Don't know what's so hard about just buying all 3 frame, or better a couple of em, and then just measure the amount of force necessary to bend (not flex) them in all the important direktions.

Or just take a couple of trucks of each kind, load em up to the absolut maximum and drive em on a unpaved road with some speed. Then just look which frame showing the micr-fractures first.

 

Actually, it doesn't appear that the Ford frame even served as a 4 point spreader...





































Considering that 3/4 and 1 ton trucks like this are often used by construction companies and crane operators, one would think that the load paths and rigging would be fairly transparent to that type of customer.

The crane's sheave was rigged to a four point spreader, which itself was rigged to two 2 point spreaders, upon which the Ford frame rested. Bracketing either side of each point of both 2 point spreaders, in very close proximity, were a total of 8 rigging points upon which everything else was hung. These 8 points were distributed in pairs, balancing each other on either side of each of the 4 points suspended by the spreader.

It appears to me that the strength of the Ford frame was being tested only within each couplet of the 8 distributed rigging points, loading a relatively small area (just a few inches long) of the frame between these pairs of points that are balanced on either side of the 2 point spreaders which are suspended by the four point spreader. It also appears to me that one could have sliced the Ford frame directly in half in the middle, about where the cab to bed junction would be, with very little effect on the load that was rigged.

That being postulated, I'd like to see Ford follow up on this video with a more specific demonstration and/or explanation of what actually was being tested.

 

Can I get an amen on the "it's all marketing BS" now?

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...l#post15672683

 

Wow, after looking at the rigging, the frame doesn't seem to have that much load on it.