I just want to start thread to show some crazy things our f150's have done. Not necessarily reccomended.

Ill start, so i bought on of those 4 door broncos(centurion). The engine was torn apart so it had to be towed. I didn't have a trailer so I got one of those uhaul auto transport trailers. I told them i was pulling a 96 civic. These trailers say that the max wheelbase is 133 inches, but after some research I found you can squeeze 139" on one of those trailers(sorta) and I found a c150 weighs about 6000lbs and a uhaul trailer weighs about 2000lbs. So in total thats around 8000lbs with the trailer by itself (lets keep in mind my truck is a 4.9 e4od with 3.08's). That does not count the 500lbs of wood and tools in the bed, a full gas tank a 2 men. so the GCVW was around 12900lbs. I can say we could never go over 40mph cause we got some bad fishtailing at anything above that. I never said this was smart, you should only do this in a pinch for just a few miles at most.

















this was my winch (held down by a chain)

 

I'm a little surprised it fish tailed. I always thought with two axles on the trailer it either stops or atleast minimized it.

 

The most ridiculous crazy thing I've towed with my now gone 94 F150 was two dump wagons full of corn screenings, it always had been mostly light fluffy stuff but they had some second screenings that were mostly corn, wish I had known that before weighing out at over 30,000lbs..... If I wouldn't have gotten so much crap from my buddies that work there it would've been much harder to drop one of the wagons and made two trips but darn it I made it the five miles back to the farm! I seriously recommend against doing this, no matter how hard I stood on the brakes literally nothing happened....... It did pull it....

 

Well, I flat towed an old bus on a towbar for 300 km with an 83 F150. So far I have not found anything I can't pull with my 94 F250! Also hauled a huge boat and a small 5th wheel trailer with my Ranger, but none of that really fits the criteria here.

Ford trucks seem to handle big loads just fine, but stopping them is another matter. If you're out there exploring the edge, just slow down to keep it safe!

 

I'm thinking it was a bit overloaded

 

My mother in-law, but you guys don't want to see the pictures. Trust me on that one.

 

If you do not have enough tongue weight, you will get trailer wag, even with tandem axles. I like to run a LOT of tongue weight after a scare on I-45 in Houston about 25 years ago.

 

well lets see, hauling terms i had 4500 pounds of wet sandbags in the back of the 92 during the flood 2 years ago, biotch was firmly on the bumpstops and rear leafs looked like the front leafs on the f250s/f350s lol. weighed it on the elevator scale, 8900 pound and empty 4350 with a 1/4 tank of fuel, had my tri ball hitch with the 1 7/8th inch ball facing down and it took a chunk of asphalt out right in front of the community center lol, then it drug every little bump.

towed loads was 11k of wood on a 3 to 4 k trailer and a bunch of chainsaws and other gear, had both tanks full and came across the scales at 20,890 pounds total, scary **** i didnt have trailer brakes but took gravel backroads, 300 would slowly get me to speeds up to 65 mph but didnt have enough brake power to back up horsepower so i kept it to 30 mph.

looking back the 92 gets abused even though the 94 has a bigger motor and better gears, both are 150's but the 92 has factory overloads lol so it gets the big dumb loads.

( edit, looking to step into a f350 w/ v10 so no more loads like this for the f150 lol)

 

edit: double post

 

Best answer this thread will have.

 

The worst thing I have any evidence of is hauling a slide-in camper while flat towing a J**p with my '95 F-150 SCSB. I estimate about 8,000 lbs on the truck (with about a 6,500 lb GVWR?) and about 4,000 lbs in tow (but not adding any tongue weight). The trailer brake controller in the truck actuated the J**p's brakes and I had air helper springs in the back of the pickup, so it handled it all pretty well.




The worst time I ever had with a load was hauling an Allis-Chalmers WD-45 tractor (with liquid-filled rear tires) on my homemade single axle trailer. The back tires of the tractor didn't fit between the fenders of the trailer, so we had to pull the tractor on forward, and couldn't move it as far forward as we wanted. I ended up with the truck's rear bumper sitting about 4" higher with the tractor on the trailer than it did with no trailer. As jas88 said, low tongue weight is a recipe for sway, and negative tongue weight with a single axle trailer will never work. We kept the speeds VERY low that time.

 

Pictures please?

 

To many things to count

 

Got any picture evidence?

 

I saw a guy with a 14 x 60 mobile home hooked to his. He blew a tire and had to stop in the middle of the highway to change it. A drunk driving another F150 came zipping up the highway and drove right up into the rear of the mobile home. When we (VFD was there and I was helping too) got the drunk out of the truck, which was in the bedroom, he thanked us for saving him and wanted to know who had just drove thru HIS bedroom! He thought he was already home! True story.