I rigged up this truck myself with help of a few good friends, 2008 Dodge 5500 Laramie Quad Cab with crysteel 11' dump with fold down sides, still need tool boxes and a few things, but have to work.. I will add on when I have rain-out days!!

 

Looks Great!!

 

Nice rig man!!!!!!!!!!
I will be watching for it on the roads up here. I got 60,000KM on my 5500 in 4 months

 

NICE! curious, how much gravel can you move, safely, in a visit to the rock quarry? In terms of yards.

Thanks

 

Thanks Cummings610 and everyone else for great commennts!!

Cummings610 did you fuel mileage improve any? I am not even going to worry about untill I get at least 35000-40000 km's on it!!

 

The box spec’s says 5.6 yards, and the electric over hydraulic pump is good for 5 ton. I hauled 5-6 yards of top soil no problem. The truck is good for 19500 minus truck weight of 8500 (I think without looking at spec’s) and minus 1750 for dump box and some for fuel and trailer hitch. The truck should be able to haul 9000 lbs, but we have road bans out now so you can only haul 75% of GVWR.
So finally to answer your question (not that I have a definite answer) you would have to find out how much is 1 yard of gravel is and go from there, but I would guess gravel is more than topsoil.

 

Yea 11MPG-14.4. That with 4.88's and a 3000lbs deck. All highway

 

Sweet looking truck is it auto or manual? Love the color

 

3/4 minus runs about 2500/3000 LBS/yard around here. What are these road bans all about?

Nick

 

Thanks I like color as well I factory ordered it!!

Truck is 6 spd Asin Auto

 

The road ban here, is in spring time, the roads are soft from ground thawing, so you can only haul 75% of your max load from March to June. So for easy #'s if you were able to haul 10000 LBS you can only haul 7500 during road ban.

 

Nice rig! I like the color. Good luck putting that unit to work!

 

I really want one. maybe a 6500 if they make one in the future.

 

The 4500-500 have differ emmisions I heard and will get better mpg. I looked at one @ the dealer and the DPF and exhasut is much different.

 

Sweet looking setup!!! I believe your trailer might be a tad bit over loaded though? Also, with all that tongue weight and your rear axle almost centered underneath the dump body, I wonder how much you can really haul in the bed. Its sure nice to see the rear axles set back on trucks so the front axle handles part of the load too................since they started putting the fuel cells all the way to the rear, it really screwed things up. IMO. Bad looking truck though!! Im so jealous.........