome.
		All right, slow the fuck down a little bit.
		Holy shit, Patrick.
		Yeah.
		So...
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		So the thing about the Cybertruck is, it's a truck.
unidentified		It's not just a commute to Midtown vehicle.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		The promise of the Cybertruck is that it could replace a pickup truck, a work vehicle.
		So we're testing that.
		We're now on the Maine-New Hampshire border and Western Maine, some of the steepest grades in the whole region.
		And we're going up to meet the Irish family from Rumford, Maine, some big logging company in the area.
		You hunt up here a lot.
		And now it's raining.
		How does this vehicle handle?
unidentified		This thing handles great.
		It's the best handling vehicle.
		I've got a smoothest ride.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, but this is about as demanding a drive as you get on the East Coast of the United States, and it's handling really well.
unidentified		We're going 63. We're just, okay, settle down.
unidentified		I don't encourage passengers to go faster.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		We're just going 104. I don't think of myself as a wuss.
unidentified		Probably a little too fast in this weather, but the Cybertruck did it.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I gotta ask, are you embarrassed to drive this around?
unidentified		Yes.
unidentified		It's very embarrassing.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Is it really?
unidentified		Well, not embarrassing.
		Like, some people think it's cool, and sometimes, like, I don't want to see that guy.
		All I have to do...
		When somebody has that attitude, let them drive it.
		And it's a total game changer.
		It's unbelievable.
		I've been to all 50 states and I can say this is one of the prettiest places in the world.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Oh!
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Those guys are cutting wood.
unidentified		Look at that.
unidentified		Those are big trees.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Gentlemen!
unidentified		I'm a little embarrassed.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Did you guys have truck envy at all?
unidentified		Nice to meet you.
		Daddy Sire.
		Nice to meet you.
		I see your name everywhere.
		Nice to meet you.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Tell us the name of that machine that he's operating.
unidentified		That's a forwarder.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Forwarder.
unidentified		Forwarder.
		Yep.
		And he comes along and he picks up the different sorts.
		And every pile you see here is a different sort of wood.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		That's pulpwood for paper.
unidentified		Pulpwood for paper.
unidentified		Hardwood logs for all different, you know, furniture making.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I don't think people understand just how much open space there is in northern New England.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Well, if you've got 1.5 million acres to mess around on, what do you drive?
unidentified		Drive this Ford Super Duty.
unidentified		But I put a lot of miles a day on, so you've got to make sure that everything's reliable and going.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		What do you look for in a truck, since it is the core of your life?
unidentified		Room, for one thing.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Room.
unidentified		Being able to tow stuff.
		I've got fuel tank toolboxes.
		I need something that's going to be able to tow heavy loads also.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Room, you got the double cab too.
unidentified		The back seat is full of junk.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Is that a...
unidentified		Yeah, you don't want to open the door.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		It's full of junk.
		I gotta look.
		Oh, that's not bad.
unidentified		Well, I live my life in my pickup, so...
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Have you ever gotten this truck stuck?
unidentified		Uh, yes.
unidentified		Many times.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so that's your vehicle.
		The Ford...
		250 XLT Super Duty, and this is something very different.
unidentified		Oh, very different.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		When you see this, what do you think?
unidentified		Innovation.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Would you drive this?
unidentified		Yeah, if it came into a price point that a guy can make it worth.
unidentified		My biggest thing would be battery life.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
unidentified		Because yesterday I put just under 400 miles on my pickup.
		Today I'm at like 280. So...
		How?
		We got jobs in a lot of different locations, parts runs.
		Yeah.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		You put 400 miles on a truck in one day?
unidentified		Yeah.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		So would you be nervous about taking something like this into the woods?
400 Miles On A Truck 00:07:13
unidentified		I don't know that yet.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Like you roll up in this thing, what's the reception like?
unidentified		There'd probably be some goofing because of the looks, but I don't know.
		I think if somebody looked it over and see some of the innovation in it.
		But Maine is still a hard place for EV vehicles, for people to get used to that.
		Yeah.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		What road are we going?
unidentified		No, we're going to go right there first.
		We're going to go see if we can make it into Charlie.
		They probably ought to have these on.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Hey, I don't think it runs without them.
unidentified		Oh, okay.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Right, that's what I think.
unidentified		It won't go 114 without the seatbelt.
		It'll only go 105. All right.
		Might want to get around.
		I've never done mud with this, so this is actually a first test, Tucker.
		We have enough machinery to pull it out, I see.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we do.
unidentified		Let's try it and see what it does.
		You might want to give us some when you get in this.
		Oh, yeah.
		Oh, man.
		I thought we were going to get stuck for sure.
		Well, that was nothing.
		That was nothing at all.
		I'm telling you, this thing's a...
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		What a beast.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I'm impressed.
unidentified		And this is the Snow Machine Trail.
		We made it.
		You think of that, Charles?
		Take mine out there.
		Yeah?
		Take mine out there.
		That's pretty impressive.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		It's funny.
		Everyone thinks of Maine as just like pine trees.
		This is what Maine actually looks like.
unidentified		This is what Maine looks like.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		It's swampy.
		It's wet.
		You know what I mean?
unidentified		It's a mix of everything.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Can you tell us, for those who aren't familiar with the processor, that's a feller buncher that cuts down the trees and stacks them.
unidentified		Yeah.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		The processor does what?
unidentified		The processor will take, he's going to deal in these bundles right here as they sit.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
unidentified		And they're going to take, he's then going to decide if it's a piece of pulp, if it's a piece of logs, what it is, and he's going to cut it into.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Pulp goes to the paper mill, logs go to the sawmill.
unidentified		Yep.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		This thing just rolled over yesterday?
unidentified		On Monday.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Monday.
		It's now Thursday.
		And that's the man who survived.
		Looking pretty happy.
		But the machine doesn't look damaged from rolling around.
unidentified		It doesn't hurt anything.
unidentified		No.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		It could hurt him, though.
unidentified		It could hurt him.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Dude, where are you going on Sunday morning?
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Do you know?
unidentified		Sunday morning?
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		You're going to church.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		To thank God for being alive.
unidentified		Yeah.
		What's the fuel burn on these things?
		We run about 4,000 gallons a week, roughly between every day.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Can you imagine running all this on electric?
unidentified		They're working on it.
		I don't know how you do it, but huh?
		Yeah, they got some hybrids.
		That tree's no good, so it's going to go on pulp.
		So he puts it over there in a different pile.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Tell me why that tree's no good.
unidentified		It's dead.
		Yeah.
		They won't take a dead log.
		So what direction do we think we want to...
		I would be out of the right.
		I yanked that tree out of the way a little bit.
		But don't worry about...
		There's a guy riding in the back.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Oh, this is real.
unidentified		Uh-oh.
		It's done.
		It bursts them back out, maybe.
		We're going to have to hit it harder, but he's riding in the back.
		All right, so let the record reflect that we are stuck momentarily.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		We're fiddling with the computer.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Well, I'm not.
unidentified		Jason is, but anyway.
		Now try back.
		Let's try.
		Let's try.
		I wonder if sand would try anything.
		Try next track, sand.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		All right, we have...
unidentified		Hold on.
unidentified		Maybe that goes up really high.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		We've discovered the limit of the Cybertruck.
unidentified		Oh, we're going higher.
		Yeah, it went higher on extract.
		Let's try backwards.
		I didn't hit it fast enough.
		Ooh, you might make it down.
		Well, that feels good.
		Get it rocking back and forth if you can figure out how to do that.
		I don't know if it will let me.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's a pretty good digging machine.
unidentified		This is quite a test.
		I mean, I don't know any pickup or jeep that would go through this.
		See, now you're defending the Cybertruck again.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		He has this love affair with this Cybertruck.
		No matter how the Cybertruck fucks up, he's like, well, there's a good reason for that.
		I'll take your truck through this.
		See?
		Now he's a Cybertruck.
		Your truck couldn't do this.
unidentified		Why isn't it?
		I think we're just plain old-fashioned stuff.
		I think we're going to have to hit it harder, but I don't want him in the back if we're going to hit it harder.
		Yep.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Hey, Jake?
unidentified		Yep?
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		You might want to get out because we're going to hit it hard.
unidentified		Wow, we're going to get pulled out for us.
		We're going to get pulled out for us.
		We're going to get pulled out for us.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I'm glad we've reached the limit.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Now we know.
unidentified		It's a little slime.
		No, we're just slimy.
		Just slimy tiles.
		He get us out and then we'll hit it harder.
		We probably won't make it through that.
		This thing is cool.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		You like it.
		They're going to pull us out with a machine.
		Yeah, I love it.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		What machine?
unidentified		The processor.
		The processor is going to yaw us out.
		I've become a failure!
		It's so great.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		I love it.
unidentified		You ready?
		Yep.
		You want to back?
		I'm going to get them all running start.
		Yeah, because I don't know if it's going to let me go here.
		There you go.
		Oh, it won't.
		I got it to the floor and it won't let me.
		Just spinning.
		Yeah.
		That's no fun.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Did it die again?
unidentified		No, it's just spinning.
		It won't.
		There's no traction.
		No traction at all.
		It doesn't like mud.
		That's the tires.
		Is this what you thought you'd be doing today?
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		No, it's so great!
unidentified		I love it.
unidentified		This is awesome.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		So I think it's fair to say we've assembled a jury of men who operate large machines and have spent their lives doing so.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		We've spent a lot of time in the Cybertruck, and now the verdict.
unidentified		I was impressed by how it went.
		As far as driving the woods roads themselves, it actually handles better than our trucks.
		In the mud didn't do quite as well, but it was to be expected.
		But overall, I was very impressed.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Would you buy one?
unidentified		I think I'd buy it more as a toy than a work truck at this point.
Expected Local Laughingstock 00:02:18
unidentified		200 miles doesn't get you to work and back.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		What did you think, Jason?
unidentified		I love it.
		I'm in the same boat as Dean's at.
		I think that as a toy, it'd be awesome.
		It'd be so much fun.
		200 to 300 miles doesn't get me around in a day.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		So, Patrick, I doubt...
		I doubt it's even worth asking the question because you're so deeply in love with the vehicle that I found you petting it the other day and you defend it against all criticism.
		You make excuses for it.
		It'll come home drunk and you'll just pretend it's not.
		But what do you think?
unidentified		But as far as driving it, it's just fun.
		It's like hopping in your golf cart in Florida and pushing in the pedal and going.
		It's that simple to drive.
		I have a golf cart that I use every weekend at my campground.
		I wish it had power like that.
		I wish it could do that.
		It's fun.
		It's a fun vehicle.
		I think if you were the carpenter that drove the $100,000 King Ranch Denali and liked that kind of thing, and you worked in town...
		That would suffice you just fine.
		You've got to plug it in at night.
		You can easily drive 200 miles.
		You could probably drive close to 300 miles if you didn't drive like an idiot like I do.
		The only thing I don't know is I don't know how that handled the wintertime up here in Maine.
		30 below, I don't know what that would do.
		But also, I don't know how my plow would fit on it.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's what he was saying.
unidentified		The plow is essential for me.
		I've got to have the plow.
		Right.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		So he's trying to convince Elon to let him keep it through the winter.
unidentified		I want to rig up a plow on it somehow, have my welding guy fabricate some kind of plow.
		It's got those tow hooks on the front.
		We could probably rig something up.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		So the Cybertruck's been here four weeks, and I'll just be totally blunt.
		I expected it to become a local laughingstock.
		I expected it to evoke hostility, if not violence.
		From the local population.
		And actually, everyone kind of likes the Cybertruck.
		I'm not just saying that because Elon lent it to us for free.
		That's for real.
		Patrick has fallen head over heels with the machine in a way that's unnatural and creepy.
		But everyone else likes it too.
		Local kids like it.
		And so we thought we had to bring it logging because this is, you know, a wood-based economy.
		And the loggers liked it too.
		So actually, the Cybertruck...
		Like a lot of things in life, I started out wanting to hate it just on principle because it's electric and modern and it has weird lines and no continuous curves in it.
		The whole thing was just offensive to my aesthetic sense.
		But flying colors.

Chapters

00:00:00 Meet The Irish Family
00:05:02 400 Miles On A Truck
00:12:15 Expected Local Laughingstock