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yeah and to think that's just one of many places we take wood(and yes,that whole pile came from me).i keep my eyes open for outdoor wood boilers all over.i stop in to ask if they would like to be placed on my GPS as a spot to drop all the free,junk wood we can take them and iv yet to be turned away lol!
I love your crane setup on the flat bed! How is it mounted there exactly? Any extra re-enforment somewhere on the bed or plates added?
I wanna add one to my flat bed dually.
yes.there is a thick (3/8 i think) steel plate mounted up under the bed/above the underbody toolbox with 4 large and long fine threaded bolts.
ideally and in the future,i'll add another plate on the top too because when lifting heavy pieces,you can see some flexing of the bed.nothing major,probably never need it but should be plated on top too.
some drop props/outriggers need to be added too so the bed is more stable.
Picked up and delivered a new travel trailer for my parents. 32' long, maybe 600 lbs. The truck squatted just a little, but it sure felt it on the winding hilly 2 lane roads!
edit: OK smart aleck (GoinBoarding), I missed a zero, it's probably closer to 6000 lbs than 600!
Picked up and delivered a new travel trailer for my parents. 32' long, maybe 600 lbs. The truck squatted just a little, but it sure felt it on the winding hilly 2 lane roads!
That's a lot of space for 600 lbs! ;-)
How are you liking those tires (new BFG's, right?)?
How are you liking those tires (new BFG's, right?)?
... and it was really surprising how much a 600 lb trailer made the truck squat, and how much it slowed a 460 with 4.10s down on hills. I'd have thought it would take at least 6000 lbs to do that!
Yes, those are BFG A/T KO2s. I like them but probably not as well as the BFG A/T KO. When I first put these on they seemed to "track" more than the worn out all-season tires the truck had before. I've had BFG A/Ts on trucks before and never noticed that. Also I really don't like the aggressive sidewall look on this truck. I still like them, but I think I wish they hadn't made the last change.
With 2 "kids" in their low 20s a lot of the work my truck does is moving kids: to college, back for the summer, off to an apartment. This time it was moving my oldest son (23) from one apartment to another. I borrowed a steel enclosed 4 place snowmobile trailer (with one snowmobile still stored in it). We pretty well filled it and the truck (but could have loaded stuff higher in both if we needed to).
I don't know what the whole thing weighed, but the E4OD wouldn't shift out of 2nd until about 55 mph accelerating onto the freeway. It started swaying on me a little once when I had to bail out of a lane change as some idiot decided to nail it and pass me when I was already about a foot into the left lane. I hit the trailer brakes and got it stabilized, then took it a little slower (the trailer has a weight distributing hitch and sway control that its owner uses when he pulls it with his Chev 1500, but I didn't think I'd have the trailer as heavy as he does, and I was using a 3/4 ton, so I just had it on a regular ball).
This is a picture of me with a 1987 f350 that I bought for $400 to get the kingpin Dana 60 out of. Went on a 210 mile round trip to pick it up, and had no problems. We were told the trailer weighed 10,000 pounds (borrowed it from a friend, that's what he said) and we figured the f350 was around 7,000 pounds. So the old 7.3 towed around 17,00 pounds, and did decent. Also a picture of a 1994 chebby 2500 that I bought to do race races with.
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