My truck doing actual work
 

A few months ago a friend of mine was pouring footings for a porch and he needed to get some concrete, so I helped him out. That's about 3600 pounds back there. :) The truck felt a little wallowy on the turns and you could feel the weight, but it drove quite well. Rode real smooth! :D

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looking at the bottom of that bump stop it apears that your axel and it have been friends before :) In the 3500 we have for the store i have and still do haul 2tons of hay on the back of it all the time with no worrys or problems.


23x2=46 bales
2000x2=4000lbs

I will surely bet that it had the power to do it, and then some. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A CUMMINS :cool:

did your tires get cozy and kiss? nice to see things get used, I should have gotten a shot of the pallet of tile that was on my turck friday/

You shoulda stacked them further back so you could throw some gnarly wheelies!

ive hauled 3 PALLETS of shingles before. the stop blocks were on the axel by the 2nd pallet. then they threw another on there.

its 75 lbs to the bundle and 3 bundles in a square and 10 - 15 squares per pallet (dont remember for sure how many) times 3 pallets. it was a BUNCH just to be loaded onto the bed

most i ever had in her was 30 90lb bags. almost a pallet [guitar]! but hey, 2700 lbs in the bed aint bad for a 3/4 ton! good thing someone put those aftermarket overloads on!

whats really scary is watching some bozo at home depot load 57 80lb bags of quickrete into a lowered F-150. after they told me how many bags they put in i whipped out the ol' cell phone calculator and let them know they were about to haul 4560lbs in the bed of their 1/2 ton-lowered to boot- truck. [nonono] they didnt seem intimidated in the least bit by the fact that they just doubled their vehicle wieght. im sure braking was fun!

i wonder what the tickets are like for going over your GVWR. anyone ever got one? its not a that big a deal if you are just making a short run, or you arent grossly overrated, but sometimes you will see some moron in a half ton truck with the wheel wells burried in tire tooling down the freeway at 80 mph.

Dave, love that truck, its even the right color...............wannatrade? [laugh]

Dave,
If you are gonna have a concrete bedliner, I think you are supposed to mix the concrete :)
I think Hoss could tell ya' how to do it ;)

~Rob

On the single rear trucks the tires are the limitation. I can get two cords of wood on my trick with the monster racks I built and with the air lifts it just sits level. But the tires arn't too happy when I do that!

Well its about time you did something usefull with that truck beside killing skeeters. [whistle] Bye the way, every summer I have a bunch of skeeters that just wont die, can I borrow your truck for a weekend :o

Michael

It don't look like it's straining any at all. I would expect that you'd feel the weight back there though so no worries. In fact it looks kind of happy with a decent load in the back.

I've been volunteering to haul stuff for people just to see how mine does but so far no takers. I need to get my 5th wheel installed and take my 35' for a spin.

Edwin

[laugh] [laugh] That's classic!

Time for REAL TIRES!!!!!


I love my 19.5's

thats about the same distance my bump stop has on my front axel. could they be worn out? ;)