Not for nothing.. but you would have a hard time fitting 2 tons of coal in any pick-up
Coal is light. I filled the back of my old short bed chevy with sand and it was about 1200 pounds

 

Coal, 1 Ton = about 40 CF. 2 Tons = 80 CF.

That would be about a heaping load in the bed of my truck!

1 Ton of coal weighs just about the same as 1 Ton of sand but does take alot more space. I would venture a guess that if I filled my bed with a heaping load of sand, I would deffinately break all kinds of stuff before I moved an inch. Would probably weigh in at around 8000 pounds.
1200 pounds of sand is 15 bags and an F 250 would not even know it was there!

Gary

 

for that far, even renting a trailer is a better idea, if two trips is cheaper...then by all means.

i have had well over 5k in the bed, my truck is lifted 6", and it was squirrley as all get up.................i drove from my neighbors house to mine!!!!!!!! (thats about a quarter mile) my overload springs were lookin like leaves themselves they were bent so far...

and i made three trips.

 

Well I would hope so!

 

Yep, same as a ton of feathers except I would need a friggin 747 to haul them!

Gary

 

I put Roughly 6,800#s of slate in my 01 7.3 Long Bed and promtly drove it about 120 miles I would advise that you don't do this. Truck did not not handle or stop very well over-loaded like that!! My low boy pull behind is what I use to do things like that now!!

 

In my F250 we once had 8400 lbs of water sitting on the very front of a bumper pull trailer. I'm not sure what the actual load on the truck was, but if it was near the 4000 lb mark, I would highly advise against it. We only did it because we had no other options and we only had to move it 1 mile.

As to the story behind this: my dad was coming home with the sprayer; the axle broke and the tire went rolling into the field. 1000 gallons of mixed chemicals were in the back. We don't have any equipment to lift it and fix it in the middle of the road, and we couldn't dump it because of the waste of money and for the effect it would have on the surrounding fields if dumped in such a concentration. So we filled a spare 1000 water tank by pumping everything into the tank on our car trailer. The tank wouldn't fit between the wheels on the trailer so the tank had to go in front of it right up against the front rail. We didn't take it any faster than about 4 mph on the way home.

While it made it for the trip, a couple weeks later one rear tire broke a belt and the other showed serious signs of stress (Firestone Transforce A/T E rated).

I guess after all this, my opinion is that I don't think >2x the recommended weight is a good idea. Pushing the limit and totally ignoring it are two totally different things. Load up the truck, use a trailer, buy a case of beer and invite a friend over to help you shovel

 

I dont know that I'd want to put 4k on 8-9 year old rubber

 

4000lbs is a lot of weight, I'd do 1 ton in the bed and one on a trailer. Can the truck do it yes, should you? Probably not. Look at my avatar, I think that was a little under 2tons. It's a detroit series 60 engine and it was on a heavy duty stand.

 

I doubt the OP is still pondering this since he posted it in October of 2005.

 

LOL I didn't catch that.

 

If it was me I would go for it. just take it easy on the freeway

 

Don't look at the time stamp I took that today 2/11/10



That's 16 SQs. in the bed 3,248#s
and 31 SQs. on the trailer 6,293#s
plus the UDL and nails 290#s
Trailer weighs about 2,000#s it has barkes on both axles.

11,831#s

I towed that about 277 miles Wednesday from Waverly Hall GA. To St. Simons Is. GA. It’s all it wanted.

 

I have a Ford F250 diesel 02 and I have been putting one palet of cement in the bed and traveling about 5or 6miles with it. There are 42 80lb bags. It had done it 3 times and will do it another 2 times. It squats but can't tell it's in the bed by the way it pulls. Of coarse I take it easy over rail road tracks but it does it fine for that distance but not 120 miles. Might be pushing a bit. Love my Ford truck

 

I have put 2 pallets of concrete n 1000 lbs of fuel in the bed of a 2000 f250 with manual transmission... That's 8000lbs to much for the truck but it does it... They r amazing trucks