The Tucker Carlson Show - Maine Loggers Review the Cybertruck
Aired: 2024-08-24
Duration: 14:34


=== Meet The Irish Family (05:02) ===

[00:00:00]  I don't think people understand just how much open space there is in northern New England.
[00:00:04]  Well, if you've got 1.5 million acres to mess around on.
[00:00:08]  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?
[00:00:14]  And Elon said, okay.
[00:00:15]  We're just going 104. Probably a little too fast.
[00:00:18]  And give it to Patrick Feeney.
[00:00:20]  Long haul trucker, a carpenter, fixed diesel engines in the first Gulf War.
[00:00:24]  And just turn them loose with this thing.
[00:00:25]  We're going up to meet the Irish family.
[00:00:29]  It's a big logging company.
[00:00:31]  I'm a little embarrassed.
[00:00:33]  Oh, I live my life in my pickup.
[00:00:35]  Would you be nervous about taking something like this into the woods?
[00:00:37]  I don't know that yet.
[00:00:38]  Well, this is real.
[00:00:40]  Oh, it's done.
[00:00:42]  They're going to pull us out with a machine.
[00:00:44]  Yeah, I love it.
[00:00:45]  To let the record reflect that we are stuck momentarily, leaving us out, and then we'll hit it harder.
[00:00:54]  This is awesome.
[00:00:56]  All right, slow the fuck down a little bit.
[00:01:03]  Holy shit, Patrick.
[00:01:05]  Yeah.
[00:01:07]  So...
[00:01:08]  So the thing about the Cybertruck is, it's a truck.
[00:01:12]  It's not just a commute to Midtown vehicle.
[00:01:15]  The promise of the Cybertruck is that it could replace a pickup truck, a work vehicle.
[00:01:20]  So we're testing that.
[00:01:22]  We're now on the Maine-New Hampshire border and Western Maine, some of the steepest grades in the whole region.
[00:01:31]  And we're going up to meet the Irish family from Rumford, Maine, some big logging company in the area.
[00:01:39]  You hunt up here a lot.
[00:01:43]  And now it's raining.
[00:01:45]  How does this vehicle handle?
[00:01:47]  This thing handles great.
[00:01:48]  It's the best handling vehicle.
[00:01:51]  I've got a smoothest ride.
[00:01:52]  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.
[00:02:01]  We're going 63. We're just, okay, settle down.
[00:02:05]  I don't encourage passengers to go faster.
[00:02:08]  We're just going 104. I don't think of myself as a wuss.
[00:02:11]  Probably a little too fast in this weather, but the Cybertruck did it.
[00:02:15]  I gotta ask, are you embarrassed to drive this around?
[00:02:21]  Yes.
[00:02:22]  It's very embarrassing.
[00:02:23]  Is it really?
[00:02:24]  Well, not embarrassing.
[00:02:25]  Like, some people think it's cool, and sometimes, like, I don't want to see that guy.
[00:02:28]  All I have to do...
[00:02:30]  When somebody has that attitude, let them drive it.
[00:02:33]  And it's a total game changer.
[00:02:34]  It's unbelievable.
[00:02:36]  I've been to all 50 states and I can say this is one of the prettiest places in the world.
[00:02:41]  Oh!
[00:02:42]  Those guys are cutting wood.
[00:02:43]  Look at that.
[00:02:43]  Those are big trees.
[00:02:46]  Gentlemen!
[00:02:48]  I'm a little embarrassed.
[00:02:49]  Did you guys have truck envy at all?
[00:02:51]  Nice to meet you.
[00:02:59]  Daddy Sire.
[00:03:00]  Nice to meet you.
[00:03:00]  I see your name everywhere.
[00:03:01]  Nice to meet you.
[00:03:04]  Tell us the name of that machine that he's operating.
[00:03:06]  That's a forwarder.
[00:03:07]  Forwarder.
[00:03:08]  Forwarder.
[00:03:08]  Yep.
[00:03:09]  And he comes along and he picks up the different sorts.
[00:03:12]  And every pile you see here is a different sort of wood.
[00:03:16]  That's pulpwood for paper.
[00:03:18]  Pulpwood for paper.
[00:03:21]  Hardwood logs for all different, you know, furniture making.
[00:03:26]  I don't think people understand just how much open space there is in northern New England.
[00:03:30]  Well, if you've got 1.5 million acres to mess around on, what do you drive?
[00:03:36]  Drive this Ford Super Duty.
[00:03:37]  But I put a lot of miles a day on, so you've got to make sure that everything's reliable and going.
[00:03:43]  What do you look for in a truck, since it is the core of your life?
[00:03:47]  Room, for one thing.
[00:03:48]  Room.
[00:03:49]  Being able to tow stuff.
[00:03:50]  I've got fuel tank toolboxes.
[00:03:54]  I need something that's going to be able to tow heavy loads also.
[00:03:57]  Room, you got the double cab too.
[00:03:59]  The back seat is full of junk.
[00:04:02]  Is that a...
[00:04:03]  Yeah, you don't want to open the door.
[00:04:05]  It's full of junk.
[00:04:06]  I gotta look.
[00:04:07]  Oh, that's not bad.
[00:04:09]  Well, I live my life in my pickup, so...
[00:04:12]  Have you ever gotten this truck stuck?
[00:04:14]  Uh, yes.
[00:04:16]  Many times.
[00:04:18]  Okay, so that's your vehicle.
[00:04:21]  The Ford...
[00:04:23]  250 XLT Super Duty, and this is something very different.
[00:04:27]  Oh, very different.
[00:04:28]  When you see this, what do you think?
[00:04:30]  Innovation.
[00:04:31]  Would you drive this?
[00:04:34]  Yeah, if it came into a price point that a guy can make it worth.
[00:04:38]  My biggest thing would be battery life.
[00:04:40]  Yep.
[00:04:41]  Because yesterday I put just under 400 miles on my pickup.
[00:04:44]  Today I'm at like 280. So...
[00:04:48]  How?
[00:04:50]  We got jobs in a lot of different locations, parts runs.
[00:04:54]  Yeah.
[00:04:55]  You put 400 miles on a truck in one day?
[00:04:57]  Yeah.
[00:04:58]  So would you be nervous about taking something like this into the woods?

=== 400 Miles On A Truck (07:13) ===

[00:05:02]  I don't know that yet.
[00:05:04]  Like you roll up in this thing, what's the reception like?
[00:05:07]  There'd probably be some goofing because of the looks, but I don't know.
[00:05:12]  I think if somebody looked it over and see some of the innovation in it.
[00:05:18]  But Maine is still a hard place for EV vehicles, for people to get used to that.
[00:05:23]  Yeah.
[00:05:24]  What road are we going?
[00:05:24]  No, we're going to go right there first.
[00:05:26]  We're going to go see if we can make it into Charlie.
[00:05:31]  They probably ought to have these on.
[00:05:33]  Hey, I don't think it runs without them.
[00:05:34]  Oh, okay.
[00:05:37]  Right, that's what I think.
[00:05:38]  It won't go 114 without the seatbelt.
[00:05:40]  It'll only go 105. All right.
[00:05:44]  Might want to get around.
[00:05:45]  I've never done mud with this, so this is actually a first test, Tucker.
[00:05:48]  We have enough machinery to pull it out, I see.
[00:05:52]  Yeah, we do.
[00:05:54]  Let's try it and see what it does.
[00:05:57]  You might want to give us some when you get in this.
[00:06:01]  Oh, yeah.
[00:06:03]  Oh, man.
[00:06:04]  I thought we were going to get stuck for sure.
[00:06:05]  Well, that was nothing.
[00:06:07]  That was nothing at all.
[00:06:08]  I'm telling you, this thing's a...
[00:06:09]  What a beast.
[00:06:10]  I'm impressed.
[00:06:11]  And this is the Snow Machine Trail.
[00:06:13]  We made it.
[00:06:24]  You think of that, Charles?
[00:06:26]  Take mine out there.
[00:06:28]  Yeah?
[00:06:29]  Take mine out there.
[00:06:30]  That's pretty impressive.
[00:06:31]  It's funny.
[00:06:32]  Everyone thinks of Maine as just like pine trees.
[00:06:34]  This is what Maine actually looks like.
[00:06:36]  This is what Maine looks like.
[00:06:36]  It's swampy.
[00:06:37]  It's wet.
[00:06:39]  You know what I mean?
[00:06:39]  It's a mix of everything.
[00:06:40]  Yes.
[00:06:41]  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.
[00:06:46]  Yeah.
[00:06:46]  The processor does what?
[00:06:47]  The processor will take, he's going to deal in these bundles right here as they sit.
[00:06:52]  Yep.
[00:06:53]  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.
[00:07:00]  Pulp goes to the paper mill, logs go to the sawmill.
[00:07:02]  Yep.
[00:07:03]  This thing just rolled over yesterday?
[00:07:06]  On Monday.
[00:07:07]  Monday.
[00:07:07]  It's now Thursday.
[00:07:09]  And that's the man who survived.
[00:07:12]  Looking pretty happy.
[00:07:15]  But the machine doesn't look damaged from rolling around.
[00:07:17]  It doesn't hurt anything.
[00:07:18]  No.
[00:07:19]  It could hurt him, though.
[00:07:20]  It could hurt him.
[00:07:21]  Dude, where are you going on Sunday morning?
[00:07:23]  Do you know?
[00:07:24]  Sunday morning?
[00:07:25]  You're going to church.
[00:07:27]  To thank God for being alive.
[00:07:29]  Yeah.
[00:07:30]  What's the fuel burn on these things?
[00:07:39]  We run about 4,000 gallons a week, roughly between every day.
[00:07:44]  Can you imagine running all this on electric?
[00:07:47]  They're working on it.
[00:07:49]  I don't know how you do it, but huh?
[00:07:52]  Yeah, they got some hybrids.
[00:07:54]  That tree's no good, so it's going to go on pulp.
[00:07:56]  So he puts it over there in a different pile.
[00:07:58]  Tell me why that tree's no good.
[00:07:59]  It's dead.
[00:08:00]  Yeah.
[00:08:01]  They won't take a dead log.
[00:08:03]  So what direction do we think we want to...
[00:08:05]  I would be out of the right.
[00:08:06]  I yanked that tree out of the way a little bit.
[00:08:09]  But don't worry about...
[00:08:10]  There's a guy riding in the back.
[00:08:12]  Oh, this is real.
[00:08:14]  Uh-oh.
[00:08:14]  It's done.
[00:08:16]  It bursts them back out, maybe.
[00:08:19]  We're going to have to hit it harder, but he's riding in the back.
[00:08:24]  All right, so let the record reflect that we are stuck momentarily.
[00:08:27]  We're fiddling with the computer.
[00:08:30]  Well, I'm not.
[00:08:31]  Jason is, but anyway.
[00:08:33]  Now try back.
[00:08:34]  Let's try.
[00:08:35]  Let's try.
[00:08:35]  I wonder if sand would try anything.
[00:08:38]  Try next track, sand.
[00:08:46]  All right, we have...
[00:08:47]  Hold on.
[00:08:48]  Maybe that goes up really high.
[00:08:49]  We've discovered the limit of the Cybertruck.
[00:08:52]  Oh, we're going higher.
[00:08:53]  Yeah, it went higher on extract.
[00:08:55]  Let's try backwards.
[00:08:56]  I didn't hit it fast enough.
[00:08:58]  Ooh, you might make it down.
[00:09:00]  Well, that feels good.
[00:09:02]  Get it rocking back and forth if you can figure out how to do that.
[00:09:04]  I don't know if it will let me.
[00:09:09]  Well, it's a pretty good digging machine.
[00:09:11]  This is quite a test.
[00:09:12]  I mean, I don't know any pickup or jeep that would go through this.
[00:09:15]  See, now you're defending the Cybertruck again.
[00:09:18]  He has this love affair with this Cybertruck.
[00:09:21]  No matter how the Cybertruck fucks up, he's like, well, there's a good reason for that.
[00:09:24]  I'll take your truck through this.
[00:09:26]  See?
[00:09:27]  Now he's a Cybertruck.
[00:09:30]  Your truck couldn't do this.
[00:09:31]  Why isn't it?
[00:09:32]  I think we're just plain old-fashioned stuff.
[00:09:34]  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.
[00:09:38]  Yep.
[00:09:39]  Hey, Jake?
[00:09:40]  Yep?
[00:09:40]  You might want to get out because we're going to hit it hard.
[00:09:43]  Wow, we're going to get pulled out for us.
[00:09:44]  We're going to get pulled out for us.
[00:09:45]  We're going to get pulled out for us.
[00:09:47]  I'm glad we've reached the limit.
[00:09:48]  Now we know.
[00:09:50]  It's a little slime.
[00:09:50]  No, we're just slimy.
[00:09:51]  Just slimy tiles.
[00:09:52]  He get us out and then we'll hit it harder.
[00:09:55]  We probably won't make it through that.
[00:10:00]  This thing is cool.
[00:10:01]  Yeah.
[00:10:02]  You like it.
[00:10:05]  They're going to pull us out with a machine.
[00:10:07]  Yeah, I love it.
[00:10:08]  What machine?
[00:10:10]  The processor.
[00:10:12]  The processor is going to yaw us out.
[00:10:14]  I've become a failure!
[00:10:20]  It's so great.
[00:10:24]  I love it.
[00:10:27]  You ready?
[00:10:28]  Yep.
[00:10:29]  You want to back?
[00:10:34]  I'm going to get them all running start.
[00:10:48]  Yeah, because I don't know if it's going to let me go here.
[00:10:52]  There you go.
[00:10:53]  Oh, it won't.
[00:11:00]  I got it to the floor and it won't let me.
[00:11:02]  Just spinning.
[00:11:03]  Yeah.
[00:11:05]  That's no fun.
[00:11:06]  Did it die again?
[00:11:07]  No, it's just spinning.
[00:11:09]  It won't.
[00:11:09]  There's no traction.
[00:11:11]  No traction at all.
[00:11:14]  It doesn't like mud.
[00:11:15]  That's the tires.
[00:11:20]  Is this what you thought you'd be doing today?
[00:11:21]  No, it's so great!
[00:11:23]  I love it.
[00:11:31]  This is awesome.
[00:11:44]  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.
[00:11:51]  We've spent a lot of time in the Cybertruck, and now the verdict.
[00:11:56]  I was impressed by how it went.
[00:11:59]  As far as driving the woods roads themselves, it actually handles better than our trucks.
[00:12:05]  In the mud didn't do quite as well, but it was to be expected.
[00:12:09]  But overall, I was very impressed.
[00:12:10]  Would you buy one?
[00:12:12]  I think I'd buy it more as a toy than a work truck at this point.

=== Expected Local Laughingstock (02:18) ===

[00:12:15]  200 miles doesn't get you to work and back.
[00:12:17]  What did you think, Jason?
[00:12:19]  I love it.
[00:12:21]  I'm in the same boat as Dean's at.
[00:12:25]  I think that as a toy, it'd be awesome.
[00:12:28]  It'd be so much fun.
[00:12:30]  200 to 300 miles doesn't get me around in a day.
[00:12:32]  So, Patrick, I doubt...
[00:12:34]  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.
[00:12:42]  You make excuses for it.
[00:12:44]  It'll come home drunk and you'll just pretend it's not.
[00:12:47]  But what do you think?
[00:12:49]  But as far as driving it, it's just fun.
[00:12:51]  It's like hopping in your golf cart in Florida and pushing in the pedal and going.
[00:12:55]  It's that simple to drive.
[00:12:56]  I have a golf cart that I use every weekend at my campground.
[00:12:59]  I wish it had power like that.
[00:13:02]  I wish it could do that.
[00:13:03]  It's fun.
[00:13:04]  It's a fun vehicle.
[00:13:05]  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...
[00:13:14]  That would suffice you just fine.
[00:13:15]  You've got to plug it in at night.
[00:13:16]  You can easily drive 200 miles.
[00:13:19]  You could probably drive close to 300 miles if you didn't drive like an idiot like I do.
[00:13:22]  The only thing I don't know is I don't know how that handled the wintertime up here in Maine.
[00:13:26]  30 below, I don't know what that would do.
[00:13:29]  But also, I don't know how my plow would fit on it.
[00:13:31]  Well, that's what he was saying.
[00:13:33]  The plow is essential for me.
[00:13:34]  I've got to have the plow.
[00:13:35]  Right.
[00:13:35]  So he's trying to convince Elon to let him keep it through the winter.
[00:13:37]  I want to rig up a plow on it somehow, have my welding guy fabricate some kind of plow.
[00:13:41]  It's got those tow hooks on the front.
[00:13:42]  We could probably rig something up.
[00:13:46]  So the Cybertruck's been here four weeks, and I'll just be totally blunt.
[00:13:49]  I expected it to become a local laughingstock.
[00:13:52]  I expected it to evoke hostility, if not violence.
[00:13:55]  From the local population.
[00:13:57]  And actually, everyone kind of likes the Cybertruck.
[00:13:59]  I'm not just saying that because Elon lent it to us for free.
[00:14:01]  That's for real.
[00:14:02]  Patrick has fallen head over heels with the machine in a way that's unnatural and creepy.
[00:14:08]  But everyone else likes it too.
[00:14:09]  Local kids like it.
[00:14:11]  And so we thought we had to bring it logging because this is, you know, a wood-based economy.
[00:14:16]  And the loggers liked it too.
[00:14:18]  So actually, the Cybertruck...
[00:14:20]  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.
[00:14:28]  The whole thing was just offensive to my aesthetic sense.
[00:14:31]  But flying colors.