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View Poll Results: What do you use your truck for?
Joy of driving
20.31%
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Old Nov 19, 2005 | 08:44 AM
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Has everyone forgotten about plowing snow? Our company has an old 1990 Ford 250 and just about the only thing it is good for is a snow plow......partially because the only gear thats dependable is first
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Old Nov 19, 2005 | 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Adair2K5
Has everyone forgotten about plowing snow? Our company has an old 1990 Ford 250 and just about the only thing it is good for is a snow plow......partially because the only gear thats dependable is first
Bud, I live in Tulsa, It snows here once or twice a year...

And I grew up outside of Houston, Texas, the first time I sew snow standing on the ground I was 15!
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Old Nov 20, 2005 | 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by displacedtexan
the first time I sew snow standing on the ground I was 15!
The other times you were floating 3-4 inches above the ground?




phox
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Old Nov 20, 2005 | 04:43 PM
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I use mine to haul expensive fuel (36 gallons at a time)
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Old Nov 20, 2005 | 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by displacedtexan
And I grew up outside of Houston, Texas, the first time I sew snow standing on the ground I was 15!
first snowfall i saw here (15 miles ne of houston) was last christmas eve at the age of 20
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Old Nov 20, 2005 | 06:54 PM
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My truck is my mobile office which idles 90% of an 8 hr work day............dont tell chrysler! lol also used for pulling the dump trailer,picking up block,pre casts, lumber and anything else i wanna haul. Then on the weekends it hauls a 48 ft three car hauler with three mud trucks and fourwheelrs in the beds of the trucks out to the property.
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Old Nov 20, 2005 | 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by wannadiesel
I'm one of those "Joy of driving" folks. My truck makes me smile every time I drive it.

I do work it occasionally. When you have a 1 ton pickup friends tend to ask you to move heavy stuff. This weekend I went with a buddy to pick up a pallet of cement for his addition. 80# bags x 42 gets the back end squattin' a little, but I still had 3/4" to go before the bumpstops. There will be pics when he emails them to me.
You call that a load? I've had a pallet of concrete and 20 4x4x8 posts in my bed before. Talk about diminished braking capabilities.
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Old Nov 20, 2005 | 09:53 PM
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Im close,

42 bags of 80lb masonry mix.... was the most ive hauled in the bed.. I wish i had factory overloads....

Tx
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Old Nov 20, 2005 | 10:03 PM
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being a first responder/FF, my truck is full of "Personal" tools and whatnot used to do a "job". In fact in order to do things around the house I've got to go to the truck to get the tools
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Old Nov 20, 2005 | 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by TxDiesel007
Im close,

42 bags of 80lb masonry mix.... was the most ive hauled in the bed.. I wish i had factory overloads....

Tx
At the time I had them. I've hauled close to the same weight in my bed since I removed the overloads and I didn't notice anything different.
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Old Nov 21, 2005 | 07:30 PM
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You guys call those loads!! Ive had 2 cubes of block in the bed and two in the dump trailer plus 3 9'4 precasts lol
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Old Nov 21, 2005 | 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by derek840378
first snowfall i saw here (15 miles ne of houston) was last christmas eve at the age of 20
I saw mine on a ski trip
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